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A Performance Guide to Selected Song Cycles of John Harbison: North and South (Six Poems of Elizabeth Bishop), Simple Daylight, and Flashes and Illuminations
The purpose of this treatise is to provide a performance perspective and guide to selected works of John Harbison for voice and piano. John Harbison (b. 1938) is a Pulitzer-prize winning American composer, whose music is becoming a part...
This treatise catalogues the major solo piano works of Sergei Rachmaninoff. Each entry gives the length in measures, approximate performance time, and when known, date of composition, date of publication, date of first performance and...
The purpose of this treatise is to examine compositions for Western instruments in which composers of yangak (Western-style music) express Korean identity and to determine how they integrate Korean traditional elements into their music...
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...
The present document offers a contextual approach to learning orchestral excerpts for cello. The first step in this process is collecting basic information about the composer and his style, followed by the historical background of the...
Robert Schumann's mental illness has been regarded as having affected the quality of his compositions during the final years of his life. While works like Carnaval Op. 9 and Kreisleriana Op. 16 have always been a central part of the...
Tôru Takemitsu was arguably among the most important, although lesser known, musical figures of the twentieth century. Born in Japan in 1930, and having lived there through World War II and the post-war occupation, Takemitsu assimilated...
This dissertation considers the life and music of Richard Danielpour (b. 1956) and how they intersect with the issues of commercialism, accessibility, popularity, and originality in twentieth- and twenty-first century American art music....
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