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This document provides biographical information about the trombone soloists of John Philip Sousa's civilian band. During the Sousa Band's thirty-nine year existence from 1892 to 1931, the ensemble made annual cross-country trips, toured...
The purpose of this treatise is to provide a comprehensive annotated bibliography of Gary Schocker's works for flute and piccolo. The pieces in this document include solo works for flute, piccolo, alto flute and bass flute, both...
The bassoon lacks the substantial concerto repertoire of many of its orchestral counterparts. Although, beyond Mozart, this may pose programming issues for orchestras and chamber ensembles, the dearth of literature may spell opportunity...
John Boda (1922-2002) was a highly accomplished pianist, conductor, composer, and professor. His diverse musical talents and eclectic hobbies defined him and influenced countless students, colleagues, friends and family members. During...
The existing repertoire for the oboe has often been described as being lacking in compositions written during the romantic period. Only recently has there been scholarly study revealing multitudes of sonatas, concertos, and various...
Julius Weissenborn's Practical Method for Bassoon is widely regarded as the best comprehensive bassoon method book for private instruction. It was originally published in 1887, one year before the famous bassoonist's death. Since that...
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), ...
Raised and educated in China during the Cultural Revolution, Zhou Long, Chen Yi, and Bright Sheng immigrated to the United States in the 1980s to pursue additional study. Now American citizens, each composer continues to reside in the US...
Eric Mandat: His Musical Life, a Performer's Perspective of "Preludes, Book 1" and "Rrowzer!", and a Descriptive Catalog of His Published Works (1980-2010)
Eric Mandat's contributions to the advancement of the clarinet through pedagogy, performance, and composition are significant. As a respected pedagogue, he has served as Professor of Music and Distinguished Scholar at Southern Illinois...
This treatise identifies significant passages for oboe from eight standard chamber works: Mozart's Serenade No.10 in B-flat Major, K.361 and Serenade No.12 in C Minor, K.388, Beethoven's Octet in E-flat Major, Op.103, Dvorak's Serenade...
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...
Benjamin Britten is regarded as one of the most prominent British composers of the Twentieth Century. His music covers nearly all genres and can routinely be heard in many different types of performances. Britten worked diligently...
Women have participated in making music for centuries, but it has only been since the latter part of the twentieth century that women have been widely accepted into the arena of public performance. With few exceptions, nineteenth-century...
The purpose of this document is to identify and describe each of the works for flute and piano by Philippe Gaubert. It serves as a resource to flutists to explain the unique and idiomatic way Gaubert wrote for the flute, and will...
Laurence Sherr is a contemporary American composer with his own unique and recognizable compositional voice. His three chamber works for flute, Dhammapada Verses (1990, rev. 2001) for soprano, flute, percussion, and piano; Journeys...
Edmund von Borck (1906-1944) was admired in Germany during the 1930s as one of the leading young composers of his generation. During World War II, he was inducted into the military and eventually killed on the Italian front. The complex...
The first half of the eighteenth century was an important time of transition in music history that linked the end of the Baroque period to the Classical era. The music of the early Galant style, which was written during this period, is...
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