Degree Name
Master of Music
Graduate Program
Music
Advisor
Davenport, Susan G
Abstract
This research is presented to aid any educators, directors, and conductors who wish to program these composers and the selected pieces for their choral ensembles. The pieces chosen for analysis were presented in a Masters graduate recital on February 16, 2024, and were performed in the order of the paper, except that Reasons for Loving the Harmonica and The Best of Rooms were switched. Each chapter is laid out in four sections that focus on the selected piece: a brief biography of the composer, a musical analysis, rehearsal considerations, and a review of recordings. The selected pieces included in this research are as follows:
Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck: “Gaudete omnes” from Cantiones Sacrae, No.32
Leopold Mozart: Missa in A, Carlson IA3
Robert Schumann: “Es ist verrathen” from Spanisches Liederspiel, Op.74, No. 5
Camille Saint-Saëns: Calme des nuits, Op.68, No. 1
Randall Thompson: The Best of Rooms
Libby Larsen: Reasons for Loving the Harmonica