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The C.G. Conn instrument manufacturing company is known as one of the most successful and innovative band instrument manufacturers in the history of the United States. Many of C.G. Conn's instrument product lines have undergone significant changes throughout the company's history, especially in the brass family. The C.G. Conn tuba product lines are no exception to this company's extraordinary success, and have been significantly redesigned since the company began manufacturing these instruments in circa 1880. This research project investigates the tuba product lines that C.G. Conn manufactured between 1880 and 1940. C.G. Conn designed six different tuba product lines during this timeframe, including an unnamed tuba product line with Stölzel valves, the Wonder Valve line, the New American line, the Wonder Model line, the 20-J, and the 22-J instrumental product lines. These tuba product lines have been investigated using extant publications and patent information because the majority of C.G. Conn's internal records prior to 1970 have been lost. In addition to investigating each of C.G. Conn's early tuba product lines, this project also explores the particularly anomalous design in the top-action valve apparatus of the Conn Wonder Model tuba product line. This anomalous design was implemented in the all of C.G. Conn's top-action tuba and tuba-like product lines from circa 1890-1940. This author's measurements of period instruments and analysis of data taken from these measurements indicates that this anomalous top-action valve apparatus design utilized interchangeable parts with other front-action C.G. Conn tuba product lines.
ContributorsEarll, David Michael (Author) / Swoboda, Deanna (Thesis advisor) / Ericson, John (Committee member) / DeMars, James (Committee member) / Yeo, Douglas (Committee member) / Arizona State University (Publisher)
Created2014
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The canon of music performed in recitals by American trombonists contains very few works for trombone by composers from Russia and the Soviet Union. Trombonists in the United States periodically perform trombone solos by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Alexei Lebedev, Vladislav Blazhevich, Gregory Kalinkovich, Alexander Tcherepnin, and Eugene Reiche. But these works represent a very small percentage of trombone solos performed in recitals in the United States, and compositions written after 1960 by composers in the U.S.S.R. are completely absent from recital programs. The purpose of this project is to identify several Soviet-era compositions for trombonists that are worthy of introduction into trombone recital programs in the West. To support the thesis that Soviet-Russian trombone music has been disproportionally under-represented in American recital programs, a survey of over 3300 trombone recitals given in the United States from 1972 to 2013 was conducted. Once a body of significant works that had previously not been performed on American trombone recitals was identified, they were acquired, analyzed, and several were performed. The following compositions represent a list of Soviet-Russian solos not programmed on any of the 3300 recitals: German Grigoryevich Okunev, Adagio and Scherzo; Gregory Markovich Kalinkovich, Concertino for Trombone; Pavel Davidovich Saliman-Vladimirov, Concertino for Trombone; Vadim Veniaminovich Kulyov, Concertino for Trombone; Vladislav Alexanderovich Uspensky, Concertino for Trombone and Orchestra; Sergei Vasilyev and Vladimir Robertovich Enke, Concerto for Trombone and Orchestra; Sergei Borisovich Chebotaryov, Rondo for Tuba; Victor Nikolaevich Smirnov, Scherzo; Alfred Garievich Schnittke,“Schall und Hall”;and Tatyana Alexseyevna Chudova, Sonata for Trombone.
ContributorsRoberts, Jay Daniel (Author) / Yeo, Douglas (Thesis advisor) / Carpenter, Ellon (Committee member) / Swoboda, Deanna (Committee member) / Arizona State University (Publisher)
Created2015
ContributorsKuroiwa, Gillian (Performer) / Wenger, Ruth (Performer) / Sakuma, Masaru (Performer) / Fincher, Aimee (Performer) / Mingle, Martha (Performer) / ASU Library. Music Library (Publisher)
Created2014-03-06
ContributorsTsang, Mitchett (Performer) / Fincher, Aimee (Performer) / Bittner, Jared (Performer) / Ransom, Brandon (Performer) / Wilhelm, Daniel (Performer) / ASU Library. Music Library (Publisher)
Created2014-04-05
ContributorsHall, Meredith (Performer) / Fincher, Aimee (Performer) / Gest, Gordon (Performer) / ASU Library. Music Library (Publisher)
Created2014-03-19
ContributorsEvans, Bartlett R. (Conductor) / Neish, Julie (Conductor) / Conway, Ashley (Conductor) / Schildkret, David (Conductor) / Chen, Neilson (Performer) / Howell, Megan (Performer) / Smith, Jillian (Performer) / Engel, Lauren (Performer) / Vergnetti, Courtney (Performer) / Hamel, Mikelle (Performer) / Yong, Sarah (Performer) / Uhl, Nathan (Performer) / Fincher, Aimee (Performer) / Detweiler, Samuel (Performer) / Strahm, Kathleen (Performer) / Zillich, Nicolette (Performer) / Men's Chorus (Performer) / Women's Chorus (Performer) / Barrett Choir (Performer) / ASU Library. Music Library (Publisher)
Created2014-10-21
ContributorsSchildkret, David (Conductor) / Ryan, Russell (Performer) / Fincher, Aimee (Performer) / FitzPatrick, Carole (Performer) / Blake, Erin (Performer) / Choral Union (Performer) / Barrett Choir (Performer) / ASU Library. Music Library (Publisher)
Created2013-10-22
ContributorsYeo, Douglas (Conductor) / Desert Bones Trombone Choir (Performer) / ASU Library. Music Library (Publisher)
Created2014-04-07
ContributorsFincher, Aimee (Performer) / Leland, Hannah (Performer) / Peacock, Meredith (Performer) / Vue, Chue (Performer) / Kuroiwa, Gillian (Performer) / ASU Library. Music Library (Publisher)
Created2014-02-09
ContributorsVue, Chue (Performer) / Fincher, Aimee (Performer) / Weiss, Tiffany (Performer) / Wu, Xuelai (Performer) / Miles, Brian (Performer) / Price, Mary (Performer) / Kuroiwa, Gillian (Performer) / Sakuma, Masaru (Performer) / ASU Library. Music Library (Publisher)
Created2014-02-19