Global ETD Search
Search theses and dissertations gathered from participating repositories worldwide. Every result links back to the library that holds it. No account is needed.
Results
Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"twentieth-century music"”.
-
Studies in pitch symmetry in twentieth century music
Made available in DSpace on 2017-11-30T21:01:13Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 6227927.pdf: 118208091 bytes, checksum: 025d51300fb9a634f1cafef20c48521f (MD5) license.txt: 4813 bytes, checksum: 715c4321821a960fa1a1e91d2ac7ebce (MD5) Previous issue date: 1962
-
A conducting workbook: Common rhythm problems of twentieth-century music
Restriction data tranferred 2014-07-01T11:24:03-05:00 Original Data Group with Access UIUC Users [automated] Release Date: none Reason: ETDs are only available to UIUC Users without author permission
-
Purely Sonorous: The Rhetoric of Sound in Twentieth-Century Music
… aesthetic-hermeneutic tendency in discussions of twentieth-century and contemporary music: that of legitimating particular repertoires as exceptionally sound-oriented or sound-based—in contrast with other, usually older music, which is figured as subordinating sound to musical language. In this …
-
Interaction of college students with twentieth century music in a computer environment
… the extent to which the educational status of music listeners is reflected in the content of their written discourse about a serial composition to which they listen in a non-directed situation. The problem was stated as follows: what difference in the content of written discourse will accrue …
-
Madness, Sexuality, and Gender in Early Twentieth Century Music Theater Works: Four Interpretive Essays
… sexual behavior. The portrayal of characters in music theater as mad relies on contemporaneous understanding of mental illness, as often resulting from, or expressed in transgression of normative gender roles or heteronormativity, and this may apply either to male or female characters. Such …
-
The Varieties of Tone Presence: On the Meanings of Musical Tone in Twentieth-Century Music
… dissertation is about tone presence, or how musical tone shows up for experience in twentieth-century music. In exploring the subject of tone presence, I rethink notions of “pitch structure” in post-tonal theory and offer an alternative that focuses on the question of what it is to be a …
-
Concepts of time in the works of John Cage, George Crumb, and Toru Takemitsu and implications for performance
… explores concepts of time and temporality in the music of three twentiethcentury composers, John Cage (1912-1922), George Crumb (born 1929), and Tōru Takemitsu (1930-1996). This thesis also examines the role that the performer plays in conveying temporal aspects of body of work. These three …
-
Perilous pop: ragtime, jazz and progressive social thought in the early 20th Century Press, 1900-1930.
… is a discursive history of the early twentieth century music controversy as it appeared in the popular press and as it articulated the assumptions and contradictions of progressive social thought. Through close textual analysis, the author illustrates the ways in which musical spaces, …
-
A Historical and Analytical Examination of the Stravinsky Octet for Wind Instruments, with a Guide to Performance Preparation of the Two Trumpet Parts
… mark the beginning of the neoclassical period in twentieth-century music. Chapter 2 examines the life and musical background of the composer. It also reveals the history surrounding the origin of the Octet and its role in neoclassicism. Chapter 3 discusses the role of the Octet in the wind …
-
The Role of Texture in French Spectral Music
… the essential role of texture in French spectral music and its contribution to musical evolution and form in specific works by Gerard Grisey, Tristan Murail, Philippe Hurel, and Kaija Saariaho. The use of texture in French spectral music is placed in a historical context by exploring the new ways …
-
A critical discussion of the twelve-tonal idiom of Anton Webern and criticism of its assessmant by some natable theorists
… Schoenberg, and others, and elevated the art of music to an auditory mathernatics. "It is given only to powerful spirits to travel this razor edge. Lesser ones 1 ack the requisite inner certainty. Indeed Webern never pandered to popular taste. iii Every tone he wrote was dictated to by musical …
-
A critical discussion of the twelve-tonal idiom of Anton Webern and criticism of its assessmant by some natable theorists
… Schoenberg, and others, and elevated the art of music to an auditory mathernatics. "It is given only to powerful spirits to travel this razor edge. Lesser ones 1 ack the requisite inner certainty. Indeed Webern never pandered to popular taste. iii Every tone he wrote was dictated to by musical …
-
A critical discussion of the twelve-tonal idiom of Anton Webern and criticism of its assessmant by some natable theorists
… Schoenberg, and others, and elevated the art of music to an auditory mathernatics. "It is given only to powerful spirits to travel this razor edge. Lesser ones 1 ack the requisite inner certainty. Indeed Webern never pandered to popular taste. iii Every tone he wrote was dictated to by musical …
-
A Performer's Analysis of Maurice Ravel's Chansons madécasses: A Lecture Recital, Together with Three Recitals of Selected Works of B. Britten, R. Schumann, S. Barber, T. Pasatieri, F. Poulenc, G. Verdi, T. Arne, and Others
… piano, flute, and cello, Maurice Ravel combines twentieth-century musical experimentation and exoticism with the late nineteenth-century style characteristics present in the vocal elements and instrumentation. Because early twentieth-century music appears to be closely connected to modern …
-
Beyond Boundaries: The Aesthetics of the Scream in the Music of the Second Viennese School
… the complex relationship between the scream and music in the work of Arnold Schoenberg, Alban Berg, and Anton Webern. Taking Kundry’s scream in Wagner’s Parsifal (1882) as a key point of departure, this project draws on theories of psychoanalysis and hysteria which emerged in the late-nineteenth …
-
A Theory of Orthography and the Fundamental Bass for the Late Oeuvre of Scriabin
… most intriguing and perplexing bodies of early twentieth-century music, with analytic and theoretic approaches toward this body of work ranging from the extendedly tonal to set-theoretic approaches that place this music as atonal or post-tonal. This dissertation seeks to demonstrate Scriabin’s …
-
12 Degrees of Alienation: A Socio-Political Exploration of Hanns Eisler's Use of the Twelve-Tone Method during Exile (1938-1948)
… one of the most important composers of the twentieth century. However, Eisler’s contribution to modern music in both Germany and North America has been, until recently, overshadowed by political controversy. It is especially the period of Eisler’s American exile (1938-1948) that provides an …
-
Not Just a Pretty Voice: Cathy Berberian as Collaborator, Composer and Creator
… the best-known singer of avant-garde vocal music in Europe and the United 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 …
-
Thwarted Patterns in the Organ Music of Alan Hovhaness
… an artist not easily placed into any categorical musical norms of the twentieth century. A Western-born composer with a love for Eastern thought and his Armenian heritage, Hovhaness combined Western forms and counterpoint with Eastern melodic materials. Though an extraordinarily prolific composer, …