Summary of Dissertation Recitals Three Programs of Music for Winds

Abstract

The repertoire listed in these dissertation recitals covers each major epoch of Western art music from the Baroque to the present. In order to incorporate music for both small and large ensembles, each recital was presented in a different format and each had a theme: the first recital as Stolen Songs and Structures, the second recital as Native Influences, and the final recital as Tracing Forms.

The first recital was a compilation of performances with the University of Michigan Symphony Band and Concert Band given during the 2015-2016 concert season. Stolen Songs and Structures explored the different types of musical borrowing in each work on the program. Drei Lustige Märsche, Op. 44, by Ernst Krenek; Introduction, Passacaglia, and Rondo Capriccioso: A Concerto for Tack Piano and Seven Winds and Percussion by William Albright, Sonya Belaya, piano; Divertimento No. 3 in E-flat Major, K. 166, by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; Shadows Ablaze by Kathryn Salfelder; and Harrison’s Dream by Peter Graham.

The second recital consisted of a combination of performances that took place during the Fall 2016 term. Two works appeared on programs with the University of Michigan Symphony Band and Concert Band while the remaining pieces were played as an ad hoc performance in McIntosh Theatre in the Moore Building on Thursday, November 3, 2016. The compositions on this Native Influences program incorporated folk or vernacular music. Selections from Der Freischütz by Carl Maria von Weber arranged by Wenzl Sedlák; Alcott Songs by Steve Danyew, Olivia Johnson, mezzo-soprano; Concertare V by Verne Reynolds; and Dragon Rhyme by Chen Yi.

The final recital, Tracing Forms, took place entirely as an ad hoc event in the McIntosh Theatre in the Moore Building on Wednesday, January 18, 2017. The works on this program were connected by their uses of traditional musical formal structures. Les Airs de Trompettes, Timballes et Hautbois par l’ordre du Roy pour le Carousel de Monseigneur by Jean-Baptiste Lully; Six Sonatas, Wq 184, by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach; Concertino for Violin and Wind Octet by Robert Linn, Michael Acosta, violin; and Suite in B-flat, Op. 4, by Richard Strauss.