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…
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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…
Rockumentaries are commodities that construct authoritative interpretations of popular music history, shaping how we come to know, value, hear, consume, and identify with popular music and those who create it. The arguments rockumentaries make, and the ways they make them, are t…
The Grateful Dead grew from the 1960’s counterculture and have been one of the most influential bands of American culture. This thesis examines Deadheads and the ritual dimensions of live shows subculture from its inception in the 1960s to the present through ethnographic work, …
This thesis presents a machine learning model of expressive performance of piano music (specifically of Chopin Mazurkas) and a critical analysis of the output based upon statistical analyses of the musical scores and of recorded performances. Given the multidimensionality of the…
This study evaluates the compositional style of Richard Strauss’s Violin Sonata in E flat major based on existing scholarly writings and my own analysis, with the purpose of offering informed performance suggestions. Discussions of stylistic interpretation and technical elements…
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…
This document is intended to be a practical tool for anyone interested in performing or developing a deeper appreciation for the opera The Gambler’s Son by Tyler Goodrich White. Premiered and produced by UNL Opera in October, 2019, The Gambler's Son is based on Mari Sandoz’s Son…
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…
Leo Brouwer’s Sonata Mitología de las Aguas No. I for flute and guitar , first published in 2017, has taken its place as an important twenty-first-century addition to the flute and guitar duo repertory. I provide a brief historical context for the work, followed by preparation g…
Harry Sparnaay was a major contributor to the development of unaccompanied works for the bass clarinet and commissioned over 100 pieces for bass clarinet alone. While Sparnaay’s book, The Bass Clarinet: A Personal History , includes a list of works written for him, there is mini…
Two dissertation recitals and one research paper were presented in partial fulfillment of the requirement for the degree of Doctor of Musical Arts (Music: Conducting) at the University of Michigan. The two recitals chronicle the historical evolution of choral music since the sev…
Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849) was an important representative composer in the romantic period. He broke many conventional rules and explored new horizons with his revolutionary fingerings. The overall goal is to find the optimum fingering method that allows for an appropriate hand…
Much of the surface structure—the immediate drama of the music—has become lost in scholarship concerning Beethoven’s Egmont overture. References to large-scale processes, whether they manifest as exhumations of deeply-embedded hierarchical events or as organic outgrowths of smal…