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 ...

Unsuk Chin’s (b. 1961) Alice in Wonderland is one of the most successful vocal works on the international stage. It demonstrates the depth and variety of composer’s musical idiom and combines traditional and contemporary ...

Classical music has been present in the Jamaica since the 18 century. The country conquered by Britain in 1655, still bears its European influence in its current culture. With a history of many cultures sharing common ...

This thesis discusses four string pieces by the Korean-German composer Isang Yun that are not widely performed due to their technical and musical difficulties. Gasa and Duo were written utilizing twelve-tone techniques, ...

Computer-assisted algorithmic music composition has achieved great success in the past few decades. Composing this kind of music makes the composers think about music in a new way. Research on applying artificial intelligence ...

The purpose of this document is to introduce a novel way to learn a new piece of classical music by use of a jazz improvisational approach. Within this document, a jazz improvisational approach (JIA) is defined as a method ...

This thesis studies jazz harpist Park Stickney’s craftsmanship through transcribing and analyzing his performances of Debussy Dances, his recomposition of Claude Debussy’s Danses sacrée et profane. The study consists of ...

This research project transfers unedited keyboard pieces from the Woodcock MS into a modern edition with commentary. The name of this manuscript originates from “Deborah Woodcock,” after whom it is considered to be named. ...

This thesis focuses on Marc-André Dalbavie’s Flute Concerto (2006) and two of his chamber pieces with flute: In Advance of the Broken Time…(1994) and Palimpseste (2002). The background of the composer and the Flute ...