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Bela Bartok and the Pro-Musica Society: a chronicle of piano recitals in eleven American cities during his 1927-1928 tour
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
An important component of Béla Bartók's 1927-28 transcontinental tour of the United States was a series of eleven lecture-recitals sponsored by the Pro-Musica Society—an international organization founded in 1920 as the ...
When theories of psychology and composition intersect : a case study of Schoenberg, Dutilleux, and Lansky
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
Although music had been understood for centuries to affect and even express certain psychological states, the method of observation and study essential to the evolving field of psychology and neuroscience in the twentieth ...
Copland in pursuit of Neoclassicism : a speculative discourse on his "leftist" politics, his interpretation of Mahler, and their confrontation at the third symphony
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)
Aaron Copland's Symphony No. 3 (1946) is widely agreed to be not only one of the composer's finest accomplishments, but also one of the greatest American achievements in the genre. From his roots as a modernist composer ...
Analyzing compositional strategies in video game music
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)
Composers of music for video games face a unique set of challenges, including issues of interactivity, non-linearity, diegesis, and versatility. This study explores several possible correlations among these challenges and ...
'To chant my last refrain:' a contextualization of H. Lawrence Freeman's biography and his operas 'The Martyr' and 'Voodoo'
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] The grand operas by Harlem Renaissance composer H. Lawrence Freeman (1869-1954)--large productions in the theater and broadcast on the radio--represent ...
Hymns ancient and modern, and the music editorship of Willian Henry Monk
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Hymns Ancient and Modern--a product of Tractarian efforts for the development of Catholic ecclesiological expression in the Church of England--established ...
A study of Monteverdi's three genera from the preface to Book VIII of Madrigals in relation to operatic characters in Il Ritorno d'Ulisse in patria and L'incoronazione di Poppea
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
The construction of character on the early operatic stage by means of musical gestures is an indisputable achievement of Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643). Such an accomplishment was the result of a continuing development of ...