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Many singers struggle with the issue of laryngeal instability. A larynx that moves upward significantly during singing causes a variety of vocal complications, yet it too often goes undetected or unaddressed by voice teachers. Tenors in...
The razing of the Berlin Wall in 1989 has resulted in an influx of Russian opera and an awareness of Russian art song literature heretofore unparalleled in the West. American singers, who train diligently to sing Italian, French, and...
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...
The preeminence of Langston Hughes as a seminal figure in twentieth century literature is a well-chronicled phenomenon in academic circles. What has not been researched in a comprehensive fashion is Hughes' importance to both popular and...
In 1952 The State Institute for Folksong in Brno invited Czech-born composer Petr Eben (1929-2007) to collect and transcribe folksong in the original dialect from the Moravian-Silesian district around the town of Těšín, which straddles...
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...
The purpose of this paper is to examine the songs for solo voice with piano accompaniment by Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924), observing the composer's evolving compositional style, as well as the songs' place in the modern voice studio....
Ernesto Lecuona (1895-1963) is regarded as one of the most important Cuban musicians of the twentieth century, and one of the most prolific composers within Latin America. His piano skills were equal to that of Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873...
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