Theses - Music
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Is Sorry Really the Hardest Word? Guilt, Forgiveness, and Reconciliation in Contemporary Music
(2017-09-01)Guilt, forgiveness, and reconciliation are fundamental themes in human musical life, and this thesis investigates how people articulate these experiences through musical performance in contemporary genres. I argue that by ... -
OPERA AFTER POETRY: ENLIGHTENMENT DRAMMA PER MUSICA AMID THE ARTS
(2017-09-01)With its bold combination of epic style and vernacular prose, François Fénelon’s Les Aventures de Télémaque (1699) created a stir that preoccupied the literary, theatrical, musical, and art world throughout the eighteenth ... -
Being a Composer in the Andes during the Age of Revolutions. Choices and Appropriations in the Music of José Bernardo Alzedo and Pedro Ximénez Abrill Tirado
(2017-07-22)This dissertation explores the choices involved in being a composer in Latin America during the last decades of the eighteenth century and the first decades of the nineteenth century. My primary interest is to understand ... -
An Omnivorous Ear: The Creative Practice of Field Recording
(2017-07-01)“An Omnivorous Ear - The Creative Practice of Field Recording” offers new insights into the history of recording outside of the studio in North America, challenging the various working definitions of field recording in ...
