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 …
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It is the goal of this document to bring to the attention of the public the compositions of Brian Israel, an American Jewish composer who died of leukemia in 1986 at the age of 35. This document contains a biography of the composer, information on where to obtain the scores, tex…
The secular music of the Eastern European Jews is known today as klezmer. Klezmer was the traditional instrumental celebratory music of Yiddish-speaking Ashkenazi Jews who eventually populated the Pale of Settlement, which encompassed modern-day Poland, Lithuania, Ukraine, Belar…
This dissertation examines three chamber music pieces by contemporary Syrian composers that use the clarinet, looking for different elements drawn from traditional Arab music and how they are used in a western contemporary context. The three works studied in this dissertation ar…
The document provides a glimpse into the world of Turkish performance for a Western audience, including a history of the Turkish clarinet, a description of the instrument as exemplified by Serkan Çağri's career, and a single case study of the author's lessons with Çağri. Audio a…
Yvonne Desportes (1907-1993) was an influential female composer, teacher, and music theorist. Her early success as a recipient of the Prix de Rome for composition (1932) marked the beginning of her distinguished career in music culminating in a 35-year professorship at the Paris…
In the early part of 2020, musicians faced an unprecedented challenge. A novel coronavirus emerged, spreading throughout the world and creating a pandemic. To control the spread of this virus, local governing officials suspended large gatherings in public spaces, which meant tha…
In the fast-paced, technology-driven society of today, new demands are placed on artists to re-think how music is presented and communicated to the world. Access to the internet, development of sound manipulation software, and broader means of use and distribution through the di…
This treatise examines twenty-eight compositions written for clarinet choir by American composers published in the 21st century. Works included were published between the dates of January 1, 2000 and December 31, 2019; all were originally written for clarinet choir, excluding ar…
Although many extended techniques have been included in compositions for clarinet since the early 1900s, very few resources address the inclusion of these techniques in the clarinet curriculum. Specifically, there are very few resources that address the pedagogy of these techniq…
This treatise focuses on the teaching of clarinetist Dr. Eric Mandat. Dr. Mandat began his university teaching career in 1983 and retired from full time teaching in 2015. Over those 32 years Mandat developed unique approaches to traditional teaching concepts as well as many new …
In Puerto Rico, compositions for clarinet have not been well documented. This research intends to create the first academic document to catalog works written for the clarinet by Puerto Rican composers and composers who were greatly influenced by Puerto Rican culture in their com…