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The composer Paul Dessau (1894-1979) was arguably one of the most significant composers of the Deutsche Demokratische Republik (German Democratic Republic) yet a large portion of his music remains unperformed and unknown. This treatise...
This thesis will describe the quality of musical fire and how the representation of fire in music began and progressed during the Baroque period. In addition to hearing beautiful sonorities, experiencing a visceral thrill is one of the...
Sir Peter Pears (1910-1986) was the foremost interpreter of Benjamin Britten's vocal music. Britten composed a majority of his vocal works with Pears's voice in mind: seven song cycles, twelve original opera roles, five canticles, and...
Today's countertenors possess vocal ranges similar to the mezzo-soprano, and are trained to sing with a vibrant, focused tone. Little research has been conducted on the registers of the countertenor voice. Advancement in vocal techniques...
Audiaton is the ability to hear and to comprehend music when the sound is not physically present. The principle of audiation is outlined by Edwin E. Gordon in his Music Learning Theory, which is a research-based explanation of how people...
This treatise is both a historical and analytical document concerning The AIDS Quilt Songbook. William Parker, an American baritone who was diagnosed with AIDS in 1986, solicited composers to submit art songs for baritone and piano for a...
Breathing for singers: a comparative analysis of body type and breathing tendencies is a scientific study that's purpose is to determine whether a correlation exists between inexperienced young singers' body types and their breathing...
The purpose of this paper is to acknowledge the importance of Antonio Montagnana's vocal and dramatic abilities and to show how they contributed to George Frideric Handel's method of composing for the bass voice in opera. George Frideric...
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