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Recent scholarship highlights the great impact women's music clubs and patrons had upon United States art music culture from the middle of the nineteenth through the twentieth centuries. Women's music clubs were present in almost every...
John Cage's music includes a wide variety of styles, genres, performing forces, and approaches to musical creation that together challenge the notion and existence of "a piece." In large part, due to the wide range of possibilities in...
An examination of Cowell's musical aesthetic found in his critical articles and essays is necessary in approaching his compositions, many of which push against mainstream compositional currents of their day. According to Henry Cowell, ...
Through publicity material, personal portraiture, and the work of individual photographers, jazz music has been documented and artfully represented in photographs throughout its development. This thesis examines the circumstances leading...
Radie Britain (1899-1994) was a successful American composer by almost any measure. Despite her long and productive career, Britain remains on the periphery of scholarly literature. In part this could be a result of Britain's...
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...
The Western art music ("classical") guitar tradition flourished in Europe during the mid nineteenth century. Guitarists like Andrés Segovia contributed to a revived interest in the tradition in the early twentieth century and stimulated...
Music regularly accompanies dance performances, but the relationship of sound and movement has been under-investigated in academic circles. This neglect may be a reflection of the opinion that music created for dance is not serious. The...
The music of American composer David Maslanka (b. 1943) is informed by his deep connection to the natural world. This connection permeates his music and results in powerful works imbued with a wealth of spiritual and environmental...
From the 1960s until his death in September of 2000, Lee Erwin championed silent films, silent film music, and the theater organ. Growing up in Huntsville, Alabama during the first quarter of the twentieth century, Lee Erwin (1908 – 2000...
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