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The Oregon Bach Festival completed its thirty-fifth season of performances in Eugene, Oregon on Sunday, July 11, 2004. Beginning as a summer school program organized by Royce Saltzman in 1970 at the University of Oregon, the Festival's...
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...
The history, culture, and tradition of professional black choirs have had a great influence on choral music through the twenty-first century. During its 80 year history, professional black choirs have gained both a national and...
An Analysis of Performance Practice Trends in Recent Recordings of Tomás Luis De Victoria's O Magnum Mysterium, O Quam Gloriosum, O Vos Omnes, and Officium Defunctorum as Related to Historical and Contemporary Scholarly Literature
This dissertation investigates performance practice trends in the music of Tomás Luis de Victoria as performed on commercially available recordings. The study discusses the prevailing philosophies surrounding musicians' quest for...
Finding scholarly research on the choral music by significant American composers is limited. Moreover, a search for scholarly resources on the choral works by significant African-American composers is more limited. Spiritual arrangements...
The Japan Choral Association consists of 150, 000 members who belong to fifty-four regional associations. It plays an important role in the International Federation of Choral Music and has played a leading role in choral activities in the...
María Guinand, awarded the 2009 Helmuth Rilling Prize by the Internationale Bachakademie Stuttgart, is a Venezuelan choral music educator who has gained international renown through her work as a conductor, teacher, and advocate of the...
The pronunciation and interpretation of text is key to understanding its meaning, as well as cultural interpretation. A persistent problem related to performance practice of African American Spirituals is dialect. Interpretation of a...
Performance Practice of Johann Sebastian Bach's Passio Secundum Johannem a Study of 25 Years of Recorded History (1982-2007) as Influenced by Events Surrounding the Historically Informed Performance Movement
This dissertation investigates developments in the performance of Johann Sebastian Bach's St. John Passion as evidenced in recordings of the work in the past quarter-of-a-century (1982-2007). These findings are contextualized within...
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