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The first five symphonies of Dmitri Shostakovich
This study presents an analysis of the first five symphonies of Dmitri Shostakovich. These works are-analyzed according to the following categories: form, harmony, thematic treatment, texture and orchestration. The purpose of this process is to reveal the essence of his' compositional style as …
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An Overview of Select Compositional Techniques in David Maslanka's Symphonies Nos. 4 and 9
… band composer, who composed nine full-length symphonies, seven for wind band. Though well-known to many performers and conductors, little theoretical scholarship has been written about the composer. This thesis analyzes two of his works, Symphonies Nos. 4 and 9, with a particular focus on the …
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Orchestrating the Self: Identity Construction in Howard Hanson's Seven Symphonies and "Symphony of Freedom"
… American exceptionalism but as a composer whose symphonies function as dynamic spaces for negotiating a complex sense of self. Focusing on his seven numbered symphonies and his Symphony of Freedom (1949), this project analyzes how Hanson constructed and reimagined various forms of identity …
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Preserving Tchaikovsky’s legacy: a translation and critical commentary on Kirill Kondrashin’s interpretation of Tchaikovsky’s symphonies
… the Conductor’s Interpretation of Tchaikovsky’s Symphonies, a pedagogical text by Soviet conductor Kirill Kondrashin. Originally published in 1976 and based on a series of lectures, the book offers a rare window into Soviet rehearsal practices, interpretive philosophy, and the institutional …
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A Study of Tempo Deviations in Recorded Performances of Selected Symphonies by Haydn and Mozart
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A Comparative Analysis of the First and Second Symphonies of Émigré Composer Hans Gál (1890-1987)
… a comparative analysis of his First and Second Symphonies.</p>
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Silos to symphonies: social work and its contribution to student wellbeing programs within a Victorian Catholic School
Schools of today are very much about preparing young people to function as productive members of society. Schools equip young people with the skills and knowledge needed to participate in the social, economic and cultural life of their local, national and global communities. Alongside a vocational …
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Pathways in the music of Sir Peter Maxwell Davies: from precursor works to the first two symphonies
… thesis presents analyses of the first and second symphonies of Sir Peter Maxwell Davies. It starts with an introductory part consisting of two chapters outlining the overall structure of what follows and describing four features and a number of devices found repeatedly in Davies’s music. This part …
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"Schattenhaft" in Mahler's Seventh and Ninth Symphonies: An Examination of a Passage in Adorno's Mahler: A Musical Physiognomy
… "schattenhaft" appears twice in Gustav Mahler's symphonies: at the beginning of the scherzo in the Seventh and within the first movement of the Ninth. Theodor Adorno's observations regarding Mahler's use of this marking, which connect it to Schopenhauer and Romantic aesthetics, provide the …
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The Symphonies of Johann Michael Haydn: A Chronological Perspective Using Theories of Joseph Riepel and Heinrich Christoph Koch
By an extrapolation of eighteenth-century theories of melody, this study was able to accomplish a more precise application of eighteenth-century musical thinking as shown in a large body of work by one composer. The application of these theories meets the challenge as a useful and reliably …
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A Selected Study of Symphonies Concertantes for Multiple Clarinet Soloists, 1770-1850, Including Works By Stamitz Devienne, Krommer, Tausch, Muller, Schindelmeisser and Baermann
The genre of symphonies concertantes is a significant component of the solo clarinet repertoire in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. These virtuosic works, written at a time when Mozart and von Weber were composing important solo concertos for the clarinet, have received little …
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The orchestral music of Sibelius
… of an essentially tonal evolution in the symphonies, largely stated in basically straightforward musical terms, and frequently cadential in origin. It also suggests that the energy for these tonal evolutions arises from the exploration of certain ambivalent features and procedures; and …
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Toward a Unified Whole: Allan Pettersson's Symphony No. 5.
The earlier symphonies of the 1950s embody a gradual realization of Pettersson’s own unique symphonic style, containing large-scale development, repetition, and reiteration. Symphony no. 5 takes these ideas to the extreme and represents the codification of techniques that are further developed in …
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Orchestrations and Transformations: Guilmant, Widor, and the Emergence of Music for Organ and Orchestra in France
… 1882. The musical material of neither of these symphonies was originally conceived for organ and orchestra. Rather than create new musical works, both composers opted to re-work existing compositions for solo organ. Guilmant’s first symphony is an orchestration of Sonata I in D Minor, op. 42, …
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Ombra music in the eighteenth century : context, style and signification
… music, most frequently in slow introductions to symphonies. Ombra therefore provides a source for topical references for many composers. Mozart especially used the ombra style in his operas (e.g. the Oracle in ldomeneo, the Statue in Don Giovanni) and his instrumental writing (the slow …
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Visual Musicality and the Moving Image
This project focuses on different aspects of City Symphonies. At its origins, it aimed to formulate and to test, through the production of practical work, hypotheses concerning the relationship between moving images and music. While scholars in Film Studies have, over recent decades, published …
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The Songs of Sir John Andrew Stevenson
… John Andrew Stevenson is well renowned for his symphonies and accompaniments to Thomas Moore’s Irish Melodies, his glees and cathedral works. This thesis focuses on the songs of Sir John Andrew Stevenson and includes a catalogue of his works which amounts to more than three hundred individual …
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Structures of Beethoven's Scherzos
… movement in multi-movement compositions such as symphonies, sonatas, and chamber music can be almost exclusively attributed to one composer: Ludwig van Beethoven. After assimilating the existing scherzo form as it appeared in the music of Joseph Haydn (still labeled minuet except for the String …
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The Irish partsongs of Charles Villiers Stanford
… renown. His vast compositional output included symphonies, operas, concertos, church music, songs, piano/vocal arrangements of Irish folk music and over 60 SATB partsongs. Among the latter are the 14 Irish partsongs that are the focus of this study.
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Música orquestal en las catedrales españolas entre c. 1770 y c. 1840: funciones, géneros y recepción
… verses (chapter 2) and a selection of twenty symphonies and overtures (chapter 3). In this way, various unpublished orchestral repertoires have been recovered and are evaluated in comparison with other similar corpora. The last section of this study is dedicated to the reception of European …
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