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Centered in nineteenth-century Vienna, the Biedermeier era was characterized by intense political upheaval contrasted by free-spirited social and cultural innovation and style. This treatise focuses on Franz Schubert's chamber music with...
When teaching music, selecting the right instructional materials for each student is tremendously important. This project is a bibliography of pedagogical materials currently available to harp instructors in the United States. The focus...
The neoclassical movement in France influenced Spanish composers whose classical musical culture had been exhausted and overplayed. The Spanish composers of the early Twentieth Century were looking for new and fresh ideas to include in...
This treatise surveys a selection of concertos for double bass published since 1970. The concertos have been classified in terms of musical styles, performance approaches, instrumental techniques, and level of difficulty. The document...
This treatise presents a study of the two solo guitar works of Sir Richard Rodney Bennett, Impromptus and Sonata. This study is divided into four chapters: the first chapter is an introduction, presenting a brief survey of previous...
This study offers an examination of available double bass music from two Mandarin-speaking countries: Taiwan and China. Western music and Western instruments were introduced to China and Taiwan throughout the end of the nineteenth and...
Jacques Hetu is one of Canada's most respected and successful composers. His compositions have attracted interest from notable musicians, such as Glenn Gould, Charles Dutoit, Pinchas Zukerman, and Kurt Mazur, who have performed, and...
Castelnuovo-Tedesco's meeting with the great Spanish guitarist, the late Andres Segovia, began a collaboration between composer and performer that lasted over thirty years. This friendship resulted in not only a wealth of solo guitar...
Although the history of violin pedagogy can be traced back to the days of Vivaldi, this treatise will focus on the influences in Taiwan from Russian violin schools as well as the Japanese violin method books. Great pedagogues such as...
There is still debate regarding the origins and implementation of treble guitar notation: pedagogical treatises indicate that such notation was normative already by the early nineteenth century. Guitarists' development throughout the...
This study is a performer's guide to Michael Tippett's The Blue Guitar. Included is a detailed analysis of Tippett's work, treatment of form, structure, style, language and historical significance. The study will also trace and explore...
Heitor Villa-Lobos was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in 1887 and died in the same city in 1959. He is considered one of the most important composers of the twentieth century and is the author of seventeen string quartets that were...
This paper presents a performer's analysis of the solo guitar work In The Woods (1995) by Toru Takemitsu, it provides insight into Takemitsu's compositional style and his views on music, and serves as a performance guide to aid...
Osvaldo Costa de Lacerda (b. 1927) is one of the most important composers of contemporary Brazilian music. His musical output has already reached over three hundred and fifty works in all areas including solo, chamber, orchestral, and...
The topic of this treatise is a comparison between autograph manuscripts and published editions of selected guitar works by the Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos. The works involved in this comparison are as follows: Suite Popular...
This treatise represents a study of Justin Holland, one of the most prolific American Guitarists of the nineteenth century. This document is divided into three parts: The first part discusses the popularity of the guitar in the...
The impetus for this treatise began as an investigation into the repertoire of works for violin and piano by Turkish composers throughout the 20th century. The establishment of the Turkish Republic in 1923 proved to be very pivotal for...
There have been a significant number of works for cello and orchestra written by Bulgarian composers between 1925 and 2000. Because most of these pieces are relatively unknown, the purpose of this document is to familiarize musicians...
In the course of their study, student cellists spend hours of practicing standard cello repertoire that includes etudes, caprices, character pieces, sonatas, and various concertos. Almost exclusively, the composers of these compositions...
The scope of this project includes thirteen selected pieces for violoncello (small pieces, unaccompanied and accompanied sonatas, and concerti) composed during the twentieth century, which hold a place of major importance in the...
The present document introduces prominent Lithuanian composer Vytautas Barkauskas and his works written for viola. The author believes that an exceptional composer such as Barkauskas deserves to be known by more musicians. Thus, the...
This treatise examines the importance of the Manual de Vioara, written by Romanian violinists and professors Ionel Geanta and George Manoliu, and its influence for the Romanian violins school during Communist rule. A particular challenge...
The literature of Bach Suites, BWV 1007-12, arranged with supplemental piano accompaniment, forms two main temporal categories, fortuitously delineated by Alfred Dörffel's critical edition of the Suites (without piano) for the Bach...
The music of the Turtle Island Quartet became of interest to the author in the 2000-2001 academic year while studying a piece for string quartet called Steel City Strut by Danny Seidenberg. This experience led to the research and quest...
The Swiss and Jewish composer Ernest Bloch wrote two violin concertos: the Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in 1938, and an earlier Violin Concerto of 1899, a revision of an earlier piece that was never published. This treatise will...
Sérgio Assad (b.1956) and his brother, Odair Assad, are considered today one of the most important guitar duos in the world. Sérgio Assad's compositions and arrangements for the guitar are no less significant than his performance skills....
The collaboration between Manuel Ponce and Andres Segovia is one of the most important in the history of the guitar, lasting for more than twenty-five years. This relationship resulted in more than eighty works for solo guitar, including...
Four pieces by American composers that feature the violin and include the word haiku in their titles provide a thought-provoking forum in which to examine the nature and degrees of text-prominence within a non-vocal work and the possible...
Dr. Emre Aracı is a notable Turkish composer, music historian, and conductor. The European musical practice of the Ottoman court is his academic focus. He discovered numerous compositions, which were written in the 19th century...
This treatise is a study of homage in the solo guitar music of Roland Dyens. Chapter One provides a brief history of musical borrowing and homage. Terms like dedication, arrangement, allusion, and homage are distinguished from one...
Colombia, the northernmost country in South America, is full of classical musicians. From students of all ages to professionals, all of them are contributing to the increasing growth of the classical culture in the country. At the same...
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