Browsing by Author "Kelly, Thomas"

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Dance and Instrumental Music in America, 1770-1830: Sources, Repertoire, and Origins

Henseler, Matthew C. (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 ...
Giasone's Travels: Opera and Its Performance in the Seventeenth Century

Lin, Thomas Wen Tsen (2015-05-20)

This dissertation presents an in-depth examination of Giacinto Andrea Cicognini and Francesco Cavalli’s Giasone (1649). Its premiere in Venice took the city by storm, generating such enthusiasm among opera audiences that ...
Music and Gender in the Medieval Cult of St. Katherine of Alexandria c.1050-1300

Blasina, James Joseph (2015-05-26)

The widespread uniformity of ritual chant for St. Katherine in late medieval sources suggests that its history had always been characterized by stability and consistency. A study of eleventh- and twelfth-century sources, ...