The piccolo has a long history of programmatic uses in the orchestral literature, beginning with its very first orchestral performance. The first appearance of the piccolo in mainstream orchestral music occurred in ...

This thesis provides an analysis and performance guide to Vinko Globokar’s solo oboe work Atemstudie. As both of Globokar’s oboe works—Discours III for five oboes (1969) and Atemstudie for solo oboe (1971)—were written for ...

This thesis responds to the long-existing doubts, prejudices and mixed critical views about the value of Schumann’s Cello Concerto and his late music with new ideas and possibly answers. It focuses on analyzing influences ...