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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"late-romantic"”.
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Late Romantic art song from various national styles
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Brave Belgians of the Belle Époque : a study of the late-romantic Ghent horn playing tradition
… by analysis of a comprehensive time capsule of related archival findings, historical instruments and repertoire. Findings were contextualized from the perspective of a modern-day performer, creating a practice- based framework that reflects musical performance and perception, artistic identity and …
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The Construction of Closure and Cadence in Gustav Mahler's <i>Ninth Symphony</i> and <i>Das Lied von der Erde</i>
… that recent approaches to the analysis of late- Romantic music are still dependent on ideas which are themselves a product of Romantic ideology. Typically, the musical practice of the late-nineteenth century (and after) is characterised in terms of its subversive relationship with the music …
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Word and image : Doré/Poe : an enquiry into the role of word and image in the late Romantic period, with specific interest in the participation of Gustave Doré, Edgar Allan Poe and the influence of the gothic revival
… and image and also investigate the influence of late Romantic Gothicism. Part One examines the position and roles of verbal/visual enquiry through illustration and text. A survey of theoretical concepts defining illustration is made. A brief examination of nineteenth century perspectives of …
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A structural, harmonic and stylistic analysis of Gabriel Fauré's Piano Quartet in C Minor Op. 15
… His style, though showing the influence of late-Romantic music, is unique and comprises some of the most inventive harmonic language to be found in Western music. It is characterised by the complex integration of advanced tonal and modal procedures. The purpose of this study is to examine …
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Subverted modernism: Korngold's Die tote Stadt
… works for the stage, and instead held fast to late-Romantic aesthetics and philosophies at the expense of engaging directly with contemporary culture and politics. I show evidence to the contrary, that Komgold was in fact actively involved with the intellectual, artistic and socio-political …
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The String Chamber Style and the String Quintet Medium in the Nineteenth Century
… century show that instrumental parity in late Romantic string chamber music was gradually achieved as part of a stylistic process. Scoring is the musical element in which the growth and intensification of the meaning of chamber style occurred. The distinctive features of the string quintet …
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Florence Price: The Hidden Pioneer of Imposed Simplicity
Florence Price is commonly described as a late-Romantic composer. This dissertation seeks to reposition her as a modernist through the lens of imposed simplicity. Imposed simplicity is a term Aaron Copland used to describe many of his own works composed in the 1930s and 1940s. Using the framework …
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Graduate Recital, Voice
… Op. 67 represents German Lieder from the late-Romantic period; the set presents a German translation of Ophelia's mad scene from Shakespeare's Hamlet. Argento's Six Elizabethan Songs represent 20th-century music, but Argento draws the text from various poets of the Elizabethan era. …
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Nikolai Medtner's Forgotten Melodies Op. 39: Exploring The Narrative Mosaic Of The Cycle
… composer, pianist, and pedagogue, bridged the Late Romantic and Modernist periods, yet he firmly opposed the modernistic trends of his time. In his essay, The Muse and the Fashion, he critiqued modernism's complexity and novelty as a mere trend, advocating for music that remains true to …
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A stylistic and analytical study of Concerto No.2 for Piano and Orchestra, Op.33, by Lee Hoiby
… movements and reflects many stylistic traits of late Romantic music. The purpose of this paper is to provide a stylistic and analytical examination of Lee Hoiby’s Concerto No. 2 for Piano and Orchestra, Op.33. The paper is organized into three chapters. The first chapter includes biographical …
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Revealing Janacek: On an Overgrown Path--Series I
… status of Leos Janacek, Czech composer of the late Romantic to early twentieth-century era, through an analysis of compositional techniques in the solo piano cycle On an Overgrown Path--Series I. By examining Janacek's musical background, specifically: (1) musical studies and early influences, …
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Dramatic Impulse: Diegetic Music in the Operas of Giacomo Puccini
… Classical style that is distinct from his usual late Romantic idiom. I also propose and employ a tripartite analytical methodology for identifying and assessing diegetic music in opera, complete with a new definition for diegetic music that is specific to this genre. Approached in stages, this …
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The Violin Sonata of Amy Beach
… formal design, and expresses a style featured in late Romantic music. The Violin Sonata begins with a large, imposing movement, followed by a folk-like second movement. The expressive third movement contains Wagnerian infinite melody. The work ends with an energetic finale. Beach conveys intense …
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Joseph Messner's organ music: evolution of a style
… to World War II which contain style elements of late-romanticism and an emerging neoclassicism. This paper analyses the works in regards to form, stylistic elements, and performance issues in addition to establishing the historical contexts from which they originated.
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Ignacy Jan Paderewski's Sonata in E-Flat Minor, Op. 21: Insights into his compositional technique and performance style.
… of his piano performance style. Knowledge of late-Romantic performance practices gleaned from Paderewski's recordings suggest ways of approaching the performance of his Sonata in E-Flat Minor, Op. 21. This Sonata, composed in 1903 near the end of his compositional career, is a work of the …
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Violin and voice as partners in three early twentieth-century English works for voice and violin.
… and musical context, a brief overview of Late Romantic and early Twentieth-Century chamber music with strings and voice will be given. This overview will help to illuminate the uniqueness of the pairing of violin and voice. Discovery of the works discussed here makes possible an expanded …
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Political Influences on Solo Trumpet Literature in 1930s Europe: An Examination of Works by Karl Pilss and Paul Hindemith
… sought to promote traditional Germanic and Romantic style music while condemning and banning music representing many twentieth-century trends. These efforts resulted in some composers and musicians being labeled as ‘degenerate,’ while others found greater success and prominence. This …
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Transports of imagination: poetry and the rehabilitation of experience, 1830–1860
… dissertation examines how poets of the German late romantic and restoration periods between 1830 and 1860 disrupt the systematizing drive of technological, cultural, and industrial advancements during the nineteenth century in Germany by establishing connections with the past: both a …
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Creative Performer Agency in the Collaborative Compositional Process
… opposing currents across disciplines from the late romantic period to the late twentieth century. Chapter 2 comprises an indicative chronology of select collaborations in the long twentieth-century guitar repertoire and an overview of relevant practice-led research projects in performance …