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Graduate Recital, Cello
… from Hungarian folk songs and requires the cello's lower strings to be tuned a half-step lower than they are usually tuned. The third piece is a set of variations on a Czechoslovakian folk theme by Bohuslav Martinu (1890 - 1959). Following intermission, I will travel back in time to the …
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Graduate Recital, Cello
… a variety of performance literature on the cello, ranging historically from Baroque to Contemporary. The first half of the recital explores the versatility of the cello as a solo instrument, beginning with J. S. Bach's Suite No. 6 in D Major for unaccompanied cello, BWV 1012. I end the first …
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Cello map: a handbook of Cello technique for performers and composers
… more fully than before and applied it to the cello for the first time. This handbook provides a structure for further research. In this handbook, new techniques are presented alongside traditional methods and a ‘global technique’ is defined, within which every possible sound-modifying action …
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Doctoral thesis recital (cello)
Sonata for cello and piano no. 4 in C major, op. 102 no. 1 / Ludwig van Beethoven -- Five pieces in folk style : for cello / Robert Schumann -- Sonata for cello and piano in C major, op. 65 / Benjamin Britten.
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Doctoral thesis recital (cello)
Quatuor pour la fin du temps / Olivier Messiaen -- Requiem, op.66 / David Popper.
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The Bowing Approach to Cello Playing
Too many cellists after several years of study have become comparatively far advanced and still are not completely acquainted with the instrument as a whole. Their practice has been confined to one string at a time, with the result that the student may have developed a position to fit that …
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The cello player : a sculpture in Magnesite
… which is a piece of sculpture entitled, The Cello Player. The paper will briefly discuss what sculpture is, together with a general overview of the materials and methods employed in the creation of a sculptural piece. In the paper an attempt will be made to explain why and how The Cello …
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A catalogue of twentieth-century cello ensemble music
This document contains over 700 entries of cello ensemble music written in the twentieth and the beginning of the twenty-first centuries by 530 composers from around the world. Pieces presented in this catalogue are largely original works. A few exceptions have been allowed mostly when the composer …
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The origins of solo cello literature and performance
An investigation into the origins of cello repertory and performance explores territory that is unfamiliar to most musicians. Scholarly research has contributed admirably to our understanding of how the cello began and what factors led to its development, but few sources have brought together what …
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Non-linear analysis of cello pitch and timbre
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1992.
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An Analysis of Max Reger's Suites for Unaccompanied Cello
<p>Max Reger's Suites for Solo Cello, Op. 131c were written in 1914 just two years before his death and published in early 1915. They borrow significantly from the works of earlier eras and are styled after Johann Sebastian Bach's unaccompanied works for cello. The harmonic language of the suites, …
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Narratives in music: Schelmo, Hebraic Rhapsody for Cello and Orchestra
… music traits. Schelomo, Hebraic Rhapsody for Cello and Orchestra (1915-16) was the last composition from the cycle. It showed mastery of a style Bloch had been developing since his earlier compositions. This project will show Schelomo’s place in “The Jewish Cycle” and its importance on Bloch’s …
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The realisation of recitative by the Cello in Handelian Opera
… of the chordal realisation of recitative by the cello in Handel opera. The realisation of recitative has a long pedagogical history from 1774–1877; it is, however, rarely part of current practice. The decline of realisation in the nineteenth century and its consequences for current practice is …
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Voices of the Cello: Speak, Sing, Play; An Aesthetic Examination of Style Periods in the Cello Repertoire and How They Relate to the Viability of Transcription
… was produced in conjunction with three cello recitals as part of a Performance Dissertation Project. Each recital focuses on music from style periods ranging from the Baroque to the twenty-first century and seeks to demonstrate how the aesthetic language of a composer or style period …
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Composition No. 1, quintet for two violins, viola, cello, and sampler
Composition No. 1 is a work for string quartet and interactive electronics. The work is around twenty minutes long and separated into five movements, all of them elided through the use of attaccas. The work's organizational principle is a progression of thematic material, starting with a simple …
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A catalogue of twentieth-century Spanish music for cello and piano
… Spanish composers with 219 pieces for cello and piano. Pieces collected in this catalogue are largely original works for cello and piano. However, a few pieces in which the arrangement has been made by the composer or under the composer's supervision have been included. Some foreign …
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Creating Musical Structure through Performance: A Re-Interpretation of Brahms's Cello Sonatas
… Using recorded interpretations of Brahms’s Cello Sonatas as sources for three case studies, the second part evaluates dynamic ideas of musical form from an analytical viewpoint. Through their personal approaches to these works, I show how select performers create a wide range of structural …
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