Musicians have a responsibility to assess and perform new or extant music in order to present a larger body of repertoire to audiences. The purpose of this study is to introduce the euphonium music of the contemporary Belgian composer Frangois Glorieux to the tubaeuphonium community. With numerous works written for the euphonium, Glorieux has made a significant contribution to the euphonium repertoire. Upon studying scores and listening to this composer's music, it is clear to me that his pieces deserve the serious study and attention of euphonium pedagogues and performers today. This project demonstrates the musical and pedagogical value of Glorieux's compositions by presenting a perfocrner's guide to his Concerto for Euphonium and Symphony Orchestra. Indicative of Glorieux's style and approach to composition, this performer's guide is intended to encourage other euphoniumists to study and perform his music. The document is divided into five chapters. After an introductory chapter, Chapter Two presents the biographies of Franqois Glorieux, Nick Ost, the euphoniumist for whom the concerto was and a description of the genesis of the work. Chapter Three contains a detailed musical analysis of the Concerto for Euphonium, focusing on its form, style, harmonic language, and rhythm. Chapter Four discusses several performance and practice considerations for the music. Glorieux served as the artistic director for the recording Glorioso. This primary source provides rationale for musical decision making in the concerto. Additionally, I give original insight into the perfornance of this concerto by creating useful practice strategies based on preexisting etudes and method books that address technique, breathing, endurance, articulation, and rhythm, as well as making original exercises meant to focus on problematic areas in the work. Together, Chapter Three and Chapter Four function as the performer's guide. Chapter Five presents a' summary of the analysis and conclusions. After a bibliography, there is an appendix listing Glorieux's euphonium compositions and interview transcripts. With permission from the composer, a score of the Concerto for Euphonium and Symphony Orchesfra is attached at the end of the document. In promoting the orchestral version with this document, perhaps more composers will be inclined to write for the euphonium and orchestra, and hopefully more performers will seek that genre of literature. I believe Glorieux's Concerto for Euphonium contains exceptional musical and pedagogical value that will make it become a standard in the repertoire. The analysis shows that the work is colorful, challenging, and worthy of attention from the tuba-euphonium community. After studying and performing this concerto and the accompanying etudes and exercises, the performer will have gained an invaluable set of tools with which they can approach even more repertoire, including range, endurance, multiple tonguing, and articulation. With the aid of this performer's guide, it is my hope that the concerto will start to receive the attention from pedagogues and euphoniumists that it deserves.

Last modified

• 03/12/2018

Creator

• Christopher James Dickey

DOI

• https://doi.org/10.21985/N2ZH58

Subject

• Music

Keyword

• Orchestra
• Euphonium Music
• Symphony

Date created

• 2013-01-01

Resource type

• Dissertation

Rights statement

• In Copyright