Browsing Faculty of Arts and Sciences by FAS Department "Music"
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Activism and Music in Poland, 1978-1989
(2013-03-08)This dissertation presents a historical study of intersections between music and activism in Poland from the election of Cardinal Karol Wojtyła as Pope John Paul II in 1978 to Poland’s first democratic elections in 1989. ... -
American Identities in an Atlantic Musical World: Transhistorical Case Studies
(2013-02-20)This dissertation analyzes the impact of musical transatlanticism on the identities of American communities. I do so through case studies in three time periods: seventeenth-century colonial Massachusetts, the post-Revolutionary ... -
The American Mahler: Musical Modernism and Transatlantic Networks, 1920-1960
(2013-09-30)By the 1960s, the music of Austrian composer Gustav Mahler had become an exceptionally--and enduringly--popular part of American concert life. But for much of the twentieth century, the place of Mahler's music in America's ... -
The Art of Gigue: Perspectives on Genre and Formula in J. S. Bach's Compositional Practice
(2014-10-21)The objects of this study are the thirty-four gigues of J. S. Bach. This corpus of pieces represents one musician's encounter with the most engrossing dance genre of his time, and by coming to terms with this repertory I ... -
Arts of Noise: Sound and Media in Milan ca. 1900
(2013-10-15)This dissertation explores the place of sound, noise and silence in Milan at the turn of the twentieth century. By focusing on this particular urban environment, it aims to investigate the notion of sonic modernity through ... -
Becoming American Onstage: Broadway Narratives of Immigrant Experiences in the United States
(2014-06-06)This dissertation examines the Americanization of immigrants as a defining theme in American musical theater. It does so through studies of productions from across the past century about Irish Americans, Chinese Americans, ... -
The Berlin Chansonnier and French Song in Florence, 1450-1490: A New Dating and Its Implications
(University of California Press, 2007)Owing to the loss of most 15th-century music manuscripts from France and Burgundy, chansonniers of Italian origin are of special significance for our knowledge of the French song repertory and its dissemination during the ... -
Black Musics, African Lives, and the National Imagination in Modern Israel
(2015-05-20)“Black Musics, African Lives, and the National Imagination in Modern Israel,” explores the forms and functions of African and Afro-diasporic musics amidst heated public debate around ethnic identity and national membership. ... -
Boundary Notions: A Sonic Art Portfolio
(2013-09-19)I offer this dissertation as a survey and a story: a survey of my work across the field of sonic art and a story of my progressive compulsion toward sound that conveys touch. This haptic sensibility sharpens from Susurrus ... -
Brauchen wir eine Ökomusikwissenschaft?
(Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden GmbH, 2012)While ecomusicology is clearly a growth area in musicology, its mission and purview are not entirely clear. This article explores the complex relationship between ecology and musicology: ecocriticism in literary and visual ... -
Colin McPhee: A Composer Turned Explorer
(Cambridge University Press, 1984) -
A Computational Model of Music Composition
(2015-05-17)This thesis documents my research into formalized score control, in order to demonstrate a computational model of music composition. When working computationally, models provide an explicit formal description of what objects ... -
The Copland-Sessions Concerts and Their Reception in the Contemporary Press
(Oxford University Press, 1979) -
Crossing Boundaries in Music and Musical Scholarship: A Perspective from Ethnomusicology
(Oxford University Press (OUP), 1996) -
Dahlhaus zwischen Tonalität und tonality
(Edition Argus, 2011) -
Dance and Instrumental Music in America, 1770-1830: Sources, Repertoire, and Origins
(2016-09-06)This dissertation examines roughly 100 manuscript sources of American instrumental music from roughly 1770-1830, along with related printed and British sources. It proposes different ways of organizing and viewing the ... -
Dane Rudhyar's Vision of American Dissonance
(University of Illinois Press, 1999) -
Die ägyptische Spieldose
(Hildesheim: Georg Olms Verlag, 2012) -
Die Zeit der Musikalischen Monumente
(Laaber: Laaber-Verlag, 2013) -
The Discovery of Slowness in Music
(Fordham University Press, 2015)