This paper presents a detailed musical and technical examination of seven six-mallet marimba solo works. The author conducted interviews in person and via email with the seven composers in order to better understand their ...

Abstract This study of Isang Yun’s opera, Sim Tjong (1971-72) approaches the work from historical, cultural, and analytical perspectives and offers performance suggestions to those wishing to stage the opera. As a Korean ...

The collection of recordings, Charlie Parker with Strings is considered by many to be among his greatest artistic achievements. Approximately 65 years after the creation of these recordings, there is very little scholarly ...

This project is a critical edition of the only extant publication of Pierre Thomas Dufour: his Pièces de clavecin of 1772. As the only existing modern edition of this work is a facsimile reprint of the original 1772 ...

The purpose of the project is to expand the current bassoon baroque repertoire by creating a transcription from the chosen sonatas of Barrière’s Sonates pour le violoncelle avec la Basse Continüe. Related topics include: ...

Harpist Ann McLaughlin discusses the creation of a one-performer solo harp multimedia show titled Scheherazade, inspired by a solo harp arrangement of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherazade symphony (1888). McLaughlin ...

Spanning the last four decades, each of these four composers, John D. Carter, Undine Smith Moore, Moses Hogan, and Jacqueline Hairston, brought into their arrangements of spirituals their own unique, yet similar educational ...

This study examines Iannis Xenakis’s two works for solo cello, Kottos and Nomos Alpha. It also discusses the composer’s untraditional background especially his lack of formal music education. The paper explores Xenakis’s ...

This document examines the artistic collaboration between Mstislav Rostropovich (1927– 2007) and Sergey Prokofiev (1891–1953) and provides a comparative study of Prokofiev's use of cello techniques in his Cello Concerto, ...

The American composer John Adams has addressed global issues in many of his operas including Nixon in China, Doctor Atomic, and The Death of Klinghoffer, although they all feature Americans as main characters. His opera A ...