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This treatise presents a formalized, repeatable method for innovative recital preparation. The method created by the author, entitled the Aesthetic Performance Design Method (APD Method), is outlined in this document as a worksheet that...
Repossessing Spectatorship in Immersive Theatre and Virtual Reality proposes that material constructions borne by the ambitions of “immersion” do not fulfill their intended purpose: total passage to the reality of the performance. These...
This dissertation is a study of the Deaf hip hop movement in the United States. It examines the trajectories of major figures in the development of this movement who have been brought together by way of their expression of music from a...
This research project presents four new works for the violin and various chamber ensembles, which I commissioned from Dr. Liduino Pitombeira and his students Helder Oliveira, Marcel Castro-Lima and Gabriel Mesquita, at Universidade...
This treatise demonstrates how scholarship can inform performance by exploring various analytical techniques, including a Schenkerian perspective, of Ballade in D major, Op. 10 No. 2, by Johannes Brahms. The application of music analyses...
This treatise examines the practical application of the piano technique known as the Taubman Approach to one of Maurice Ravel’s most challenging works, Gaspard de la nuit. The Taubman Approach provides strategies based on physiological...
This piece of choreography is about the Mozart family and their twelve family values that keep them together. They display themselves in 18th century society as well as endure conflict together. The family is a beautiful dysfunction and...
This study offers an examination of available double bass music from two Mandarin-speaking countries: Taiwan and China. Western music and Western instruments were introduced to China and Taiwan throughout the end of the nineteenth and...
This survey of orchestral excerpt books is a resource for flutists auditioning, studying, or teaching orchestral excerpts. An orchestral excerpt is a short, difficult passage or solo from an individual part of a symphonic work. There are...
To declaim publicly is an old dramatic practice that requires of its performer a mastery of communicative clarity and confidence, or at least the appearance of it. The orchestral performance tradition is in many ways analogous to this...
My thesis argues that a critical study of the gay themes and issues in Finn’s work – both obvious and otherwise latent – elucidates historically specific and significant queer texts and subtexts, along with queer modes of reception....
This treatise explores chamber music involving flute of the Swiss-Russian composer Paul Juon. Three works are discussed in two chapters: the first focuses on his Sonate for flute and piano, Op. 78 and the second on two chamber pieces, ...
Perhaps more than any other brass instrument, the tuba repertoire contains numerous unaccompanied pieces including extended techniques. Since the composition of Mauricio Kagel’s Mirum in 1965, unaccompanied works for solo tuba have...
This treatise provides an annotated catalogue of solo piano repertoire by currently living women composers who were born in the second half of the twentieth century and are from mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. It serves as a...
This treatise focuses on the percussion music of pioneering performer, pedagogue, and composer Michael Udow, Professor Emeritus at the University of Michigan from 1982 to 2011. Michael Udow occupied a unique position as performer, ...
This project focuses on this two-fold relationship. It specifically focuses on a place in the governmental legal process where citizens are most often afforded a voice to petition the government. The work both raises and complicates...
In this treatise, I have transcribed into musical notation seven poems and their accompaniments on flute (collectively referred to as the Jane Poems) written by poet Jessica Hand and flutist/composer Jeana Melilli. Poetry is often set to...
The objective of this two-part treatise is to historically understand Eugène Ysaÿe's Six Sonatas for Solo Violin, Opus 27. My intent is to utilize the reverse of the one-composer and multi-performer model to commission new works for...
Requiem masses have been an important part of classical music literature since the late 15th century and have been used as masses for the dead during funerals. Over the centuries the use of the requiem text has become more common because...
The focus of this treatise is pedagogical material and solo literature for the E-flat clarinet. Despite the E-flat clarinet's inclusion in many pieces for orchestra and wind band, the instrument is rarely incorporated into an applied...
This treatise explores the historical background of instrumental educational outreach concerts, and provides an overview of current educational outreach programming. The closing section discusses educational outreach concerts presented...
The focus of this treatise is to provide information and opinions regarding clarinet repair and maintenance. There are few resources available on general maintenance and repair designed specifically for the clarinet teacher and performer...
Transcriptions have long held significance in the solo euphonium repertoire; the first euphonium solos performed were transcriptions of trombone and cornet works from the turn of the 20th century. Despite the vast growth of this genre in...
Because of composers' ongoing contributions to the repertoire, there is a need to recognize and uncover twenty-first century unaccompanied solo works for the bass trombone. Performers and teachers alike benefit from receiving information...
The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Choruses—the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Chorus (ASOC) and the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Chamber Chorus (ASOCC)—have become exemplars for the performance of choral-orchestral repertoire. Exhibiting the...
This document offers a guide to practicing for hornists aiming to perform the chamber music of Ludwig van Beethoven’s. Beethoven is one of the most influential composers of all time and musicians still regularly perform his music. The...
The purpose of this document is to present different challenges, issues, and potential complications which have become commonplace in contemporary wind band literature—specifically in percussion parts—with suggested solutions for...
Although many extended techniques have been included in compositions for clarinet since the early 1900s, very few resources address the inclusion of these techniques in the clarinet curriculum. Specifically, there are very few resources...
As part of their inherent work, museum personnel (both staff and volunteers) in almost every role, across every museum type, size, and subject communicate complex, interpreted, shared, disputed, communal, fallible, changing, and plural...
The purpose of this document is to examine the relationship between the traditional university percussion curriculum and technology, specifically audio and video production. An overview of the current university percussion curriculum...
The Music That Shaped a Nation: The Role of Folk Music, the Duduk, and Clarinet in the Works of Contemporary Armenian Composers Aram Khachaturian and Vache Sharafyan
The music of each country is unique, as it represents their history and people, connecting compatriots through generations and helping to create, over time, a singular identity. In countries that have fought ongoing battles to preserve...
Fuck Happiness, Give Me Pain follows a year and a half of a theatre artist's journey to find and explore a new way of creating within the realms of performance and live art. She, along with an ensemble of performers, worked over a nine...
In its early years, composers often treated the clarinet as if it were a brass instrument, particularly a trumpet, by writing bugle-like lines for the instrument. By the end of the 18th century, the word ‘clarinet’ was used to denote a...
This work is an annotated bibliography of original reed quintet repertoire. It can serve as a practical resource to musicians, reed quintets, composers, music educators and musical scholars of all levels. For each original composition, ...
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 treatise will address the late twentieth-century and well-known Korean composer Chung Gil Kim's piano work Go Poong (Memories of Childhood; 1981) as a case study on how to make pedagogical use of works intended for performance. Go...
The purpose of this treatise is to provide information about and introduce the art songs of American composer Timothy Hoekman (b. 1954) through an analysis and comparison of three song cycles: To Make a Prairie (for soprano and piano)...
French choreographer Maurice Béjart used the third space in performance to fracture notions of fixed gender identity by removing it from facile and binary definitions. Postcolonial theorist, Homi K. Bhabha, originated the concept of a...
The purpose of this treatise is to introduce the music of the Soviet composer of Polish-Jewish origin, Mieczysław Weinberg (1919-1996) to a wide audience. Weinberg’s life took place during the very difficult period following World War I...
Contemporary Ambulatory Theatre and Audience Agency explores recent productions that encourage individual audience members to move through large, public spaces in new ways, developing a sense of ambulatory agency as they explore their...
Hans Werner Henze’s music is shaped by his trauma from the atrocities of Nazi Germany and the issue of German identity in the years following World War II. He became an outspoken anti-fascist. His compositional style is a freely tonal 12...
In recent decades, museum curators have shown a growing interest in live performance events that would alter the often austere and intimidating atmosphere of the exhibits. Major museums, including the Smithsonian's National Museum of the...
This treatise focuses on the evolution of percussion writing in the wind ensemble works of Karel Husa. Despite the prevailing method of composing for percussion in wind ensemble works being relegated to support roles, Husa treated...
This thesis uses a practical performance framework to examine the significance of linguistic and non-linguistic communication between performers. The project consisted of setting up non-lingual rehearsal spaces in which performers were...
When aerial performance became popular in the 20th century, critics reported the confusing gender appearance of its performers. Muscular women were described as mannish and Amazonian while men were observed to be graceful and feminine. I...
Over the course of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, theatrical performance rose to become a significant component of British imperial culture. The proliferation of English performance styles and practices was largely due...
This dissertation is an examination of two community-based theaters operating in informal and social contexts to co-create cultural change. More specifically, through performances the two theaters in question seek to build relationships...
Many frequently performed solo trumpet works of the past century have been written by French composers. They are played for jury performances, at recitals, and on stage with symphony orchestras to showcase the virtuosic capabilities of...
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