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Throughout the course of history, numerous works of art have stood at the forefront of their respective genres. British indie band My Bloody Valentine's Loveless is one such work. Their unique sound on the album defined a sub-genre of...
This dissertation probes the relationship between Pan-Americanism and musical production in its cultural and historic context through close analysis of the music, concert programming, and publications of the Pan-American Association of...
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...
George Rochberg's American Bouquet (Versions of Popular Music) is a thirty-minute solo guitar work that repositions popular songs from the 1920s and 30s into a collection of art works for the concert stage. The piece appears amidst a...
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...
Pastoral Poetry and Stravinsky: A Search for an Expanded Definition of Neo-Classicism Through Exploration of the Relationship Between the Eclogues of Stravinsky's Duo Concertant and Petrarch's Bucolicum Carmen
This treatise examines two movements of Igor Stravinsky's (1882-1971) Duo Concertant. While writing the Duo Concertant Stravinsky read a book by his friend Charles Albert Cingria (1883-1954) about the poet Francesco Petrarca (1304-1374), ...
ABSTRACT The image of classical music is not what it used to be. The development of a variety of styles and images in the realms of pop and rock music have drawn audiences away from it. These newer genres have found ways to reach their...
Hugo Wolf's short but fruitful career has left an indelible impression on the lied tradition, yet little scholarly attention has been given to the songs left unpublished during his lifetime. Thirty-six of these songs, chosen from over...
David Popper, a cellist-composer in the late nineteenth century, was among the most prominent cello virtuosos and one of the greatest masters for the cello literature. He was a prolific composer of advanced studies for cello, sixty-five...
The Ten Blake Songs helped to establish the unique ensemble combination of voice and oboe and has become a major staple in the chamber music repertoire for both oboists and singers. Vaughan Williams wrote the work in 1958—the last year...
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