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The composer Paul Dessau (1894-1979) was arguably one of the most significant composers of the Deutsche Demokratische Republik (German Democratic Republic) yet a large portion of his music remains unperformed and unknown. This treatise...
Jake Heggie has two published song cycles for baritone and piano: Thoughts Unspoken with texts by John Hall and The Moon Is a Mirror with texts by Vachel Lindsay. The purpose of this treatise is to analyze Thoughts Unspoken and The Moon...
A Performance Guide to Selected Song Cycles of John Harbison: North and South (Six Poems of Elizabeth Bishop), Simple Daylight, and Flashes and Illuminations
The purpose of this treatise is to provide a performance perspective and guide to selected works of John Harbison for voice and piano. John Harbison (b. 1938) is a Pulitzer-prize winning American composer, whose music is becoming a part...
The purpose of the first part of this treatise is to provide information about the Italian composer Nino Rota and a summary of his musical output. In particular, the focus of this study regards his two piano trios. Both works are...
Abstract: Because very little research has been done on the cabaret music composed in Paris at the turn of the 20th century and continuing into the mid-century, this document discusses some of the important composers of the time and...
Without contest, the twentieth century can be regarded as a "melting pot" of compositional styles. Each composer's unique contributions, as well as the numerous compositional techniques utilized in this era, combine to make it one of the...
The purpose of this treatise is to provide information about and introduce the art songs of American composer Timothy Hoekman (b. 1954) through an analysis and comparison of three song cycles: To Make a Prairie (for soprano and piano)...
An Annotated Survey of Douze Chants d'Anatolie of Cemal Reùit Rey: A Practical Performance Companion to Understanding the Origin and Context of Turkish Art Song in the Twentieth Century
This dissertation examines Douze chants d'Anatolie (Twelve Anatolian Songs), a complete art song set and one of the first mature works of Turkish composer Cemal Reşit Rey. The songs of Douze chants d'Anatolie are some of the first...
This treatise introduces contemporary French composer Olivier Kaspar (b. 1962) to a wider audience of performers and scholars. The document opens with a chapter reviewing his career as a violist, conductor, teacher, and composer. The...
The colonial historical background of Taiwan, which dates back four hundred years, produced a large body of folksongs. These songs connected deeply with people's social lives and traditions, and reveal Taiwanese history. The earliest...
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