• The development and synthesis of foundational ideas in four Debussy Préludes 

    Loyd, Melanie (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)
    This study examines specific themes, called foundational ideas, in four of Claude Debussy's Prludes. These foundational ideas are presented as discrete pieces, then developed, and finally form a previously unforeseen ...
  • Post-common practice era music theory pedagogy 

    Morrow, Melissa (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
    The purpose of my research is to improve the experience of students who are taking the Twentieth-Century Compositional Techniques course at the University of Missouri-Columbia, and similar courses at other institutions. ...
  • Row construction and accompaniment in Luigi Dallapiccola's Il Prigioniero 

    Waggoner, Dori T. (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
    Italian composer Luigi Dallapiccola (1904-75) invested his art with personal responses to dire social injustices. Because of the dangers surrounding any attempt to protest the repression of individual freedom, hate crimes, ...