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 piano trio has been a very popular instrumental genre in Europe since the eighteenth century. Many composers wrote piano trios with a scoring for piano, violin, and cello. The genre reached its highest point in the ...

This study explores the historical figure of Mary Queen of Scots as she has been understood and interpreted in the lyrical drama of Donizetti’s Maria Stuarda. Nearly as intriguing as the trio of historical Tudor Queens ...

Within his native Poland, the legacy of Adam Bronisław Ciechański (1882-1957) is one of a virtuoso performer and devoted pedagogue whose work laid the foundation for a national double bass school. He is a notable example ...

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: ...

This scholarly essay explores the subject of improvisation in opera and vocal music, tracing its historical antecedents, providing examples of contemporary, classically-informed improvising singers and opera companies, and ...

During the “Golden Age” of pianism (1880-1930), virtuosic transcriptions were popular repertoire in concerts. As the waltz became the rage in Vienna, the waltzes of Johann Strauss were the prime subjects for piano ...

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, ...

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 intends to examine Alfredo Casella’s musical style and social environment along with his personal style within the context of neo-classicism. Casella’s oeuvre can be divided into three periods. In the first ...