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Alexander Glazunov And His Violin Concerto: History, Biography, And Performance Perspective, Gregory Glessner
Alexander Glazunov And His Violin Concerto: History, Biography, And Performance Perspective, Gregory Glessner
Honors Projects and Presentations: Undergraduate
Alexander Konstantinovich Glazunov, who was born on August 10, 1865, was a highly influential musician and composer in the early 20th century. Despite living well into the 20th century, he adhered to the compositional techniques and ideals of the 19th century. Glazunov generally wrote in a highly romantic style throughout his life, and never gave in to the stylistic pressures of the early 20th century. He worked prolifically in many genres, including symphonies, concertos, tone poems, string quartets, and ballets; however, he wrote relatively little vocal music, and no opera. Glazunov was also a proficient conductor and an excellent pianist. …
Reading The Leaves: Tea And American Colonial Identity, 1765-1775, Amanda Mylin
Reading The Leaves: Tea And American Colonial Identity, 1765-1775, Amanda Mylin
Honors Projects and Presentations: Undergraduate
Cynthia, an American colonist, had her heart broken as she made the conscious decision to eliminate the purchase and consumption of tea from her daily routine. For her, taking tea like the British was an ordinary practice that would have been extremely difficult to surrender, but her patriotic duty to oppose Parliamentary taxation was more important. The majority of colonists led very British lives that involved consuming various British goods. The culture of colonial America in the years just before the American Revolution was very similar to the “Old Country” in England. The same clothing styles with the same types …
Providential Progress: The Post-Revolutionary World Of Robert Crawford, Katherine Garland
Providential Progress: The Post-Revolutionary World Of Robert Crawford, Katherine Garland
Honors Projects and Presentations: Undergraduate
In 1776, Thomas Jefferson penned the Declaration of Independence. It included the now famous words “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” Upon the successful completion of the Revolutionary War, the government and people of the United States had to implement these words into their daily lives. The Revolution created new opportunities in education and industry for regular people to seek “the pursuit of Happiness.” Such revolutionary ambition has often been explained …
Russia And The Restricted Composer: Limitations Of The Self, Culture, And Government, Ian T. Wallace
Russia And The Restricted Composer: Limitations Of The Self, Culture, And Government, Ian T. Wallace
Honors Projects and Presentations: Undergraduate
This paper will consider the various creative limitations that have inhibited Russian and Soviet composers throughout history. These restrictions will be classified into three broad areas: those of the self, those of culture, and those of government. As will be seen, individual Russian composers have been constrained in at least one of these areas. Consideration of important musical and historical figures, from the beginning of the 19th century through the later decades of the Soviet Union, will assist in presenting specific forms of restraint.