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A Conductor's Guide to the Choral Music of Ruth Watson Henderson

Kotowich, Bruce Justyn Geron
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1281451688

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2010, DMA, University of Cincinnati, College-Conservatory of Music: Conducting, Choral Emphasis.
This DMA document explores the choral music of Ruth Watson Henderson. The intention of this conductor’s guide is to promote Henderson’s choral music. The document is unique from other present studies, in that it includes discussion of her smaller choral works and relates her better-known larger works to her compositional style and background. Although her choral compositions are being performed with greater frequency, her shorter choral compositions as still relatively unknown and they have not been studied. The document consists of four chapters, a bibliography and three appendices. Chapter one is biography of the composer, highlighting her education and other influences on her composition. Chapter two reviews choral music for children’s voices. Three works are reviewed, discussing the compositional traits through the form, text, melody, harmony, texture, and compositional origins. Chapter three discussed her choral music for unaccompanied mixed voices. Two works are reviewed in this chapter; both sacred and secular compositions are represented in this chapter. Chapter four reviews Henderson’s compositional style in her choral works for accompanied mixed voices. Two works are presented for discussion. Again, her compositional traits are highlighted through choice of texts, form, texture, melody, harmony and treatment of the accompaniment. Chapters two through four also features analysis charts of each work and examples from the scores. A selected bibliography is included following the body of the document. Three appendices provide a current list of Henderson’s choral output, compositions for other genres and a discography.
L. Scott, DMA (Committee Chair)
Earl Rivers, DMA (Committee Member)
Mary Stucky, MM (Committee Member)
167 p.
Music
Ruth Watson Henderson; Survey; Choral Music; Biography; Childrens' Choral Works; Mixed Voices

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  • Kotowich, B. J. G. (2010). A Conductor's Guide to the Choral Music of Ruth Watson Henderson [Doctoral dissertation, University of Cincinnati]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1281451688

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Kotowich, Bruce. A Conductor's Guide to the Choral Music of Ruth Watson Henderson. 2010. University of Cincinnati, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1281451688.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Kotowich, Bruce. "A Conductor's Guide to the Choral Music of Ruth Watson Henderson." Doctoral dissertation, University of Cincinnati, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1281451688

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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