Through ethnographic fieldwork, this dissertation examines the culture of sholawat in Indonesia, a festive public event marked by a combination of prayer songs and sermons among Muslims. In this setting, the style of Indonesian Islam, what Indonesians label as Islam Nusantara, i…
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Music has always been influenced by politics. Political ideas become especially prominent in musical compositions during periods of turmoil, particularly in times of war. Around 1800, Central Europe suffered from extensive warfare, most importantly the Austro-Turkish War (1788–9…
I am investigating the role of Dimitri Mitropoulos in promoting contemporary music primarily during his tenure as the principal conductor of New York Philharmonic. I plan to discuss the contemporary composers and works he found important, and why this music needed to be heard. T…
Rockumentaries are commodities that construct authoritative interpretations of popular music history, shaping how we come to know, value, hear, consume, and identify with popular music and those who create it. The arguments rockumentaries make, and the ways they make them, are t…
The Grateful Dead grew from the 1960’s counterculture and have been one of the most influential bands of American culture. This thesis examines Deadheads and the ritual dimensions of live shows subculture from its inception in the 1960s to the present through ethnographic work, …
Harry Sparnaay was a major contributor to the development of unaccompanied works for the bass clarinet and commissioned over 100 pieces for bass clarinet alone. While Sparnaay’s book, The Bass Clarinet: A Personal History , includes a list of works written for him, there is mini…
Like many terms that appear ubiquitously across both technical and popular discourses, style is an unstable concept. For students of music, the term is perhaps most unambiguous when it refers to the style periods broadly associated with different approaches to tonality: the Baro…
Anadolu Aleviliği ibadeti olan cem âyininde icra edilen deyiş formundaki eserleri müzikal açıdan incelediğimiz çalışma beş bölümden oluşmaktadır. Birinci bölüm; problem durumu, alt problemler, metodoloji, araştırma süreci, sınırlamalar, varsayımlar, evren-örneklem ve terminoloji…
Iranian musical instruments played an integral role in the cultural landscape of the Safavid Court (1501–1722) and their presence in contemporary illustrated manuscripts draws attention to how music fared under the changing tempers of the Safavid shahs. Over the past century of …
This treatise seeks to examine the history and performance trends of the percussion section of The U.S. Army Band “Pershing’s Own.” As no formal research has been done about the percussion section as a whole and the band is approaching its centennial celebration, this is the per…
Frequently used techniques between the compositions of one specific composer can cause recognizability. It is conceivable to tie compositions to their creator by detecting similar compositional approaches or certain specific techniques and craftsmanship. One of the ways of devel…
The League of Composers Wind Quintet (LCWQ) consisted of five performers who were also prolific American composers. Assembled in 1941, the LCWQ was carefully selected from across the nation and dispatched on a two-month tour throughout Latin America under the auspices of the Off…
This project unpacks questions of cultural legacy and power: the decades of cultural memory that have made Dylan a figure worthy of blind appreciation and left Odetta to the margins of being known yet unknown. At the core of this are, unsurprisingly, questions of race and gender…
This thesis aims to examine George Frideric Handel’s La Lucrezia through various lenses of understanding, first by tracing the legend of Lucretia from the first surviving Roman account until Handel’s retelling of the story in the 18th century. The accounts of Livy, Ovid, and oth…
This thesis examines the ways Chicanx music, represented by the band Los Lobos, is reflective of a present moment in popular aesthetics of music while also building upon the past while looking towards the future. Los Lobos’ 50 years of music underscore the traditions, aesthetics…
This dissertation tracks the historical abstraction and dissociation of performing bodies from musical composition in classical music. I show that while dominant pedagogical traditions have historically distinguished between bodily practice and musical ideation, corporeal perfor…
Scholars of Richard Wagner’s formal techniques have long recognized the importance of dramatic considerations. Most analytical studies, however, employ a framework for understanding musical form based on instrumental music and treat its relationship to the drama as complementary…
Leaving behind an abundance of primary documents, Francis Poulenc (1899–1963) reveals himself to be a colorful, opinionated composer, with an intriguing mindset regarding the role of twentieth-century composers. Poulenc’s writings place importance on the idea of musical legacy, …
This thesis examines the composition and performance of folk composer Aunt Molly Jackson (1880–1960) and proposes a concept of feminist musical labor as a means through which to understand her work. I draw upon feminist theory and concepts of music as labor to develop a framewor…