This project investigates the relationship between Claude Debussy’s piano music and various Asian influences, with a particular focus on Chinese influences. Debussy is one of the most prominent composers in the history of Western music, and his music draws on many features for i…
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משה (ולטר) לוסטיג , מלחין, מעבד, פסנתרן ונגן קרן , נולד ב-1922 בעיר ליגניץ ( Liegnitz (שבגרמניה . החל מגיל 5 הוא ניגן בפסנתר והופיע ברסיטלים, שבהם ביצע גם יצירות מפרי עטו. לוסטיג עלה ארצה עם משפחתו בשנת 1933 בהיותו ילד בן , 11 בגל הבריחה מגרמניה בעקבות עליית המשטר הנאצי לשלטון. …
The 2012 reprint of the original Piano Sonata No. 2 “Concord, Mass., 1840-1860” by Charles Edward Ives (1874-1954) can be assessed as a vital contribution to future generations who examine this composition. This reprint includes an introduction of the Concord Sonata in historica…
This study will examine Galina Grigorjeva’s compositional style and the influence of the Russian Orthodox tradition on her choral music. Grigorjeva, born in 1962, is a Ukraine-born Estonian composer, and has written over seventy compositions to date, twenty-two of which are chor…
This dissertation identifies and presents four works for saxophone, each featuring folk elements from a different culture. The introduction to this document outlines the historical development and implications of the term “folk music.” Rather than an art set in stone, folk music…
The Second Sight is an opera in three acts that both draws upon the bel canto tradition of operatic singing and explores new possibilities for dramatic vocal writing. By engaging with the historical ideal of opera as dramma per musica - that is “drama through [by means of] music…
The Yellow River Piano Concerto (1969) by Yin Chengzong (1941–present) and other committee members (Chu Wanghua, Liu Zhuang, Sheng Lihong, Shi Shucheng, and Xu Feixing), the most popular piano concerto in China, was composed at the time of the Cultural Revolution. It was written…
The purpose of this dissertation is to provide a conductor’s analysis of a specific set of repertoire by African-American composer Lena McLin. The selected works share three common traits: (1) they are all scored for mixed chorus; (2) they are all cantatas; and (3) they explore …
The world lost a musical master, Nikolai Kapustin (1937-2020) during the aftermath of the world pandemic. Despite its immediate appeal, his music remains a mystery owing to lack of published scholarship. All that exists is translated interviews, but an ever-growing body of liter…
Sisyphus Overture is a retelling of Albert Camus’ Myth of Sisyphus through the prism of his novel The Plague . It has a running time of approximately ten minutes and is a single movement, through-composed symphonic piece. Sisyphus Overture is not meant to be a programmatic piece…
Dumitru D. Stancu (1915–2005) was a multi-faceted musician who contributed to many artistic fields of Romanian culture: music education, performance and promotion of folk art, ethnomusicology, composition of choral and instrumental works, and poetry. As a faithful member of the …
This research aims to provide insight into binary harmonic structures found in Sofia Gubaidulina's Offertorium for violin and orchestra. While many structural aspects of the work have been discussed in detail elsewhere, the harmonic content of Offertorium is yet to be studied in…
The Story of Our Journey for clarinet, fixed media electronics, and projected video is a 50-minute musical work commissioned by the City of Phoenix Office of Arts and Culture for their IN FLUX program. Audio and video interview footage provided by refugee advocacy organization T…
Research on Syrian music illuminates connections across Africa, Asia, and Europe. Many civilizations left their mark on the culture after conquering the area and combining old traditions with new identities. These influences created distinct features in Syrian music that are fou…
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…
Smooth Point is an electro-acoustic chamber suite for woodwinds and rhythm section inspired by the theories of composer/philosopher Dane Rudyar, and also by the work of esoteric author Israel Regardie. The piece was written to assist in the musical meditative practice known as t…
This dissertation explores chamber duo works in which the cello has one or more significant solo passages. Works studied are sonatas for cello and piano by Luigi Boccherini (1771), Anton Rubinstein (1855), Edvard Grieg (1883), Alexander Tcherepnin (1924), and Marcus Paus (2009);…
20.yüzyılın başlarında bugün ulaşabildiğimiz ilk gazel kayıtları plaklara okunmaya başlamıştır. Plak endüstrisinin gelişmesi ile geniş kitlelere ulaşan, insan sesinin sınırlarını alabildiğince zorlayan, bir güfteye bağlı olmak suretiyle irticali icra edilen, kişinin müzikal yete…
Bu çalışmanın amacı Yaylı Tanbur çalınma sistemini kolaydan zora olacak şekilde düzenleyerek, öğrenmek isteyenlere temel bir kılavuz oluşturabilmektir. Bu minvalde öğrencinin yaylı tanburu öğrenebilmesi için, temel egzersizlerin yanı sıra üslup ve süsleme bilgileri ile birlikte …