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Piano Concerto No. 1, "Concert of Sages"
(2018-12-14)
Concert of Sages comes out of the duality of my being a composer and a pianist, and my desire to express this duality. As the orchestra is a prime test of a composers’ mettle, a concerto is a prime test of a concert ...
A Schenkerian-Schoenbergian Analysis of David Maslanka's Concerto for Clarinet and Wind Ensemble and Implications for Performance
(2017)
David Maslanka has emerged as one of the most prominent composers of music for wind instruments. His most recent piece for clarinet, the Concerto for Clarinet and Wind Ensemble (2014), has been performed and recorded ...
Narrative and Allusion in Friedrich Kuhlau's Introduction and Variations on Euryanthe for Flute and Piano, Op. 63
(2018-12-14)
During his lifetime, Friedrich Kuhlau was a successful composer of opera and incidental music for the stage. Additionally, Kuhlau’s wealth of woodwind chamber music earned him the moniker “Beethoven of the Flute.” Kuhlau’s ...
"On Steady Advance..." An Investigation Into The Rhetorical Intent of The Testament of Freedom by Randall Thompson
(2023-12-15)
This document will investigate the events and circumstances that shaped the music and message of Randall Thompson’s The Testament of Freedom. Evidence uncovered in this investigation will provide a more complete historical ...
Formal Delineation via Modes of Limited Transposition in Ida Gotkovsky's Sonata for Solo Clarinet
(2017)
French composer Ida Gotkovsky, Professor of Music Theory at the Paris
Conservatory, studied composition with both Nadia Boulanger and Olivier Messiaen. Her Sonata for Solo Clarinet, commissioned by the International ...
BEETHOVEN’S PIANO SONATA, OP. 53 “WALDSTEIN”: A STUDY OF FINGERINGS IN SELECTED EDITIONS
(2015-12-18)
This study collates and compares fingerings in selected significant editions of Beethoven's Piano Sonata in C Major, Op. 53. These selected editions span from the nineteenth century to the twenty-first and include those ...
More Than a Key: An Analysis of Shostakovich's Symphony No. 8, Op. 65
(2016-05-13)
This thesis offers an analysis of the fifth movement Dmitri Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 8, Op. 65. Although the work has been discussed in relation to Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5, Op. 67, no thorough analysis of the work ...
Something Old, Something New: The Rustic Wedding Symphony of Karl Goldmark
(2010)
While Karl Goldmark was an internationally-known composer and respected teacher in the late nineteenth century, his music is not widely known among performers and audiences today. This document attempts to address this ...
Prima Donna Culture and the Tulsa Opera, 1954--1968
(2023-05-12)
This thesis explores the role of prima donnas in the Tulsa Opera in the mid-20th century and how women both onstage and offstage were essential to the development of the Tulsa Opera Company and American opera at large. I ...