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Night Song for tenor and orchestra
(2019-05-10)
Night Song for tenor and orchestra is a setting of the poem “Night Song” from Thus
Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche, translated into English by R.J. Hollingdale. The
piece is 24 minutes in length, and is ...
Visions from Revelation
(2020-05-08)
Visions from Revelation is a sketch of Revelation 4 portrayed through piano and fixed
media. The pianism makes tribute to several composers. Eleven Echoes of Autumn by George
Crumb influenced the inside-of-the-piano ...
Pop-folk muzika: the paradoxical coexistence of ethnonationalism, globalization, and queerness in Serbian popular music
(2020-12-20)
This document investigates the prevalence of ethno-nationalist ideology in the Balkan neo-folk music genres Pop-folk and its predecessor, Turbo-folk, under influences of globalization and queer culture. Turbo-Folk and ...
Disorder and Unity in Bruno Mantovani's Bug for Solo Clarinet
(2021-05-14)
Bruno Mantovani’s Bug (1999) for solo clarinet is a musical metaphor that depicts the disarray and disorientation caused by an imaginary computer malfunction. Historically, this piece parallels the anxiety surrounding the ...
THE EFFECTS OF CONDUCTOR FACIAL EXPRESSION ON MUSICAL EXPRESSIVITY IN MIDDLE SCHOOL BAND STUDENTS
(2020-07-30)
The purpose of this study was to ascertain whether approving, disapproving, and neutral conductor facial expressions had an effect on middle school band students’ perceived level of expression of wind ensemble performances. ...
Love, Loss, and Memory: An Analytic and Hermeneutic Discussion of Clara Schumann’s Drei Romanzen, Op. 21
(2023-05-12)
One of Clara Wieck-Schumann’s last compositions, Drei Romanzen, Op. 21 is a set of three romances composed in 1853. The analysis which follows discusses the three romances of Op. 21 through the lens of large-scale ternary ...
INTERACTIONS BETWEEN METER AND OTHER MUSICAL PARAMETERS IN WORKS BY BEETHOVEN AND SCHUMANN
(2019-05-10)
This document explores ways that meter cooperates with various other musical domains. I will uncover relationships among meter, harmony, and form in Schumann’s Novellette in D major, Op. 21, No. 4, and between meter and ...
In Search of Hans Gál (1890-1987): Musical Style and Continuity in an Era of Radical Change
(2018)
Born in Vienna in 1890, Hans Gál enjoyed early successes as a composer, conductor, scholar, and teacher. In 1933, he was abruptly removed from his position as Director of the Mainz Conservatory due to his Jewish ethnicity ...
Songs of Revelation
(2017-05-12)
Songs from Revelation is an orchestral choral song cycle that depicts various scenes found in the book of Revelation from the Christian Bible. Each song explores a different facet of humanity’s response during the events ...
Rhetoric and Gesture in the Performance of Seventeenth-Century Vocal Music
(2016)
In this document I approach the performance of seventeenth-century vocal music via rhetorically-informed analytical procedures. I draw from primary sources such as Quintilian's Institutio Oratoria and several seventeenth ...