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A Performer's Analysis Of Eight Piano Sonatas Of Nicholas Medtner, Sarah Louise Kinley May 1970

A Performer's Analysis Of Eight Piano Sonatas Of Nicholas Medtner, Sarah Louise Kinley

Undergraduate Honors Thesis Collection

The piano sonatas of Nicholas Medtner are only a portion of the great heritage bequeathed to the piano by one of the most unique and significant, although relatively unknown, modern Russian composers. Medtner's personality penetrates his compositions but can be truly discovered only through considerable study of and acquaintance with his music. "But to the earnest and sincere student approaching with goodwill and sympathetic spirit, this music will yield treasures of grave and sad, but great and most moving, beauty.


Prolegomenon To A Neo-Kantian Student Heuristic, John W. Nageley Iii Jan 1970

Prolegomenon To A Neo-Kantian Student Heuristic, John W. Nageley Iii

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The author attempts an in-depth study of Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason in order to prepare a text for college students in composition courses. It was to be a text designed to help students come to terms with some of the more perplexing problems of man's intellectual life by providing them with the means for understanding the structure of thought. As it stands now, though, this is a prolegomen to that text. It contains the essential theory for the text, but lacks sufficient examples to make it readily accessible to the student, and it lacks the exercises needed to …