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"This book tells the story of the flute in the musical life of Europe and North America from the twelfth century to the present day. It is the first history to illustrate the relationship that has bound the instrument, its music, and performance technique together through eight …
Isang Yun (1917–1995) was the first successful Korean-born composer in Western classical music. His students, Sukhi Kang (1934–2020) and Byungdong Paik (b. 1936), have been leading composers and educators in South Korea and both were greatly inspired by Isang Yun. All three inte…
Johann Sebastian Bach’s Ciaconna from the Partita No. 2 in D minor (BWV 1004) was originally written for solo violin without bass as part of a collection of six sonatas and partitas. The Ciaconna has unique demands on a flutist: embouchure flexibility, breathing technique, tone …
There exists a gap in the electroacoustic flute repertoire: tonal, melodically-based flute music which utilizes the technology and innovative synthesized sounds available today. At the same time, many flutists are not taught how to perform with synthesized sound or work with mus…
Book of Birds is a composition for flute and electronics inspired by birds. Throughout human history, artists have developed stories and music about the natural world around them. In this piece, Book of Birds, I am adding to this vast repertoire of folk stories with some of my o…
This dissertation examines and adapts for saxophone Three Fantasias, Op. 95 for unaccompanied flute by Friedrich Kuhlau (1786–1832), a composer of enduring popularity and respect among flutists. Musical repertoire written for saxophone began in the late 1800s, and became more ro…
Although many of the effects of the flute’s design and mechanisms have been previously studied, the flute’s stopper remains relatively unexplored. Stoppers are traditionally made of cork, are used to seal the upper end of the headjoint tubing, and determine the overall intonatio…
The political, counter-cultural, and artistic movements of the 1960s and 1970s in the United States gave rise to a new artistic methodology called Social Practice. In Social Practice more value is placed upon the process of creating rather than in the result or product; experien…
This study employs a qualitative arts-based methodology that documents and describes the process of the researcher/performer's creation and production of an original one-woman work of performance art and discusses its place in the cultural context of this genre. The researcher c…
