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Within the archives of the Künstlerverein Malkasten (Paintbox Artists' Union) in Düsseldorf, Germany, is a vast corpus of visual art, posters, programs, and books that illuminate the musical life of this artists' club. The materials...
Between 1867 and 1900 Theodore Thomas orchestrated twenty-two pieces for inclusion in his programs. These works were integral to his popularity with American audiences, yet they are among the most overlooked factors contributing to...
Anton Webern's diaries, letters, and personal library catalogs reveal that by 1905 he had become an avid reader of Karl Kraus's works, especially the popular and controversial journal Die Fackel, and that he continued to collect the...
In 1917 America found itself embroiled in a worldwide battle concerning the identities and rights of nations. It was all of a sudden required to re-think its ethnic and cultural identity in the light of both its "melting pot" origins and...
Claude Debussy participated in the world of literature, especially that of French symbolist poetry, throughout his life. His associations with important literary figures, his correspondence, and his music all make clear the significance...
This dissertation explores the compositional and stylistic development of Alban Berg (1885-1935), as demonstrated in his Jugendlieder, two volumes containing 81 art songs composed between 1901 and 1908. The biographical and cultural...
Carl Maria von Weber's (1786–1826) early opera Das Waldmädchen (J. Anh. 1, 1800) was considered a lost work until a complete score and set of orchestral parts was discovered at the central library of the Mariinsky State Theater in St....
Faced with a collapse of orthodox religious ideals precipitated by the technological revolution in the mid-nineteenth century, Satie and many in the Western world took refuge in unorthodox occult religions during the fin-de-siècle. Avant...
In June 1932 Amy Beach (1867–1944) arrived at her studio at the MacDowell Colony in Peterborough, New Hampshire, to begin working in one of the few major musical genres that she had yet to attempt in her career: an opera, called Cabildo....
This dissertation takes an organological, historical, and ethnographic approach to the study of innovative violin making in the twenty-first century. The violin is a long-established icon as well as a tool for the production of sound, ...
Since the eighteenth century modern Scotland has attracted the attention of a large audience of foreigners, curious about this place of intriguing scenery, history, and culture. For these onlookers, music portraying Scotland has created...
Music historians have long acknowledged the importance of opera in nineteenth-century Italy. Few musicologists, however, have explored the more intimate genre that also played an important role in Italy's artistic, political, and social...
Illness Narratives in Nineteenth-Century German Instrumental music identifies the illness narrative as a distinct genre and shows how composers organized their experience of illness in music. For years the discipline of musicology has...
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