Title of Dissertation: OBOE QUARTETS: 1970–2020 Sarah Rose Balzer, Doctor of Musical Arts, 2020 Dissertation directed by: Professor of Oboe, Mark Hill, and School of Music Over the last fifty years, the oboe quartet genre has continued to grow. The repertoire has garnered a grea…
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Sir Charles Villiers Stanford is well known to British history, but poorly recognized by those outside of the British Isles. Irish born but a life-long loyalist, Stanford was passionate about his identity as a British gentleman. While home rule was constantly on the political ag…
The inspiration to write a piece with sacred content comes from the grandeur of the recently finished Kocatepe mosque in the center of the capital Turkey and my hometown Ankara, which is a replica of the Sultan Ahmet Mosque. This mosque is a synthesis of 20th century technology …
The Doctor of Performance and Research submitted by Emma A. G. Cifrino, under the direction of Sally Chisholm at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, in the fulfillment of the requirements of the degree Doctor of Musical Arts consists of the following:
This treatise aims to present an introduction to the violin/viola doubler. It begins with a brief historical background of composers and performers who played both instruments. Next is a discussion of five works that incorporate the doubling. This includes Richard Strauss’ Elekt…
Scales and etudes are considered essential steps in developing an advanced technique on any instrument. The viola, as a member of the string family, was not nearly as popular or recognized as the violin or cello before the twentieth century. It is the same situation with the vio…
The viola da gamba was a family of bowed string instruments popular from the fifteenth century through the mid-seventeenth century. There were quite a few prominent composers that wrote for the instrument, but none more notable than Marin Marais. His study of the viola da gamba …