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Andrejs Jurjāns as Symbol of Latvian Identity: Native Folk Songs in his Large-Scale Symphonic Works (open access)

Andrejs Jurjāns as Symbol of Latvian Identity: Native Folk Songs in his Large-Scale Symphonic Works

This thesis presents a study of Andrejs Jurjāns' significant symphonic works as informed by a native musicologist, Professor Jānis Torgāns, and illuminates Jurjāns' role within the cosmopolitan framework of nationalism in music.
Date: December 1997
Creator: Švalbe, Erika Lynn
System: The UNT Digital Library
Music Criticism in the New York Times and the New York Tribune, 1851-1876 (open access)

Music Criticism in the New York Times and the New York Tribune, 1851-1876

This doctoral dissertation discusses music criticism in the New York Times and the New York Tribune from 1851-1876.
Date: July 17, 1980
Creator: McKnight, Mark, 1951-
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Italienisches Liederbuch of Hugo Wolf (open access)

The Italienisches Liederbuch of Hugo Wolf

This study was undertaken with the purpose of affording some insight into the musical aims and composing methods of Hugo Wolf and of showing his position in the history of the German Lied and his contributions to the development of this form through the analysis of one part of his work. This study of the history of the Lied and examination of the Italienisehes Liederbuch of Hugo Wolf has led to certain conclusions. The first is that Wolf truly stands as the culmination of Romantic activity in the Lied form. This has been ascertained by a comparison of his ideals and techniques of song writing with those of the earlier Lieder writers, Schubert and Schumann, and of Wagner. The second is that Wolf made certain distinctive contributions to the Lied. Among these are his application of Wagnerian principles to the form of the Lied in their refinements as characterizing motives (from the Leitmotiv), free metric accents (from speech-song) and use of the accompaniment to intensify expression through faithful rendering of details of the text. Another contribution is his distillation of harmonic practices into the purest expressive materials which made possible his miniature style. Still another contribution is his elevation of …
Date: January 1954
Creator: Friedel, Jenny Ruth Reed
System: The UNT Digital Library