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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"piano repertoire"”.
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Pairings: Quintets and Duos from the Collaborative Piano Repertoire
Chamber music with piano comprises some of the greatest masterpieces in the Western canon. The works range from duo sonatas with various instruments through septets. In regard to duo sonatas, the violin is the instrument most frequently paired with the piano. Of all the chamber works for larger …
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A survey of elementary piano repertoire: A piano instructor’s resource
This project opens with the premise that some piano instructors are unaware of or don’t have immediate access to elementary literature written by notable composers over the last few centuries. At times, this can lead to a student learning only from methods, resulting in a keyboard education that …
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Baroque influences in nineteenth and twentieth century piano repertoire: a study of interpretative issues.
The exegesis investigates ways in which major piano works of the 19th and 20th centuries reflect elements of baroque tradition and considers the implications for performance. After the baroque period, from the 18th century to the present, many composers have continued to explore baroque forms, …
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The Mutability of the Score: An Examination of the Value of Score Alteration in Virtuosic Piano Repertoire
… of the value of score alteration in virtuosic piano repertoire. Score alteration is a performance practice, much heard during the so-called “Golden Age” of pianism, in which pianists would freely modify the score in order to suit their interpretation and make their performances more effective. …
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DESPERATE MEASURES: RECORDING OF THE COMPLETE PIANO WORKS OF ROBERT MUCZYNSKI
… 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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A dissertation lecture recital of the Greek sonata for piano by Dimitri Mitropoulos: musical interpretation, pianistic challenges, and manuscript limitations
… this relatively unknown work of the 20th century piano repertoire. I provided important historic background on Mitropoulos’ life and career and explored the compositional significance of the Greek Sonata. I then highlighted the difficulties presented in the manuscript and explained the steps I …
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The French Piano Prelude: Elizabeth Jacquet De La Guerre To Olivier Messiaen
The piano prelude is one of the earliest genres in Western music, and it is beloved for its short length, stylistic diversity, and intelligent organization among the vast number of keyboard compositions.The prelude genre has developed over the centuries, and the formation of the genre's …
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Practical performance considerations for the Andante con moto of Beethoven's Piano Concerto in G Major, Op. 58
… of the Andante con moto of Beethoven’s Fourth Piano Concerto, focusing on a variety of interpretative options for the performer. The sources of interpretive options will include conventional formal and harmonic analysis, consultation of existing scholarly research on the subject, historical …
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Performance Guide of the two-piano version of Zhang Zhao Piano Concerto No. II “The Might”
AbstractThis paper focuses on the two-piano version of Zhang Zhao’s Piano Concerto No. II, “The Mighty,” examining its compositional features, performance considerations, and pedagogical applications. Born in an ethnically diverse region of Yunnan, Zhang Zhao’s music is deeply influenced by local …
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The duo piano experience : nonverbal communication between ensemble musicians
… and execution of virtuoso works from the duo piano repertoire.
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Motive and form in Lowell Liebermann's four Sonatas for violoncello and piano
… explores the four sonatas for cello and piano by Lowell Liebermann, and is accompanied by my recording of the works, in collaboration with pianist Kevin Chance. These works were composed between 1978 and 2008, but are not yet part of the standard repertoire. Given the lack of well-known …
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Re-orchestration Case Studies for Wind Orchestra: Portfolio of Compositions, Transcriptions and Exegesis
… of choral and chamber ensembles and even solo piano repertoire. Consequently, as the status of the wind orchestra and notoriety of its composers has steadily improved, this re-orchestration process became somewhat bidirectional, with many wind orchestra composers now adapting their works for …
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Piano Teaching in China During the Twentieth Century
In this study of piano teaching in China, the author reviews the history and influence of western music and piano in China, the method and educational system of piano teaching as well as the aspects of changes and development in China in the twentieth century. Beginning with the century, along with …
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Tasteful piano performance in classic-era Britain
In recent decades, British solo piano repertoire of the Classic era has attracted increasing interest from researchers. A number of scholars have sought to identify the compositional elements that comprise late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century British piano music. Despite this interest, …
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Exploring Cross-Cultural Elements, Performance Practice, and Performance Guide to China West Suite by Chen Yi
… techniques. The China West Suite for two pianos consists of four movements, each portraying different aspects of Chinese folk elements while blending them with Western musical idioms. This study aims to explore the fusion of Chinese and Western traditions in China West Suite, focusing on …
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The Historical Development of The Piano in Popular Cuban Music: A History of Musical Nationalism
… is an attempt to clarify the role of the piano in Cuban music and culture through history. Most of the dissertation is carefully focused on the actual music compositions and seeks to present a survey of the devices, techniques, architecture, and genres found in the vast piano repertoire …
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Sergei Taneyev (1856-1915): An Analysis of His Piano Concerto in E-flat Major and Its Relationship to Tchaikovskys Piano Concerto No.1
… seeks to prove that Sergei Taneyev's only piano concerto is a valuable addition to the piano concerto repertoire for historical and theoretical examination. Taneyev's biographical background proves he was one of the major figures in Russian musical life during the late nineteenth century. …
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Russian Jazz with Bolshevik Trimmings: Modernist Composer-Pianists in Revolutionary Russia
The purpose of this project is to highlight the piano compositions of the extraordinarily diverse period in Russian music between the emergence of pre-Revolutionary modernism in the early twentieth century and the publication of the “Muddle Instead of Music” article in 1936, the lack of State …
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The Music of J.S. Bach and the Art of Transcription - Selected Bach Transcriptions by Pianist-Composers
… re-evaluate their significance in the Classical piano repertoire, and to further validate them as one of the main works to be considered in performance settings. Although it is commonly believed that Mendelssohn "revived" Bach as a composer in the nineteenth century, it was rather the tradition …
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Works for Violin and Piano by French Composers, 1870-1950
… music; few of them composed works for violin and piano. From about 1870, French composers turned their attention to the violin-piano repertoire, producing some of the greatest works of the genre. Three distinctive compositional styles arose in France from 1870 to 1950: the Cosmopolitan Style, the …
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