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Documents in the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Library of Congress, and Fogelman Library at the New School for Social Research demonstrate Henry Cowell's tireless efforts on behalf of dissonant counterpoint, a...
Although "modernism" has been understood by many scholars worldwide first and foremost as a Euro-American, multi-faceted aesthetic movement, modanizumu ("modernism") has also been conceptualized by Japanese and Western scholars alike as...
This dissertation explores tunebook revisions in the broad Sacred Harp tradition during the period from 1879 through 1936. My work focuses on the split of Sacred Harp singing into three competing sub-traditions during the early twentieth...
Handel's Hallelujah Chorus has gained recognition in America as representative of the Christmas season, but this seasonal association is contrary to the composer's intentions for the piece. Handel's placement of the Hallelujah Chorus at...
This dissertation explores twenty-first century presentations of Johann Sebastian Bach’s St. Matthew and St. John Passions (BWV 244 and 245) in the context of Bach festivals in the United States. Building upon music festival studies by...
Sacred Music of Baldassare Galuppi in the Context of Eigtheenth Century Venetian Culture, with an Emphasis on Music Written for the Mendicanti and the Incurabili
This dissertation examines selected sacred music of Baldassare Galuppi (1706-85) in the wider context of Venetian culture and explores problems of questionable attribution arising from Galuppi's popularity in Venice and abroad. Galuppi...
Rolf de Maré’s Ballets Suédois was at the forefront of the Parisian avant-garde between 1920 and 1925. The company produced twenty-four distinctive, innovative works that challenged conventions of ballet and explored diverse modes of...
Werner Egk's Joan von Zarissa, a relocation of the Don Juan saga to 15th-century Burgundy, provides a case study in the complexities of creating art and establishing an artistic career in Germany during the National Socialist period. Egk...
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...
In the latter half of the thirteenth century, the convent of St. Mary's at Helfta, Saxony, represented one of the greatest literary, artistic, and spiritual centers of medieval Germany. Helfta was also the site of a flowering mystical...
This thesis illuminates the role and significance of the Kabaka's royal musicians of Buganda during Ssekabaka Sir Edward Frederick Muteesa II's reign (1939-1966). To provide the necessary backdrop for appreciating changes that occurred...
In his prodigious philosophical work Periphyseon, the foremost intellectual of the ninth century, John Scottus Eriugena (ca. 800-877), defined musica broadly and in a way that solicits interdisciplinary applications: "Music is the...
This dissertation centers on la danza Bugabita, a rural Panamanian dance-drama expression of los moros y cristianos. It documents, analyzes, and contextualizes the music, text, choreography, and history of the festival, bringing together...
Irony is an important discursive mode and literary trope. It invites a debate about meaning and significance, creates a feeling of community among perceivers (even if, on the surface, it excludes), and draws them into morally active...
This dissertation probes the relationship between Pan-Americanism and musical production in its cultural and historic context through close analysis of the music, concert programming, and publications of the Pan-American Association of...
Prior to the Civil War the banjo was an instrument associated exclusively with black slaves or blackface minstrel troupes. During the second half of the nineteenth century enthusiasts in major Northeastern cities sought to elevate the...
This thesis explores the experiences of a South Florida klezmer ensemble known as the Holocaust Survivor Band. The group was co-founded by Saul Dreier, then an 89-year-old resident of Coconut Creek, Florida, and Reuwen "Ruby" Sosnowicz, ...
This dissertation examines the portrayals of unconventional and "unruly" female characters in two American operas of the late-twentieth and early-twenty-first centuries, Clair de Lune (1984) by Libby Larsen and Patricia Hampl, and Amelia...
Toward the end of the twelfth century, moral conflict was rampant in the Catholic Church regarding the conduct of all levels of the ecclesiastical hierarchy. There was acerbic criticism of the profligate bishops and archbishops who...
A Study of Two Seventeenth-Century Teaching Manuals in Hamburg: Critical Editions and Translations of Thomas Selle's Kurtze Doch Gründtliche Anleitung zur Singekunst (c. 1642) and Heinrich Grimm's Instrumentum Instrumentorum, Hoc Est, Monochordum vel Potius Decachordum (1634)
Two manuscript music primers used by the Hamburg cantor Thomas Selle (1599-1663) serve as the basis for this dissertation. Bound together in the seventeenth century, these two manuscripts are the Kurtze doch gründtliche anleitung zur...
The Italian composer Baldassare Galuppi (1706-1785) had a profound impact on the development of opera buffa and on Venetian musical life for nearly forty years. Less widely known is the fact that he also exercised considerable influence...
The primary purpose of this treatise is to afford churches and choirs of modest means another piece of sacred choral music that can be performed without the need for a large orchestra. This document explores the concept and issues of...
Goth was a subculture derived from England's punk movement, and it served as a pessimistic cultural and artistic response to The Cold War, and to the social and economic upheavals in Britain during the 1980s, and as an alternative form...
In this dissertation I examine the history and musical culture related to the Kawuugulu royal drums of the Baganda people. I argue that the royal drums and their use articulate principles of social organization through symbolic...
Gustav Mahler's music has been extensively studied and discussed in both scholarly and popular circles, especially since the middle of the past century. His conducting and directorial activity, however, deserves greater attention. The...
Francis Poulenc's 1949 Piano Concerto was written for his performance with the Boston Symphony Orchestra during his second American tour in 1950. It is an example of his distinctive musical language and compositional craftsmanship, as...
This dissertation investigates the relationships between the lives and works of Louis Moreau Gottschalk (1829-69) and John Sullivan Dwight (1813-93). It demonstrates that the points of intersection were influenced not only by musical...
Throughout its history Spain has held a special affection for the Virgin Mary. Popular devotion was reflected in the Church's celebrations on her feast days, which were held with the utmost solemnity. The Spanish affection for the Virgin...
Gregorian chant is typically thought of as a product of the early medieval era. Its monophonic melodies evoke a simple beginning from which Western music evolved; its timbres are associated with the austere monuments of the early Church;...
Maud Powell was recognized as among the best violinists at home and abroad during her lifetime. She believed that women should play the violin and that American women could be professional musicians - performers, educators, and composers...
A growing number of global civil society organizations commonly referred to as nongovernmental organizations, or NGOs, have proliferated throughout much of sub-Saharan Africa, and especially Kenya, since the mid-1980s. Drawing from...
This treatise examines Fanny Hensel's published piano works, Opp. 2, 4, 5 and 6 and her early publications prior to Op. 1, which grew out of an established song tradition and exhibit the influence of the north German Lied. Fanny's...
Composer Howard Hanson played a pivotal role in both the development and promotion of American concert music in the twentieth century. Born in Wahoo, Nebraska, to Swedish immigrants, Hanson grew up surrounded by people who followed...
When Charles Edward Stuart landed on the shores of Scotland in 1745, he was greeted with ardent support from Jacobite men and women who supported the Stuart claim to the British throne. Women were particularly important supporters of...
This dissertation offers a critical examination of Georg Joseph Vogler's opera Samori, focusing on its portrayal of Indian identities and cultural heritage. Utilizing my newly developed Intercultural Positionality Framework (IPF), the...
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