After the declaration of the Turkish Republic in 1923, Turkey underwent many new modernization rules. Social and cultural reforms were created under the new national identity for the Turks. One of the major reforms made during this period was to create a synthesis of Turkish and…
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There are a significant number of musical compositions for violin by composers who used folk songs and dances of various cultures in their music, including works by George Enescu, Béla Bartók and György Ligeti. Less known are pieces that draw on the plethora of melodies and rhyt…
Few composers can claim the same level of popularity with the public and in the concert hall as Pyotr Tchaikovsky. Unfortunately, however, many early-twentieth-century scholars, music critics, and music theorists have discussed Tchaikovsky’s music in a manner which reveals their…
The Doctoral Performance and Research submitted by Michael Messer, under the direction of Christopher Taylor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, in the fulfillment of the requirements for the degree Doctor of Musical Arts consists of the following:
The two enclosed essays reflect a growing portion of my musical interests over the past several years. The first essay looks into the history and transformation of Quan Họ folk singing in northern Vietnam's Bắc Ninh region, with critical analysis of the many ways in which this t…
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) and Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971) inaugurated new eras of music history with their innovative approaches, although they lived a century apart and pursued different styles of piano composition. Beethoven devoted much of his compositional output to p…
The bulk of the scholarship in this paper centers around Beethoven’s five sonatas written for piano and cello and how he established a new normal within the genre. This is evidenced by what are arguably the two most noteworthy sonatas for the same instrumental medium, written by…
The purpose of this study is to educate a wider audience about Richard Wagner’s early piano music, specifically the Sonata in B-flat Major, the Fantasia in F-Sharp Minor, and the Grand Sonata in A Major. The study seeks to make these three, large-scale piano works more accessibl…
Composer Mieczyslaw Weinberg (1919 – 1996) wrote six sonatas for violin and piano, and three sonatas for solo violin, as well as an extensive number of chamber music, symphonic, vocal, and instrumental works. There is very little written on Weinberg’s violin and piano sonatas. T…
Henri Constant Gabriel Pierné (1863-1937) was a French composer and conductor. Given his position of importance during his life alongside César Franck, Claude Debussy, and Camille Saint-Säens, Pierné’s musical oeuvre has largely gone unrecognized in the modern musical canon. Sch…
Schubert’s music is renowned for its repetitive nature; many critics like Dr. Joshua Drake think this is a negative trait of his compositions. When speaking on Schubert’s strengths and weaknesses, Dr. Drake states, “Haydn's rich use of received forms, his clear melodic and tonal…