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The guitar-piano chamber music duo presents unique opportunities for performers and composers. Both instruments are perfectly capable of playing melodies, harmonies and contrapuntal music with a variety of timbres and articulation. The...
The objective of this treatise is to outline principles of organ pedagogy for a self-taught organist like myself. This treatise discusses two pedagogical approaches and techniques, by two prominent organists and organ pedagogues, John...
The purpose of this treatise is to provide a close examination of the compositional styles of two pianist-composers, Robert Chumbley (b. 1954) and Lera Auerbach (b. 1973), as well as critical analyses of selected solo piano works. It...
The recordings by the guitarist and composer Agustín Barrios Mangoré are invaluable sources for understanding his music. They provide important information about how Barrios performed his own music as well as music by other composers....
In this treatise, I study four of Kenneth Frazelle’s piano works, Elixir, Appearances, Inventions to Marden and Wildflowers. In composing these works, Frazelle took inspiration from extramusical sources including Paul Cezanne’s artistic...
This document is divided into two parts. The first part of the paper discusses two sets of twentieth-century piano pieces by Claude Debussy: Estampes (1903) and Images I (1901−1905). The second part focuses on how three female Korean...
This document comprises two main parts which will respectively focus on how composers, Johann Sebastian Bach, Claude Debussy, Sergei Prokofiev, and Emma Lou Diemer, composed original piano works under the generic title of "Toccata." The...
The following treatise is based on content from two separate lecture recitals that the author previously delivered at Florida State University. Followed by performances of the pieces, the first lecture recital featured Shinuh Lee’s...
This treatise studies and compares two twentieth-century works and the pianistic challenges they exhibit: Karlheinz Stockhausen’s Klavierstück VII and Tristan Murail’s La Mandragore. Historical background is provided on Karlheinz...
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