Violin

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 …

Adnan Saygun, one of the two leading composers of the Turkish Five, was a serious ethnomusicologist who led the fieldwork in gathering folk material, and collaborated with prominent musicological researcher and composer, Béla Bartók. Like Bartók, Saygun used folk elements extens…

Petar Christoskov, born in 1917 in Sofia, is among the most prolific of Bulgarian violinists, pedagogues and composers of the twentieth century. Christoskov's Suites and Rhapsodies for solo violin represent both an internal evolution of Bulgarian music and an incorporation of th…

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 …

My interest in the history and problems of the Bulgarian composers' school and specifically in the establishment and development of the Bulgarian violin concerto goes far back in my musical career. The Bulgarian composers and their concertos had essential contribution to my deve…

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…

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…

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…

The focal point of this project is researching the role of key Israeli composers through compositions written during the first two decades of the State of Israel. The dissertation explores the influences that led the composers to write a specific piece, whether it served as a pe…

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…

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…

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 …

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 …

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…

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 …