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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"American composers"”.
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African American Composers and the Piano Concerto
… Hailstork (b. 1941) are three prominent African American composers who have contributed to Western music traditions. Although studies have been conducted regarding the history of the American piano concerto, this dissertation discusses the importance of the African American contribution to this …
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Songs of the soul: an exploration of music by African American composers
When considering the breadth of American song literature, the works of African American composers are not as commonly found within the standard repertoire. When songs by African American composers are performed in a recital, they are typically limited to arrangements of spirituals. While these …
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From the Shadows: a Collection of Flute Music by Living Black American Composers
For centuries, composers of color have been left out of our music history books, performances, and recordings. One of the major problems that I notice with my Black students is a simple disconnect from the music. Many students find Classical music boring, and they usually do not grow up listening …
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An Exploration of Conceptual Teaching in Piano Study: Pedagogical Analysis of Three Selected Intermediate Piano Works by Two American Composers, William Bolcom and Lowell Liebermann
Music of contemporary classical composers is often neglected because of simple lack of familiarity or because some of the material is difficult; all too frequently, recent music is allotted very little time during the long-term course of a student's piano study. These circumstances may contribute …
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A formal and stylistic analysis of selected compositions for solo accordion, with accompanying ensembles by twentieth-century American composers, with implications of their impact upon the place of accordion in the world of serious music
… works for the instrument, and formed the American Accordionists' Association to encourage, among other things, the advancement of the instrument by commissioning leading twentieth-century composers to write for the instrument.This study thus proposes to examine a select group of works for …
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Defined, But Not Confined: Transnationalism, Transcendence, and Exclusion In the Works of Horatio Parker
… rejected Antonin Dvořák’s 1893 suggestion to American composers that a national idiom could be founded on African American and Native American musics. In combination with his lectures on the topic, I argue that Parker’s symphonic poem A Northern Ballad may be read as his response to Dvořák’s …
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THE BACH/KODÁLY LEGACY: THE SOLO CELLO'S THREE-HUNDRED-YEAR EVOLUTION
… and the use of scordatura—techniques which early composers, most notably Johann Sebastian Bach, pioneered. For some two hundred years, the concept of utilizing the cello as a solo instrument lay dormant, until Zoltán Kodály, with his magnificent Sonata for Solo Cello, Op. 8, opened the door to the …
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A study of English-language sacred solo literature by selected twentieth-century composers
… language, providing a survey of English and American composers who have made significant contributions to the sacred solo repertoire. This work also serves as a reference tool for singers and voice students in selecting sacred literature for vocal study, recital programming, or church use. …
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Fusion of Chinese and Western Musical Styles in Chen Yi’s from the Path of Beauty
Chen Yi (b.1953), one of the leading Chinese-born American composers today, has earned a reputation in the world as a female composer of contemporary music. Both Chinese and Western musical styles have influenced Chen’s compositional style. As one of the new-wave movement composers, Chen has …
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The music of Charles Tomlinson Griffes; harbinger of American art music's transition into the modern age
… era of twentieth-century internationalism for American music. Rather than restrict himself to writing American nationalistic or German romantic music like most American composers of his time, Griffes built upon his classical background to write eclectic new music that incorporated ideas from …
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The Orchestral Music of Robert Nathaniel Dett: A New Critical Edition of his Orchestration of the Enchantment Suite
<p>In the annals of music history, there are many composers whose works have fallen out of the repertoire over time, including some who were very famous and popular during their lifetimes. This phenomenon is compounded for composers from diverse backgrounds who often face issues of racism or other …
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Sonic landscapes: The environmental choral music of R. Murray Schafer and John Luther Adams
… to address social concerns through choral music. Composers have taken on such topics as civil rights, suicide prevention, LGBTQ rights, women’s issues, as well as other current affairs. One of the sub-genres of this socially conscious repertoire is choral music that focuses on the ecology and the …
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COMPREHENSIVE ANALYSIS OF MOVEMENT ONE OF JENNIFER HIGDON’S VIOLIN CONCERTO
… one of the most performed and sought after American composers of our time. Her works have been played by all major American orchestras, along with several major European orchestras. As a Pulitzer Prize and multiple Grammy winner, she writes exclusively for commissions and her music is an …
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Love in a life: the art songs of Gena Branscombe
Gena Branscombe (1881–1977) was a Canadian American pianist, composer, conductor, educator, and advocate for music by women and American composers. In her day, she was well-known as a conductor of her own works and regularly performed the music of her contemporaries with her all-women’s chorus, the …
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Guia practico for piano by Heitor Villa-Lobos : a performance edition with critical notes and commentary
… Brazilian, is one of the most significant Latin American composers, known for his distinct combination of indigenous music, European musical training and Brazilian folk music. In addition to his career as a composer, Villa-Lobos was involved with music education in Brazil. He was the chair of …
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Accounting for taste: The early American music business and secularization in music aesthetics, 1720--1825
… regional, as well as personal, fractures in American society. These personal and public debates, carried out in diaries, letters, hymnal prefaces, newspapers, and magazines, reflected larger divisions in an evolving American culture.</p><p>This research focuses particular attention on the …
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Change in Early Cincinnati's Musical Identity: Shape-Note Tunebooks from Timothy Flint's Columbian Harmonist (1816) to Timothy and Lowell Mason's Sacred Harp (1834)
… the growth and change in earlynineteenth-century American musical culture. As Cincinnati changed from frontier town to cultivated city, andsimultaneously became a center for the publishing of music, its music industry experienced the clash of musical tastes.The repertoire of folk tunes and …
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Magic realism in music : Four electroacoustic compositions
… that my work, as well as the work of other Latin American composers, may be seen in this light. Also in this chapter, I put forward the idea that the electroacoustic medium may be the natural environment or 'habitat', as it were, for the Magic Realist composer to develop. Chapters 2 to 5 present a …
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Making America Operatic: Six Composers' Attempts at an American Opera, 1910-1918
… explores six selected operas written by American composers and librettists from the 1910s, the earliest decade in which this nation supported the widespread and frequent production of operas by native artists. Example works by Charles Wakefield Cadman, Frederick Converse, Henry Hadley, …
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Regionalism in selected musical works of Charles Faulkner Bryan (1911-1955)
… comparisons of Bryan's life and music with other American composers like Charles Ives and Aaron Copland. Important sources used for this study were Bryan's scores and personal correspondence from the Charles Faulkner Bryan Collection of the Tennessee State Library and Archives in Nashville and the …
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