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This dissertation examines counterpoint and polyphony in John Adams's recent instrumental works, ranging from El Dorado (1990) to My Father Knew Charles Ives (2003). Since the early 1990s, Adams's music has been largely contrapuntal, as...
The purpose of this study is to examine the formal designs and stylistic characteristics that U2 employs. It is my contention that, in addition to business savvy and commercial promotion, U2's sustained success has been a result of...
Musical Narrative in Three American One-Act Operas with Libretti by Gian Carlo Menotti: A Hand of Bridge, The Telephone, and Introductions and Good-Byes
The current study considers the interaction between the musical narrative and the dramatic narrative (provided by the libretti) in three short one-act operas: Samuel Barber's A Hand of Bridge (1959), Menotti's The Telephone (1947), and...
The texts of King David's lamentations for his friend Jonathan (2 Samuel 1:17-27) and his son Absalom (2 Samuel 18:33 and 2 Samuel 19:4) are derived from the Biblical accounts. The first musical settings of David's lamentations (i.e., ...
William Grant Still (1895-1978), Florence B. Price (1888-1953), and William Levi Dawson (1899-1990) were all black composers writing in a time of rebirth in the black literary arts called "The Harlem Renaissance" or "The Black...
This dissertation examines sections of Richard Wagner's final opera, Parsifal, using both Neo-Riemannian theory and Schenkerian analysis. The Neo-Riemannian discussion is primarily concerned with the creation of an inclusive model...
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