Flute, Clarinet and String Ensembles Recital

Kennesaw State University School of Music presents Flute, Clarinet and String Ensembles Recital.https://digitalcommons.kennesaw.edu/musicprograms/1812/thumbnail.jp

Giuseppe Ferrata: Emigre Pianist and Composer.

The American career of Giuseppe Ferrata (1865-1928) was a part of the legacy of European emigre musicians who came to the United States in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and who made a lasting impact on the musical life of their communities. Born in Gradoli, Italy, Ferrata studied piano with Giovanni Sgambati and Franz Liszt at the Royal Academy of St. Cecilia in Rome. He attained some renown as both a pianist and a composer in his native Italy before immigrating to the United States in 1892. He subsequently held teaching posts at Mount St. Mary\u27s College in Emmitsburg, Maryland (1892-1893), at Greenville Female College in Greenville, South Carolina (1894-1900), at Brenau College and Conservatory in Gainesville, Georgia (1900-1902), and at Beaver College and Musical Institute in Beaver, Pennsylvania (1902-1908). In 1909, he became the first Professor of Piano and Composition at Newcomb College (now part of Tulane University) in New Orleans, where he remained until his death in 1928. Ferrata established his reputation in the United States by winning composition prizes in the Music Teachers\u27 National Association Competition (1897), the Sonzogno Opera Competition of Milan (1903), the Art Society of Pittsburgh Competition (1908), and the Art Publication Society of St. Louis Competition (1913). His compositions were published by G. Ricordi, J. Fischer & Bro., G. Schirmer, and Hinds, Noble, & Eldredge. His publications include numerous piano works in both the virtuoso and the salon traditions, over thirty songs, two masses, one string quartet, and three suites for organ. This dissertation presents a historical account of Ferrata\u27s activities and documents his position in the cultural life of the various communities where he taught. Sources include local newspapers, university archives, family scrapbooks, correspondence, and personal interviews with his son, Ernesto Ferrata of Metairie, Louisiana. Moreover, this dissertation offers an overview of Ferrata\u27s compositional style with a brief examination of his major publications, such as the Messe solenelle and the String Quartet in G Major. A catalogue of Ferrata\u27s published and unpublished compositions concludes this project

Flute Clarinet and String Ensembles Recital

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Faculty Lecture Recital: Creole Romantic Composers

Kennesaw State University School of Music presents Faculty Lecture Recital: Creole Romantic Composers- Year of the Atlantic World Presentation Series.https://digitalcommons.kennesaw.edu/musicprograms/1851/thumbnail.jp

Mood and Mode: The Impressionistic Commonalities of Claude Debussy and John Coltrane

There are marked parallels in scale use, the use of modality and harmonic construction and movement in the music of John Coltrane as compared to impressionist composers like Claude Debussy. The modal harmonic exploration employed in the works of Coltrane is often attributed to the Indian raga and other music, but it can also be likened to Impressionist works by Debussy. A fascination with exoticism and a search for new veins in music to draw from propelled both of these artists forward musically. While Debussy learned medieval modality from the Russians, Coltrane looked further East to the Arab world and India, however, both subjects used modal environments when seeking an exotic and more tonally-freeing sound. Unorthodox scales, especially artificial scales without consecutive semitones are notably present in Coltrane’s improvisatory style and in works by Debussy. The exploration of a sound sensation, more visceral than conventionally pleasing, is a uniting factor in both artists, most notably in Coltrane’s more avant-garde works. Hazy tonality, often lacking tonal center or possessing a constantly shifting tonal center, for example, the “Coltrane Changes” moving in thirds and Debussy’s often tonally indistinct Preludes for piano, is a shared harmonic trait between two musical eras as well

Music and Love in France From the Middle Ages through the Baroque

For many years, France has been known as the country of love. This paper aims to explore the connection between French romantic music and the global idealization of love. In order to evaluate this relationship, I explore the evolution of French romantic music by analyzing three pieces across three different periods of music history in France: ““Can vei la lauzeta mover” written by Bernart de Ventadorn (12th century) from the medieval period, ““Dueil Angoisseux” written by Gilles Binchois from the renaissance period, and finally ““Vos mespris chaque jour” Written by Michel Lambert from the baroque period. The results of this analysis demonstrate a common narrative between the development of love in France and the idea of love beyond French borders. This paper’s implications spread far beyond the country of France as it seeks to show how developments within a single country can spread throughout the world

Faculty Chamber Recital

Kennesaw State School of Music presents Faculty Chamber Rehearsal on September 22, 2003.https://digitalcommons.kennesaw.edu/musicprograms/1811/thumbnail.jp

Clarinet, Flute and String Ensembles

Kennesaw State University School of Music presents Clarinet, Flute and String Ensembles.https://digitalcommons.kennesaw.edu/musicprograms/1727/thumbnail.jp

Faculty Chamber Recital

Kennesaw State University School of Music presents Faculty Chamber Recitalhttps://digitalcommons.kennesaw.edu/musicprograms/1686/thumbnail.jp

Lipozomes as a model system in biomineralization research

Sintetičke lipidne vezikule, lipozomi, su korišteni kao modelne membrane za izučavanje mineralizacije kalcij-fosfata. Kinetika nastajanja mineralne faze praćena je u vodenim suspenzijama anionskih lipozoma, koji su sadržavali visoku koncentraciju kolesterola i različite fosfolipide, te u modelnim lipozomima, čiji je sastav odgovarao lipidnom sastavu membrane vezikula matriksa. Rezultati istraživanja pokazuju da lipidni sastojci membrana utječu na taloženje kalcij-fosfata u lipozomnim suspenzijama na najmanje 3 načina: (1) kontroliranjem transporta kalcijevih iona kroz membrane, (2) usporavanjem prodiranja intralipozomalno nastalih kristala u medij izvan lipozoma i (3) inhibicijom ekstralipozomalne mineralizacije. Uz 50 mM enkapsuliranog topljivog anorganskog fosfata i u prisutnosti ionofore, kolesterol značajno utječe na kinetiku taložnog procesa. Inhibicija intralipozomalnog taloženja je u sustavima višeg sadržaja kolesterola rezultat djelovanja njegovih nefleksibilnih molekula, koje čine membranu znatno rigidnijom. Utjecaj kolesterola na transmembranske procese ne mijenja se ugradnjom različitih fosfolipida u lipozomalne membrane.Artificial lipid vesicles, liposomes, are used as a model for examining membrane-mediated calcium phosphate mineralization. Applying different procedures and techniques, the kinetics of mineral formation are followed in aqueous suspension of anionic liposomes containing high levels of cholesterol, different phospholipid — cholesterol compositions and model liposomes with matrix vesicle-like compositions. Results of the study show that membrane lipid constituents can affect calcium phosphate precipitation in liposome suspensions at least in 3 ways: (1) by controlling transmembrane transport of calcium ions, (2) by delaying the release of intraliposomally formed seed crystals into the external medium and (3) by inhibiting further growth of seed crystals once they come into contact with the external solution. With 50 mM encapsulated phosphate and in the presence of ionophore, cholesterol significantly affected the mineralization kinetics. Inhibition of ionophore-mediated intraliposomal mineral formation could be related to the inflexible cholesterol molecules making the liposomal membrane more rigid. Interference of cholesterol with the membrane transport processes necessary for endogenous precipitation in liposomes containing different anionic components is not compromised by the specificic phospholipid incorporated in the membrane