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Samuel Coleridge Taylor's Hiawatha's Wedding Feast
(2012)
Hiawatha's Wedding Feast is widely recognized as the seminal work of the English composer, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor. Among his compositional output, this choral cantata launched his career as a musician and composer of ...
The Underestimated Cello Concertos: Historical, Stylistic and Compositional Comparison of the Two Cello Concertos of Feliks Nowowiejski and Grazyna Bacewicz
(2021-05-14)
Feliks Nowowiejski (1877-1946), a Polish composer whose name is synonymous with Polish patriotic music, including the country’s second unofficial anthem, contributed to the twentieth-century cello repertoire with his ...
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 ...
Case study examinations of independent piano instruction in India.
(1999)
The purpose of the study was to examine the professional training and development of piano instructors in India through profiles of selected piano pedagogues in order to understand the unique conditions affecting them and ...
Pianistic Analysis of Bedřich Smetana's Piano Cycle Dreams, Six Characteristic Pieces for Piano
(2016)
This document provides a study resource for teachers and performers concerning Bedřich Smetana’s piano cycle Dreams, a musical work that played a key role in the development and recognition of a distinctly Czech style. The ...
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 ...
Clara Schumann's Character Pieces: A Pedagogical Approach to Selected Works
(2016-05-13)
This study explores pedagogical aspects of Clara Wieck Schumann’s piano works through a discussion of selected character pieces. Although Clara composed over sixty piano pieces, only a few are standards of the repertoire, ...
An Overview of the Piano Concerto in Canada Since 1900 with Stylistic Analyses of Works Since 1967 by Eckhardt-Gramatte, Dolin, Louie, Kuzmenko, and Schmidt
(2013-12-13)
This study provides an overview of the piano concerto in Canada since 1900 with stylistic analyses of five concertos written in the five decades since 1967 by five Canadian composers: Sophie Carmen Eckhardt-Gramatté, Samuel ...
Characteristic metrical anomalies in the instrumental music of Robert Schumann: A study of rhythmic intention.
(1979)
*Originally published in DAI Vol. 40, No. 5.
A comparative study of the musical characteristics of children as observed in the spontaneous chant of Native American and Anglo American children.
(2003)
During the past fifty years, researchers and scholars have studied the musical development of young children, identifying not only the musical characteristics of young children, but also the developmental stages of their ...