ASSIGNMENT NUMBER 1 – Jorge Tabarés García

Lowell Liebermann Flute Sonata Op. 23

Score

- Author(s): Lowell Liebermann

- Title: Sonata for Flute and Piano Op.23
- Language(s): english
- Publisher: Theodor Presser Company
- Publisher number(s): 114-40463
- Place of publication: Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania 19010
- Date of publication: 1988
- Place of performance: Premiered at the Spoleto Festival USA, Dock Street Theater,
Charleston, South Carolina
- Format: Score
- Location/call # [if physical]: 788.5 L716sn op.23 Pr c.1

Recordings
- Author(s): Rota, Nino/Piazzolla, Astor/ Vehmanen, Kari/ Liebermann, Lowell/
Shaposhnikov, Adrian
- Title: Flute and Harp Recital: Shulman, Nora / Loman, Judy - PIAZZOLLA, A. /
LIEBERMANN, L. / SHAPOSHNIKOV, A. (20th Century Music for Flute and
Harp)
- Performer(s): Shulman, Nora/Loman, Judy
- Arranger: Vehmanen, Kari
- Language(s): English
- Publisher: Hong Kong: Naxos Digital Services US Inc
- Cataogue No.: 9. 70205
- Label: Naxos
- Date of publication: 01 March 2014
- Format: CD
- Date of access [if electronic]: 09/14/2018
- Location of recording: Recorded at St John Chrysostom Church, Newmarket,
Ontario, Canada, 10–14 February 2012
Biography
- Author(s): Farach-Colton, Andrew
- Title: Lowell Liebermann: Andrew Farach-Colton on a composer who understands
the power of melody and believes in music as a communicative
art.(CONTEMPORARY COMPOSERS)
- Journal title: Gramophone. Volume 93. Issue 1135. Page 68.
- Language(s): english
- Publisher: Gramophone
- Publisher number(s): Volume 93. Issue 1135. Page 68.
- Date of publication: 2016 May 01
- Format: article
- Identifier: ISSN: 0017-310X
- Date of access [if electronic]: 09/14/2018

Article
- Author(s): Simmons, Walter
- Title: Diverse Voices, American Music for Flute
- Journal title: Fanfare. Volume 34. Issue 4. Page 507 - 508.
- Performer(s): flutist Linda Chatterton and pianist John Jensen
- Language(s): Ensligh
- Publisher: Fanfare.
- Publisher number(s): Volume 34. Issue 4. Page 507 - 508.
- Identifier: ISSN: 0148-9364
- Date of publication: Mar/Apr 2011
- Date of access [if electronic]: 09/14/2018

Overall, my experience using the Libraries Internet Portal of the New School was
positive. I was able to find without problems and with relative ease everything I was
looking for. My search terms were not too specific but at the same time not too general.
They were: Lowell Liebermann Flute Sonata. This is one of his best known works so it
was easy to find scores, recordings, and articles about it. In fact, I found very interesting
things that I want to continue reading and investigating about.

I did filter my search using the search engine and the advanced options to select
what I wanted each time: article, audio/video, score, etc. Depending on what I was
looking I got different hits: for the score I got 1 result, for the article however I got 115
results.

ASSIGNMENT NUMBER 2

Topic: Scriabin’s Black Mass Sonata Analysis

One of the first things I found using google was a link to the Wikipedia.
However, overall my search wasn’t unproductive. I found several doctoral theses that I
could easily download or read online about my topic. I also found smaller and shorter
articles, some of them of dubious authorship that showed in general less depth than the
theses. Therefore, a good amount of the sources I found using google I would definitely
trust, since they seemed to be trustworthy sources with complete bibliographies. The
Wikipedia was completely useless for me in this case, since the only article there is
about the Black Mass Sonata is barely 200 words long, and the only sources it used was
the CD liner of a CD by Vladimir Ashkenazy.

I also used Jstor, and this source was by far the most useful one for me. I
actually found many incredibly interesting articles that I’m using for my further
studying of this topic. The sources that these articles and doctoral thesis cited were very
reliable, and all of them had complete bibliographies. Most of them were written by
academic scholars. I was also able, through their bibliographies, to find other very
authoritative sources like Varvara Dernova, and Manfred Kelkel. Lastly, using the
Oxford Music Online was also ueful. I found not as many harmonic analyses as with
Jstor, but nevertheless, I found a lot of historical information on my topic. I also have to
say that for me, it was a bit harder to use the Oxford Music Online. The search engine
doesn’t seem to work like google or Jstor, and it usually takes me a little while until I
find the exact search terms to input in the web.