Selected Violin Concertos: In Search of a Missing Link

Dovgalyuk, Yevgeniy

Selected Violin Concertos: In Search of a Missing Link

dc.contributor.advisor	Stern, James	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Dovgalyuk, Yevgeniy	en_US
dc.contributor.department	Music	en_US
dc.contributor.publisher	Digital Repository at the University of Maryland	en_US
dc.contributor.publisher	University of Maryland (College Park, Md.)	en_US
dc.date.accessioned	2016-06-22T06:04:30Z
dc.date.available	2016-06-22T06:04:30Z
dc.date.issued	2016	en_US
dc.description.abstract	My dissertation presented seven violin concertos in three recital programs. Three of these concertos are acknowledged masterpieces performed in established concert venues throughout the world. They are the concertos of Mozart, Beethoven and Tchaikovsky. The other four are less standard and are composed by Viotti, Kreutzer, Rode and Spohr. These less standard concertos were popular during their time yet they seem not to have stood the test of time. A curriculum devoted exclusively to the standard concertos creates problems for the young violinist. The Mozart violin concertos are often the first standard concertos that the young violin student encounters. They are considered to be the least technically demanding of the standard concertos. The next most advanced standard concertos that the student will usually encounter are Bruch’s G minor concerto, Wieniawski’s D minor concerto and Barber’s concerto. The trouble is that the work on Mozart concertos does not adequately prepare a student for the next most advanced standard concerto. There is a discontinuous leap in the progression of technical difficulty between the Mozart concertos and the next most advanced concertos. Likewise the standard concerto repertoire provides no smooth historical or stylistic progression between the Mozart concertos and the next most advanced concertos. If the young violinist is limited to the standard repertoire then she has no smooth progression either technical, historical or stylistic. I seek to demonstrate that, by adding concertos of Spohr, Viotti, Kreutzer, and Rode to the standard violin curriculum, one could remedy this problem. The first and third recitals were performed in the Gildenhorn Recital Hall and the second recital in the School of Music’s Smith Lecture Hall, both at the University of Maryland. All three recitals can be found in the Digital Repository at the University of Maryland (DRUM).	en_US
dc.identifier	https://doi.org/10.13016/M2FV22
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/1903/18319
dc.language.iso	en	en_US
dc.rights	NOTICE: Recordings accompanying this record are available only to University of Maryland College Park faculty, staff, and students and cannot be reproduced, copied, distributed or performed publicly by any means without prior permission of the copyright holder.
dc.subject.pqcontrolled	Music	en_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolled	Concertos	en_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolled	Violin	en_US
dc.title	Selected Violin Concertos: In Search of a Missing Link	en_US
dc.type	Dissertation	en_US