Music: Recent submissions
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THE ART OF MUSIC IN GB-Lbl Add. MS 4911: A CASE FOR ROBERT CARVOR AS THE ANONYMOUS SCOT
(2020)GB-Lbl Add. MS 4911, the sole source of an anonymous music treatise, The Art of Music, is among the few manuscripts to have survived the Scottish Reformation. In answer to the puzzle of its authorship, masters of song ... -
Words on Music, Perhaps: The Writings of Arthur Berger
(2020)When Arthur Berger (1912–2003) is mentioned in the history books, it is often as a mid-20th century American composer, or a practitioner and teacher of music theory who, during his tenure at Brandeis University, had trained ... -
AN ANALYSIS OF COMMERCIAL SINGLE REED MICROMETERS IN THE U.S. AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF A NEW MANUAL SINGLE REED MICROMETER
(2020)Clarinetists are unendingly frustrated by a lack of consistency in mass produced reeds and the time and money spent searching for a performance-worthy reed. Most clarinetists buy commercial reeds from large companies. In ... -
See It To Be It: Art Songs by American Women Composers
(2020)This dissertation is a short survey of art songs by American women composers from the latter part of the nineteenth century to the present. Interest in women composers is not new, yet equality has not been achieved. Concerts ... -
TEXTBOOK COMPOSERS: A PERFORMANCE STUDY OF AMERICAN MODERNISM
(2019)The technical difficulties we face and the interpretive decisions we make when playing 20th century music are essentially the same as with music from earlier periods. When playing more recent works, we benefit from first-hand ...