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The music of Argentinian tango composer Astor Piazzolla (1921-1992) is currently enjoying greater worldwide popularity than ever before among musicians and audiences alike. Yet for much of his lifetime Piazzolla had to struggle for...
Two Lecture Recitals: 1. Exploring the Inspiration and Style of Cheryl Frances-Hoad's Homages, Book I and Caroline Shaw's Gustave Le Gray 2. Musical Techniques and Religious Symbolism in Olivier Messiaen's Vingt Regards Sur L'Enfant-Jésus
This treatise, which is in two parts, is based on two lecture recitals given on November 15, 2020 and November 21, 2021. The first lecture discussed the influence of past composers on two recent works by Cheryl Frances-Hoad and Caroline...
An Annotated Survey of the Indianist Movement Represented by Arthur Farwell and Charles Wakefield Cadman: A Performance Guide to 20th Century American Art Songs Based on American Indian Melodies
At the turn of the 20th century, many American composers became engaged in what is now known as the Indianist Movement. The movement began following published musical transcriptions and cylinder recordings of Native Americans by American...
This treatise is divided into two parts. Part 1 examines elements of polystylism and their implications in the piano music of Carter Pann, particularly in the two sets, The Piano’s 12 Sides and the Five Serious Pieces for Piano. In...
This treatise is a study of selected contemporary solo piano works by prominent Chinese composers. The focus is on demonstrating how each composer engages both Eastern and Western elements in their piano music creating their own...
Prefatory Action is an unfinished work existing partially in the realm of hypothetical hearsay, and partially in the drafts of the libretto and musical sketches found after Skryabin’s death. Nearly all of the literature on this piece is...
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 treatise is in two distinct sections. The first part uses the Etudes Op. 10 by Frédéric Chopin as a vehicle through which to examine aspects of the learning process. Topics discussed include mindset, the role automatic behaviors...
Choro is a genre of Brazilian popular music that emerged in Rio de Janeiro in the 1870s as an amalgamation of musical elements and instruments from Brazil, Europe, and Africa. It reached the height of its popularity in the 1920s and...
This document comprises two main parts which will respectively focus on how composers, Johann Sebastian Bach, Claude Debussy, Sergei Prokofiev, and Emma Lou Diemer, composed original piano works under the generic title of "Toccata." The...
This treatise presents a selected, graded list of violin repertoire that focuses on irregular and mixed meter. The repertoire selected for this project features works for violin and piano, violin solo, and violin duet, and includes...
There is a plethora of articles and documents by scholarly figures articulating their views on what constitutes "good" art. Whether it's Halbert Britan or Milton Babbitt, the common strategy within aesthetic discourse is to claim that ...
Shakespeare's The Tempest is one of his most musical plays, and the monster Caliban is an inherently musical monster. He demonstrates musical skills and affinities, and his speech "Be not affeard" from Act 3, Scene 2, is one of...
This treatise examines the evolution of the tuba concerto. The goals of this study are to show how the tuba concerto began, to illustrate the musical significance, and to provide an increased awareness of the positive attributes and...
In this treatise, I have examined twenty solo piano works from the book Melodies of China. These twenty pieces span various folk song melodies representative of distinctive regional characteristics from East, South, West, and North China...
This treatise explores the interpretive decisions that can be made through different methods of musical analysis. Specifically, this study focuses on Carl Maria von Weber's Grand Duo Concertant Op. 48 for clarinet and piano. The primary...
The main purpose of this treatise is to draw attention to András Hamary's piano music. This is done through careful analysis of his two major piano works containing extra-musical inspirations, Jelek and Der Kleine Prinz. Formal, harmonic...
This treatise explores the flute methodology of Alberto Almarza, the Associate Professor of Flute at Carnegie Mellon University. This project provides his biography, philosophy of music and teaching, approach to practice, flute...
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