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Showing 1 to 20 of 66 for “"Solo Piano"”.
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Five Ekmousikés for Solo Piano
… is a multi-movement work composed for solo piano, dedicated to and to be premiered by my grandmother, Dr. Janet Bass Smith. Each movement in this work is programmatically tied to a piece of extra-musical art by Dr. Smith, consisting of three oil paintings and two poems. Chronologically, …
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Complete solo piano works of Zhou Long
… and publications currently exist on Zhou’s piano music, and this doctoral lecture recital is the first time an artist has performed the complete collection of Zhou’s solo piano pieces. The pieces include: Mongolian Folk-Tune Variations, Wu Kui, Pianogongs, and Pianobells. In his piano music, …
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The solo piano music of Andrzej Dutkiewicz
This purpose of this study was to examine the solo piano compositions of Polish composer and pianist, Andrzej Dutkiewicz (1942- ). These works include Toccatina (1969), Suite for Piano (1970), Three Sketches in Retrospect (1985), and À-la (1986). Although his compositions have been performed in …
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PERSPECTIVES ON RICHARD STRAUSS’S EARLY COMPOSITIONS FOR SOLO PIANO
… (1864–1949) haveachieved universal acclaim, his piano music remains largely unexamined on a scholarly level. Even though Strauss’s array of piano music is diverse, it has not been thoroughly studied in its full spectrum. In fact, there is no major work in English that addresses his piano legacy. …
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Selected solo piano works by contemporary Malaysian composers: An analysis
… particularly through the analyses of selected solo piano works by three contemporary Malaysian composers---namely, Chong Lim Ng's A Distant Voice of the Rain Forest (Fragments from "Rimba"...), Adeline Wong's Paces for solo piano and electronics, and Kah Hoe Yii's My Spirit is Dancing!.;These …
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The Solo Piano Works of Henri Dutilleux: A Stylistic Analysis
… development of Dutilleux's works in the solo piano genre. As evidenced throughout his compositional oeuvre, Dutilleux wrote and published solo piano works in each decade from the 1940s to the 1990s. However, no critical studies exist that examines the stylistic development of Dutilleux's …
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A repertoire guide to Wanghua Chu's published works for solo piano
… to Wanghua Chu’s thirty published works for solo piano. The guide includes: 1) the title, publisher, length, stylistic features, and level of difficulty of each piece, and 2) a detailed discussion of efficient practicing methods, technical considerations, and musical interpretation for each …
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Hearing the Sublime: Signification of the Sublime in Solo Piano Literature of the Nineteenth Century
Though many philosophers and music theorists have admitted the signification of the sublime in music as a possibility, the nature and mechanism of that signification has not yet been treated at length with a methodology familiar to musicians or native to music theory. Within this dissertation I …
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Edino Krieger's solo piano works from the 1950s : a dialectical synthesis in Brazilian musical modernism
… background. In my opinion, Edino Krieger’s piano works from the 1950s found a perfect compositional balance and can be considered one of the highest achievements in twentieth-century Brazil. Modal elements in the varied Brazilian folk traditions are a consequence of Gregorian chant used by …
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Alfred Cortot's response to the music for solo piano of Franz Schubert: a study in performance practice
… that, to a certain extent, Schubert’s works for piano remained neglected until early in the twentieth century, in contrast to his great reputation as a composer of Lieder. However, the study of Cortot’s recordings and commentary editions of Schubert’s piano music reveals that Cortot can …
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A recording and guide to the performance of Samuel Barber's complete solo piano works, including the recently published early works
… explores Samuel Barber’s complete works for solo piano, including his early works published in 2010. The recording, captured on two CDs, represents the first complete collection of Barber’s published piano works and outlines Barber’s maturation from his teenage years to his full development …
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The influence of Bartok's approach to keyboard compositions on contemporary Chinese solo piano music: a portfolio of recorded performances and exegesis.
… on the study of selected contemporary Chinese solo piano music after 1980 and investigates Bartók’s influence on these works. Besides repertoire practice, which occupied most research time, the research methods included a literature review, analysis of compositions and interviews with …
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Noh Influences in the Piano Music of Joji Yuasa
… This thesis discusses Noh influences on Yuasa's solo piano works, with particular attention to his approach to time and space. The four works discussed in this paper are Cosmos Haptic (1957), Projection Topologic (1959), On the Keyboard (1972), and Cosmos Haptic II (1986). Two earlier works for …
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DESPERATE MEASURES: RECORDING OF THE COMPLETE PIANO WORKS OF ROBERT MUCZYNSKI
… of this dissertation is to help assimilate the solo piano works of Robert Muczynski into the active 20th century piano repertoire, by providing pianists, musicologists, and listeners with the composer’s complete solo piano output on CD, for the first time. Of the fifteen compositions contained …
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Symmetrical Elements in the Piano Music of Einojuhani Rautavaara
… Preludes during his student years to his late piano miniatures, symmetrical compositional tools such as the bilateral keyboard symmetry remained a key component in his piano works. Although Rautavaara’s piano output is small compared to other genres, it is scattered throughout various stylistic …
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