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Referred to as Henry Purcell's "favorite baritone, the actor-singer John Bowman (ca. 1655-1739) became the leading baritone on the London stage during the last quarter of the seventeenth century. Centering on the career and song...
An examination of Cowell's musical aesthetic found in his critical articles and essays is necessary in approaching his compositions, many of which push against mainstream compositional currents of their day. According to Henry Cowell, ...
This dissertation probes the relationship between Pan-Americanism and musical production in its cultural and historic context through close analysis of the music, concert programming, and publications of the Pan-American Association of...
This dissertation examines the St. Albans Psalter and the woman for whom we think it was made, Christina of Markyate. This study tries to reconstruct a potential reading of the Psalter as seen through Christina's eyes and focuses...
The practice of call-and-response devotional chant, known as kirtan, has been transformed from its original religious contexts and has found new meaning in secular communities throughout yoga studios across North America. Participants of...
This dissertation considers the life and music of Richard Danielpour (b. 1956) and how they intersect with the issues of commercialism, accessibility, popularity, and originality in twentieth- and twenty-first century American art music....
A genre of Cuban music known as timba and a genre of Cuban social dance known as casino have often been mistakenly categorized as styles of salsa music and dance. Because of this association, along with political relations between the...
This thesis explores the integral role of taratîl, the most prevalent genre of non-liturgical devotional music among Coptic Christians. Specifically, this study concerns the role of taratîl in evoking nostalgia, and through the narrative...
Carl Maria von Weber's (1786–1826) early opera Das Waldmädchen (J. Anh. 1, 1800) was considered a lost work until a complete score and set of orchestral parts was discovered at the central library of the Mariinsky State Theater in St....
In the public spaces of New Orleans, street musicians construct soundmarks, or sonic landmarks, in the locations where they commonly perform. The maintenance and preservation of New Orleans music is often achieved through performance...
Isabella Stewart Gardner (1841-1924) was a wealthy art patron and founder of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, MA. Though most scholarship dedicated to her concentrates on the museum's fine art collections, she was involved...
Prior to the Civil War the banjo was an instrument associated exclusively with black slaves or blackface minstrel troupes. During the second half of the nineteenth century enthusiasts in major Northeastern cities sought to elevate the...
This study explores Mahler's incorporation of general or specific references to musical Classicism and early Romanticism in his symphonic works. It also establishes proper terminology for such references, which emerges as a problem in...
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