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Requiem for Chorus and Harp: Conductor as Composer, Composer as Conductor
Western music history is filled with composers who also conduct their own works, and conductors who also devote time to composing. This project will attempt to examine the experience of the composer-conductor by addressing the following questions: First, what is it like to compose a piece of music …
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Veljo Tormis, Estonian composer
The music of Veljo Tormis (b. 1930) became well-established in Estonia during the 1960s yet remained little known in the West during the Communist period. By incorporating traditional song, regilaul,into his works, Tormis’s name became closely associated for Estonians with upholding a sense of …
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Curating the composer : preserving and interpreting our musical heritage through composer house museums.
… of historic houses in which European classical composers lived has not been explored in as great a depth. The purpose of this thesis is to review the history of house museums dedicated to interpreting a composer who once lived there. Following a discussion of the literature on the subject and …
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Arnold Trowell - Violoncellist, Composer and Pedagogue
… is the first study of Arnold Trowell, cellist, composer, conductor and teacher. It is primarily concerned with the cellist’s contribution to pedagogy and composition as informed by biographical detail. The latter begins with an initial examination of the life of his father, Thomas. Starting in …
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Léonce de Saint-Martin: Organist and composer
This study examines the life and work of the largely forgotten organist Léonce de Saint-Martin and the role he played in the life of Notre-Dame Cathedral Paris. The Study consists of two parts: A) Performance The performance part consisted of four performances in addition to the final recital. …
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Alice Parker: Choral Composer, Arranger and Teacher
… her development and achievement as a musician, a composer/arranger and an authority figure in the field of choral music; (2) to establish the extent of her published choral works.
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Gnarly Buttons: Composer-Performer Collaboration in Contemporary Accordion Music
Collaboration between composers and performers is a common practice in contemporary classical music, a genre in which the accordion is becoming increasingly popular. Collaboration between accordionists and composers is particularly significant because of relative novelty of the instrument; …
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The composer as technologist : an investigation into compositional process
… programming, provide the basis for a composer (author) to assume the role of a technologist and acquire knowledge and skills to that end. In particular, it focuses on the application and development of a video gesture recognition heuristic to the compositional problems posed. The …
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Analytical explorations of creative interaction and collaborative process through composition, rehearsal and performance: a composer-composer case study of acoustic music with live electronics
… a unique and complex collaboration between two composers, called Endings (2012): firstly Jeremy Peyton Jones and secondly Kaffe Matthews. It interrogates the behavioural aspects and negotiations between the two composers in the compositional and rehearsal processes, in the run-up to three …
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Carl Gottlieb Reissiger (1798-1859) Forgotten Composer for the Clarinet
Carl Gottlieb Reissiger was a successful German composer, conductor, and teacher in the first half of the nineteenth century. At the height of his career, he was Hofkapellmeister of theater and opera in Dresden, a position he held until his death. He was a composer of more than 200 works in a …
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Composer and performer roles in contemporary music: an autoethnographic study
… leading to a reassessment of the performer, composer and score paradigm.
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Sergei Rachmaninoff: Understanding the Composer Through the Etudes-Tableaux, OP. 33
… stylistic identity, as well as that of any composer, can be perceived through an examination of the compositional devices which he tends to use repeatedly. The choice and re-use of a particular element or device obviously appeals to a composer and to him seems to be most successful and …
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Russian Jazz with Bolshevik Trimmings: Modernist Composer-Pianists in Revolutionary Russia
… the early 1930s proved to be a boon for Soviet composers. The title of this project is taken from Karleton Hackett’s review of the 1921 premiere of Prokofiev’s opera The Love for Three Oranges in the Chicago Evening Post. Hackett’s misguided characterization is very telling – The Love for Three …
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Juan Carlos Paz: Self-taught twelve-tonalist and innovative Argentine composer
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Keys to a Russian national composer: An introduction to Georgy Sviridov
… predecessors and, in so doing, became a national composer with universal merit.
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Hendrik Hofmeyr: the harmonic language of a theorist and composer theorist
This dissertation seeks to investigate an aspect of Hendrik Hofmeyr's engagement with music through his theories of harmonic analysis and his use of expanded tonality in his compositions. The purpose of the discipline of music analysis is investigated, and analysis is compared with its sister …
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Not Just a Pretty Voice: Cathy Berberian as Collaborator, Composer and Creator
… States. After 1950, when she married Italian composer Luciano Berio, Berberian premiered almost thirty new works by seventeen different composers and received the dedications of several more. Composers connected to her include: John Cage, Igor Stravinsky, Darius Milhaud, Sylvano Bussotti, …
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The transient composer: rearrangement of pre-existing music in the film score
… seen to unlock. By introducing the ‘transient composer’ as a central heuristic, this thesis mounts a diverse theoretical and textual exploration of musical rearrangement as a potent and recurrent trend in contemporary film and television scores. Broadly construed as a form of ‘musical …
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