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Piano Virtuosity in the 20th century: Four Works by Composers-Pianists (Debussy, Bartók, Rachmaninov, Liszt/Horowitz)
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The final project for the Doctor of Music degree consists of the three requirements: a CD recording of four works for piano solo (Debussy’s Estampes L.108, Bartók’s Piano Sonata Sz.80, Rachmaninov’s Second Piano Sonata op.36 (2nd edition) and Danse Macabre by Saint-Saens/Liszt/Horowitz);...
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Pierre Mercure and the Contemporary: Reflections of Influence and Ideology in "Tétrachromie" (1963)
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This thesis surveys, through his use of integrated serialism in Tétrachromie (1963), Pierre Mercure’s interest in contemporary compositional ideologies as influenced by prominent composers with whom he came into contact through the 1950s and early 1960s. Although largely not recognised as a...
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Political Implications of Affective Response to Rhetoric in Oswald’s Spectre and Hatzis’s The Awakening
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What does it mean to be emotionally affected by music? This study considers the experience of listening to music for political implications of affect in light of John Protevi’s concept of political affect and Eric Clarke’s concept of musical affordances. In considering this, I discuss John...
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Fall 2023
Despite the restrictions imposed on Iran's music atmosphere in the years after the 1979 Islamic revolution, different music genres survived and overcame these restrictions. Westernized popular music (musiqi-e pāp) and its presence in public space has been one of the controversial topics among...
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Fall 2011
Rachel Portman is a successful female film score composer known for her rich orchestral scores, many for films that can be classified as women's films. Portman has collaborated on several films with the Chinese-American film director Wayne Wang who in many of his films has explored the issues of...
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Fall 2010
ABSTRACT Rashomon, a composition for wind ensemble, portrays a musical event—the simple motion of rise and fall—from three different perspectives, each assigned to one of the three movements. The underlying form, the basic gestural content, pitch material and instrumentation remain the same in...
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Fall 2011
This thesis is a comparative analysis of representations of the African American fife and drum musical tradition in North Mississippi, tracing the ways these representations are shaped by the ideologies, aims, methods, and social positions of the person(s) in primary control of representation. It...