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Dyslexia and Post-Secondary Aural Skills Instruction
Authors: Laurel Parsons Publication details: Aural Skills and the Music Major with Dyslexia.” Music Theory Online 21.4, December 2015. Weblink: mtosmt.org Abstract: Traditional post-secondary aural-skills curricula can create extreme difficulties for music majors with dyslexia. This article places the author’s experience teaching these students into the context of contemporary scientific and educational research on dyslexia, including […]
Mapping how students conceptualize ancillary movements in instrumental music performance
Author: MacLennan, Scott Publication details: University of British Columbia. Open Collections, UBC Theses and Dissertations (open.library.ubc.ca) Weblink: open.library.ubc.ca Abstract: Music theorists have emphasized the intellectual, disembodied mind throughout music education’s history in Western culture extending back to the time of the ancient Greeks. Additionally, Regelski (2009) notes that the dominant and residual view of music […]
Captain Awesome
Artist: Ben Henriques, saxophone Recording details: Chronograph Records, released Oct 1 2013 Thematically, all of these compositions share a common thread; they each represent ideas, notions and works of art that were important to Ben as a child and remain important to him today. Play was on his mind when composing these pieces. Ben chose […]
Lawrence Dillon, Violin Music
Artist: David Fung, piano; Danielle Belén, violin Lawrence Dillon, Violin Music DILLON, L.: Violin Sonata, “Motion” / 15 Minutes / Facade / Spring Passing / Bacchus Chaconne (Belen, David Fung, Hernandez, Muncy) Label Catalogue Number: 8.559644 Running Time: 61:15 Digital UPC: 0636943964422 Release Date: April 2011 Composer: Lawrence Dillon Solo piano: David Fung Solo viola: […]
Anerca: Representations of Inuit Poetry in Late 20th-Century Art Music
Author: Laurel Parsons Publication details: “Anerca: Representations of Inuit Poetry in Late 20th-Century Art Music.” Arctic Discourses. Edited by Anka Ryall, Johan Schimanski, and Henning Howlid Wærp. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2010. Weblink: www.cambridgescholars.com Description: Both fictional and non-fictional accounts of the Arctic have long been a major source of powerful images of the […]
Cosmophony
Featured UBC Faculty Artist: Jennifer Butler composer Track 14. Neptune Redshift Music: redshiftmusicsociety.bandcamp.com/album/cosmophony Released: June 27th, 2010 CREDITS Performer: Rachel Kiyo Iwaasa, piano (iwaasa.com) Producers: Mark Takeshi McGregor and Rachel Kiyo Iwaasa Recording engineer: Nathan Hilton Assistant engineer: Jonathan Hong Digital editing: Nathan Hilton Mastering and Mixing: Nathan Hilton Piano Technician: Albert Picknell Recorded at: Rolston Recital […]
Early Music and the Ambivalent Origins of Elisabeth Lutyens’s Modernism.
Author: Laurel Parsons Publication details: “Early Music and the Ambivalent Origins of Elisabeth Lutyens’s Modernism.” British Music and Modernism, 1895–1960. Edited by Matthew Riley. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2010. Weblink: www.taylorfrancis.com Abstract: The English imagination takes the form of a ring or circle. It is endless because it has no beginning and no end; it moves backwards as […]
Different Stones
Featured UBC Faculty Artist: Jennifer Butler composer Track 3. Sky Redshift Music: redshiftmusicsociety.bandcamp.com/album/different-stones Released: May 2nd, 2009 CREDITS Performers: Mark Takeshi McGregor, flutes www.marktakeshimcgregor.com Producers: Emma Lain and Mark Takeshi McGregor Studio manager: Chris Segnitz Engineer: Emma Lain Assistant Engineer: Ramsés Ramírez Digital Editing: Emma Lain, Ina Nikolow and John D.S. Adams Mastering: John D.S. Adams Recorded at: […]
Delicate Fires
Featured UBC Faculty Artist: Jennifer Butler composer Track 5. For Dreams of Things Which Cannot Be Redshift Music: redshiftmusicsociety.bandcamp.com/album/delicate-fires Released: July 1st, 2007 CREDITS Performers: Tiresias – Mark McGregor, flute; Rachel Kiyo Iwaasa, piano (tiresias.ca) Producers: Mark Takeshi McGregor and Rachel Kiyo Iwaasa Studio manager: Chris Segnitz Engineer: Adam Johnson Assistant Engineer: Graham Lesard Digital Editing: Graham Lesard, […]
Time Management with ‘Twelve-Tone Lizzie’: Dramatic Functions of Meter in a Scene from Elisabeth Lutyens’s Music Drama The Numbered
Author: Laurel Parsons Publication details: Time Management with “Twelve-Tone Lizzie”: Dramatic Functions of Meter in a Scene from Elisabeth Lutyens’s Music Drama “The Numbered”, Theory and Practice 30 (2005): 153–83. Music Theory Society of New York State Weblink: www.jstor.org