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Scales and etudes are considered essential steps in developing an advanced technique on any instrument. The viola, as a member of the string family, was not nearly as popular or recognized as the violin or cello before the twentieth century. It is the same situation with the vio…

As the most recent brass instrument to be added to the standard orchestra, the tuba’s solo repertoire is relatively new compared to other orchestral instruments. Ralph Vaughan Williams composed the first major concerto for tuba in 1954, over 100 years after the tuba’s creation i…

The rich musical tradition of the Bohemian and Moravian regions of modern-day Czech Republic dates to the Medieval period. In the trumpet community, the orchestral music of Bedřich Smetana, Antonín Dvořák, and Leoš Janáček enjoys considerable attention. Trumpet authors have also…

When selecting repertoire, teachers of singing do not often turn to lullabies. The consensus is they are too simple in melody, texture, and harmony to warrant attention. However, this commonly held view should be reconsidered because lullabies can offer dramatic text settings. L…

Utilizing a mixed-methods approach, the purpose of this study was to describe and analyze the characteristics of existing choral pedagogical repertoire for early adolescent males, and to place those findings within a broader historical framework. Specifically, the study endeavor…

While the wind band is known for programming new works by contemporary composers, this thesis explores wind band programming in terms of equity, diversity, and inclusion. Community resources such as composer databases, newspapers and blogs, and social media express the classical…

A investigação realizada no âmbito do relatório de estágio tem como tema A seleção do repertório como meio de desenvolvimento técnico e interpretativo do aluno de Viola D’arco. Para um ensino eficaz, o aluno de viola aprende atualmente com métodos e obras escritas na clave de dó…

O presente relatório incide sobre a unidade curricular de “Prática de Ensino Supervisionada”, desenvolvida na Escola de Artes da Sociedade Artística Musical dos Pousos e sobre a unidade curricular “Projeto de Ensino Artístico” intitulado “Criação de Repertório de Ensemble de Gui…

Focusing on Mozart’s cadenzas written during his time in Vienna (1781-1791), this paper suggests the beginnings of a pedagogical method for improvising and/or composing cadenzas to Mozart’s piano concertos, enumerating six compositional rules from which a cadenza structure is sh…

France is a secular society with a deeply rooted Catholic tradition. This environment affects the acceptability of demonstrations of Muslim religious identity. Muslim immigrants to France are often ghettoized into rent controlled housing in suburbs around the cities. Rejected fr…

This dissertation explores the music that Bukharian Jews in Queens performed from January 2002 to February 2006. Bukharian Jews, living for centuries in Central Asia and recently emigrating en masse to New York City, Israel, and Europe, explore their history, identity, values, a…

In this dissertation I examine Balinese musical meaning as situated knowledge. I analyze ways that people interpret the significance of musical sound in theatrical and ceremonial performances, considering the diversity of views and practices and abundant regional and personal va…

During the past century, the body of scholarship relevant to Jewish music has increased significantly. Information specific to the clarinet in Jewish music, however, has been minimal, consisting primarily of brief commentaries found in ethnomusicological research At the time of …