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Maurice Ravel and Paul Wittgenstein: Le Concerto pour la Main Gauche in Response to World War I
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2017)
Austrian pianist Paul Wittgenstein (1887–1961) lost his right arm during
World War I. Wittgenstein recovered from the surgery, then in 1915 returned to
Vienna to commission one of the most celebrated left-hand piano ...
Cuban Women in Music: a Case Study of Ernestina Lecuona
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2019)
Cuba, with only a short history as an independent nation, was under Spain’s control
for over five hundred years. As an exporter of sugar and agricultural products, Spain brought
to the island African slave laborers, ...
Protest and Survive: A Brief History and Analysis of the Politics of Punk
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2018)
Politics are an important aspect of most punk music, and many authors, avoiding
concrete description, paint the genre with a nebulous left-ish brush. This, however, is
insufficient at explaining how and why the genre ...
Irreverent Faith: Neoclassicism, Catholicsm, and Humor in Francis Poulenc's Sacred Choral-Orchestral Works
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2017)
Francis Poulenc's (1899-1963) music, along with that of his early twentieth-century French contemporaries, occupies a unique place in the classical music canon. Its accessibility, and often its humor, led many scholars ...