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Much recent scholarship on metal music has treated the repertoire through historical and ethnomusicological lenses. While the theoretical literature has engaged certain significant artists– particularly Meshuggah and Dream Theater...
Sergei Prokofiev's songs for solo voice and piano hold a special place in his oeuvre both biographically and stylistically. The works were composed almost continuously throughout his entire lifetime, with only a short lapse in output...
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 dissertation engages with scholarship in musical semiotics and hermeneutics to offer insight into the aesthetics of hard bop (c. 1954–65), a jazz genre often characterized as a return to jazz’s roots. By synthesizing the semiotic...
This dissertation explores musical meaning and narrative in Francis Poulenc’s music through an interaction of three main analytic approaches: the paradigmatic method of analysis as previously demonstrated by Jean-Jacques Nattiez and Kofi...
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