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Unity Through Duality: An Exploration Of Paradox In Olivier Messiaen's Vingt Regards Sur L'Enfant-Jesus Vol. I, Deirdre Hatch

Dissertations

Olivier Messiaen is one of the major musical figures of the twentieth century. His music draws on a diverse set of influences, yet always remains unique and entirely his own. His unwavering religious beliefs constitute the source of inspiration behind most of his music. Vingt Regards sur ['Enfant-Jesus for solo piano was composed in 1944. It forms a powerful and personal musical statement concerning one of the central mysteries of the Catholic faith, the Incarnation. As such, it is an important work within Messiaen's output. Its musical language and spiritual message are typical ofMessiaen's style.

Verdi's Operas At Mamontov's Theater, 1885-1900: Fighting A Losing Battle, Olga Haldey

Verdi Forum

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'Double, Double, Toil And Trouble': Producing Macbeth In Mid-Victorian Britain, Paul Rodmell

Verdi Forum

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"The Most German Of All German Operas": Die Meistersinger Through The Lens Of The Third Reich, David B. Dennis

History: Faculty Publications and Other Works

A detailed analysis of the reception of Wagner's, Meistersinger, in the Third Reich.

Making The "Birthplace Of Jazz": Tourism And Musical Heritage Marketing In New Orleans, J. Souther

History Faculty Publications

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The Origin Of Armstrong's Hot Fives And Hot Sevens, Gene H. Anderson

Music Faculty Publications

It has been almost fifty years since Louis Armstrong's Hot Five and Hot Seven recordings of 1925-1928 were first recognized in print as a watershed of jazz history and the means by which the trumpeter emerged as the style's first transcendent figure. Since then these views have only intensified. The Hot Fives and Hot Sevens have come to be regarded as harbingers of all jazz since, with Armstrong's status as the “single most creative and innovative force in jazz history” and an “American genius” now well beyond dispute. This study does not question these claims but seeks, rather, to determine …

Vaughan Williams's Ninth Symphony, By Alain Frogley; Vaughan Williams, By Simon Heffer (Review), Julian Onderdonk

Music Theory, History & Composition Faculty Publications & Performances

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Evangelical Protestantism And The Development Of Country Music, Tara M. Tuttle

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Evangelical Protestantism prevailed in the rural Appalachian area at the beginning of the 201 h century and therefore influenced the development of the country music tradition. In this study, the influence of evangelical Protestantism is analyzed in terms of country music's lyrical content, performance settings, vocalization styles, artist's lifestyles and image, career selections and business decisions. The birth of country music and its historical connections to evangelical Protestant culture, including the Bristol Sessions, the spread of the radio, the Grand Ole Opry, gospel recordings, and the tensions and similarities between the church and the honk:y-tonk: are discussed in the first …

Inside Unlv, Diane Russell, Betty Blodgett, Kevin Force, Jennifer Vaughan, Cate Weeks, Jonathan Paver

Inside UNLV

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Iconography: A Checklist Of Some Useful Sources For Scholars And Students Of Medieval Art And Drama, Clifford Davidson

Early Drama, Art, and Music

A classified bibliography of scholarship on medieval drama, art, and music compiled by Clifford Davidson in 2002. This reprint was created in 2014 for ScholarWorks at WMU, with some corrections to the content and the formatting of the 2002 version.

The Early Drama, Art, And Music Project: Publications 1977-2002, Timothy Christiansen, Clifford Davidson

Early Drama, Art, and Music

A bibliography of publications of the Early Drama, Art, and Music project at Western Michigan University, originally compiled by Timothy Christiansen and updated in 2002 by Clifford Davidson. This digital reprint was created in 2014 for ScholarWorks at WMU, with an addendum, an update, and a few corrections to the formatting of the 2002 publication.

A Priestly View Of Bible Arithmetic: Deity's Regulative Aesthetic Activity Within Davidic Musicology, Ernest G. Mcclain

Research Resources

Reading arithmetic proportion in the bible via musical hermeneutics, this essay emphasizes the important role of music in predominantly aural cultures. Applying Patrick Heelan's non-distributive lattice logic to examples extracted from the bible, McClain applies the notion of regulative aesthetic activity to the Davidic musicology embedded in Bible mathology.  Includes several illustrative diagrams.

Music And Poetry: Confessions Of A Rhyming Musicologist, Jean Kreiling

Bridgewater Review

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Verdi's Music On Mechanical Boxes, Denise Gallo

Verdi Forum

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Appendix (Verdi And Tannhäuser), Marcello Conati

Verdi Forum

A postscript to Conati's article, "Verdi vs. Wagner," in Verdi Forum 26-27.

The Correspondence Of Giuseppe Verdi And Francesco Maria Piave, 1843-1867: A Preliminary List, Evan Baker

Verdi Forum

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Postmodern Musicology, Babette Babich

Articles and Chapters in Academic Book Collections

The discipline of musicology is a rather specificially 20th century institution growing out of a disparate range of 19th century studies of music theory, history, composition, etc. The OED edition extant at the time of the writing of this article dates the term musicology itself to 1909 or later. Although there are indeed practitioners throughout the world, most theorists are Anglo-American, with echoes in the French tradition of musicologie and German Musikwissenschaft. As a still-modern project, postmodern musicology derives from a predominantly Austro-German generation of scholars who translated an originally European tradition of analysis (Heinrich Schenker and -- in …

Editors' Note, Roberta M. Marvin, David Rosen

Verdi Forum

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Macbeth And Ugolino: Another Verdian Encounter With Dante, David Rosen

Verdi Forum

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Testing Textbooks: The Case For Italian Opera, Hilary Poriss

Verdi Forum

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Holding Pattern And Groundswell: Verdi's Mimesis Of The Lyric, David Gable

Verdi Forum

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The Name Of The Daughter: The Role Of Amelia/Maria In Simon Boccanegra, Julia Randel

Verdi Forum

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Stride! Fats, Jimmy, Lion, Lamb, And All The Other Ticklers By John L. Fell And Terkild Vinding, Giant Strides: The Legacy Of Dick Wellstood By Edward Meyer (Book Reviews), Gene H. Anderson

Music Faculty Publications

As their titles suggest, these books focus on stride pianists rather than on the style itself. Well researched and written by experienced jazz enthusiasts, the books approach their subject from opposite points of view. Stride! provides a brief survey of the idiom followed by biographical sketches of players identified or associated with stride; Giant Strides recounts the life of a player who concluded the stride legacy.

Chopin And His Imitators: Noted Emulations Of The "True Style" Of Performance, Jonathan D. Bellman

Music Faculty Publications

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A World Across Its Surface: The Story Of The Fiddle, Julie L. Hale

English Theses & Dissertations

This nonfiction narrative traces the fiddle from its European origins to its American incarnation as a folk instrument, blending history with the personal stories of fiddle makers and players. The centerpiece around which a varied cast of luthiers and musicians shifts, the instrument itself is the main character of the narrative.

As the work unfolds, various facets of the fiddle's identity are explored, revealing a riddle of instrument—a creation whose beauty confounds, and whose anatomy contradicts physics and geometry, science and sense. More than anything else, perhaps, this narrative, in the end, is an attempt at penetrating the mystery of …

Tchaikovsky And His Violin Concerto : A Theme Of Opposites, Jennifer Lynn Bougher

Undergraduate Honors Thesis Collection

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Review Of Pamela M. Potter, Most German Of The Arts: Musicology And Society From The Weimar Republic To The End Of Hitler’S Reich (New Haven And London: Yale University Press, 1998), David B. Dennis

History: Faculty Publications and Other Works

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Guest Editors' Notes, Linda B. Fairtile, Francesco Izzo

Verdi Forum

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Verdi, Nationalism, And Cultivation Of The Folk Idiom: His Stornelli Of The 1860s, Roberta Montemorra Marvin

Verdi Forum

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Cormon Revisited: Some Observations On The Original Don Carlos, Harold Powers

Verdi Forum

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