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Much recent scholarship on metal music has treated the repertoire through historical and ethnomusicological lenses. While the theoretical literature has engaged certain significant artists– particularly Meshuggah and Dream Theater...
Jean-Benjamin de Laborde's "Abrégé d'un Traité de Composition, Livre III of his encyclopedic Essai sur la musique ancienne et moderne, represents a new historical sensibility in the field of music theory at the end of the eighteenth...
This dissertation examines the compositions of the American progressive metal band Dream Theater from a music-theoretical perspective. Specifically, this project identifies the primary stylistic elements the band employs in its...
The purpose of this study is to examine the formal designs and stylistic characteristics that U2 employs. It is my contention that, in addition to business savvy and commercial promotion, U2's sustained success has been a result of...
Phrases in common-practice music are traditionally defined by harmonic processes, particularly goal-directed progressions to tonic. In popular music, however, harmonic motion toward a tonic is not always present, making traditional...
Musical Narrative in Three American One-Act Operas with Libretti by Gian Carlo Menotti: A Hand of Bridge, The Telephone, and Introductions and Good-Byes
The current study considers the interaction between the musical narrative and the dramatic narrative (provided by the libretti) in three short one-act operas: Samuel Barber's A Hand of Bridge (1959), Menotti's The Telephone (1947), and...
Despite being the focus of studies in fields such as ethnomusicology, cultural studies, philosophy, and history, punk rock—and American hardcore punk rock in particular—has yet to fall under the analytical gaze of music theorists. In...
William Grant Still (1895-1978), Florence B. Price (1888-1953), and William Levi Dawson (1899-1990) were all black composers writing in a time of rebirth in the black literary arts called "The Harlem Renaissance" or "The Black...
Theories of musical contour can be described as the study of the change in one musical parameter as a function of another. In my dissertation, contour theories proposed by Robert Morris, Michael Friedmann, Elizabeth Marvin, Paul Laprade, ...
This dissertation examines sections of Richard Wagner's final opera, Parsifal, using both Neo-Riemannian theory and Schenkerian analysis. The Neo-Riemannian discussion is primarily concerned with the creation of an inclusive model...
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