Thesis (M.A.)--Memorial University of Newfoundland. / Restricted until October 1995. Typescript. Bibliography: leaves [146]-152. Also available online.

Thesis (D.M.A.)--University of Southern California. / Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Yale University, 1981. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 287-288).

Thesis (M.A.)--Eastern Illinois University, 1972. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 134-137).

Thesis (M.M.)--Bowling Green State University, 2009. / Document formatted into pages; contains v, 70 p. : col. ill. Includes bibliographical references.

The trumpet has always maintained a central role in the jazz genre. However, throughout the history of chamber music the trumpet was overlooked until the mid-twentieth century when brass chamber music and mixed chamber ensembles rose to popularity. An infiltration of the popular American style, jazz, into classical chamber music changed composers' treatment of the trumpet. This thesis focuses on the role and treatment of the trumpet in selected jazz-influenced classical chamber works in order to highlight that the trumpet's prominence in jazz helped to establish its place in twentieth-century chamber music. A brief history of classical brass chamber music and the origins and development of jazz is given. Trumpet performance techniques and compositional practices idiomatic to the different jazz style periods, ranging from ragtime to cool jazz, are given. These techniques are then traced through selected chamber music works of Stravinsky, Martinu, Schuller, Babbitt, and Wilson. Selected works were chosen based on the degree of jazz influence and are representations of the jazz style period they emulate. A comparison of how classical composers in Europe and the United States viewed the trumpet in jazz, in regards to chamber music, is detailed over the course of the twentieth century.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:26:46Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2008Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T20:55:17Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 vazzoler_lf_me_ia.pdf: 661466 bytes, checksum: e1ad82c415da1b637531008c17b8ae99 (MD5) / Nesta pequisa estuda-se a fase neoclássica do compositor Igor Stravinsky, identificando procedimentos composicionais específicos presentes em tal fase do compositor russo. Tais procedimentos estão estreitamente conectados com modelos referenciais da música da tradição tonal e apontam para interessante e pertinente diálogo entre contextos musicais bastante contrastantes. O objetivo desta dissertação, a partir da constatação de possíveis relações entre a fase neoclássica e a fase russa de Stravinsky, é discutir e analisar os procedimentos técnicos composicionais presentes na música da fase neoclássica. Para identificar tais procedimentos serão analisadas duas peças neoclássicas de Stravinsky: a Sonata para piano (1924) e o Capriccio para piano e Orquestra (1929). / This research is a study of Stravinsky´s neoclassical period in order to identify specific compositional procedures. These procedures are closely connected with models of tonal reference and point to an interesting dialogue through contrasting musicals contexts. The objective of this dissertation is to investigate possible relationships between the neoclassical and the russian period of Stravinsky's music, discussing mainly the technical procedures found in the neoclassical phase. To identify these procedures it will be analyzed two pieces of Stravinsky: Sonata for piano (1924) and Capriccio for piano and Orchestra (1929).

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Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971), Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975) and Alfred Schnittke (1934-1998) were three of the most important avant-garde Russian composers of the twentieth century. Even though their music shares a number of important traits, their work also reflects very individualized and distinct compositional styles. This study illustrates the similarities in their approach and the contrasting elements present in three selected pieces: Stravinsky´s Suite Italienne for Violin and Piano (1933), Shostakovich’s Violin Sonata in G Major, Op. 134 (1968), and Schnittke’s Suite in the Old Style for Violin and Piano (Harpsichord) (1972). The study disseminates Stravinsky, Shostakovich, and Schnittke’s musical influences in these works, focusing particularly in the use of baroque elements by tracing a number of important aspects from their backgrounds. In addition, a chronological outline of compositions containing baroque elements is provided. Finally, this research examines stylistic traits of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in the three selected compositions: Suite Italienne, Violin Sonata, Op. 134, and Suite in the Old Style.

This paper examines the relationship between text and music in Prayers of Adoration, Confession, Thanksgiving and Supplication - a four-movement composition, fourteen minutes in length, for soprano, clarinet, bassoon, trumpet, trombone, violin, double bass, and percussion. The text of the composition is taken from the Psalms and The Book of Common Prayer. The names and themes of the movements follow an ancient pattern for prayer identified by the acronym, A.C.T.S. Compositional considerations are contrasted to those of Igor Stravinsky and Steve Reich, with special emphasis on the use of musical structures, motives, and text-painting to highlight the meaning of religious texts.