Theses - Music
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Inventing Inca Music: Indigenist Discourses in Nationalist and Americanist Art Music in Peru, Ecuador and Argentina (1910-1930)
(2018-07-21)The Latin American centennial celebrations of independence (ca.1909-1925) constituted a key moment in the consolidation of national symbols and tropes, while also producing a renewed focus on transnational affinities that ... -
A Thousand Plateaux
(2018-04-28)Summary of Composition Portfolio Tangram for piano The puzzle known as tangram was the inspiration behind this composition. Just as the seven pieces of the tangram create shapes, seven contrasting musical fragments appear ... -
Resituating Transatlantic Opera: The Case of the Théâtre d'Orléans, New Orleans, 1819-1859
(2018-05-19)This thesis examines the production and reception of French opera in New Orleans in the first half of the nineteenth century, through a focus on the city’s principal French-language theatre from 1819 to 1859, the Théâtre ... -
Animate Structures: The Compositions and Improvisations of the Instant Composers Pool Orchestra
(2015-07-15)Founded in 1967, the Amsterdam-based improvising collective the Instant Composers Pool is one of the longest consistently performing groups in improvised music. This thesis forms an ethnography and musicological study of ...
