Over the last two centuries, Beethoven's music has been synonymous with the idea of
freedom, in particular a freedom embodied in the heroic figure of Prometheus. This image …

This dissertation shows how material practices of composer-veneration—such as the
sanctification of composers' bodily remains as relics and their houses as shrines—served as …

This thesis offers a contextual framework for interpreting the expressive worlds of the
instrumental works Schubert composed in the last six years of his life (1822–1828), focusing …

Conceptual music has for decades posed intractable analytic issues for musicians and
music theorists, forming a category defined by strangeness and esotericism with seemingly …

Abstract Ludwig van Beethoven's Fifteen Variations and a Fugue on an Original Theme, Op.
35, better known as the Eroica Variations, stands as a monumental work and has drawn the …

In the sonata practice of the mid-eighteenth century, composers frequently asserted the
minor dominant prior to the major dominant in the second part of the exposition. Beethoven …

To start, I summarize my method concretely, by way of a few more brief lesson-scenarios;
then I summarize my method more abstractly, explaining the syntheses I have tried to …

Abstract Richard Strauss (1864-1949) is celebrated today as a composer of operas and tone
poems. Strauss was also a conductor of great significance, having directed ensembles such …

While neoclassicism is viewed as a reaction against tonal saturation of late Romanticism,
this dissertation discusses an array of works (both within and outside the scope of interwar …

This dissertation examines the ongoing demand for, participation in, and support of well-
regulated amusements—most notably, music and musical theater—at New Harmony …