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The Influence of Franz Liszt's Structural Style on the Music of Claude Debussy: An Analytic Comparison of the Anne?es de Pe?le?rinage and the Preludes
In spite of the fact that there is almost no written evidence to suggest it, it is the intention of this paper to show that the formal and structural styles employed by Liszt in Les Annees de pelerinage did indeed exert a ...
An Examination of the History and Music of Select Classical Saxophone Works and Jazz Standards (thesis)
Altogether, an examination of the selected recital repertoire presents greater historical context of the performed works and their composers in addition to providing a musical analysis
of the pieces themselves. The classical ...
Igor Stravinsky: Perennial Russian Roots Grounded in His Neo-Classical Works
Stravinsky's works are typically categorized into three main periods of composition: Russian, Neo-Classical, and Serial. The most noteworthy works of his Russian phase, roughly 1902-1920, include the ballets made famous ...
Juan Criso?stomo de Arriaga: The Enigmatic "Spanish Mozart"
Born into this fertile musical environment in 1806, Arriaga reflects classical as well as romantic elements in his music. For his classical influences, Arriaga paid great attention to the
serenity and symmetry of Haydn, ...
Original Compositions
I am a music and mathematics major from Ann Arbor, Michigan. I have
studied piano since age six under Mrs. Donna Borgert, Dr. Shuko Watanabe
and Dr. Timothy Gaylard. In my junior year of college, I began studying
composition ...
Music in the Chaos: A Theoretical Analysis of Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony
My goal in undertaking this analytical thesis is to isolate the symphony and analyze it entirely self-referentially -- with no outside influences or specific vantage points from which to
decode the work. This does not mean ...