According to the profile of the World Directory of Minorities and Indigenous Peoples, the Philippines consists over a hundred ethnolinguistic groups, twenty-seven of which were direct descendants of prehistoric settlers in the country. As a nation of diverse indigenous cultures,…
Title of Dissertation: A SHARED HERITAGE: CROSS-CULTURAL INFLUENCES BETWEEN POLISH AND RUSSIAN VIOLIN REPERTOIRE OF THE NINETEENTH AND TWENTIETH CENTURIES Jesse Muñoz, Jr., Doctor of Musical Arts, 2021
In the late 16th century, the chacona was the most energetic and wild type of baile, a popular Spanish dance. It was a lively, suggestive, and festive peasant dance, which, by the early 17th century, had developed into a distinct variation form involving a repeated bass line or …
This treatise will explore the history of Hungarian culture, composers, violinists, and music written for violin in the Hungarian and style hongrois style. This treatise will also discuss the nineteenth-century musical style, style hongrois, and explore whether an understanding …
Henri Constant Gabriel Pierné (1863-1937) was a French composer and conductor. Given his position of importance during his life alongside César Franck, Claude Debussy, and Camille Saint-Säens, Pierné’s musical oeuvre has largely gone unrecognized in the modern musical canon. Sch…
The purpose of this research is to promote the complete works of composer Luis Gianneo (1897–1968) through the analysis of his pieces for violin, including the Aymara Violin Concerto, the Sonata for Violin and Piano, Cinco Piezas for violin and piano, and Tres Piezas for violin …
This document concerns the ways in which the relationship between the violin and orchestra in the violin concerto has changed in the first decades of the twenty-first century. Using the concerti of Unsuk Chin (2001), Jennifer Higdon (2008), and Esa-Pekka Salonen (2009) I show th…
Arcangelo Corelli’s Follia was the last of his 12 Violin Sonatas Op. 5, published in 1700. The work is a theme and variations based on the later folia, a musical form from the late 17th century. Corelli’s Follia was highly regarded in the violin repertoire and created a standard…
This treatise provides an examination of Flausino Vale’s background and a performer’s guide to the 26 Prelúdios Característicos e Concertantes para Violino Só. It considers technical elements, such as performance practice issues and extended techniques, and the meanings of title…
This treatise aims to present an introduction to the violin/viola doubler. It begins with a brief historical background of composers and performers who played both instruments. Next is a discussion of five works that incorporate the doubling. This includes Richard Strauss’ Elekt…
This dissertation research paper will be an examination of a number of prominent Black composers in the Classical music genre and their influences and contributions to the Classical music violin literature. The overall intent of the paper is to act as an additional resource for …
Composer Mieczyslaw Weinberg (1919 – 1996) wrote six sonatas for violin and piano, and three sonatas for solo violin, as well as an extensive number of chamber music, symphonic, vocal, and instrumental works. There is very little written on Weinberg’s violin and piano sonatas. T…
Though the marimba is a relatively young instrument, it’s requirement for semi-professional and professional job auditions requires an increasing level of mastery on the instrument. The music most commonly requested on auditions for the marimba is the music of Johann Sebastian B…
There are a significant number of musical compositions for violin by composers who used folk songs and dances of various cultures in their music, including works by George Enescu, Béla Bartók and György Ligeti. Less known are pieces that draw on the plethora of melodies and rhyt…
Possibly the most prominent of the 20th century Turkish composers, Ahmed Adnan Saygun was a key figure in the musical life of the then newly-established Turkish Republic. As any Turkish artist of this Republican era, his aim was to create a synthesis of traditional Turkish folk …
Dr. Emre Araci is a notable Turkish composer, music historian, and conductor. The European musical practice of the Ottoman court is his academic focus. He discovered numerous compositions, which were written in the 19th century European style by several Ottoman sultans. Dr. Arac…
Solo violin repertoire dates back to the seventeenth century, when many violinists wrote works for themselves to perform. Before Bach, composers such as Fontana, Marini, Farina, Biber, Walther, and Westhoff explored the instrument’s capacity for expression and technical versatil…
Title of Dissertation: OBOE QUARTETS: 1970–2020 Sarah Rose Balzer, Doctor of Musical Arts, 2020 Dissertation directed by: Professor of Oboe, Mark Hill, and School of Music Over the last fifty years, the oboe quartet genre has continued to grow. The repertoire has garnered a grea…
Since the completion of Ysaÿe’s Six Sonatas for the Solo Violin in 1923, performances of this important work in the violin literature have continually been well received by the public. This collection is frequently compared with J.S. Bach’s Six Sonatas and Partitas for the Solo …