This project report will explore choral music in the Dominican Republic, from original compositions to choral arrangements of popular and folk songs. The accompanying recital will sample music written from 1940 to 2019.
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The aim of this dissertation is to help assimilate the solo piano works of Robert Muczynski into the active 20th century piano repertoire, by providing pianists, musicologists, and listeners with the composer’s complete solo piano output on CD, for the first time. Of the fifteen…
Art song, by nature, is a combination of media: text and music. Composers map these two domains onto each other using established correspondences known as conceptual metaphors. The outcome, known as a conceptual blend, manifests a different cognitive perception than if the domai…
BTS has become one of the most popular boy bands in the world in recent years. They have a large following from every corner of the globe, thanks to their devoted fanbase. With their attractive visuals, talented dancing skills, and catchy songs they seem like every other boy gro…
This paper examines the character of Octavian in Richard Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier and considers his unique dramatic, sonic, and visual features as a pivot from the typical pants role characteristics. This study maps the history of the pants role development, paying particular…
Anlun Huang’s (b. 1949) A Requiem in Chinese is the only large, unaccompanied,mixed-voice choral requiem in Chinese history. It was completed in May 2004 and the premiere was conducted by the composer on September 12, 2004. Despite the fact that a large unaccompanied requiem in …
What meanings are ascribed to the voices and sonic compositions of Caribbean and Latinx women and queer performers? What do their sounds tell us about Caribbean identity, gender, sexuality, and race? This dissertation centers the work of seven Dominican women and queer artists o…
This dissertation presents an analysis of José Siqueira’s Oito Canções Populares Brasileiras (Eight Popular Brazilian Songs), published in 1955 for voice and piano. The analyses show how the composer used musical materials from Northeastern folklore, Native Brazilian culture, an…
This music composition is meant to be a narrative reflection of the mental state and the hopeful healing of those who have suffered from abuse at any age. This can be from physical abuse, mental abuse, sexual abuse, or for those who have suffered from the loss of loved ones thro…
The purpose of this project is to analyze and compare the various compositional techniques used by twentieth-century composers when they set the same or similar text. Not only can one hear the variety that can be found in those musical settings, but one can also discover the pre…
I completed this DMA Recording Project to familiarize the English-speaking audience with the vocal music of México, which is relatively unknown in the United States. The research and recording focuses on song cycles composed in the decades following the Mexican Revolution (1910-…
Professional musicians have become increasingly independent of record companies and other investors that would seek to make a financial gain from the artist’s success. With the availability of relatively inexpensive professional recording equipment, musicians can now purchase an…
This dissertation examines the creative process of Manfred Eicher, one of history’s most influential record producers and founder of ECM Records. Over 15 months, I observed Eicher record jazz albums with groups led by Joe Lovano, Mats Eilertsen, and Ralph Alessi. These studio re…
The 2012 reprint of the original Piano Sonata No. 2 “Concord, Mass., 1840-1860” by Charles Edward Ives (1874-1954) can be assessed as a vital contribution to future generations who examine this composition. This reprint includes an introduction of the Concord Sonata in historica…
The confluence of feminist scholar Karen Barad’s critical theories (agential realism, posthumanist performativity, posthumanism, new materialism) and Greek-French composer Georges Aperghis’ solo harp work Fidélité: pour harpiste seule regardée par un homme (“for female harpist w…
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…
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…
During the 1980s, a group of young Chinese composers went abroad to study music after the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976). Their music was highly influenced by both traditional Chinese music as well as Western musical elements. Huang An-Lun (b. 1949-) is one of them. The purpose…