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Venezuelan maraca playing is largely unknown to musicians with Western Art Music backgrounds. While some composers utilize the instrument and its associated performance practices, the resources available to learn about the subject are limited and scattered. Through research, observations, and studying with correspondences, this document will explore the vastness of Venezuelan musical concepts and maraca techniques to seek out common goals and generate a resource that is accessible to musicians and musicologists. A large part of this research will focus on the Contemporary Music in the Western tradition that has been inspired by Venezuelan maraca playing. I will explain the context in which this music is commonly found and how to apply it to a contemporary setting. The individuals I interviewed span a variety of backgrounds and expertise. All have extensive experience in Venezuelan maraca traditions. Their individual points of view will give unique perspectives to help affix the music of the past to the creation of music in the future. The limited resources on this subject inhibit education, performance quality, new music, and further research. Ultimately, my document and recordings will provide imperative examples to help develop a greater understanding of an understudied Venezuelan art form.
ContributorsMuller, Jeremy (Author) / Smith, Jeffrey (Thesis advisor) / Kocour, Michael (Committee member) / Bush, Jeffrey (Committee member) / Sunkett, Mark (Committee member) / Hackbarth, Glenn (Committee member) / Arizona State University (Publisher)
Created2012
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The performance of Charles Ives's art songs can be challenging to even the most experienced singers, but to beginning singers, they may be even more so, due to such twentieth-century aspects as polytonality, polyrhythm, tone clusters, aleatoric elements, and quarter tones. However, Ives used previously existing material, often familiar hymn tunes, as the foundation for many of his art songs. If beginning students first are exposed to this borrowed material, such as a simple hymn tune, which should be well within even the most experienced singer's comfort range, they can then learn this tune first, as a more simplistic reference point, and then focus on how Ives altered the tunes, rather then having to learn what seems like an entirely new melody. In this way, Ives's art songs can become more accessible to less-experienced singers. This paper outlines a method for researching and learning the borrowed materials in Ives's songs that utilize them, and reviews materials already commonly used by voice teachers to help beginning students learn their music. By combining this method, which focuses on the borrowed materials, with standard practices teachers can then help their beginning students more easily learn and perform Ives's art songs. Four songs, from the set "Four Hymn Tune Settings" by Charles Ives are used to illustrate this method.
ContributorsRuhleder, Kathleen (Author) / FitzPatrick, Carole (Thesis advisor) / Dreyfoos, Dale (Committee member) / Carpenter, Ellon (Committee member) / May, Judy (Committee member) / Schildkret, David (Committee member) / Arizona State University (Publisher)
Created2012
ContributorsFournier, Philip (Performer) / Floyd, Lynne (Performer) / Ruhleder, Kathleen (Performer) / Millar, Chad (Performer) / Cornner, Charles B. (Performer) / Peterson, Tom (Performer) / Chorlton, Roberta (Performer) / Sego, David (Performer) / Barrett, Andreas (Performer) / Lin, Tsuhsin (Performer) / Bailey, Barbara (Performer) / Bush, Douglas E. (Performer) / ASU Library. Music Library (Publisher)
Created1997-01-13
ContributorsRuhleder, Kathleen (Performer) / Lo, Wan-Yi (Performer) / Montana, Matt (Performer) / Nicosia, Paul (Performer) / O'Hara, Martha (Performer) / Rovani, Suzanne (Performer) / Peterman, Jeremy (Performer) / ASU Library. Music Library (Publisher)
Created2010-02-18
ContributorsChilds, Linda (Performer) / Wagner, Deborah (Performer) / McCann, Darrin E. (Performer) / Brookens, Karen (Performer) / Watson-Davis, Myiia (Performer) / Millar, Chad (Performer) / Rowader, Darrell (Performer) / ASU Library. Music Library (Publisher)
Created1996-04-15
ContributorsRuhleder, Kathleen (Performer) / Hakes, Roy (Performer) / Veal, Sherry (Performer) / ASU Library. Music Library (Publisher)
Created1993-04-02
ContributorsLin, Te-Hui (Performer) / Ruhleder, Kathleen (Performer) / Solano, Jessica (Performer) / Koehler, Jennifer (Performer) / O'Brien, Katherine (Performer) / Jones, Merrick (Performer) / ASU Library. Music Library (Publisher)
Created2000-04-30
ContributorsThompson, Darrell (Performer) / Freida, Tamara (Performer) / Muller, Jeremy (Performer) / NeJame, Branson (Performer) / Salazar, Jerome (Performer) / Robinson, Johnathan (Performer) / ASU Library. Music Library (Publisher)
Created2009-04-11
ContributorsDeLamater, Elizabeth (Performer) / Muller, Jeremy (Performer) / Harbin, Doug (Performer) / Waleczek, Jennifer (Performer) / ASU Library. Music Library (Publisher)
Created2009-02-14
ContributorsMartinic-Jercic, Borivoj (Performer) / Martinic-Jercic, Magdalena (Performer) / Rosato, Peter (Performer) / Bock, Richard (Performer) / Britton, David (Performer) / Hoffer, Warren (Performer) / Sellheim, Eckart (Performer) / Sellheim, Judy May (Performer) / Stocker, David, 1939- (Performer) / Cosand, Walter, 1950- (Performer) / Bacon, Thomas (Performer) / Rowader, Darrell (Performer) / Concert Choir (Performer) / ASU Library. Music Library (Publisher)
Created1997-02-24