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An Annotated Survey of Douze Chants d'Anatolie of Cemal Reùit Rey: A Practical Performance Companion to Understanding the Origin and Context of Turkish Art Song in the Twentieth Century
This dissertation examines Douze chants d'Anatolie (Twelve Anatolian Songs), a complete art song set and one of the first mature works of Turkish composer Cemal Reşit Rey. The songs of Douze chants d'Anatolie are some of the first...
The purpose of the first part of this treatise is to provide information about the Italian composer Nino Rota and a summary of his musical output. In particular, the focus of this study regards his two piano trios. Both works are...
Beatbox Flute is a contemporary technique in which a performer creates complex polyphonic percussive effects while playing the flute. Developed in the early 2000s, it has only recently begun to gain widespread acceptance. The current...
The colonial historical background of Taiwan, which dates back four hundred years, produced a large body of folksongs. These songs connected deeply with people's social lives and traditions, and reveal Taiwanese history. The earliest...
This treatise introduces contemporary French composer Olivier Kaspar (b. 1962) to a wider audience of performers and scholars. The document opens with a chapter reviewing his career as a violist, conductor, teacher, and composer. The...
Born in Ann Arbor, Michigan in 1961, award-winning American composer Edward Knight started his musical training at the age of two with his grandmother, a concert pianist. Knight has written about twenty chamber works, nine of which are...
This treatise seeks to examine the similarities and differences between Rilke Songs and Neruda Songs, two sets by American composer Peter Lieberson. This will be done by comparing different elements, including text setting, harmonic...
Franz Liszt composed over eighty songs in German, French, Italian, Hungarian, Russian, and English. Although most of his songs are set to German poems, the songs in French are among the most significant works, especially those set to...
Hispanics and Latinx-identifying individuals are the second largest ethnic population in the United States. It is estimated that this group will grow to 24% of the population by 2065. As the demographics of our student population change, ...
This treatise is meant to increase awareness of a lesser-known work by Joseph Canteloube entitled L'Arada, a cycle of six songs for voice and piano based on the sonnets of Occitan poet Antonin Perbosc. The cycle is unique in that it...
Abstract: Because very little research has been done on the cabaret music composed in Paris at the turn of the 20th century and continuing into the mid-century, this document discusses some of the important composers of the time and...
Without contest, the twentieth century can be regarded as a "melting pot" of compositional styles. Each composer's unique contributions, as well as the numerous compositional techniques utilized in this era, combine to make it one of the...
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)...
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