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Tenor and Bass Line Performance Treatments in Nicola Porpora's 1742 Venetian Ospedali Works
(2020-05)
The Venetian ospedali, hospitals that cared for the ill, poor, and orphaned citizens of Venice became known in the eighteenth century for their music performances and female musicians. Among the repertoire for these supposed ...
Primary Rhetoric and the Structure of a Passacaglia
(2020-05)
The art of the musician is much like that of the orator. Both are charged with the delivery of a sonic medium over the unfolding course of time. Furthermore, both the orator and musician must be attentive to disposition ...
Accessible Bach Cantatas for Church Choirs Comprised of Amateur Singers and BWV 133 as Demonstration
(2020-05-08)
Johann Sebastian Bach composed five annual sets of sacred cantatas based on the Lutheran liturgical calendar. Bach carefully constructed cantatas with his exceptional musical ability and deep theological understanding to ...
The Liturgical Music of Richard Proulx as a Fulfillment of the Musical Directives of the Second Vatican Council
(2020-05)
The thesis of this study is that Richard Proulx (1937-2010) composed sacred music in a manner that fulfilled directives on sacred music from the Second Vatican Council. Council documents Sacrosanctum Concilium, Musicam ...
Curriculum Development for an Undergraduate Piano Major Functional Piano Skills Course
(2020-07)
In an effort to prepare undergraduate piano majors for a diverse career in music, some undergraduate institutions elect to provide coursework for piano majors dedicated to the development of functional piano skills. Research ...
Steve Dobrogosz's 'When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd': A Conductor's Perspective
(2020-08)
Swedish composer Steve Dobrogosz (b. 1956) is primarily known for his jazz piano and songwriting career, having been an influential figure in the Stockholm musical scene since the 1980’s. Eventually he began to explore ...