• The Rehearsal Plan and the Preparation of Brazilian Art Songs: An Autoethnographic Study in Collaborative Piano 

  da Silva Gonçalves Santos, Elisama (North Dakota State University, 2020)

  The objective of this research was to investigate the effectiveness of the rehearsal plan in the preparation of Brazilian art songs. This disquisition proposes a rehearsal plan model based on the concept of the class plan ...

• A Choral Conductor's Analysis and Performance Practice Recommendations for Selected Psalm Settings by German Baroque Composers 

  Rolf, Kathryn Anita (North Dakota State University, 2020)

  Psalm settings by German Baroque composers are comprised of meaningful texts illuminated by expressive music and have much to offer today’s choir. The composers of these settings were inspired by the Old Testament psalm ...

• Reaching Arcadia: Rural and Agricultural Themes in Vocal Art Music including Plans to Introduce this Music to a Rural Audience 

  Oberlander, Erin Marissa (North Dakota State University, 2011)

  Throughout the history of Western Music, composers have written works on rural and agricultural subjects. The first half of this dissertation examines a number of important works from the Baroque era through the present ...

• Art Songs by French Composers on Subjects Related to Venice, with Particular Emphasis on Reynaldo Hahn’s (1874-1947) Venezia (1901) 

  Raad, Tyler (North Dakota State University, 2019)

  Venice, Italy has received a considerable amount of attention throughout the centuries from French poets, painters, and composers. However, little scholarship exists to date that has drawn any definitive connection between ...

• The Role of the Chorus Master in Three Contemporary Operas Addressing Social Conflict: A Dramatic Analysis of Poul Ruders’ (b. 1949) The Handmaid’s Tale (1998), Jake Heggie’s (b. 1961) Dead Man Walking (2000), and Kevin Puts’ (b. 1972) Silent Night (2011). 

  Latterell, Richard Allan (North Dakota State University, 2019)

  In opera, the opera chorus actively shapes the dramatic structure through interactions with the soloists, commentary after events, and momentum provided toward scene endings. Since the chorus traditionally represents the ...

• Conducting the Coded Message Songs of Slavery: Context, Connotation, and Performance Preparation 

  Raber, Rebecca Lynn (North Dakota State University, 2018)

  The coded message songs of slavery are a mysterious and fascinating entity. Within the lyrics of these seemingly innocuous plantation songs are coded messages for escape, messages that provided secret information to enslaved ...

• Selected Larger Choral Works of F. Melius Christiansen (1871-1955) 

  Toliver, Nicki Lynn (North Dakota State University, 2011)

  F. Melius Christiansen (1871-1955) composed four larger choral works between 1917 and 1925. The Reformation Cantata, composed in 1917, commemorates the 400th anniversary of Martin Luther’s Protestant Reformation and the ...

• The Inception of Trumpet Performance in Brazil and Four Selected Solos for Trumpet and Piano, Including Modern Performance Editions: Fantasia for Trumpet (1854) by Henrique Alves de Mesquita (1830-1906); Vocalise-Etude (1929) by Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887-1959); Invocation and Point (1968) by Osvalda 

  Miranda, Clayton Juliano Rodrigues (North Dakota State University, 2016)

  This disquisition provides a modern performance edition of four Brazilian compositions for trumpet and piano by Henrique Alves de Mesquita’ (1830–1906) Fantasia para Piston [Fantasy for trumpet, 1854], Heitor Villa-Lobos’s ...

• A Stylistic Analysis of Tom Flaherty’s (b. 1950) Works for Clarinet 

  Dizon, Rachelle (North Dakota State University, 2018)

  Composer Tom Flaherty (b. 1950) received a 2016 Grammy award nomination for his piece Airdancing for Toy Piano, Piano and Electronics (2013) in the category of Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance. He has also ...

• The Choral Music of Frederick Delius (1862-1934) and its Influence on the Choral Music of Early Twentieth-Century British Composers 

  Strommen Campbell, Jonathan Daniel (North Dakota State University, 2015)

  The composer Frederick Delius wrote a large body of choral music including choral/orchestral works and part songs. This body of choral music had an important influence on the younger generation of British choral composers, ...

• The Tyger and the Lamb: Exploring the Relationship Between Text and Music in Selected Contemporary Choral Settings of Two Poems by William Blake (1757-1827) 

  Zinter, Erik Andrew (North Dakota State University, 2015)

  Texts have been influencing composers of choral music for centuries. Some composers manipulate the text through the use of form and compositional technique, whereas others rely on highlighting specific words. Still others ...

• John Field's Piano Concerto No. 1 

  Walker, Mary Ermel (North Dakota State University, 2015)

  While there are recordings of all seven of John Field’s piano concertos, there are no two-piano versions published that include the transcribed orchestra in the second piano part, with the exception of the second concerto. ...

• Folk Song in the Wind Band Music of Haydn Wood: Mannin Veen and a New Performing Edition of the Seafarer 

  Hollingsworth, Adam Charles (North Dakota State University, 2015)

  Nestled between England and Ireland, one can find a tiny island called the Isle of Man, or more simply, Mann. One of its most famous musical representatives is composer and violinist Haydn Wood. In an effort to preserve ...

• The Importance of Timpani in Today's Percussion Education and as a Solo Instrument 

  Meyers, Nicholaus (North Dakota State University, 2014)

  This study investigated the attitudes and beliefs of college educators and professional percussionists about the importance of timpani instruction for percussion majors at the undergraduate level. The results of a survey, ...

• Looking Back, Listening Forward: A New Transcription of Leos Janacek's Suite for Strings for Double Wind Quintet in the Harmoniemusik Tradition 

  Miedema, Bradley (North Dakota State University, 2014)

  The Harmoniemusik tradition has provided the wind chamber repertoire with a tremendous wealth of literature. Spanning the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, these transcriptions of large-scale works had a ...

• Jocelyn Hagen and Timothy Takach: An Introduction to their Choral Music and a Study of their Positions within a Lineage of Minnesota-Based Composers 

  Culloton, Michael Patrick (North Dakota State University, 2013)

  This study serves as an introduction to the choral music of Jocelyn Hagen and Timothy Takach. It also examines their positions within a lineage that includes three generations of successful Minnesota-based composers. It ...

• American Folk Traditions in Piano Concert Music 

  Lopez, Edwin Gerardo Aybar (North Dakota State University, 2013)

  This paper describes concert music for the piano that is heavily influenced by or entirely based on folk music traditions from the Americas. First, the term folk music and problems arising from its use are explained. The ...

• Tracing the Development of Japanese Choral Tradition, and the Influence of Buddhism and Western Music 

  Kishimoto, Masashi (North Dakota State University, 2012)

  This research deals with the origin and development of Japanese choral music emphasizing Japanese folk tunes. The process of how modern styles of Japanese choral music evolved is rather complicated, and has been greatly ...

• Alternative Analyses of Three Multiple Percussion Works 

  Woodmansee, Brett Eric (North Dakota State University, 2013)

  The goal of this research document is to provide a flexible analysis that is directly applicable to multiple percussion performance and will inform a performer about the nature of decisions in specific circumstances without ...

• Twenty-First Century Trumpet Music of James M. Stephenson III 

  Norris, Kyle M. (North Dakota State University, 2012)

  This study examines in detail works for trumpet by James M. Stephenson III, which include unaccompanied works, short character pieces, multi-movement works, compositions for chamber ensembles, and etudes. As a modern ...

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