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…
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I am investigating the role of Dimitri Mitropoulos in promoting contemporary music primarily during his tenure as the principal conductor of New York Philharmonic. I plan to discuss the contemporary composers and works he found important, and why this music needed to be heard. T…
Two dissertation recitals and a pedagogy workshop were given in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Musical Arts (Music: Performance) at the University of Michigan. Multimedia elements and narrative were used in both of the performances. The works…
O objetivo do presente projeto artístico foi adquirir um maior conhecimento sobre o Konzert für Oboe und kleines Orchester (1952) de Bernd Alois Zimmermann (1918- 1970). Pretende-se também que este estudo possa contribuir para uma maior divulgação do concerto, tornando-o mais ap…
This study will examine Galina Grigorjeva’s compositional style and the influence of the Russian Orthodox tradition on her choral music. Grigorjeva, born in 1962, is a Ukraine-born Estonian composer, and has written over seventy compositions to date, twenty-two of which are chor…
This dissertation is divided into six chapters. The first chapter explains the purpose and significance of the study. The second chapter presents an analysis about Wanderer Fantasy, D.760 composed by Schubert, employing Schenker analysis to elucidate important motives. Chapter 3…
20.yüzyılın başlarında bugün ulaşabildiğimiz ilk gazel kayıtları plaklara okunmaya başlamıştır. Plak endüstrisinin gelişmesi ile geniş kitlelere ulaşan, insan sesinin sınırlarını alabildiğince zorlayan, bir güfteye bağlı olmak suretiyle irticali icra edilen, kişinin müzikal yete…
This dissertation is a study of Baloch musical—and ritual—idioms as cultivated (and variously innovated, embellished, patronized, and reconstructed) in the relatively prosperous and cosmopolitan urban environments of the coastal Eastern Arabian Peninsula—the third major concentr…
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…
This study analyses the functions and meanings of tattoos in the specific social and cultural context of the underground musicians and fans in urban East Java. The research methodology is based on qualitative data and uses ethnographic and social science methods. The ethnographi…
There is a dearth of Western scholarly research on ancient Chinese music. Unlike the trajectory of Western music—where the Catholic Church facilitated a linear, centralized, and well-chronicled musicological evolution—ancient Chinese music history is fragmented and incomplete. D…
‘GI JAZZ: African Americans as Artists and Occupiers in Post-World War II Germany,’ examines the lives of African American Jazz musicians living in and around German military bases after 1945 until 1970. Despite Truman’s Executive Order desegregating the armed forces, the milita…
Lusk Creek Revival is a work for concert band in four movements. It is a programmaticwork depicting the concept of the Southern Baptist sect of Protestantism’s “revival” which isloosely defined as a religious service and social gathering held outside of the regular scheduleand i…
Over the past decades, the interaction of culture and art from different countries has become very popular- including singing. Many singers from all over the world desire to sing songs in their native language on the international stage while other singers want to try different …
The music of Luigi Boccherini has experienced a slow and steady revival over the last half century, yet few of his twelve cello concertos are widely published. This document presents a newly engraved edition of Boccherini’s Cello Concerto in D major G. 478, including solo part…
The Influence of Perez Dworecki on the Development of the Brazilian Viola Repertoire: A Recording Project
The performance of silent film scores with live screenings of silent films is an artform that is still enjoyed by 21st century audiences. One of the most frequently performed examples of this is The Phantom of the Opera (1925). In addition to being an iconic film in the history …
This dissertation presents a “thick history” of the career of Bill Gaither, to use Jennifer Lena’s term. While examining the Bill Gaither Trio and the Gaither Vocal Band, the principal performing groups founded by Bill Gaither, this dissertation seeks to not only highlight Gaith…
For decades, classical guitarists have approached the music of Johann Sebastian Bach through transcriptions and adaptations, mostly of works for similar solo string instruments—the lute, cello, or violin. There has been an increasing realization that the music of Bach originally…