Written for juveniles, this biography of Leonard Bernstein, the master musician, conductor, composer, and music educator, provides a resource for students of his life and work. Particular attention is paid to the influences that inspired Bernstein's work, his U.S. education, and…
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Through ethnographic fieldwork, this dissertation examines the culture of sholawat in Indonesia, a festive public event marked by a combination of prayer songs and sermons among Muslims. In this setting, the style of Indonesian Islam, what Indonesians label as Islam Nusantara, i…
Smooth Point is an electro-acoustic chamber suite for woodwinds and rhythm section inspired by the theories of composer/philosopher Dane Rudyar, and also by the work of esoteric author Israel Regardie. The piece was written to assist in the musical meditative practice known as t…
Beginning around the 1820s, the refinement of the piano mechanism increased the expressiveness of the instrument’s sonority and further attracted the composers’ attention and curiosity about the instrument. Concentration on piano music became a trend for composers between the mi…
Debussy has been known for integrating different subjects into his music such as pictures, scenes of nature, poems, and elements from other cultures that leave the listener with the impression that Debussy tries to capture in his music. This paper focuses on multicultural influe…
On a program for a classical music recital today you will typically find the names of the performers, as well as the names of the various composers who wrote the music. At first, this seems perfectly ordinary, until we consider that there was a time when such a distinction betwe…
This dissertation identifies and presents four works for saxophone, each featuring folk elements from a different culture. The introduction to this document outlines the historical development and implications of the term “folk music.” Rather than an art set in stone, folk music…
The Second Sight is an opera in three acts that both draws upon the bel canto tradition of operatic singing and explores new possibilities for dramatic vocal writing. By engaging with the historical ideal of opera as dramma per musica - that is “drama through [by means of] music…
The Yellow River Piano Concerto (1969) by Yin Chengzong (1941–present) and other committee members (Chu Wanghua, Liu Zhuang, Sheng Lihong, Shi Shucheng, and Xu Feixing), the most popular piano concerto in China, was composed at the time of the Cultural Revolution. It was written…
The purpose of this dissertation is to provide a conductor’s analysis of a specific set of repertoire by African-American composer Lena McLin. The selected works share three common traits: (1) they are all scored for mixed chorus; (2) they are all cantatas; and (3) they explore …
The four composers on this recording are Antonio Jose (Spain 1902–1936), Darwin Vargas (Chile 1925–1988), Roberto Sierra (Puerto Rico and United States, born in 1953), and Dušan Bogdanović (Serbia and United States, born in 1955). Each of their works for solo guitar presents a u…
This paper demonstrates the pedagogical relevance of technical and stylistic precedents that influenced Bach in his composition of the Sonatas and Partitas for Unaccompanied Violin. By preemptively studying these musical precursors, students develop the needed technical foundati…
One of the most influential composers of the twentieth century, Paul Hindemith composed only one violin concerto with full orchestra. Completed in 1939, it was widely performed during his lifetime but has since lost much of its popularity. This document will look at the biograph…
Slåtter, Norwegian Peasant Dances , Op. 72 is a composition for solo piano by Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg (1843-1907). This set is one of his greatest contributions to piano literature, and shows his attempt to bring the traditional folk music to the rest of the world. The o…
Alfred Şnitke, hem yaşam mücadelesi, hem de bestecilik kimliğini yaratma mücadelesinde müzisyenler için örnek olabilecek karakteri sayesinde adını tarihe yazdırmayı başarmıştır. Tanıklık ettiği dünya savaşı, yaşadığı dönemin siyasi zorlukları, sağlık problemleri onu yolundan vaz…
During the second season of the Society for Private Musical Performances (1918-1922), known in Austria as the ‘Verein für musikalische Privataufführungen’, the members began to transcribe orchestral music for their chamber ensemble (Meibach, 1984). Previously, the Society had pr…
This dissertation enacts the dialogue between my creative work as an improviser-composer and my critical engagements with scholarship. Both creative and academic streams of my work have converged on core themes, which have accompanied me as I experiment with my practice as a com…
As a critical study accompanying a creative project which involves composition, rearrangement and recording featuring my work as a performer on lap steel guitar, New Perspectives is invested in both a historical consideration of the role of the instrument and an examination of h…
The present dissertation consists in an original composition for solo piano, titled Seven Nocturnes (2020). The score is preceded by a critical essay in which I discuss the overall aesthetic and formal qualities of the work, its musical, philosophical, theoretical, and historica…