Dissertations / Theses: 'Monologues with music (Piano with orchestra)'

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Rinker, John Thomas Glass Philip. "And one of time a composition for full orchestra with narration /." view full-text document. Access restricted to the University of North Texas campus, 1999. http://www.library.unt.edu/theses/open/19993/rinker%5Fjohn%5Fl/index.htm.

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Feezel, Mark Brandon. "The light for two narrators and chamber orchestra /." connect to online resource, 2003. http://www.library.unt.edu/theses/open/20031/feezel%5Fmark%5Fbrandon/index.htm.

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Gorby, Roderick. "A concerto for piano and orchestra." Thesis, The Florida State University, 2015. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3705818.

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A Concerto for Piano and Orchestra is a work of absolute music, which draws on the traditional three-movement concerto form of the classical and romantic tradition and includes a solo piano cadenza toward the end of the last movement. Harmonically, I make free use of the major, minor and augmented triads, and draw from diatonic, hexatonic, octatonic and other altered modes. My orchestration is influenced by Debussy, Ravel and Stravinsky, and my piano writing is influenced by J.S. Bach, Chopin, Liszt, Grieg, Prokofiev, Bartok as well as stylistic elements characteristic of Chick Corea especially as found in his Concerto No. 1.

The first movement is monothematic. The theme's first appearance utilizes the full orchestra and is then taken up by the soloist. The orchestra then spins out a "satirical" variation of the original theme. This section builds to a climax and is followed by a "chaotic" reaction from the orchestra, after which follows a tranquil section in the Dorian mode, where the theme is transformed into a slow, lyrical character. This modal variation yields to a more bitonal harmonic language, ushering in the development section. A recapitulation and coda close the first movement.

The second movement opens with solo piano performing an ornamented scale melody. The rhythmic motives and shapes of this melody are then taken up into selected colors of the orchestra and varied. The piano returns with the original material leading to a more substantial appearance of the orchestra, after which there is a "quasi-cadenza" section for the piano. The calm end of this movement features the piano, low strings, low brass, and a bassoon solo.

The third movement is a rondo, AA₁ABACA with an extensive cadenza for the piano between the C and A sections followed by a coda. It opens with percussive rhythmic figures in the piano, which are then passed to the strings in pizzicato. Over the string pizzicato, a transformation of the first movement's theme appears in polyphony across the orchestra while the piano and xylophone provide sparse commentary. The B section features the percussion instruments followed by the jazz-influenced piano passages. In the C section, the piano, strings and high woodwinds, reveal nostalgic hints of Grieg and Rachmaninoff. An orchestral tutti builds to a climax just before the cadenza, after which a short A section and coda complete the work.

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Yonemaru, Tomoko. "Something about Marybell." Thesis, connect to online resource, 2008. http://digital.library.unt.edu/permalink/meta-dc-6035.

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Gregorio, Joseph. "Concerto for Piano and Orchestra - Gregorio." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2018. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/540484.

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Music Composition
D.M.A.
This dissertation comprises two parts: an original composition, Concerto for Piano and Orchestra; and an essay that analyzes the form of Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No. 1 in D-flat Major, op. 10. Concerto for Piano and Orchestra is cast in three movements and scored in two versions: In “Version A,” members of the orchestra are at times called on to use their voices to sustain the phonemes [m], [ŋ], and [v] on pitch and to create an intense whisper on the vowel [æ]. “Version B” is an alternative realization that uses instruments only. The first movement, unable to produce a recapitulation and continually interrupted at decreasing intervals of time by increasingly intense outbursts from percussion, brass, and wind instruments, is an extreme deformation of a sonata-concerto form. It proceeds attacca to the second movement, which is built in a large ternary form. The third movement is a concerto adaptation of James Hepokoski and Warren Darcy’s “expanded Type 1” sonata form. The concerto’s total duration is approximately 30 minutes. The essay considers the form of Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No. 1 from the perspective of Hepokoski and Darcy’s Sonata Theory, as laid out in their seminal 2006 treatise. It finds that Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No. 1 is a highly individualized instance of Hepokoski and Darcy’s “Type 3” sonata form with introduction-coda frame. The essay’s analysis is preceded by a glimpse at Prokofiev’s experiences with sonata form during his youth, as well as brief reviews of the conceptual backdrop of concerto form as Prokofiev would have received it and of the basics of Sonata Theory.

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Carson, Benjamin Leeds. "The self and its pleasures : a collection of music for piano and music for orchestra /." Diss., Connect to a 24 p. preview or request complete full text in PDF format. Access restricted to UC campuses, 2001. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p3013702.

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Albasini, Garaulet Olga. "Piano and memory : Strategies to memorize piano music." Thesis, Kungl. Musikhögskolan, Institutionen för klassisk musik, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kmh:diva-3331.

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This study was carried out in order to discover new strategies to memorize piano music. There are six different types of memory involved in performing: auditory, kinesthetic, visual, analytical, nominal and emotional. There are two main ways of practicing: playing practice and non-playing practice. I tried to find out if the order in which we use these two kinds of practice affects the quality of the memorization. During one week I practiced three different pieces following three different methods: 1 Using only playing practice; 2 using first playing practice and then non-playing practice; 3 using first non-playing practice and then playing practice. The second method had a much better result than the other two. The whole process was registered with a video camera and a logbook.

The exam concert is archived for copyright reasons until 2023.

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Waseen, Symeon L. "Concerto for Piano and Orchestra: Homage to W. A Mozart." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2005. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1124224335.

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Rinker, John Thomas. "'...and one of time.': A Composition for Full Orchestra with Narration." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1999. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc2267/.

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‘...and one of time.' is a reinterpretation of a small musical moment from Philip Glass' opera, Einstein on the Beach, centered around the phrase "Berne, Switzerland 1905." This reinterpretation is realized through the use of several different compositional techniques including spectral composition, micropolyphony and dodecaphony, as well as the application of extra-musical models developed by Alan Lightman, John Gardner, Italo Calvino and Albert Einstein.

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Keefe, Robert Michael. "Mysterium Cosmographicum, for Orchestra, Narrator/Actor, and Computer Music on Tape." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1989. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc332398/.

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Mysterium Cosmographicum is a musical chronicle of an astronomy treatise by the German astronomer Johannes Kepler (1571-1630). Kepler's Mysterium cosmographicum (Tubingen, 1596), or "Secret of the Universe," was a means by which he justified the existence of the six planets discovered during his lifetime. Kepler, through flawless a priori reasoning, goes to great lengths to explain that the reason there are six and only six planets (Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn) is because God had placed one of the five regular solids (tetrahedron, cube, octa-, dodeca-, and icosahedron) around each orbiting body. Needless to say, the publication was not very successful, nor did it gain much comment from Kepler's peers, Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) and Tycho Brahe (1546-1601). But hidden within the Mysterium cosmographicum. almost like a new planet waiting to be discovered, is one of Kepler's three laws of planetary motion, a law that held true for planets discovered long after Kepler's life-time. Mysterium Cosmographicum is a monologue with music in three parts for orchestra, narrator/actor, and computer music on tape. All musical data structures ape generated via an interactive Pascal computer program that computes latitudinal and longitudinal coordinates For each of the nine planets as seen From a Fixed point on Earth For any given time Frame. These coordinates are then mapped onto selected musical parameters as determined by the composer. Whenever Kepler reads From his treatise or From a lecture or correspondence, the monologue is supported by orchestral planetary data generated From the exact place, date, and time oF the treatise, lecture, or correspondence. To the best oF my knowledge, Mysterium Cosmographicum is the First composition ever written that employs planetary data as a supporting chronology to action and monologue.

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Lington, Victoria DiMaggio. "The piano as an orchestra, the accompanist and the twentieth-century orchestral reduction." Thesis, view full-text document. Access restricted to the University of North Texas campus, 2002. http://www.library.unt.edu/theses/open/20022/lington%5Fvictoria%5Fdimaggio/index.htm.

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Thesis (D.M.A.)--University of North Texas, 2002.
Accompanied by 4 recitals, recorded Apr. 26, 1999, Apr. 17, 2000, Mar. 19, 2001, and Apr. 17, 2002. Includes bibliographical references (p. 83-86).

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Christian, Bryan W. Christian Bryan W. Christian Bryan W. Christian Bryan W. "Wanderings." Diss., [La Jolla, Calif.] : University of California, San Diego, 2010. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/fullcit?p1477876.

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Thesis (M. A.)--University of California, San Diego, 2010.
Title from first page of PDF file (viewed July 14, 2010). Available via ProQuest Digital Dissertations. Sound files consist of recordings of North and Yet somehow comes emptiness in single-channel and stereo. configurations.

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Leitão, Simone Azevedo. "Heitor Villa-Lobos's Mômoprecóce Fantasy for Piano and Orchestra (1919-1929): An Historical, Stylistic, and Interpretative Study." Scholarly Repository, 2009. http://scholarlyrepository.miami.edu/oa_dissertations/328.

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The life and works of the Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887-1959) have been well documented. However, a comprehensive study concerning any of his nine works for piano and orchestra has not been undertaken. Among this prolific output, the Mômoprecóce, fantasie pour piano et orchestra, stands as a faithful representation of the composer's skillful orchestration, descriptive piano writing through the observation of a childhood universe, and his multi-faceted approach to nationalism. The fantasy is a through-composed arrangement of a previous solo piano suite by Villa-Lobos entitled, Carnaval das crianças brasileiras (Brazilian Children's Carnival, 1919). This research aims to investigate the historic, stylistic, and interpretative aspects of Mômoprecóce, while discussing the composer's unique usage of the piano through his innovative compositional techniques and comparison of the fantasy with his original solo piano suite. Current literature in English, Portuguese and French is thoroughly examined, discussed, evaluated, and cited. In addition I provide a formal analysis, an interpretative guide, and a sociological perspective into Brazilian carnival, as specifically applied to the performance of Mômoprecóce.

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Strohschein, Aura. "A performer's guide to Jody Nagel's "Concerto in B for piano and orchestra."." Diss., University of Iowa, 2017. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/5649.

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Jody Nagel completed his first piano concerto in 2005. I will discuss technical challenges within the piece and practice techniques to overcome these challenges so that one can perform the work successfully. I cover fingering, pedaling, texture, character, and harmonic issues. I also give performance advice to make the orchestral reduction more pianistic while still honoring the orchestra’s influence within the work.

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Jolley, Jennifer. "Le monde du silence: A Reconsideration of the Symphonic Poem for the Twenty-First Century." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1342104000.

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Gregorio, Joseph. "Concerto for Piano and Orchestra and Sonata Form in Sergey Prokofiev's First Piano Concerto: An Analysis from the Perspective of Hepokoski and Darcy's Sonata Theory." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2018. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/540539.

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Music Composition;
D.M.A.;
This dissertation comprises two parts: an original composition, Concerto for Piano and Orchestra; and an essay that analyzes the form of Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No. 1 in D-flat Major, op. 10. Concerto for Piano and Orchestra is cast in three movements and scored in two versions: In “Version A,” members of the orchestra are at times called on to use their voices to sustain the phonemes [m], [ŋ], and [v] on pitch and to create an intense whisper on the vowel [æ]. “Version B” is an alternative realization that uses instruments only. The first movement, unable to produce a recapitulation and continually interrupted at decreasing intervals of time by increasingly intense outbursts from percussion, brass, and wind instruments, is an extreme deformation of a sonata-concerto form. It proceeds attacca to the second movement, which is built in a large ternary form. The third movement is a concerto adaptation of James Hepokoski and Warren Darcy’s “expanded Type 1” sonata form. The concerto’s total duration is approximately 30 minutes. The essay considers the form of Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No. 1 from the perspective of Hepokoski and Darcy’s Sonata Theory, as laid out in their seminal 2006 treatise. It finds that Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No. 1 is a highly individualized instance of Hepokoski and Darcy’s “Type 3” sonata form with introduction-coda frame. The essay’s analysis is preceded by a glimpse at Prokofiev’s experiences with sonata form during his youth, as well as brief reviews of the conceptual backdrop of concerto form as Prokofiev would have received it and of the basics of Sonata Theory.

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Boutwell, Brett N. ""Marvelous Accidents": The Concerto for Prepared Piano and Chamber Orchestra of John Cage." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1999. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc2260/.

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John Cages Concerto for Prepared Piano and Chamber Orchestra (1950-51) holds a unique position within the composers oeuvre as the first work based in part on chance-derived compositional procedures. Cage entered into such practice gradually, incrementally abandoning subjective taste and personal expression through the course of the work. Drawing from the philosophical framework provided by Cages "Lecture on Nothing" (1950) and "Lecture on Something" (c. 1951-52), this thesis explores the aesthetic foundations of the concerto and examines Cages compositional methodology throughout its three movements. Special attention is paid to the procedure underlying the first movement, whose analysis is based largely on the composers manuscript materials for the work.

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Kosmyna, David. "Dippermouth for the Centennial of the birth of Louis Armstrong /." Ohio : Ohio University, 2001. http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?ohiou997193176.

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Kaminsky, Eugene. "Schumann’s Op. 14: Original, Revised and Edited (“Concerto Without Orchestra” versus Piano Sonata No. 3)." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1141250647.

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Feezell, Mark Brandon. "The Light, for Two Narrators and Chamber Ensemble." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2003. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc4220/.

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The Light is a twenty-four minute composition for two narrators and chamber orchestra. The two narrators perform the roles of the Apostle John and Moses. After an overview of the piece and a brief history of pieces incorporating narrators, the essay focuses on my compositional process, describing how orchestration, drama, motive, and structure work together in the piece. The Light is organized as a series of five related scenes. In the first scene, God creates light. In the second scene, God places Adam and Eve into the Garden of Eden to tend it, allowing them to eat from any tree except the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. The serpent appears, Adam and Eve succumb to his evil influence, and God banishes them from the Garden of Eden. Many generations have passed when Scene Three begins. Moses relates a story from Israel's journey in the wilderness after leaving Egypt. The people had become frustrated with Moses and with God. When God sent serpents among them as punishment, they appealed to Moses to pray for them. God's answer was for Moses to make a bronze serpent and place it on a pole. Whoever looked at the serpent would live. In Scene Four, John relates his vision of final redemption. New Jerusalem descends from heaven, with the River of Life and the Tree of Life ready to bring healing to the nations. Sadly, some people are not welcomed into the city, and the drama pauses to give respectful consideration to their fate. Finally, the fifth scene celebrates the eternal victory over sin, death, and the serpent of Eden. As I composed The Light, I had in mind the dramatic profile, the general motivic progression and the fundamental structural progression. However, most of the intricate interrelationships among orchestration, drama, motive, and structure were the result of informed intuition. Throughout the piece, each of these four elements interacts with the others, sometimes influencing and sometimes responding to them. My hope is that these subtle tensions propel the composition forward toward its ultimate resolution.

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Thompson, Joshua Ketring. "Libby Larsen's Concerto for Trumpet and Orchestra: an overview and reduction of the orchestral score for trumpet and piano." Diss., University of Iowa, 2011. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/1093.

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Libby Larsen's Concerto for Trumpet and Orchestra was commissioned by Daniel Culver and the Quad City Youth Orchestra, in celebration of its 30th anniversary. It was written in 1987 and premiered on May 8, 1988. Daniel Culver conducted the Quad City Youth Orchestra and David Greenhoe was the trumpet soloist. Despite Libby Larsen's ongoing success as a composer, the premiere performance is the only time the concerto has been performed and it has since remained virtually-unknown to the public. This project serves as a way in which to reintroduce Libby Larsen's Trumpet Concerto to the trumpet, orchestral and academic communities by way of providing an historical account of the commission project; showing insight into the composer's inspiration for the work; and providing a reduction of the orchestral score for trumpet and piano.

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Delport, Wilhelm H. "Philip Glass's Tirol Concerto for piano and orchestra (2000): a compositional analysis of the Second Movement." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/17430.

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Philip Glass is best known for his role in the establishment of the 1960s minimalist movement, which was characterised by an extensive reduction of musical means. Since the mid-1970s, the composer has adopted a richer, more complex musical language, and distanced himself from the minimalist label. Academic scholarship on the composer's more recent compositions is severely limited, with the result that he is often still viewed as a minimalist. This dissertation's focus is on a more recent work by Glass, the Tirol Concerto for Piano and Orchestra (2000), and thus seeks to contribute to our knowledge of the composer's more recent stylistic development and the extent to which it is minimalist. The research approach entails compositional analyses of the concerto's second movement from both literary and theoretical perspectives. The movement's conception, its background and factors that had an influence on its compositional content are explored through literature studies. This is followed by theoretical investigations of its musical characteristics through the application of functional harmonic analysis and neo-Riemannian theory. Findings from the research provide evidence that the composition's title stems from the 'Tyrolean character' that was requested by its commissioners. However, relations between the movement and the film The Truman show (1998) challenge the composer's affirmations of a Tyrolean folk-song basis. Musically, the movement consists of a simple, repetitive structural and harmonic framework that undergoes superficial variations through melodic, textural and rhythmic changes. Transformational coherence within a functional structure is an essential component of the movement's harmonic content. This dissertation concludes that the piece contains musical characteristics consistent with all of Glass's stylistic periods, including minimalism, as well as new compositional devices that have not been identified previously. It recommends further study of the composer's more recent output , especially through transformational perspectives, and a reconsideration of the ontology and appropriateness of stylistic labels such as minimalism.

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Petrella, Diane Helfers. "The Tone Clock: Peter Schat's System and an Application to His Etudes for Piano and Orchestra, Opus 39." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2002. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc5517/.

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The scope of this study includes relevant background information on Peter Schat and his compositions and process, an explanation of the Tone Clock system and a detailed analysis of one of his compositions, the Etudes for Piano and Orchestra, Opus 39. The intent is to demonstrate how the Tone Clock naturally evolved from the practices of the Second Viennese School and how it relates to both new and existing modern music. The study is divided into five chapters. Chapter 1 presents a brief introduction to Peter Schat and the Tone Clock. Chapter 2 provides a more detailed biography of Peter Schat and traces the development and evolution of his compositional techniques, ultimately culminating in the Tone Clock. Chapter 3 provides a basic explanation of the Tone Clock itself, with demonstrations of various components through musical examples and illustrations. Chapter 4 is a detailed analysis of the Etudes for Piano and Orchestra, Opus. 39. Chapter 5 summarizes the results of the study, with special attention to the impact of the Tone Clock on performance from the perspective of the performer. The analysis of the Etudes was completed by using the Tone Clock as an analytical tool, aided by the composer's original manuscript and sketches for the work. The goal of the study is to establish the value of the Tone Clock as both a compositional and analytical tool.

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Grant, John Ward. "Folio of compositions and critical commentary /." [St. Lucia, Qld.], 2006. http://www.library.uq.edu.au/pdfserve.php?image=thesisabs/absthe19321.pdf.

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Bedont, Robert James. "The Creation of a Performance Edition and Piano Reduction of Justus Johann Friedrich Dotzauer's VIII Variations for Bassoon and Orchestra, Op. 40." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/311590.

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A review of the published music for solo bassoon suggests that there is relatively little solo literature for the instrument that dates from the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. This document focuses on the creation of a modern performance edition and piano reduction of a recently uncovered work for solo bassoon and orchestra by Johann Dotzauer, VIII Variations for Bassoon and Orchestra, Op. 40 (originally published by Freiderich Hoffmeister Musikverlag in 1817).A comparison of Dotzauer's work with a comparable published work by Anton Reicha, reveals that the two works are similar in their treatment of phrase structure, form, harmonic and melodic language, range, and solo passagework. This comparison has shown that Dotzauer's piece is representative of the type of writing for solo bassoon that skilled composers employed in the early nineteenth century. Through the editing process, errors and inconsistencies found in the newly-uncovered Hoffmeister Edition of VIII Variations such as corrections to pitches and notation, articulation markings, dynamic markings, and other changes have been corrected in a manner that both reflects the integrity of the Hoffmeister Edition and adds clarification for those who will perform the work. VIII Variations for Bassoon and Orchestra, Op. 40 by Johann Dotzauer, is a well-crafted composition for solo bassoon that will help fill a void in the literature for bassoon now that it is more accessible through the creation of a new performance edition and piano arrangement.

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Zhu, Yanda. "Part I. Christmas Impressions for String Orchestra. Part II. An Analysis of George Gershwin's Piano Solo Version of Rhapsody In Blue." Youngstown State University / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ysu1390514184.

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Ng, Lok. "Modern Chinese Piano Composition and Its Role in Western Classical Music: A Study of Huang An-lun's Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, Op. 57." Thesis, connect to online resource, 2006. http://www.unt.edu/etd/all/Dec2006/Open/ng_lok/index.htm.

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Thesis (D.M.A.)--University of North Texas, 2006.
System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Accompanied by 4 recitals, recorded Apr. 21, 2003, Oct. 11, 2004, Oct. 24, 2005, and July 12, 2006. Includes bibliographical references (p. 33-35).

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Polgár, Éva 1983. "Two Piano Editions of the Third and Fifth Movements of Bartók's Concerto for Orchestra: Their Textual Fidelity and Technical Accessibility." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2016. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc862794/.

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In the case of Concerto for Orchestra, Béla Bartók transcribed one of his most emblematic orchestral compositions to his own solo instrument, the piano. This transcription's primary function was to suffice for ballet rehearsal accompaniment for the choreography to be introduced alongside a performance of the orchestral work. György Sándor, Bartók's pupil and pianist, prepared the original manuscript for publication. Logan Skelton, pianist-composer, used this published edition as a point of departure for his own piano arrangement of the same work. György Sándor took an editorial approach to the score and followed the manuscript as literally as possible. On the other hand, Logan Skelton treated the same musical material daringly, striving for technical simplicity and a richer orchestral sound. The purpose of this study is to examine and identify the contrasting treatments pertaining to playability, text, and texture in the Bartók-Sándor edition and Skelton arrangement of the two movements, Elegia and Finale, of the Concerto for Orchestra piano arrangement.György Sándor took an editorial approach to the score and followed the manuscript as literally as possible. On the other hand, Logan Skelton treated the same musical material daringly, striving for technical simplicity and a richer orchestral sound. The purpose of this study is to examine and identify the contrasting treatments pertaining to playability, text, and texture in the Bartók-Sándor edition and Skelton arrangement of the two movements, Elegia and Finale, of the Concerto for Orchestra piano arrangement.

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Crowley, Timothy R. (Timothy Robert). "In Nomine Domini." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1995. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc279249/.

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In Nomine Domini is an eighteen-minute composition for two chamber orchestras with two soloists using real-time interactive signal processing techniques. The first chamber orchestra is scored for flute (piccolo), English horn, trumpet in C, trombone, two percussionists (cowbells, wood blocks, tenor drum, suspended cymbal, gongs, tam-tam, temple blocks, tambourine, snare drum, timbales, and bass drum), horn in F (soloist), viola, and string bass. The second chamber orchestra is scored for oboe, clarinet in Bb (bass clarinet in Bb), bassoon, tuba, two percussionists (crotales, two marimbas, vibraphone, chimes, and tom-toms), piano (soloist), violin, and cello. Real-time interactive signal processing techniques are achieved through the use of a stereo multiple-effects signal processor and a personal computer running MIDI interactive software. The work is based upon the four-hundred and seventy-five year old in nomine composition tradition begun by John Taverner in the Benedictus of his Mass Gloria tibi Trinitas (1520) and continued in over one-hundred and fifty Renaissance settings. In Nomine Domini consists of three movements: "Taverner* derived from the Benedictus of the Mass Gloria tibi Trinitas (1520), "Byrd" derived from the Benedictus of William Byrd's Five-voice Mass (1592), and "Tye" derived from Christopher lye's In Nomine XIII "Trust" (1578). In Nomine Domini applies the English art of change ringing and three computer-assisted composition techniques: stochastic processes, fractal applications, and conditional probabilities.

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Pei, Yushu. "An Analysis of the Attempted Amalgamation of Western and Chinese Musical Elements in Huang Anlun's Piano Concerto in G Minor, Opus 25b, a Lecture Recital, Together with Three Recitals of Selected Works by Bach, Beethoven, Chopin, Liszt, Mozart, Schubert, and Schumann." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1997. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc935793/.

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While China possesses one of the world's richest musical heritages, it remained unaffected by Western music until early in this century. Subsequently, there was a movement of nationalism in music approximately three decades after the introduction of Western music. This movement, aimed at utilizing Western compositional techniques to create musical works that still would be uniquely Chinese, continues even today. Huang's piano concerto was written in 1982, just a few years after the Cultural Revolution. At the time, most Chinese composers were "handicapped" by their lack of knowledge of Western contemporary music and by their limited study of both Western and Chinese traditional forms. Huang Anlun, a composer-in-residence at the Central Opera House in Beijing, traveled to North America to study at the University of Toronto and Yale University. Subsequently his music is widely performed and well received around the world. After presenting background information on Western music in China and an introduction to basic Chinese music theory, this study has analyzed Huang's piano concerto, with a particular focus on identifying, comparing, and analyzing elements of Western and Chinese music. After a survey of the formal structure of the concerto, this study has discussed Chinese modality and Western harmony--the two most important factors in the conception of Huang's concerto. A comparative study between Chinese folk songs and the thematic materials in Huang's concerto is followed by a discussion on "imitations" of Chinese instruments. The study has also examined Western compositional techniques incorporated into this concerto, such as thematic transformation, contrapuntal writing, cyclic procedure, as well as atonal and serial techniques. Through a detailed analysis, this study attempts to demonstrate how Huang has blended Western and Chinese musical syntaxes to create an artistic work that is also uniquely Chinese.

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Seligson, Robert Jan. "The Rapsodie for Orchestra and Saxophone by Claude Debussy: a Comparison of Two Performance Editions." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1988. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc330587/.

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This paper discusses the historical background of the Rapsodie for Orchestra and Saxophone by Claude Debussy and includes a comparison of two piano performance editions. Chapter I includes information on Elise Hall, her work with the Boston Orchestra Club and the circumstances of her commission of Claude Debussy which yielded the Rapsodie. Chapter II discusses the Editions Durand piano reduction and the reasons for its neglect by saxophone performers. This chapter includes a study of the techniques used by Eugene Rousseau to create his arrangement of the Rapsodie for saxophone and piano. The study concludes that the arrangement by Rousseau is more attractive to saxophonists and will be performed more frequently than the Durand reduction.

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Lee, Sungyo. "Composer/Performer Collaboration as Seen in the Solo Piano Part of Percy Grainger's Edition of the Edvard Grieg Piano Concerto in A Minor Opus 16." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2017. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc984142/.

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The purpose of this document is threefold. First, it demonstrates what Grieg contributes to the musical text compared with the original Peters edition, particularly, those additions that refer to expression, interpretation, and style. Second, this document focuses on presenting Grainger's changes that were approved by Grieg. Third, the document evaluates Grainger's own suggestions for pedaling, hand redistribution and fingering, addition of notes, tempo markings, and other performance guidelines.

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Calite, Iveta. "Piano Concerto in G by Maurice Ravel : The performance preparation process in the context of various influences on the performer." Thesis, Kungl. Musikhögskolan, Institutionen för klassisk musik, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kmh:diva-3017.

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In this study, I do a research on my own ways and the influences that helped me to prepare Ravel’s Piano Concerto in G interpretation and performance. Is it an intuition, inspiration from a recording or something I have learned in a master- class. I went through Ravels’ piano music to see the development of the interpretation that blossomed into the Concerto. I looked at the preparation process that I did on my own, then together with the second pianist and at the end with the conductor. I have described my feelings after the performance as well as looked into different recordings of famous artists. The various influences are hard to measure since the artistic process is always under a constant change and development but looking closer to the sources of inspiration made me realize that everything I have experienced in connection to Ravel’s music has influenced my understanding and interpretation of the Concerto, most of all the master-classes with J.Hlinka, P.Roberts and M.Sturfält.

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McIntyre, Scott. "Folio of compositions 2008-2009." Connect to thesis, 2009. http://repository.unimelb.edu.au/10187/7046.

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Anderson, Jonathan Douglas. "The Creative Process in Cross-Influential Composition." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2010. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc28386/.

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This dissertation describes a compositional model rooted in cross-influential methodology between complementary musical compositions that share generative source material. In their simultaneous construction, two composition pairs presented challenges that influenced and mediated the other's development with respect to timbre, transposition, pitch material, effects processing, and form. A working prototype first provides a model that is later developed. The first work Thema is for piano alone, and the companion piece Am3ht is for piano and live computer processing via the graphical programming environment Max/MSP. Compositional processes used in the prototype solidify the cross-influential model, demanding flexibility and a dialectic approach. Ideas set forth in the prototype are then explored through a second pair of compositions rooted in cross-influential methodology. The first work Lusmore is scored for solo contrabass and Max/MSP. The second composition Knockgrafton is scored for string orchestra. The flexibility of the cross-influential model is revealed more fully through a discussion of each work's musical development. The utility of the cross-influential compositional model is discussed, particularly within higher academia.

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Lucas, Sarah Marie. "Fritz Reiner and the legacy of Béla Bartók’s orchestral music in the United States." Diss., University of Iowa, 2018. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/6608.

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During Fritz Reiner’s forty-year conducting career in the United States, he championed Béla Bartók’s orchestral music, programming Bartók’s orchestral works on over sixty concerts with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and with other major American orchestras. These included performances in which the composer himself appeared as a soloist. Moreover, Reiner continued to conduct Bartók’s music following the composer’s death, and his efforts to promote Bartók’s works contributed to their significance to the American orchestral repertoire. The thesis explores connections between performance markings in Reiner’s personal copies of Bartók scores and the recordings he made of them, the ways in which Reiner’s live performances and recordings of Bartók’s music affected the American reception of Bartók’s works, and how Reiner’s collaboration with Bartók related to the revision of Bartók’s orchestral works in their published forms through case studies of Bartók’s Piano Concerto no. 1, Concerto for Orchestra, and The Miraculous Mandarin. The first case study considers Bartók’s performances of his Piano Concerto no. 1 with Reiner during his first U.S. concert tour of 1927-1928. Following an overview of Bartók’s activities in America during that time, three first-edition scores of Piano Concerto no. 1 are analyzed in order to show the significance of handwritten additions, corrections, and conducting markings made by Fritz Reiner, a Universal Edition staff member, and Serge Koussevitzky in preparation for performances with Bartók in 1928. It not only provides a window into early performances of the work with the composer at the piano in the absence of a recording, but also offers insight into Bartók’s preferences for performance of the work, some of which are reflected in the first or second editions of the work, and some of which are only preserved in Reiner’s scores. The second case study examines a new source for Bartók’s Concerto for Orchestra held at Northwestern University that bears extensive corrections by Bartók, as well as Reiner’s conducting markings. It discusses the circumstances surrounding Reiner’s acquisition of the score and its role in Reiner’s performances and recordings of Concerto for Orchestra with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. The third and final case study details Reiner’s preparation and performance of two concert versions (“Scenes” and “Suite”) of Bartók’s pantomime The Miraculous Mandarin using Reiner’s annotations to four versions of the score held at Northwestern, Bartók’s correspondence with his publisher, and program notes from Reiner’s 1927 world premiere of the “Scenes” to provide a better understanding of Reiner’s preparation and performances of both the “Scenes” and “Suite.” It further analyzes press coverage of his performances of the “Suite” to demonstrate that the press reaction to objectionable elements of the plot mellowed over time, and that critics consistently praised Reiner’s expert preparation and interpretation of the work. The thesis considers the publication and performance history of Bartók’s Piano Concerto no. 1, Concerto for Orchestra, and the concert versions of The Miraculous Mandarin in terms of Reiner’s collaboration with Bartók, his role in the promotion of Bartók’s music in the U.S., and his reputation as an authoritative interpreter of it.

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Kraevska, Sofia. "Terra Mirabilis: A Composition for Symphony Orchestra in Three Movements." Scholarly Repository, 2009. http://scholarlyrepository.miami.edu/oa_dissertations/199.

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Terra Mirabilis is a three-movement musical composition for symphony orchestra with piano solo inspired by natural landscapes photographed by the composer. The three movement composition and its corresponding landscapes portray three times of a day: early morning (I. The Mists), evening (II. Oceanus), and late night (III. Nocturne). Each chapter is devoted to the discussion of one movement, wherein overall concept and form are addressed, followed by detailed analyses of harmonic structure, motivic and thematic development, orchestration, and representational elements. As a complement to the score and the text, a CD-R audio recording of orchestral mock-ups accompanies this dissertation.

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Jacoby, Derek. "The Music of Lee Hyla| An Analysis of the First Movement of Concerto for Piano and Chamber Orchestra no. 2 and a Survey of Stylistic Elements in His Music, and an original composition, "Palindromic One| Number 31", for seven players." Thesis, Brandeis University, 2013. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3562303.

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The first part of this dissertation is a detailed analysis of the first movement of Lee Hyla’s Concerto for Piano and Chamber Orchestra no. 2 (1991). The second part documents stylistic elements over the course of his compositional output.

The Concerto will serve as the focal point of analysis for two reasons. First, Hyla uses a more surface-level and audible musical narrative, a type of narrative he began employing in his music between 1981 and 1983. The Concerto, coming eight to ten years later, is sufficiently removed from the initial works, allowing this technique time to further develop. By 1991, other important facets of his approach emerged, elements employed in many compositions that followed, including some of his most recent.

The second reason for the selection of the Concerto pertains to the exact type of narrative employed. In Hyla’s compositions, the musical narrative ranges from almost completely flowing, in which most sections seamlessly transition to the next, to almost completely juxtaposed, in which blocks of contrasting music are linked with little or no transition. In the middle, there is a large gray area representing a merger of the two, partially flowing and partially juxtaposed. This is where the Concerto is found.

The second part of this analysis will examine several stylistic elements of Hyla’s larger style. Through numerous examples, drawn from well over a dozen pieces composed from 1978 to present, further light will be shed on some of the consistent compositional techniques found in Hyla’s music.

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陳錦標 and Kam Biu Joshua Chan. "Portfolio of original compositions." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1994. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31234094.

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Porter, Amanda H. "Remnants." Connect to this title online, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=bgsu1166400966.

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Thesis (M.M.)--Bowling Green State University, 2007.
Document formatted into pages; contains 1 score (36 p.) For soprano and chamber orchestra (flute, bassoon, viola, piano, harp and percussion) Includes bibliographical references.

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Choi, Yun Jung. "The use of the Polish folk music elements and the fantasy elements in the Polish fantasy on original themes in G-sharp minor for piano and orchestra, opus 19 by Ignacy Jan Paderewski." Thesis, Lecture recital, recorded Mar. 6, 2006, in digital collections. Access restricted to the University of North Texas campus connect to online resource, 2007. http://digital.library.unt.edu/permalink/meta-dc-3690.

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Amadio, Ligia. "Edição crítica do Concerto para piano e orquestra, op.10, de Henrique Oswald /." São Paulo, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/192780.

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Orientador: Nahim Marun Filho
Resumo: O objetivo nuclear de nosso trabalho foi realizar a edição crítica do Concerto para piano e orquestra, op.10, de autoria de Henrique Oswald. A tese consistiu na pesquisa e coleta (recencio), no exame e na classificação rigorosa dos manuscritos que contêm a obra em foco; cotejo (colatio) dos manuscritos, a fim de identificar os seus lugares-críticos e proceder à organização genealógica (estemática) dos testemunhos; finalmente, com base em todo o trabalho anteriormente realizado, estabelecer o texto crítico da obra em questão (emendatio). O trabalho resultou na edição crítica do Concerto para piano e orquestra, op.10, de Henrique Oswald, nunca antes, aliás, editado criticamente. O capítulo 1 versa, compendiosamente, sobre os princípios fundamentais que articulam e orientam o trabalho ecdótico, isto é, o trabalho cujo objetivo é o estabelecimento crítico do texto de uma obra (literária, musical, etc); o capítulo 2 tece considerações históricas sobre o compositor e, mais especificamente, a respeito da obra da qual realizamos a edição crítica; o capítulo 3 descreve as fontes existentes ou conhecidas, sua classificação e como foram utilizadas; o capítulo 4 apresenta a introdução crítica e o método editorial usado; o capítulo 5 apresenta o aparato crítico resultante e o capítulo 6 expõe as notas textuais. A edição crítica foi anexada ao final da tese.
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Delespaul, Caroline. "Le piano-orchestral en France entre 1835 et 1849 : une écoute de l'oeuvre pianistique." Thesis, Lyon, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017LYSE2087.

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En France, l’idée d’un piano-orchestral voit le jour durant la première moitié du XIXe siècle. Dès les premières décennies, de nombreux commentateurs reconnaissent dans l’instrument à clavier la capacité de restituer en son sein l’ensemble symphonique. Les écrits instaurent une relation étroite entre le piano et l’orchestre. Dans l’inconscient collectif, le piano ne tarde pas à devenir un « petit-orchestre complet » comme tend à le prouver le discours qui utilise ce qualificatif en tant que référence commune. Dans l’ombre de cette pensée s’élabore l’idée de la pénétration d’une « figure orchestrale » dans l’œuvre pianistique et naît alors l’idée d’un piano-orchestral. L’enjeu principal de cette thèse sera de tenter de définir le piano-orchestral français à travers un travail lié à la réception. Nous faisons en effet l’hypothèse que certaines œuvres pour piano ou certains éléments de celles-ci invitent l’auditeur à effectuer un transfert d’idées entre le piano et l’orchestre ou à reconnaître l’ensemble symphonique au clavier. Le piano-orchestral serait alors une écoute de l’œuvre pianistique. En tant que phénomène lié à laréception de l’œuvre, le piano-orchestral appartient au domaine de la verbalisation de la musique et nous avons donc choisi de l’étudier à travers le prisme du discours musical. Notre ambition étant de définir le piano-orchestral, nous avons décidéd’interroger son élaboration et ses fondements en nous concentrant sur ses prémices. Notre recherche s’étendra donc de 1835 à 1849 ; une période correspondant à la reconnaissance de l’idée jusqu’au début de sa remise en question
In France, the idea of an orchestral piano was born during the first half of the 19th century. Since the early decades, many commentators recognized in the keyboard instrument the ability to reproduce the orchestra by itself and the writingsestablished a close relationship between the piano and the orchestra. In the collective unconscious, the piano soon became a "complete small orchestra" as the use of this qualifier as a common reference shows. In the shadow of this thought, the idea of including an “orchestral figure“ into the pianistic work was developed and thus the idea of an orchestral piano. The main challenge of this thesis will be to attempt to define the French orchestral piano through the study of its reception. Indeed, we hypothesise that some works for piano or some parts of them invite the listener to make a transfer of ideas between the piano and the orchestra or to recognize the orchestra on the keyboard. The orchestral piano would then be a listening to the pianistic work. As a phenomenon related to the reception of the work, the orchestral piano belongs to the domain of the verbalization of music and we therefore chose to study it through the prism of musical speech. Our ambition being to define the orchestral piano, we decided to question its elaboration and its foundations by focusing on its infancy. Our research will consequently extend from 1835 to 1849, a period corresponding to the recognition of the idea until the beginning of it being brought into question

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Webb, Timothy. "Part I The Samson Suite for Chamber Orchestra. Part II The Provocative Prokofiev: Analysis of Moderato Movement Sonata for Flute and Piano in D Major, Opus 94." Youngstown State University / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ysu1280337287.

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Pinto, Antonio Carlos Neves. "Uma analise musical do Batuque da suite orquestral Reisado do Pastoreio de Oscar Lorenzo Fernandez." [s.n.], 2004. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/284015.

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Orientador: Ricardo Goldemberg
Anexos: 2 CD-ROM
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Resumo: Este projeto tem por principal objetivo apresentar uma possibilidade de execução para a música sinfônica de influências afro-brasileiras, muito pouco explorada pelos nossos intérpretes. Para tanto foi escolhida, especificamente o "Batuque" da Suíte "Reisado do Pastoreio" do compositor Oscar Lorenzo Fernândez, uma das obras brasileiras de maior riqueza musical e reconhecimento no cenário internacional. Esta pesquisa tem como justificativa a contribuição para o enriquecimento da bibliografia técnica brasileira em práticas interpretativas e também da discografia, através de dois Cds que acompanham esta dissertação, uma vez que faltam materiais de suporte disponíveis para o estudo deste gênero musical. A metodologia constou de: leitura de bibliografia especifica para um estudo das origens do termo batuque, as características das práticas musicais e de danças dos negros afro-brasileiros desde o período colonial, suas transformações até as primeiras décadas do século XX, em seguida um paralelo com a trajetória do compositor e sua produção musical, uma análise formal, uma análise interpretativa e comparativa com mais duas execuções distintas desta peça. Entre os resultados obtidos, contam-se a aplicação de conhecimentos teóricos na prática interpretativa; a contribuição para maior entendimento deste repertorio especifico assim como abertura para uma nova perspectiva à pesquisa musical; além de fornecer material útil para o ensino de música de câmara e de prática orquestral
Abstract: This research had the main object to present a possibility of performing the Brazilian symphonic music formed by afro-Brazilian influences, very little explorered by our performers. For that, was chosen particularly the "Batuque" from Suite "Reisado do Pastoreio" composed by Oscar Lorenzo Fernandez, one of the Brazilian woks full of musical richness and recognition at the international environment. This research had as justification, the contribution for the enrichment of the Brazilian technical bibliography in performing practices and discography through two CDs which join the dissertation, once that there is a lack of support material for the study of this kind of music. The methodology, at first, has consisted of the reading of particularly bibliography about the genesis of the term batuque and the characteristics of the musical practices and the dances of the afro-Brazilian Negroes since the colonial period until their changes during the first decades of the twentieth century. After that a parallel was described between the composer's path and his musical production. At last one formal analysis was made of Lorenzo Fernandez's batuque and one performing and comparative analysis was made between our performance and two different others of this piece. The results of this research showed that the theoretical knowledges were applicable at the performance practice and the contribution for the greatest comprehension of music with afro-Brazilian influences; opening a new perspective for musical research besides making available useful material for teaching chamber music and orchestral music
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Hines, John. "Folio of compositions /." Title page and contents only, 1993. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09MUM/09mumh662.pdf.

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Jones, David Kenneth. "The music of Jeffrey Lewis." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2011. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/the-music-of-jeffrey-lewis(b712684d-e7c0-4194-9932-e484dd60a2e0).html.

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The present thesis investigates the music and career of Jeffrey Lewis (born 1942). The thesis is broadly divided into three sections. First is an account of the composer’s life, told mainly through an overview of his works, but also through a sketch of his early years in South Wales, his studies in Cardiff, Darmstadt, Kraków and Paris, his academic career in Leeds and Bangor, and his subsequent early retirement from academia. There follows a more detailed study of six works from the period 1978 – 1985, during which certain features of Lewis’s musical language came to the fore, perhaps most notably a very individual and instantly recognisable use of modal language. After an Epilogue, the thesis concludes with an Appendix in the form of a Catalogue in which all Lewis’s known compositions are listed, together with details of performances, broadcasts and recordings. Lewis’s music often plays with our temporal expectations; the close interrelationship between texture, structure, harmony and melody, and its effect upon our perception of the passage of time, are explored in the main analyses. These are conducted partly by means of comparison with other works by Lewis or his contemporaries. Memoria is examined in relation to a similarly tranquil score, Naaotwá Lalá, by Giles Swayne. The following chapter discusses the extra-musical inspiration for Epitaph for Abelard and Heloise, whose relationship to Tableau is then explored in the next. The difficulties of creating a large-scale structure that unifies the work’s various harmonic elements are also investigated. The analysis of Carmen Paschale considers it in relation to Lewis’s other choral music, whilst the final analytical chapter compares and contrasts two three-movement works, the Piano Trio and the Fantasy for solo piano. Lewis’s melodic writing in the Piano Trio is discussed in relation to that of James MacMillan, and the origins of the first movement of Fantasy in Oliver Knussen’s Sonya’s Lullaby are explored. In the Epilogue, the possible reasons for Lewis’s current neglect are explored, various influences on Lewis’s musical thinking are laid out, and his achievements are assessed.

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Goh, Yen-Lin. "Reimagining the Story of Lu You and Tang Wan: Ge Gan-ru's Wrong, Wrong, Wrong! and Hard, Hard, Hard!" Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1349118390.

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"Concerto for Piano and Chamber Orchestra." Doctoral diss., 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.20920.

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abstract: Concerto for Piano and Chamber Orchestra was conceived in February of 2013, and conceptually it is my attempt to fuse personal expressions of jazz and classical music into one fully realized statement. It is a three movement work (fast, slow, fast) for 2 fl., 2 ob., 2 cl., bsn., 2 hrn., 2 tpt., tbn., pno., perc., str. (6,4,2,2,1). The work is approximately 27 minutes in duration. The first movement of the Concerto is written in a fluid sonata form. A fugato begins where the second theme would normally appear, and the second theme does not fully appear until near the end of the solo piano section. The result is that the second theme when finally revealed is so reminiscent of the history of jazz and classical synthesis that it does not sound completely new, and in fact is a return of something that was heard before, but only hinted at in this piece. The second movement is a kind of deconstructive set of variations, with a specific theme and harmonic pattern implied throughout the movement. However, the full theme is not disclosed until the final variation. The variations are interrupted by moments of pure rhythmic music, containing harmony made up of major chords with an added fourth, defying resolution, and dissolving each time back into a new variation. The third movement is in rondo form, using rhythmic and harmonic influences from jazz. The percussion plays a substantial role in this movement, acting as a counterpoint to the piano part throughout. This movement and the piece concludes with an extended coda, inspired indirectly by the simple complexities of an improvisational piano solo, building in complexity as the concerto draws to a close.
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"Rapsodia Camaleónica: A Concerto for Piano, Trumpet and Orchestra." Doctoral diss., 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.14797.

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abstract: This DMA project (in piano performance) consists of a concerto composed for trumpet and piano duo with orchestra and an analytical document that accompanies it. The text portion of this paper discusses the different compositional aspects of Rapsodia Camaleónica, including instrumentation, form, influences and the performers' perspective. The work is scored for a medium-sized orchestra: 2 flutes (flute 2 double piccolo), 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, horn, trombone, bass trombone, 4 percussionists (timpani, snare drum, crash cymbals, suspended cymbal, castanets, güiro or carrasca, shekere, whip, xylophone, triangle, pandeiro, tam-tam, wood blocks, 2 congas, glockenspiel, 3 tom-toms, bass drum) and strings. It is written in one multi-sectional movement with a duration of approximately twenty-three minutes. The full score is attached as an appendix. The influences in Rapsodia Camaleónica range from the western classical tradition to world music to urban dance music, all of which fuse together in a work that blends this eclectic mix into a unified whole. This composition is intended as an addition to the piano concerto repertoire from Latin America, which includes compositions by Carlos Chávez, Manuel María Ponce (both Mexican), Alberto Ginastera (Argentinian), Camargo Guarnieri and Heitor Villa-Lobos (both Brazilian). It is the composer's desire to add a Colombian piece of universal appeal to this list.
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