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Recursos Fandangueros
(2013-07-25)
"Recursos Fandangueros" is a community-centric multimedia project that incorporates video, audio recordings and written text. The project can be found in its entirety at: http://recursosfandangueros.wordpress.com/.
Ricardo Viñes and Les Apaches
(2013-07-25)
Ricardo Viñes (1875-1943), Catalan-French pianist, one of the great pianists of his time, forever linked with Claude Debussy, Maurice Ravel, and dozens of other composers of the early twentieth century. A remarkable craftsman at the piano, Viñes was blessed with musical prescience, an uncanny ability to bring new music to ...
Feeling Zulian through Gaita: Singing Regional Identity in Maracaibo, Venezuela
(2014-02-24)
This dissertation shows how gaita music articulates regional identity in Maracaibo, in the state of Zulia in Venezuela, based on analysis of lyrics and recordings, interviews, archival work, and participant observation at performance events. Since the 1960s, gaita has become a commercialized folk music that is popular throughout ...
String Quartet
(2013-07-23)
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Trumpet Mouthpiece Backbores: An Investigation of Interior Volume and Timbre
(2014-04-30)
In the trumpet playing community, the total interior volume of the trumpet mouthpiece backbore is generally thought to be a major component in the timbre a trumpet produces. Generally, a backbore with a larger interior volume is thought to sound darker and a backbore with a smaller interior volume is thought to sound brighter. ...
Elias Hecht and the Chamber Music Society of San Francisco: Pioneers of West Coast Chamber Music
(2014-02-24)
Since 1950, scholarship has addressed the evolution of chamber music in America. This research makes a strong case for the positive correlation between the achievements of small ensembles and the broader American musical culture and performance practice. Chamber ensembles from East Coast music centers like Boston, New York, ...
History on their Shoulders: Music and Nation-Building in Iceland
(2014-04-30)
Music making in Iceland has historically been considered a minor form of expressive culture. Compared with the academic and popular attention given to the nation's Viking-age settlement, epic medieval literature, and well-preserved language, music making in Iceland has been significantly understudied. One of the driving ...
Staging of Musical Drama in Italy at the Turn of Seventeenth Century A History of Theatrical Production
(2014-02-24)
Abstract Seventeenth-century musical drama is a product of the humanist preoccupation with the revival of the cultural ideals of the antiquity. Italian critics of the sixteenth century, after studying the classical texts of Aristotle and Plato, had already launched theories according to which music was present in the theatrical ...
The Life and Music of Isang Yun
(2014-04-30)
The Life and Music of Isang Yun Edward Park Isang Yun (1917-1995), born in Duksan in Korea, is considered by many Korean and European musicians to be one of the most important of all twentieth-century composers. He spent much of his adult life outside Korea, precipitated by his abduction in Berlin by secret agents from South ...
Bach and Schumann as Keyboard Pedagogues: A Comparative and Critical Overview of the "Notebook of Anna Magdalena," and the "Album for the Young."
(2014-02-24)
This dissertation compares and critically evaluates the keyboard pedagogies and teaching philosophies of J.S. Bach and Robert Schumann as expressed in their important collections intended for young, beginning students — <italic>Notebook for Anna Magdalena</italic> and <italic>Album for the Young, Op. 68</italic>, respectively. ...