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Item A study of the methods used in teaching beginning band students(1942-08) Maxwell, Everett BurfordNot AvailableItem Doctoral thesis recital (conducting)(2017-02-19) Marinello, Anthony; Not availableThe migration series / Derek Bermel ; arr. Marinello.Item Doctoral thesis recital (conducting)(2017-02-19) Missal, Jason; Not availableVisions fugitives : op. 22 / Sergei Prokofiev ; arr. Missal.Item E7A (concert march): a theoretical analysis and conductor's rehearsal guide(Texas Tech University, 2002-12) Webster, Thomas RNot availableItem Reflections on Monk for concert band(Texas Tech University, 1997-05) Metz, Kenneth R.As the end of the twentieth century approaches, the generation of musicians who were the pioneers of modem jazz (ca. 1945-the present) has all but died out. Fortunately, there remains an abundance of recordings which bear witness to the wonderfiil creativity of the men and women artists of the idiom. In some cases there exist well produced documentary films that provide in-depth information about the important jazz artists and the times in which they lived. In addition, there are many other films which capture their live performances. There is also a large body of biographical, socio-historical, and critical literature of varying quality that provides testimony about the music and musicians of the era. In the last fifteen years authors have published transcriptions of recorded solos which provide important insight into the nature of the music. Finally, theoretical research in jazz has become an important new area for scholarly activity. Yet, the most important elements that remain in our culture from the first generation of musicians of the jazz era are their ideas, their music, which is still being performed every day by a new generation. One musician who has left us much interesting music is Thelonious Monk. This dissertation consists principally of a composition written using motives and themes from Monk's music as well as information about his life. But it also contains a description of the musical style of the times in which he rose to prominence, some analysis of his music, a study of his compositional techniques, and a description of how I have employed certain figures, themes, and techniques from the music composed by Monk to create Reflections on Monk, a composition in four movements for concert band written in homage to this important jazz musician.Item "Tarantella" from Symphony No. 1 by John Corigliano: a transcription for band(2002) Gershman, Jeffrey David; Junkin, Jerry F.; Grantham, Donald, 1947-John Corigliano is considered one of the most critically successful American composers of the past quarter century. He has received prestigious awards for both his orchestral and chamber music which have included the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for his Symphony No. 2, the 2000 Academy Award for Best Original Score for The Red Violin, and the 1996 Grammy Award for Best New Composition for his String Quartet No. 1. Despite his success in the instrumental genres, Corigliano has composed only one piece for band, Gazebo Dances, which was arranged from his 1970 four-hands piano work of the same name. In 1988, Corigliano revisited the thematic material of the final movement of Gazebo Dances in his Symphony No. 1, written as a tribute to friends that had died of AIDS. In this second movement, “Tarantella,” he thematically transforms this melodic material to musically recreate a friend’s decent into insanity brought on by AIDS. This treatise presents a transcription for band of Corigliano’s “Tarantella” movement and represents the second work of the composer in the wind repertoire. It, therefore, provides a point of comparison with Gazebo Dances by using the shared material as a common link as well as introducing to the wind literature a composition written in the composer’s more recent style. This treatise provides a performance score with parts (available through G. Schirmer, Inc), addresses the orchestrational decisions of this transcription, and discusses the specific conducting and rehearsal challenges of the work. It also includes a short biography of the composer, a formal analysis of the movement, and the transcription of a recorded interview of the author with the composer.