| Title | Date | Views | Brief Description |
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| The prose-poetry of James Agee : Samuel Barber's response |
1989 |
712 |
Samuel Barber composed Knoxville: Summer of 1915 in 1947 as a commissioned work for Eleanor Steber, who premiered the work with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, April 9, 1948, Serge Koussevitzky conducting. The text, taken from James Agee’s “ Knoxville... |
| "The speaker of the orchestra" : an analytical study of the bass line in the fourth movement of Beethoven's ninth symphony |
1993 |
251 |
This study examines the fourth movement of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony in an effort to demonstrate how aspects of the structure of the entire movement are manifested in the bass line. The purpose is to provide performers of the double bass with a comp... |
| Luigi Dallapiccola's Liriche greche : an analysis for performance |
1994 |
1806 |
In the early 1940s, composer Luigi Dallapiccola (1904-1975) wrote a triptych of song cycles for voice and instruments, the Liriche greche ("Greek Lyrics"). The individual cycles are Cinque frammenti di Saffo ("Five Sappho Fragments," 1942); Sex carmi... |
| Variations on a theme by Scriabine : for violoncello and orchestra |
1972 |
278 |
INSTRUMENTS OF THE ORCHESTRA, Piccolo 3 Flutes ( 3rd doubles on piccolo) 2 Oboes 3 Clarinets in B-Flat Bass Clarinet 2 Bassoons Contra Bassoon 4 Horns in F 3 Trumpets in B-Flat 3 Trombones Tuba Timpani Snare Drum Bass Drum Crash Cymbal Suspended Cymb... |
| Motivic treatment in four selected early works of Anton Webern |
1973 |
813 |
It is the purpose of this study to examine four of Webern's pre-opus 1 works, noting in particular the manner in which the motives are developed and varied by the composer. The four works chosen for study are Aufblick (1903) for voice and piano, Im S... |
| Aural music theory competencies required of music majors at the end of the freshman year and the sophomore year by the colleges and universities in the state of North Carolina |
1974 |
226 |
It was the purpose of this thesis to investigate the level of difficulty of aural skills required by the institutions of higher education in the state of North Carolina of music majors at the end of the freshman year and at the end of the sophomore y... |
| Theme and various blues for jazz band and orchestra |
1976 |
156 |
The score is in C. All instruments are written as they sound except for the Piccolo which sounds an octave higher than written and the basses which sound an octave lower than written. Approximate duration of wind chimes indicated by open-ended slurs.... |
| The union of poetry and music : three Paul Verlaine poems as set by Claude Debussy and Gabriel Faure´ |
1976 |
882 |
The union of poetry and music into a third form, song, has often been referred to in terms of a wedding or marriage because of the necessary process of "give and take," common to both a union of people and a union of two art forms. This study examine... |
| Structural articulation and processes of growth in the two unaccompanied viola da gamba sonatas, Op. 9 of Johann Schenk |
1977 |
201 |
It was the purpose of this study to provide a systematic stylistic analysis of the two unaccompanied viola da gamba sonatas, Op. 9 of Johann Schenck. An examination of the scant literature dealing with Schenck's works revealed that there were no syst... |