This thesis is structured around three key phases in the process of collaborative music-making - composition, preparation, and performance - examining the function of indeterminacy at each stage, and the way in which musical factors are determined. At what point in the creative process a musical decision is made, the path chosen, and critically, by whom the decision is taken, are all explored in the context of a portfolio of pieces performed and recorded as part of this practice-led research. The portfolio comprises recordings of projects undertaken with composers, as well as pre-existing repertoire, and the written commentary explores my creative role as a performer in relation to that of the composers and the other performers I have worked with. Practical issues faced in collaboration, practice, and performance are dealt with, as are questions of musicality, and the notion of success in musical performance.

The program consisted of musically and technically challenging pieces. Ballade, Sonata No. 3 Op. 27 By Eugene Ysaye is a very demanding and intense work where the tension is growing throughout the piece into a furious culmination. Sonata in A major for piano and violin by Cesar Franck is a romantic melancholic work that was composed as a wedding gift for Eugene Ysaye���s wedding. It prompts feelings of tenderness and nostalgia in 1st and 4th movement. The energetic and vigorous fantasia-like 3d movement follows the energetic and vigorous 2d movement. Strauss sonata for violin and piano is a very challenging piece that demands a very sensible and sensitive ensemble between the piano and the violin. / Mary Pappert School of Music; / Music Performance / MM / Recital

This study provides an overall view of the significant change in compositional creation and performance practices in the nineteenth century. One witnesses concerto has become an important genre to demonstrate the technical playing of violin. In addition, through various violin schools, violin performances have developed different styles of playing. Bruch was an important German composer in the late romantic period. Although his status is not sublime as Schumann, Mendelssohn and Brahms, his ¡§Violin Concerto No. 1 in G minor Op. 26¡¨ is well received. Among numerous violin concertos in the nineteenth century, the work is regarded as an essential piece for violinist and in fact up to the present the work has been often performed and included in most concert programs. The most significant in Bruch¡¦s music is his employment of different performance techniques together with beautiful violin voicing. He believes ¡§melody is the soul of music¡¨ and demonstrates with his individual performance, and this explains the long lasting character. The value of Bruch¡¦s music is equal fame of the composition well regarded as his contemporaries. This thesis is divided into three chapters. The First chapter discusses about the succession of the violin performance technique, the influences of violin schools on violin music, and elaboration of the violin concerto features. The Second chapter includes Bruch¡¦s life, the historical background of his Op. 26 and its status. The Third chapter focuses on the performance techniques, examine the sophisticated techniques on both right hand and left hand. Its incorporation with orchestra will also be discussed in this chapter. And followed by a conclusion. Through the research of this work, author, hopefully, could help violinists will not only focus on the technique stage but also convey the idea of the composer more accurately while playing this work.

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Examensarbete 15 hp. Musiklärarexamen

Largo al factotum from Il barbiere di Siviglia / Gioacchino Rossini -- E fra quest'ansie...e allor perche from I Pagliacci / Ruggiero Leoncavallo -- Symphonie espagnole, op. 21 / Edouard Lalo -- Next! To this we've come...papers, papers! from The consul / Gian Carlo Menotti. / text

Three songs, op.10 / Samuel Barber -- Sonata pour hautbois et piano / Henri Dutilleux -- Mein Sehnen, mein Wahnen / Erich W. Korngold -- Sonata for violin and piano / Johannes Brahms. / text

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No abstract available / Thesis (M.Mus.)--University of Durban-Westville, 1995

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