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Evocations of Nature in the Piano Music of Franz Liszt and the Seeds of Impressionism
Liszt scholarship of recent decades has produced research along many lines of inquiry in an endeavor to increase recognition of the composer as one of the most important and influential musical figures of the nineteenth century. While a great deal of this discourse has been devoted to uncovering Liszt’s influence on the ...
Through a Literary Lens: The Effect of Jean Paul and E.T.A. Hoffmann’s Writing Styles on the Compositional Techniques of Robert Schumann
The son of a writer, lexicographer, and publisher, Robert Schumann was born on June 8th, 1810 in Zwickau, Saxony. His father, August Schumann, surrounded his son with a multitude of literary works during his youth. Although a promising young musician, Robert Schumann was torn between becoming a pianist/composer or poet. ...
Formless being for flute, clarinet, bassoon, french horn, percussion, piano and string quartet
Formless being can be thought of as a piece with a circular structure whose segments are cut short, just as the idea reaches its full development. An idea is presented and developed, pressing forward through the movement, only to be suppressed in its prime. Formless Being is an exploration of the meaning of continuous musical ...
Saraswati Sings: The Slide-Guitar in India
This dissertation explores the phenomenon of slide-guitar traditions in the classical and popular music of India. Drawing from data gathered between 2014 and 2016 in Jaipur and Kolkata, India, the history, social life, and challenges faced by the slide-guitar community are illuminated with attention to how the instrument has ...
Modern Horn Playing in Beethoven: An Exploration of Period Appropriate Techniques for the Orchestral Music of Beethoven for the Modern Horn Player
I. Abstract The historically informed movement has made it increasingly apparent that orchestras can no longer interpret Beethoven, Mahler, Mozart, and Bach in exactly the same manner. It is now incumbent upon each member of the orchestra, as well as the conductor, to be aware of historic performance traditions in order to ...
THE ECONOMIC, AESTHETIC, AND NONPROFIT ORGANIZATION OF PROFESSIONAL VOCAL ENSEMBLES: TOWARD A THEORY OF THE PERFORMING ARTS
Professional vocal ensembles have few published resources to assist their managers in navigating the economic and societal currents of the performing arts. Yet, professional choral performance is growing across America. This study seeks to theorize and codify the practices of professional vocal ensembles as they balance ...
A Way of Doing Things: Exploring and Applying the Alexander Technique for Choral Conductors
The human body is a machine of extraordinary design and intricacy, and musicians widely recognize the role the mind and body play in making music. Despite the problems that affect performing artists, there is a surprising lack of an empirically verified method of teaching unified psychophysical performance to musicians. For ...
Armenian Orchestral Music
The goal of this dissertation is to make available all relevant information about orchestral music by Armenian composers—including composers of Armenian descent—as well as the history pertaining to these composers and their works. This dissertation will serve as a unifying element in bringing the Armenians in the diaspora and ...
One Hundred Years of the Concert Marimba: American and Japanese Innovation and Convergence, 1915 to 2014
The United States and Japan are the two main contributors to the development of the concert marimba and its repertoire. There is an account in each country about how the concert marimba developed, but each is missing the parallel aspect of the story. In this dissertation, I will weave both strands together in order to ...
Mahler's Third Symphony and the Languages of Transcendence
A work reaching beyond any of his previous compositional efforts, Gustav Mahler’s Third Symphony embodies cultural, political, and philosophical ideals of the Viennese fin-de-siècle generation. Comprising six enormous movements and lasting over ninety minutes, the work stretches the boundaries of symphonic form while ...