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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...
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...
This treatise examines the use of reductions and simplifications as learning tools. These tools are applied to the study of J.S. Bach's Allemande from Partita No. 6 in E Minor, BWV 830. There are three types of reductions explored 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...
This treatise proposes a narrative approach for analyzing Missy Mazzoli’s solo piano works based on the theory of Byron Almén. The first part of Chapter 1 is devoted to explaining narrative approaches, based on gestures, semiotics, ...
This study provides an analysis of the Tenth Piano Sonata, Op. 67 (1955) of the American composer Vincent Persichetti (1915-1987) through an analysis of thematic development, motivic development, melody, and harmony. The evolution of...
Unsuk Chin's 12 Klavieretüden (1995-2003) give a microscopic view of her compositional style. Chin (b. 1961) is a Korean-born composer who has developed a worldwide reputation since winning the Grawemeyer Award in 2004. Etude Nos. 1 and...
The following treatise is based on content from two separate lecture recitals that were presented from 2021-2022 at Florida State University. The first lecture was given on December 4th, 2021, covered the topic of the purpose of allusion...
Performance anxiety is a common problem among performing musicians. This treatise looks at physical, mental and behavioral approaches for treating music performance anxiety in music students and professional musicians. Its goal is to...
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...
Contemporary New Zealand Piano Music: Four Selected Works from Twelve Landscape Preludes: Landscape Prelude, the Street Where I Live, Sleeper and the Horizon from Owhiro Bay
Landscape Preludes is a collection of pieces commissioned in 2003 by New Zealand pianist Stephen de Pledge from twelve New Zealand composers. The writing took about four years and the complete set was first performed by de Pledge at the...
Piano literature (or keyboard repertory studies) is commonly included in piano performance and some piano pedagogy degrees in the United States. This single or sequential course is required by the National Association of Schools of Music...
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...
This treatise investigates the harmonic and contrapuntal features of Études pour piano, premier livre (1985) by Hungarian composer György Ligeti. All six etudes undergo chordal and intervallic analysis, revealing Ligeti's preference for...
The purpose of this treatise is to introduce and discuss Victoria Bond’s keyboard works and to preserve their individual origin stories. As of February 2020, there are two piano concerti, eight unique works featuring keyboard as the only...
This treatise explores selected compositions by the contemporary Russian composers Mikhail Kollontay and Valery Arzoumanov. Each of the two chapters is based on a lecture recital given at Florida State University. The first chapter...
The purpose of this study was to create a guide for practicing, performing, and preparing the first movement of Haydn's Piano Sonata in E-flat major, No. 62. The study brings together historical, analytical, performance practice and...
The following treatise is based on the content of two separate lecture recitals that I presented at Florida State University. The first lecture recital was given on April 21, 2018, and addressed the connections between three Chinese...
This treatise will introduce the solo piano works of Aaron Jay Kernis to pianists interested in learning his music and show how Kernis' use of musical quotation constructs the musical content of these pieces using musical quotation, ...
This treatise provides an introduction to the piano music of Carl Vine with an emphasis on his Piano Sonata No. 3 (2007). His piano music is virtuosic, expressive, and energetic. It is filled with technical passages that utilize the...
The treatise consists of two sections. The first section focuses on 24 Preludes for Piano by Lera Auerbach. This large-scale composition is among her most significant works. It continues the tradition of cycles of twenty-four preludes...
Sir John Tavener's music brings two disparate spheres together, his music being a bridge between the earthly and the Divine. Tavener's works are written within the sphere of Classical music but incorporate many styles of sacred music, ...
Sonata form has a long history from the Baroque era to the present. Each period has displayed its own characteristics in its sonata forms. Increased inconsistency in the style of sonata forms became more noticeable after the Classical...
Coping with Performance Anxiety: College Piano Students' Perceptions of Performance Anxiety and Potential Effectiveness of Deep Breathing, Deep Muscle Relaxation, and Visualization
The purpose of this study was to investigate college piano students' pre-existing awareness of performance anxiety and to present deep breathing, deep muscle relaxation, and visualization as self-regulating techniques that might be...
The purpose of this treatise is to introduce and discuss the development of cycles of twenty-four preludes by seven Russian composers. Shostakovich's prelude cycle receives a thorough analysis, which provides clear evidence for the...
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 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...
An Approach to Learning Historical Improvisation through the Study of Eighteenth-Century Variation Sets and Cross-Cultural Piano Music Influenced by North Indian, Balinese, and Chinese Classical Traditions
This treatise is in two chapters, each based on a lecture recital I presented during my doctoral studies at Florida State University. While the topics are not specifically related to each other, both explore performance practices and...
This treatise creates a foundation for preparing a new edition of Piano Sonata in C-sharp Minor, op. posth. 80, by Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky. Composed in 1865, the year Tchaikovsky graduated from the St. Petersburg Conservatory, the work...
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