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Beyond Saul : a survey and analysis of Egil Hovland's mature choral works
(2009-08) Weber, Roselyn Marie Hanson; Pence, Suzanne Morgan, 1959-; Morrow, James, 1963-
Egil Hovland is one of Scandavia’s most predominant living composers, having created a massive opus of works that encompasses nearly every genre and performing medium. Yet despite the many contributions he has made to the international community, his name and works remain virtually unknown outside of Scandinavia. For many years, the exposure to Hovland’s works in the United States has unfortunately been very limited. Most choral musicians have long had only one (if any) association with Hovland’s name, that being the 1971 motet, Saul. In recent years, however, a few select mature works by Hovland have been translated into English and performed by a growing number of American choral groups. The objective of this study is to move beyond Saul through the exploration of Hovland’s stylistic evolution, and via a survey of selected mature choral works and an analysis of the Credo, Op. 137, no. 1. While the few extant studies available in English have explored Egil Hovland’s choral music predating 1980, this study focuses on his mature choral works, dating from the late 1970s to the present. The significance of such a study is two-fold: first, Hovland’s later works represent a general departure from his earlier compositional techniques, shifting away from the experimentalism and extreme chromaticism that characterizes much of his earlier opus toward a simpler, generally neoromantic compositional idiom; and second, because of this general shift in character and style, much of his later music is accessible to a wider spectrum of both performers and listeners, and warrants the attention of choral musicians in the United States and internationally.
Doctoral Thesis Recital (choral conducting)
(2012-04-13) Huffy, Aaron C.; Not available
Schweiget stille, plaudert night (Kaffeekantate), BWV 211 / Johann S. Bach -- Fern Hill / John Corigliano.
Doctoral thesis recital (choral conducting)
(2012-11-27) Bolin, Joseph; Unable to Determine
Requiem / Maurice Durufle -- Ach wie fluchtig, ach wie nichtig, BWV 26 / J. S. Bach.
Doctoral Thesis Recital (choral conducting) lecture
(2012-04-16) Huffy, Aaron C.; Not available
"Nicola Fago and the Magnificat in D major." -- Magnificat in D major / Nicola Fago.
Doctoral thesis recital (conducting)
(2010-02-18) Workman, Timothy; Not available
Lecture: Vibrator theories: A choral director's guide to teaching vibrato management -- Exultate justi / Ludovico da Viadana -- Agnus Dei from Missa brevis / William Walton -- Ubi Caritas / Maurice Durufle -- Jesu, dulcis memoria / Tomas Luis de Victoria -- Abendfriede / Josef Gabriel Rheinberger -- Chorus of the Hebrew slaves from Nabucco / Biuseppe Verdi
Doctoral thesis recital (conducting)
(2015-03-29) Unable to Determine
Quanto sia liet' il giorno ; Piove da gli occhi della donna mia / P. Verdelot -- Alles hat seine Zeit ; Die Beredsamkeit / F. J. Haydn -- Praise to the Lord / F. Melius Christiansen -- Mass in C major "Coronation", K.317 / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
Doctoral thesis recital (conducting)
(2015-03-29) Larsen, Christopher; Unable to Determine
Set me as a seal / William Walton -- Du Fiedefurst, Herr Jesu Christ, BWV 116 / J. S. Bach -- Little tree / Steve Heitzig -- Quanto sia liet' il giorno; Piove da gli occhi della donna mia / Philippe Verdelot -- Alles hat seine Zeit; Die Beredsamkeit / F. J. Haydn -- Praise to the Lord / F. M. Christiansen.
Doctoral thesis recital (conducting)
(2015-03-29) Brennfleck, Steven; Unable to Determine
Quanto sia liet' il giorno ; Piove da gli occhi della donna mia / P. Verdelot -- Alles hat seine Zeit ; Die Beredsamkeit / F. J. Haydn -- Praise to the Lord / F. Melius Christiansen -- Mass in C major "Coronation", K.317 / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
Doctoral thesis recital (conducting)
(2010-02-04) Guess, David; Not available
Six songs for four-part mixed chorus to be sung outdoors, op.59 / Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy -- Six songs for four-part mixed chorus to be sung outdoors, op.41 / Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy -- Lecture: The English adaptations of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy's secular part songs, op.59 and op.41
Doctoral thesis recital (conducting)
(2015-02-22) Arredondo, Daniel, II; Unable to Determine
Sicut cervus / Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina -- Bogoroditse Devo / Sergei Rachmaninoff -- Salve Regina / Franz Liszt -- Sleep / Eric Whitacre -- Hark, I hear the harps eternal / arr. Alice Parker -- Annie Laurie / Lady John Scott -- Black is the color of my true love's hair / arr. Stuart Churchill -- Ride on, King Jesus / arr. Moses Hogan.
Doctoral thesis recital (lecture) conducting
(2013-08-08) Bolin, Joseph; Unable to Determine
Christe, du Lamm Gottes, Wer nur den liben Gott lasst walten / Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy.
Doctoral thesis recital (lecture) conducting
(2015-04-22) Larsen, Christopher; Unable to Determine
"Contextually derived rehearsal strategies for selected choral music employing aleatory" -- Without form and void / Dan Welcher -- Cloudburst / Eric Whitacre -- Saul / Egil Hovland -- Attunement -- David Rosenboom -- The emporer of ice cream / Roger Reynolds -- Trois poemes d'Henri Michaux.
Doctoral thesis recital (lecture) conducting
(2015-04-23) Brennfleck, Steven; Unable to Determine
"The Alexander technique and choral conducting" -- O sacred head, sore wounded / J.S. Bach.
Doctoral thesis recital (organ)
(2016-02-06) Meyer, Louellen; not available
How lovely is thy dwelling place / Johannes Brahms -- Prayer of Saint Gregory / Alan Hovhaness -- Lux Aeterna / Morten Johannes Lauridsen -- Pastorale and dance / Craig Phillips -- A suite of trumpet voluntaries / Maurice Green; William Boyce; edited by Edward H. Tarr -- Hallelujah chorus from Messiah / George Frideric Handel.
Doctoral thesis recital (organ)
(2016-04-02) Keenan, Christopher; not available
St. Matthew passion / Johann Sebastian Bach.
Master's thesis recital (conducting)
(2011-03-10) Bolding, Patricia; Not available
Bogoroditse Devo / S. Rachmaninoff -- Ave Maria / R. Parsons -- Stabat Mater / G. Verdi -- Dances to life / M. Wilberg -- Duerme negrito / E. Sole -- Innocence & experience / M. Harris.
Master's thesis recital (conducting)
(2011-03-10) Bolin, Joseph; Not available
Kyrie from Missa super Dixit Maria / Hans Leo Hassler -- Psalm 115, op. 31 / Felix Mendelssohn -- A wedding anthem, op. 46 / Benjamin Britten.
Morris Beachy Collection Finding Aid
(2024-09-09) Beachy, Morris J.
Finding aid for the collection -- About the collection
Structuring chorus-soloist relationships through texture and timbre in two recent operas : p r i s m, by Ellen Reid, and Angel's Bone, by Du Yun
(2021-12-03) Gollmar, Grace; Hatten, Robert S.; Drott, Eric, 1972-
This paper examines the role of musical texture and vocal timbre in structuring the narratives of two recent American operas that have won the Pulitzer Prize: Ellen Reid and Roxie Perkins’s p r i s m (2018) and Du Yun and Royce Vavrek’s Angel’s Bone (2015). I approach these operas with a focus on how the timbral and textural relationships between the opera chorus and the soloist characters are used as an expressive tool. In doing so, I propose an analytical framework specific to works of music theatre, in which choral texture and timbre may stage or reinforce diegetic interaction between chorus and soloists, refract the emotional expression of a soloist through the multiplicity of the choral voice, and/or direct the audience’s attention toward or against a soloist in a critical way. These functions correspond with the opera chorus’s ability to operate at varying levels of non-diegetic agency in relation to the staged action. Acknowledging the differing narrative framing of these two operas— one of which immerses the viewer in the psychological experience of a survivor of sexual assault, and the other of which primarily follows a villain-protagonist who orchestrates and commits sexual assault— I propose that these textural and timbral functions are used in differing combinations in each work to reinforce the expressive and ethical trajectories of Perkins’s and Vavrek’s libretti.