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Focusing on Mozart’s cadenzas written during his time in Vienna (1781-1791), this paper suggests the beginnings of a pedagogical method for improvising and/or composing cadenzas to Mozart’s piano concertos, enumerating six compositional rules from which a cadenza structure is sh…

Every government needs to understand how can local cultural resources generate economic results. There are over 1000 ancient towns in China, with its five-millennium history. All these towns have abundant cultural and touristic resources waiting to be transformed into economic b…

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…

During the second season of the Society for Private Musical Performances (1918-1922), known in Austria as the ‘Verein für musikalische Privataufführungen’, the members began to transcribe orchestral music for their chamber ensemble (Meibach, 1984). Previously, the Society had pr…

As the most recent brass instrument to be added to the standard orchestra, the tuba’s solo repertoire is relatively new compared to other orchestral instruments. Ralph Vaughan Williams composed the first major concerto for tuba in 1954, over 100 years after the tuba’s creation i…

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…

This study evaluates the compositional style of Richard Strauss’s Violin Sonata in E flat major based on existing scholarly writings and my own analysis, with the purpose of offering informed performance suggestions. Discussions of stylistic interpretation and technical elements…

Michael Daugherty’s Bells for Stokowski (2001/2003) is an original work for orchestra and wind band. This work has continued to be performed by ensembles around the world including live performances, and studio recordings. The purposes of this dissertation are to 1) provide hist…

While musicians have been performing with electronics for nearly a century, there still exists very little performable repertoire for electronicists. In fact, the notion of the electronicist as a performative role in contemporary classical music is still not necessarily widely a…