Adnan Saygun, one of the two leading composers of the Turkish Five, was a serious ethnomusicologist who led the fieldwork in gathering folk material, and collaborated with prominent musicological researcher and composer, Béla Bartók. Like Bartók, Saygun used folk elements extens…
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This dissertation is a study of the African-American composer Zenobia Powell Perry, born in 1908 in Boley, Oklahoma, to a physician father from Somalia and a black-Creek Indian mother. There are few African-American women composers working professionally today in concert music a…
The creative potential and work of the performer in new music extends from the moment of conceptualising a concert to the moment of presenting it on stage and comprises many areas between and around those two points. In this thesis I explore the nature of this activity, from the…
This dissertation investigates the dynamics of long-term collaborative relationships between composers and performers, particularly percussionists, with the aim to present useful models of artistic collaboration. It surveys the history of the composer-performer relationship in t…
Jean Coulthard (b 10 February 1908 in Vancouver, BC, Canada; d 9 March 2000 in Vancouver, BC, Canada) was among a select group of composers who helped shape the classical music environment during the mid-twentieth century. Coulthard worked closely with many orchestras, organizat…
In the early part of 2020, musicians faced an unprecedented challenge. A novel coronavirus emerged, spreading throughout the world and creating a pandemic. To control the spread of this virus, local governing officials suspended large gatherings in public spaces, which meant tha…
The rich musical tradition of the Bohemian and Moravian regions of modern-day Czech Republic dates to the Medieval period. In the trumpet community, the orchestral music of Bedřich Smetana, Antonín Dvořák, and Leoš Janáček enjoys considerable attention. Trumpet authors have also…
Although the orchestral works and operas of Richard Strauss (1864–1949) have achieved universal acclaim, his piano music remains largely unexamined on a scholarly level. Even though Strauss’s array of piano music is diverse, it has not been thoroughly studied in its full spectru…
This thesis examines the role of advocacy and social justice in the music of three living American women composers, and the ways their efforts as mentors, patrons, academics, and educators interact with their work as composers. Case studies include Gabriela Lena Frank (b. 1972),…