Ernesto Palacio (Lima, 1946) es uno de los mayores expertos de la vocalidad rossiniana en la actualidad. Ejerció como cantante entre 1972 y 1998, poniendo su voz de tenor lírico-ligero al servicio del repertorio del bel canto, participando en el “rescate” de títulos hasta entonc…
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This dissertation deals with the Hindustani music reform movement in the early twentieth century. In the nineteenth century, classical musicians in north India hailed from hereditary communities, which were mostly Muslim. Musical knowledge was seldom available to non-hereditary …
Nigeria has greatly evolved as an intercultural society given her history of colonization, the influence of foreign religion (Christianity and Islam, primarily) and the impact of globalization. Africa had her socio-cultural practices and art idioms before these foreign influence…
The existing curriculum for piano lessons in West Malaysia is over-reliant on the syllabi of foreign examination boards resulting in a fragmentary curriculum which denies the student access to a wider range of musical experiences. The aim of the study was to identify and suggest…
Asian countries did not join the development of Classical music happening in Europe until the twentieth century; as such, how do contemporary those contemporary Asian composers introduce themselves to Western Classical music and build their reputation? What did they do to compos…
This dissertation explores how American television portrayed canonical European classical music in the Cold War era. I analyze televisual negotiations of music-cultural hierarchies to complicate common narratives about the postwar decades as a peak moment of polarity between “hi…
This dissertation is dedicated to examining the symbiosis between popular music and Western classical music in classical/popular mashups––a new style within the classical crossover genre. The research features the works of The Piano Guys, a contemporary ensemble that combines cl…
This thesis describes the classical music markets in China and the United States and the impact of arts education, arts policy and arts management in both countries as they relate to the lives of Chinese classical musicians, as well as how these elements affect their career deve…
In this dissertation, I analyze the history and current practice of classical music programming for youth audiences in the United States. My examination of influential historical programs, including NBC radio’s 1928–42 Music Appreciation Hour and CBS television’s 1958–72 Young P…
Following George Gershwin’s death in 1937, his friend and fellow pianist Oscar Levant (1906-1972) constructed a multifaceted professional career across many forms of modern media that not only helped him build and maintain his popular status as a Gershwinite, but also helped est…
The viola da gamba was a family of bowed string instruments popular from the fifteenth century through the mid-seventeenth century. There were quite a few prominent composers that wrote for the instrument, but none more notable than Marin Marais. His study of the viola da gamba …