Russian music underwent significant transition in the nineteenth century as Western European influences gave way to more nationalistic sentiments. In the seventeenth century, Western musical culture began to ...

Based on my experience conducting Benjamin Britten’s opera A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the University of Illinois in a production directed by Christopher Gillett, this paper is designed as a guide to ...

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 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, ...

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 countertenor voice is a male voice type which uses falsetto and has a long history in the Western music. Similarly, the Nan Dan is a similar voice type using falsetto which derived from China. Based on ...

Even though there is a fair amount of research about the Latin-American art song, the resources solely about the Puerto Rican art song are limited. This lack of resources has made it extremely difficult ...

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 ...

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 purpose of this project is to investigate the characters in the Chinese composer Tan Dun’s opera The First Emperor, a two-act opera written in English and presented by the Metropolitan Opera in 2006. It ...