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Many musical compositions from the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth century retain some elements of functional tonality but abandon others. Most analytical methods are designed to address either tonal...
John Cage's music includes a wide variety of styles, genres, performing forces, and approaches to musical creation that together challenge the notion and existence of "a piece." In large part, due to the wide range of possibilities in...
This dissertation examines counterpoint and polyphony in John Adams's recent instrumental works, ranging from El Dorado (1990) to My Father Knew Charles Ives (2003). Since the early 1990s, Adams's music has been largely contrapuntal, as...
I have noticed a disturbing trend among many people that I know, ranging from acquaintances to dear friends, and spread across political, cultural, and social spectra. This trend is towards the demonization of people with opposing...
This dissertation analyzes the organization of pitch in Benjamin Britten’s parables for church performance: Curlew River (1964), The Burning Fiery Furnace (1966), and The Prodigal Son (1968). On account of their varied influences ...
A Concerto for Piano and Orchestra is a work of absolute music, which draws on the traditional three-movement concerto form of the classical and romantic tradition and includes a solo piano cadenza toward the end of the last movement....
Early Seventeenth-Century Harmonic Practice: A Corpus Study of Tonality, Modality, and Harmonic Function in Italian Secular Song with Baroque Guitar Accompaniment in Alfabeto Tablature
This dissertation investigates harmonic propeties of Italian secular songs with Baroque guitar accompaniment in alfabeto tablature, which was a system of letters and other symbols that represented a chord shape to be strummed using all...
In this thesis, I use huayin (the left-hand bending techniques on the zheng) as a tool to discuss the evolution and continuity of modern zheng music. My focus is on bringing out ancient aesthetic and philosophical meanings that are...
In 1982, Feldman composed his birthday present for a seventy-year-old John Cage, aptly titled For John Cage. The piece is written for violin and piano, and is characteristic of the style found in most of Feldman's works from the 1970's...
My dissertation, DahnGoon for orchestra, is for a relatively small-size orchestra with a harp and a quite extended percussion group. The title of the piece is adopted from well-known Korean traditional myth, DahnGoon. This myth tells us...
This dissertation explores the role of musical process in four postminimalist works composed by Michael Torke. Close readings of "The Blue Pages, Rapture, Four Proverbs, and Book of Proverbs show a variety of ways in which process can...
This dissertation investigates the interpersonal, communicative dynamic created by the presence of multiple interpreters contributing to a single musical performance in recent chamber music. Although the performance and analysis of...
Industrial music was born in 1976 in London, England with the creation of Industrial Records. Originally, industrial music referred to the musical output of the label, which included a variety of experimental, electronic, often noise...
The purpose of this study is to provide an analysis of works for Western instruments by the Chinese composer Chen Yi (b. 1953). In recent years, non-Western composers' practice of incorporating non-Western traditional musical concepts...
The guitar-piano chamber music duo presents unique opportunities for performers and composers. Both instruments are perfectly capable of playing melodies, harmonies and contrapuntal music with a variety of timbres and articulation. The...
Today composers have a variety of sounds at their disposal and with the advancements of technology it is no wonder that composers would turn to electronic means for producing music. However, this leaves the listener with unmapped...
This dissertation engages with scholarship in musical semiotics and hermeneutics to offer insight into the aesthetics of hard bop (c. 1954–65), a jazz genre often characterized as a return to jazz’s roots. By synthesizing the semiotic...
Since their inception in the late sixteenth century, French ballets de cour traditions have drawn characters from sources that include commedia dell’arte, Greek mythology, and fairy tales. These source materials have affected the stage...
Elliott Carter's recent chamber music miniatures have been afforded much analytical attention, but comparable studies on his late orchestral compositions are rare; literature that does address Carter's symphonic pieces tends to focus on...
Over the past decade, few music theorists have explored the works of Puccini. Notable exceptions have been Burton (1995) and Davis (2003), who examined motive and style in Tosca and Turandot, respectively. This dissertation considers...
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