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This dissertation engages with scholarship in musical semiotics and hermeneutics to offer insight into the aesthetics of hard bop (c. 1954–65), a jazz genre often characterized as a return to jazz’s roots. By synthesizing the semiotic...
Today composers have a variety of sounds at their disposal and with the advancements of technology it is no wonder that composers would turn to electronic means for producing music. However, this leaves the listener with unmapped...
This dissertation considers how composers deviate from strict chromatic sequences in post-tonal triadic repertoire and introduces multi-dimensional voice-leading spaces that are flexible enough to accommodate these minute alterations...
Sketch Book is a collection of short movements conceptually derived from various art forms and definitions associated with the word “sketch.” Sketch In seeks to embody the artistic process of realizing a visual concept into a tangible...
This dissertation explores musical meaning and narrative in Francis Poulenc’s music through an interaction of three main analytic approaches: the paradigmatic method of analysis as previously demonstrated by Jean-Jacques Nattiez and Kofi...
This dissertation addresses one key question throughout: “How does the experience of hearing a piece of music inform the ways in which we understand its formal structure and syntax?” Because electronic music is typically solely an aural...
Early Seventeenth-Century Harmonic Practice: A Corpus Study of Tonality, Modality, and Harmonic Function in Italian Secular Song with Baroque Guitar Accompaniment in Alfabeto Tablature
This dissertation investigates harmonic propeties of Italian secular songs with Baroque guitar accompaniment in alfabeto tablature, which was a system of letters and other symbols that represented a chord shape to be strummed using all...
This dissertation investigates the interpersonal, communicative dynamic created by the presence of multiple interpreters contributing to a single musical performance in recent chamber music. Although the performance and analysis of...
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