This dissertation focuses primarily on the analysis of acoustical models of bell sounds and the modelling of virtual bell shapes and their spectra using the Finite Element Method (FEM) technique. The first chapter provides ...

The confluence of feminist scholar Karen Barad’s critical theories (agential realism, posthumanist performativity, posthumanism, new materialism) and Greek-French composer Georges Aperghis’ solo harp work Fidélité: pour ...

This document aims to analyze and guide the performance of the French-American snare drum works of Joseph Tompkins. To do so, it examines three important drum manuals written by French percussionists/composers ...

This dissertation explores J. S. Bach's Six Brandenburg Concertos in the light of a Bildprogrammatik, governed by the same principles that defined arrangements of Baroque art and sculpture, and with the royal hunt as its ...

The musical archives of the Oaxaca Cathedral contain the surviving compositions of its maestros de capilla (chapel masters) since its founding in the sixteenth century. The Cathedral’s musical establishment was noteworthy ...

This paper examines the theoretical concepts and compositional procedures used by James Tenney in his compositions of the early and mid-1980's. Some of Tenney's earlier writings and compositions are also examined as ...

'Experimental' is often used as a qualifier of both 'music' and 'composition' with regard to vanguard concert music. It has been used by critics as a term of derision; by musicologists as an historical and stylistic category; ...

George Van Eps (1913-1998) is a legendary figure among jazz guitarists, not only for his innovation in developing and performing on a 7-string instrument and the ability to perform unaccompanied, but also for his ...

The Sendai Philharmonic Orchestra began in 1973 as the Miyagi Philharmonic Orchestra, an amateur-based community orchestra in the city of Sendai, at that time Japan’s twelfth largest city. Nearly forty years since its ...

The purpose of this thesis is to explore Iannis Xenakis’ work, Gmeeoorh for organ, based on the use of his compositional technique, arborescence, and also to offer new insights into the performance of avant-garde organ ...