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Students of Vocal Performance are commonly instructed in the rules of diction for French, German and Italian languages, making it an easy task to select songs for performance from among these nationalities. There are also many beautiful, ...
Wilhelm Killmayer’s compositions span a wide range of instrumentations, voicings, genres, and styles. While some academic research on Killmayer’s works is available, many of his compositions have yet to be the subjects of serious...
This treatise demonstrates how scholarship can inform performance by exploring various analytical techniques, including a Schenkerian perspective, of Ballade in D major, Op. 10 No. 2, by Johannes Brahms. The application of music analyses...
Born in Ann Arbor, Michigan in 1961, award-winning American composer Edward Knight started his musical training at the age of two with his grandmother, a concert pianist. Knight has written about twenty chamber works, nine of which are...
The responsibility of every vocal coach is to supply the singer with an accurate and sensible interpretation of poetic text. Such textual interpretation and understanding are fundamental to successful musical performance. Naturally...
ABSTRACT This study seeks to provide female singers and their teachers with insight on achieving career longevity through the collection of data and commentary from seasoned professional female singers. One hundred artists from the...
Jeanne Baxtresser (b. 1947) is considered to be one of the most influential and accomplished American flutists of the twentieth century. Despite the many American flutistic lineages that have come to surface through the teaching artistry...
Franz Liszt composed over eighty songs in German, French, Italian, Hungarian, Russian, and English. Although most of his songs are set to German poems, the songs in French are among the most significant works, especially those set to...
Having been a colony of multiple countries, Taiwan has a unique mixture of cultures on this small island formerly called Formosa. With the influences of Spain, the Netherlands, China, and Japan, Taiwanese music has developed...
Abstract This treatise presents information about the composer Jean Cras (1879-1932) and the poets whose works he set to music. The primary focus of this document is Cras' published songs for voice and piano:Sept mélodies(Seven Songs), L...
In 1952 The State Institute for Folksong in Brno invited Czech-born composer Petr Eben (1929-2007) to collect and transcribe folksong in the original dialect from the Moravian-Silesian district around the town of Těšín, which straddles...
While an International Exposition in Paris in 1889 stimulated the interest in exoticism among French composers such as Debussy and Ravel, Karol Szymanowski's interest in the "exotic" was inspired by the culture and history of Italy and...
Isang Yun (1917-1995) and Toshio Hosokawa (b. 1955) are East Asian composers with European musical backgrounds. Yun, a Korean born composer, and Hosokawa, a Japanese born composer, were in a healthy, mentor-student relationship when...
This treatise examines the life and solo vocal works of composer Margaret Allison Bonds (1913-1972). It includes a biographical outline of Bonds's family background, education, and students. Her accomplishments as a concert pianist, ...
Protein residue ionization often plays a vital role in protein function, such as enzyme catalysis and pH-dependent structural changes. Inadequate conformational and protonation state sampling in molecular dynamics (MD) simulations has...
An Annotated Survey of the Indianist Movement Represented by Arthur Farwell and Charles Wakefield Cadman: A Performance Guide to 20th Century American Art Songs Based on American Indian Melodies
At the turn of the 20th century, many American composers became engaged in what is now known as the Indianist Movement. The movement began following published musical transcriptions and cylinder recordings of Native Americans by American...
Unsuk Chin's 12 Klavieretüden (1995-2003) give a microscopic view of her compositional style. Chin (b. 1961) is a Korean-born composer who has developed a worldwide reputation since winning the Grawemeyer Award in 2004. Etude Nos. 1 and...
Ernst von Dohnányi (1877-1960), Hungarian composer, pianist and conductor, was born in Pozsnoy (now Bratislava), Hungary. Dohnányi wrote a total of thirty-eight published and unpublished chamber works including four piano quintets, only...
The hexokinase (HK) family of enzymes catalyze the conversion of glucose to glucose 6-phosphate in a process that is utilized for energy production in most organisms. Hexokinase IV, commonly known as glucokinase (GCK), is functionally...
This treatise presents an annotated list and description of works for chamber ensemble for three instruments with piano, written between 1950 and 2000 by Polish composers. The purpose of this compilation is to familiarize musicians with...
Piano reductions of orchestral scores are invaluable tools for rehearsals and arguably the most frequent vehicles for modern-day performances. Piano accompanists face the arduous task of performing an orchestral reduction in a manner...
Henrique de Curitiba Morozowicz has established himself as a prominent composer not only in the state of Paraná, where he was born, but also in the country of Brazil. Having composed to date over 150 works, his musical language is very...
César Franck and Joseph Jongen: Their Approaches to Writing and Playing the Organ with Historical and Contemporary Considerations of Performance Practice
When discussing organ music composed in France during the Romantic period, it is imperative to mention César Franck. Though his compositional output for the organ is smaller compared to his contemporaries, such as Widor and Guilmant, ...
ABSTRACTThe first and most general aim of this treatise is to introduce readers to the art songs of Mary Carr Moore (1873-1957), an American composer who lived and worked on the West Coast. Moore composed songs throughout her life, yet...
This treatise discusses Bright Sheng’s four vocal chamber works: Three Chinese Poems, Two Poems from the Sung Dynasty, Three Chinese Love Songs, and may i feel said he. It will provide an interpretation of the texts and traditional...
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