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Living Out The Romantic Heroic Ideal: An Interpretive Study Of The Life And Work Of Edgar Allan Poe And Robert Schumann, John Alexander Dribus

Honors Theses

In 1849, a man was found destitute on the streets of Baltimore and died neglected, a few days later. Likewise in Germany, only seven years later, another great man died in an insane asylum after starving himself to death. Both men were under the age of fifty when they died, and both men had had a profound effect on the artistic world of which they were a part. Yet they met fates that were anything but glamorous. Destitute and abandoned, both died in obscurity. One was a poet and the other a composer. They lived on opposite sides of the …

Bach's Theocentric World View, Jarrell M. Lyles

Honors Theses

Bach's life spanned the gulf between the old-world age of faith and the new-world age of reason. seventeenth-century Germany, especially those portions with a strong Lutheran influence, remained strangely isolated and insulated against the rising storm of skepticism and inquiry, raging elsewhere in Europe. The full force of the Enlightenment broke suddenly over Bach during his latter years in Leipzig, where the younger generation was growing less sympathetic to the ideals of art Bach and others of his generation cherished.

Those who wish to understand Johann Sebastian Bach must first understand his world view, the lens which colored his perception …

Frederic Chopin, Terry Miller

Honors Theses

Frederic Chopin was born in Zelazowa Wola, Warsaw on February 22, 1810. He was brought up in a private school among sons of Polish nobility. His musical education was entrusted to the Bohemian pianist Albert Zwyny and the Director of the Warsaw School of Music, Joseph Elsner. At the age of seven he played a piano concerto by Gyrowetz, and improvisations in public. His first attempts in composition were dances (Polonaises, Mazurkas and Waltzes), but he published as Opus 1 a Rondo, and as Opus 2 variations on "La ci darem la mano", with orchestra.

Handel And The Messiah, Bernice Battle

Honors Theses

Because of my interest in music and the fact that the Ouachita Baptist University Choir, of which I am a member, performed George Frederick Handel's work, The Messiah, this semester, I chose to delve into the world and work of this artist and to investigate his talent in relation particularly to The Messiah. I placed particular emphasis in my study on the purpose of the writing and the effect this great oratorio has produced

Palestrina And His Rhythmic Style, Shelby Earl Cowling

Honors Theses

Giovanni Pierluigi Da Palestrina, an Italian composer, was one of the greatest musical figures in the latter half of the sixteenth century, the "golden age" of church music. Giovanni Pierluigi was born in about 1525 at Praeneste (Palestrina). The name of the town has been added to his won family name, Pierluigi. Palestrina's fame as a composer rests mainly upon the incomparable liturgical works for unaccompanied voices--Masses, motets, hymns, and canticles--which he produced for the services of St. Peter's and other Roman basilicas. He wrote them in the polyphonic style which for centuries had dominated Europe as a kind of …