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Yong Nan Park was born in Seoul Korea in 1961 and is considered one of Korea's leading female composers. Park, with her abundant output and distinctive musical style, is among the most highly regarded composers of her generation. A...
This treatise serves as both a brief amalgamation of historical continuo methodology as well as a working continuo method for the advanced guitar student. The first portion of the treatise informs the reader of figured bass practice with...
ABSTRACT The image of classical music is not what it used to be. The development of a variety of styles and images in the realms of pop and rock music have drawn audiences away from it. These newer genres have found ways to reach their...
ABSTRACT This treatise is intended to examine some of Joaquin Rodrigo's most well-known compositions for guitar from the perspective of the classical guitarist performer and pedagogue with flamenco guitar experience. This is a rare case...
Shostakovich wrote his String Quartet No.3 in F Major, Op.73 in 1946 at the age of forty, right after the Second World War and not long after the completion of his Ninth Symphony. The Third Quartet is a large, symphonic work and is known...
Scales, etudes, performance repertoire and orchestral excerpts are the basic teaching materials for the cello student. In addition to scales and arpeggios, etudes provide both the basic facility and the technical foundation for the...
Heitor Villa-Lobos was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in 1887 and died in the same city in 1959. He is considered one of the most important composers of the twentieth century and is the author of seventeen string quartets that were...
This treatise explores the topic of cadenzas in concertos for cello and orchestra with four goals in mind. First, it provides an historical background of the development of the cadenza in cello concertos from the eighteenth century to...
The topic of this treatise is a comparison between autograph manuscripts and published editions of selected guitar works by the Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos. The works involved in this comparison are as follows: Suite Popular...
There have been a significant number of works for cello and orchestra written by Bulgarian composers between 1925 and 2000. Because most of these pieces are relatively unknown, the purpose of this document is to familiarize musicians...
This treatise provides an extensive look into the Violin Concerto in E minor, opus 1, by Jules Conus, and seeks to justify its inclusion into the ranks of the standard Romantic violin concerto repertoire. Written in 1896, and performed...
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