Prehistorik dönemlerden izlerine rastladığımız müzik aletlerinin kalıntıları ve sanat eserleri üzerindeki tasvirler müziğin insanın hayatında konuşma kadar eski bir geçmişe sahip olduğunu göstermektedir. Bilim insanları müziğin ilk ortaya çıkışı ile ilgili birçok teori ortaya at…
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This dissertation will trace the double bass from the 16th century to the 21st century. The double bass is the largest and lowest pitched member of the string family. The members of the string family are the violin, viola, cello, and the double bass. The pitch of the double bass…
This dissertation marks the first historical and administrative overview of the Orlando International Fringe Festival. The Orlando International Fringe Festival (OIFF) is America's oldest still-operating fringe theatre festival. This two-week performing arts and immersive cultur…
This study analyses the functions and meanings of tattoos in the specific social and cultural context of the underground musicians and fans in urban East Java. The research methodology is based on qualitative data and uses ethnographic and social science methods. The ethnographi…
Largely known for her choral compositions, American composer Gwyneth Walker (b. 1947) has composed hundreds of songs for solo voice. Walker’s songs demonstrate her unique compositional style which blends many characteristics of American music, including strong rhythms, open sono…
This dissertation investigates how historical musicians’ relationships to harmonic or contrapuntal rules intersected with their individual and collective experiences of fully improvised or improvisatory music. Within the realm of interpersonal relationships, musicians experience…
This dissertation enacts the dialogue between my creative work as an improviser-composer and my critical engagements with scholarship. Both creative and academic streams of my work have converged on core themes, which have accompanied me as I experiment with my practice as a com…
As a critical study accompanying a creative project which involves composition, rearrangement and recording featuring my work as a performer on lap steel guitar, New Perspectives is invested in both a historical consideration of the role of the instrument and an examination of h…
My dissertation studies the connections between music and exile in three sets of literary works by Thomas Mann, Eugenio Montale, and Czesław Miłosz. Although rarely compared together, these three writers approach the theme of exile similarly. They share a polyphonic style that j…
This research paper provides an analysis of Variations on Balkan Themes, Op . 60, one of Amy Beach’s most significant solo piano works. Variations on Balkan Themes exists in four different versions: the 1906 original solo piano version, a 1936 revised solo piano version, a 1942 …
Two dissertation recitals and one research paper were presented in partial fulfillment of the requirement for the degree of Doctor of Musical Arts (Music: Conducting) at the University of Michigan. The two recitals chronicle the historical evolution of choral music since the sev…
In my five years playing the shakuhachi (the traditional Japanese bamboo flute), I have noticed that with increasing frequency, people come up to me with new and interesting ways in which they associate the sound of the instrument. The traditional association—and the reason I wa…
Scottish composer James MacMillan, born in 1959, composed choral music throughout his life but initially rose to prominence as a composer of instrumental works in the early 1990s. In the first decade of the 2000s primarily with The Strathclyde Motets MacMillan solidified his pos…
Since the turn of the twenty-first century there has been a small but significant number of operas written by Thai composers or those who identify as being Thai. Most of these Thai operas are based on Thai mythology or histories. The majority of the librettos are in English, wit…
In 1895, Emil Georg Conrad Sauer (1862-1942), a world-renowned German pianist and former student of Franz Liszt wrote his first piano concerto, which was published five years later in 1900. Sauer performed it extensively to enthusiastic crowds in Europe and the United States whi…
Political histories of early modern diplomacy have traditionally avoided discussing the arts, focusing instead on the more bureaucratic concerns of government agents. And though Italian influence is a central theme in histories of seventeenth-century English music, little musico…
I argue that the Council for the Development of French in Louisiana (CODOFIL) played a part in the commodification, homogenization, and exclusion of Louisiana’s francophone cultures. My original goal was to prove my argument, but also to show the extent that CODOFIL commodified,…
This project comprises an album of flexible-instrumentation music for wind band (flex band music) and an accompanying manuscript discussing the need for this type of music in support of music education in the United States. Recordings took place at the Bryant-Jordan Hall recordi…
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…