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This dissertation investigates Swedish composer Sven-David Sandström's Five Pictures from the Bible, set for six-part unaccompanied chorus and baritone solo, by examining the historical antecedents of the work's creation, and analyzing...
This study shows stylistic traits of Stephen Paulus's choral writing by providing an analysis of six of the composer's fifty-eight multi-movement works. The context in which each work was written (with regard to the commissioning...
This treatise presents selected viola works by Alfred Uhl (1909-1992). Three chamber works that feature the viola are discussed. Trio für Violine, Viola, and Gitarre, Kleine Konzert für Viola, Klarinette & Klavier, Vier Lieder aus der...
Contemporary New Zealand Piano Music: Four Selected Works from Twelve Landscape Preludes: Landscape Prelude, the Street Where I Live, Sleeper and the Horizon from Owhiro Bay
Landscape Preludes is a collection of pieces commissioned in 2003 by New Zealand pianist Stephen de Pledge from twelve New Zealand composers. The writing took about four years and the complete set was first performed by de Pledge at the...
The term "encore" originated from the French word for "again, and in a musical setting it functions as a request to repeat a favorite musical work. Its first documented use was at performances of Italian operas in 1712 in London. Since...
Irony is an important discursive mode and literary trope. It invites a debate about meaning and significance, creates a feeling of community among perceivers (even if, on the surface, it excludes), and draws them into morally active...
This treatise explores the history of the bandsemble and an experience of bandsembling through a public lecture recital. The first chapter, “Introduction, ” defines the term “bandsemble” and provides historical context on the emergence of...
The Effect of Performance Quality, Audio and Video Performances, Tempo, and Adjudicator Experience on Music Majors' Evaluations of String Orchestra Performances
The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of presentation medium, adjudicators' performing experience on string instruments, music stimulus tempo, and performance quality on music majors' evaluations of string orchestra...
This treatise investigates the harmonic and contrapuntal features of Études pour piano, premier livre (1985) by Hungarian composer György Ligeti. All six etudes undergo chordal and intervallic analysis, revealing Ligeti's preference for...
This treatise seeks to examine the similarities and differences between Rilke Songs and Neruda Songs, two sets by American composer Peter Lieberson. This will be done by comparing different elements, including text setting, harmonic...
To declaim publicly is an old dramatic practice that requires of its performer a mastery of communicative clarity and confidence, or at least the appearance of it. The orchestral performance tradition is in many ways analogous to this...
The First Sonata for Cello and Piano by Bohuslav Martinů (1890-1959) is a work that has been undeservingly neglected in performance history. This treatise makes this work more approachable for performers, from both a musical and a...
The following treatise is based on the content of two separate lecture recitals that I presented at Florida State University. The first lecture recital was given on April 21, 2018, and addressed the connections between three Chinese...
Shostakovich wrote his String Quartet No.3 in F Major, Op.73 in 1946 at the age of forty, right after the Second World War and not long after the completion of his Ninth Symphony. The Third Quartet is a large, symphonic work and is known...
The concerto for solo violin and orchestra is one of the most popular genres for violinists in the twentieth century violin repertoire. Originating in the Baroque period, the concerto developed in form, harmony, style and technique...
The following treatise is based on content from two separate lecture recitals that the author previously delivered at Florida State University. Followed by performances of the pieces, the first lecture recital featured Shinuh Lee’s...
The purpose of this study was to create a guide for practicing, performing, and preparing the first movement of Haydn's Piano Sonata in E-flat major, No. 62. The study brings together historical, analytical, performance practice and...
The purpose of this treatise is to analyze the Caprice Variations for Unaccompanied Violin (1970) by George Rochberg from a performer's perspective. The Caprice Variations amalgamates many historical compositional styles that require a...
This treatise will introduce the solo piano works of Aaron Jay Kernis to pianists interested in learning his music and show how Kernis' use of musical quotation constructs the musical content of these pieces using musical quotation, ...
This treatise presents a four-year curriculum plan for incorporating new music in the undergraduate degree. The aim is to address the apparent deficit of modern solo violin repertoire in the applied lesson setting at the undergraduate...
This treatise provides an introduction to the piano music of Carl Vine with an emphasis on his Piano Sonata No. 3 (2007). His piano music is virtuosic, expressive, and energetic. It is filled with technical passages that utilize the...
Unstructured Play is not, strictly, unstructured but an expression of the idea meant by the term as it is used in music therapy and education. "Unstructured play" is when a child is supervised and assisted in exploratory play with no...
An Exploration of Late Twentieth Century American Flute and Guitar Works with Emphasis on Robert Beaser’s Mountain Songs and Lowell Liebermann’s Sonata for Flute and Guitar
A number of important flute and guitar compositions were written by American composers during the late twentieth century. These works have yet to be explored in any academic study. This treatise, in conjunction with two lecture recitals, ...
A Comparison of Original and Performer's Editions: Frédéric Chopin's Introduction and Polonaise Brillante, Op. 3 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's Concerto in B-Flat Major, G. 482
The cello began its rise as a popular solo instrument in the late eighteenth century. The development of the instrument in the eighteenth century enabled cellists to perform in a virtuosic style and to discover new sound and color...
This treatise provides a thorough analysis of Augusta Read Thomas's string quartet, Sun Threads. The first chapter discusses her career background, compositional style and chamber music. The analysis in the second chapter is divided into...
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...
This treatise provides an examination of Flausino Vale’s background and a performer’s guide to the 26 Prelúdios Característicos e Concertantes para Violino Só. It considers technical elements, such as performance practice issues and...
The Rise and Fall of the Cellist-Composer of the Nineteenth Century: A Comprehensive Study of the Life and Works of Georg Goltermann Including A Complete Catalog of His Cello Compositions
In the late eighteenth century the violoncello began its ascent toward acceptance as a solo, virtuosic instrument equal to the violin. Much of this ascent was due to the tradition of cellist-composers: virtuoso performers who composed...
Brazilian Portuguese Lyric Diction for American Singers and Antônio Carlos Gomes: His Life and Musical Style within the Transitional Period from Bel Canto to Verismo
The purpose of this document is to make the reader aware of two areas of vocal Brazilian music that have long been neglected, and are now receiving the attention of researchers and performers: Brazilian Portuguese lyric diction and the...
This treatise will address the late twentieth-century and well-known Korean composer Chung Gil Kim's piano work Go Poong (Memories of Childhood; 1981) as a case study on how to make pedagogical use of works intended for performance. Go...
This treatise provides an extensive look into the Violin Concerto in E minor, opus 1, by Jules Conus, and seeks to justify its inclusion into the ranks of the standard Romantic violin concerto repertoire. Written in 1896, and performed...
The guitar-piano chamber music duo presents unique opportunities for performers and composers. Both instruments are perfectly capable of playing melodies, harmonies and contrapuntal music with a variety of timbres and articulation. The...
Yong Nan Park was born in Seoul Korea in 1961 and is considered one of Korea's leading female composers. Park, with her abundant output and distinctive musical style, is among the most highly regarded composers of her generation. A...
The recordings by the guitarist and composer Agustín Barrios Mangoré are invaluable sources for understanding his music. They provide important information about how Barrios performed his own music as well as music by other composers....
Benjamin Britten (1913-1976) was among the most important composers of the twentieth century. He is most well-known for his operatic and vocal works but he made significant contributions to instrumental repertoire as well. Many of his...
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...
Charles Oliver DeLaney (1925-2006) is considered one of the most influential American flute pedagogues of the twentieth-century. His contributions to the flute community continue to be felt today through his generations of students, many...
This treatise examines the use of reductions and simplifications as learning tools. These tools are applied to the study of J.S. Bach's Allemande from Partita No. 6 in E Minor, BWV 830. There are three types of reductions explored in...
The inclusion of electronic equipment in the performance of traditionally acoustic instruments has sparked a new genre of musical possibilities. Through an exploration of the history of the electroacoustic musical genre, the technologies...
The following treatise is based on content from two separate lecture recitals that I previously delivered at Florida State University. The first lecture recital was presented on April 6, 2016. There, an in-depth analysis of Witold...
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...
Three Night Pieces for Chamber Orchestra was composed with different qualities of the evening as inspiration. With each piece, I aim to portray a unique nighttime environment, utilizing various orchestration possibilities within the...
The twentieth century in Western European music was a time of experimentation and the role of the viola changed greatly as many new pieces for solo viola were written. Musical trends such as Nationalism, Modernism, Neoclassicism, ...
The viola duo repertoire (for two violas alone) from the second half of the eighteenth century includes over one hundred and ten compositions written by approximately ten composers. Today, the most known and performed viola duos of that...
This treatise is a pedagogical study that violin teachers can use to help their students develop and transmit musicality in their performances. Due to the broad nature of the topic, the treatise focuses on teaching violin students to...
The goal of this project is to discuss literature not considered part of the standard violin repertoire from 1893 – 1916, through the study of selected works by American composers Leo Oehmler, Clara Rogers, Harry Thacker Burleigh, and...
ABSTRACT The purpose of this research is to provide biographical information about Min-Chong Park (1918 - 2006) and an analysis of his composition Impromptus Pentatoniques for Violin Solo. In the late nineteenth century, Western music...
The purpose of this dissertation is to provide a conductor's analysis of a specific set of repertoire by African-American composer Lena McLin. The selected works share three common traits: (1) they are all scored for mixed chorus; (2)...
This treatise will explore the history of Hungarian culture, composers, violinists, and music written for violin in the Hungarian and style hongrois style. This treatise will also discuss the nineteenth-century musical style, style...
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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