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Evidences Of Impressionism In The Music Of Charles Tomlinson Griffes
(1941)One of the most important phase of the study of the creative genius of any artist is the question of influence. There is little evidence to support the once popular conception of an artists, poet, or musician as a solitary, ... -
An Analysis Of The Mikrokosmos Of Béla Bartók
(1946)Much contemporary music in melodically and harmonically chaotic to the unprepared listening ear and represents a type of expression which fails to possess the remotest apparent connection with previous experience. Nothing ... -
Die Winterreise Of Franz Schubert; A Study Of The Relationship Of Music To Poetry.
(1960-06-10)The purpose of this paper is not to pass judgment upon the worth of a poet's work not upon the reason Schubert may have had in selecting these poems to set to music. We will attempt to discover what Schubert felt about the ... -
The piano music of Francis Poulenc
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The noels of the eighteenth-century French organ school
(1980)The noels of the eighteenth-century French organ school were based on religious songs, folk-like in nature, which were sung in the vernacular at the Christmas Eve Midnight Mass. By the seventeenth century, instrumental ... -
The original solo piano works of Mily Balakirev
(1983)I. The purpose of the present study is to examine the original solo piano works of Mily Balakirev and, thereby, to discover their significance in the history of Russian music and to establish their value in the piano ... -
The development of an imitative instructional approach to improvising effective melodic statements in jazz solos
(1985)This study was initiated after college-level students in a beginning jazz improvisation class and in jazz performance groups were observed to be having difficulty improvising effective melodic statements in improvised jazz ... -
Schoenberg's Verklärte Nacht: history, editions and analyses
(1989)This dissertation completed in 1989 is a study containing information surrounding Arnold Schoenberg's original composition of Verklarte Nacht in 1899, his arrangement for string orchestra published in 1917, and his Revision ... -
A model of aural instruction examined in a case of fiddle teaching
(1990)This study investigates instruction which utilizes primarily aural presentation. It is theorized that accurate replication of music from aural presentation depends, in part, on effective aural instruction. It is hypothesized ... -
The development of compositional style in the piano music of Federico Mompou
(1991)Federico Mompou's published piano works cover a span of nearly 70 years, from 1911 to 1979. This study seeks to trace the development of Mompou's skills as a composer throughout his long career. It concludes that the ... -
Verismo in the works of Gian Carlo Menotti: a comparison with late nineteenth-century Italian opera
(1991)The Medium, The Consul, and The Saint of Bleecker Street by Menotti attest to a continuation of the verismo strain observed in certain late-nineteenth-century operas, especially Cavalleria Rusticana and Pagliacci. The study ... -
A survey of flutists and flute activities in eighteenth-century America
(1991)The purpose of this study is to chronicle the activities of early American flutists and to provide new evidence to establish the flute's important role during America's musical nascence. Records of concert events, teaching ... -
Pitch-class set multiplication in Boulez's Le marteau sans maitre
(1993)Since its 1955 premiere, Pierre Boulez's Le Marteau sans mai tre has engendered a great deal of discourse, most notably in analyses by Lev Koblyakov, related to both its compositional processes and its serialist aesthetics. ... -
As long as we continue to joik, we'll remember who we are: negotiating identity and the performance of culture: the Saami joik
(1993)The focus of this dissertation is the indigenous musical genre of the Saami (formerly Lapps) of northern Scandinavia (Norway, Sweden, and Finland). Known throughout the region generically as joik, this is vocal music ... -
The music methods class: acquisition of pedagogical content knowledge by preservice music teachers
(1994)This study examined preservice teachers' acquisition and development of pedagogical content knowledge as affected by instructional experiences in a music methods course. The investigation considered informants' changes in ... -
Analyzing Free Jazz
(1994)More than thirty years after the first experiments in free jazz, this style of music is still little known outside of a small circle of admirers. In spite of its influence on the larger field of jazz and on the foundation ... -
Nineteenth century music for cello and piano in the British Library Collection: an annotated catalogue
(1994)This volume is an annotated catalogue of nineteenth century music for cello and piano in the British Library collection. There are over one thousand pieces that fall into this category, representing the work of six hundred ... -
Brightness measures of trombone timbre
(1995)Trombone timbre is difficult to describe because of the multidimensional nature of timbre perception and because of inherent timbral variations with pitch and loudness. Following suggestions by Balzano (1986), a measure ... -
Permutations of standard piano works: a curriculum for the development of student musicianship
(1995)Traditional piano instruction rarely includes improvisation, or even playful permutations of studied works, but there are sound musical reasons for the inclusion of some level of piano improvisation in the training of all ... -
Reconciliation: time, space and the American place in the music of Charles Ives
(1995)One of the most durable of the myths surrounding Charles Ives and his music is the myth of his isolation. But, while it is true that Ives was never closely associated with any single group of professional musicians during ...