The nature and scope of this dissertation focuses on one particular work by the composer Enrique Granados—his opera Goyescas. Because the music of the opera was derived from the piano suite of the same name, this discussion necessarily includes an examination of that piano suite…
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In autumn of 2010 the phenomenon of ‘Greek crisis’ was aggressively developed to a new experience of Greece. As a theatre practitioner from Athens, the specific historical time pushed me to question big-scale narratives of identity, home and belonging-ness. I relocated my traini…
For the past century, much of the musicological discourse surrounding twelfth- and thirteenth-century secular monophony has centered on rhythm and transmission. While important for the trouvère repertory, these issues have arguably distracted scholars from fully exploring its me…
The Negro Spiritual has long been a style of choral music often enjoyed by various audiences yet is approached and interpreted incorrectly. The spiritual is often programmed at the end of a choral concert, and the interpretation lends itself to a "feel good" moment versus authen…
Over the past few centuries, manufacturers have been modifying the design of keyboard instruments as a way to expand the instrument’s capabilities; these modifications include the keyboard ranges, their dynamic levels, the pedals, the number of manuals, as well as electronic aug…
The Mass of Tournai is largely considered the first complete polyphonic mass ordinary setting, though it was likely compiled from various sources rather than created by a single composer based on notational and stylistic differences between its six movements. As such, the Mass o…
This dissertation explores twenty-first century presentations of Johann Sebastian Bach’s St. Matthew and St. John Passions (BWV 244 and 245) in the context of Bach festivals in the United States. Building upon music festival studies by scholars such as Jonathan R. Wynn, Felicia …
Christoph Graupner (1683-1760) was Kapellmeister for the court in Darmstadt, Germany for nearly fifty years. In this position he composed over 1400 church cantatas. Original manuscripts exist from which to produce a new performance edition of Graupner's Wo gehet Jesus hin?, GWV …
Johann Sebastian Bach’s Cello Suites serve as a valuable platform for cellists to bring their own voice to a work once they have overcome the myriad of technical challenges required to play it. Many cellists re-record the Suites multiple times over the course of their careers, c…
Discussions of interpretation and performance practice often address specific historical periods, offering analyses of musical practices within a predetermined set of dates, such as ornamentation in the Baroque period, articulation as applied in the Classical era, and phrasing “…
This 73-page written Project is a dual musicological and analytical study of the collaborative network surrounding the birth of Elgar’s violin concerto and its performance practice via Menuhin’s first three recordings. It addresses questions such as: What musical and extra-music…
The percussion ensemble pieces of the 1930s and 1940s have many performance practice and instrumental selection considerations when performed in the modern day. The four pieces of music under consideration for this study are Ionisation (1933) by Edgard Varèse, Ostinato Pianissim…
The research presented here was undertaken with the aim of providing today’s musical practitioners (anyone from a scholar, performer, composer, or even listener) with a framework to begin understanding how aesthetic movements and performance practices interact with the socio-pro…
The purpose of this descriptive study is to analyze the performance practice of lined-hymns that are sung in three selected African American Missionary Baptist churches located in the Northern Mississippi Delta region. ‘Dr. Watts’ lined-hymn singing has survived in some African …
This thesis considers the history of redistribution, the practice of altering the hand assignment of one or more notes, in keyboard music from the Renaissance to the early twentieth century. Chapter 1 explores methods of notating and executing hand division in the sixteenth and …
This project examines the musical activities of Georgian gentlemen with the goal of illustrating the ways that recreational music-making tested the boundaries of gender, class, and nationality. While the English nobility could respectably engage in music-making, socialize with p…
Though the marimba is a relatively young instrument, it’s requirement for semi-professional and professional job auditions requires an increasing level of mastery on the instrument. The music most commonly requested on auditions for the marimba is the music of Johann Sebastian B…