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Theses and Dissertations
This collection contains theses and dissertations of graduate students of the University of Alberta. The collection contains a very large number of theses electronically available that were granted from 1947 to 2009, 90% of theses granted from 2009-2014, and 100% of theses granted from April 2014 to the present (as long as the theses are not under temporary embargo by agreement with the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies). IMPORTANT NOTE: To conduct a comprehensive search of all UofA theses granted and in University of Alberta Libraries collections, search the library catalogue at www.library.ualberta.ca - you may search by Author, Title, Keyword, or search by Department.
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Items in this Collection
- 1Doubleness
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- 1Folk music festivals
- 1Franz Liszt
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"Singing I Go Along Life's Road": A Musician's Grapple with Theory and Surrender to Practice
DownloadFall 2024
I would like the reader to accept the word “grapple” as the key piece of the title of this thesis, or at least as the most succinct and accurate descriptor for what it is and what it does. It applies reflection and storytelling to lay bare a research process that became the topic of the research...
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Aspects of the Historical Development of Repertoire for the Guitar: A Case Study of Hans Werner Henze’s Royal Winter Music, Sonatas on Shakespearean Characters
DownloadFall 2016
This thesis thoroughly examines the contributions Hans Werner Henze has made to the twentieth century repertoire for the classical guitar with the two sonatas that make up Royal Winter Music. The background of guitarist Julian Bream’s commissioning of the work is discussed in the introduction,...
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Fall 2010
Since the end of the American Folk Revival, in the late 1960s, folk festivals have undergone a dramatic change. Concurrently, folk music was transformed through capital from its origins as national folkloric music to a successful popular music genre. As professional folk music emerged during the...
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Fall 2021
Franz Liszt’s symphonic poems Tasso: Lamento e Trionfo and Mazeppa portray expressions of heroic masculinity and creative genius in the nineteenth century. Both compositions are based on historical figures whose lives were reimagined to emphasize the larger socio-cultural meanings of what it...
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Telling Tales: The Israelite Oratorios of George Frideric Handel as a Platform for Social Thought in Early Eighteenth-Century Britain
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"Identity is built on the ideologies of a collective nation"; there is no statement that rings clearer in the case of eighteenth-century Britain. This thesis examines the formulation of British identity as evidenced through allegorical narratives in Handel’s Israelite oratorios. As part of this...