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Ecstatic Devotion: Musical Rapture and Erotic Death in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Iconography, Operas, and Oratorios

Roberts, Holly (University of Oregon, 2020-09-24)

There is little doubt among scholars that mysticism played a prominent role in early modern devotional practices. Stemming from a desire to guide – even compel – the individual toward heightened emotionality and an empathetic ...
Expressive Intonation as Rhetoric in the Performance Practice of Instrumental Ensemble Music in London (1650-1720)

Gries, Margret (University of Oregon, 2012)

Descartes’ Compendium musicae and Lamy’s La Rhétorique ou l’art de parler, both published in English translation in London in the late seventeenth century, suggest approaches to period performance practice that support ...
From Poet's Aid to Courtier's Pastime: An Examination of the Shift in Visual Style and Sounding Function of Italian Viols During the Renaissance

Mariani, Jacob (University of Oregon, 2014-09-29)

This thesis examines evidence of the earliest viols in Italy. In light of recent changes in perspective on the origins of the Italian viola da gamba, a new approach to building historical models of the instrument is ...
The New World Order: Ursulines, Music from the Court of Louis XIV, and Educational Outreach in Eighteenth-Century New Orleans

Pineda, Kim (University of Oregon, 2014-09-29)

When a group of Ursuline nuns arrived in New Orleans from Rouen in 1727 it significantly changed the sacred musical landscape in the Louisiana Territory of New France. The women brought with them their commitment to ...
The North German Chorale Fantasia: A Sermon Without Words

Rodgers, Lindsey (University of Oregon, 2013-10-03)

Heinrich Scheidemann and Jacob Praetorius (ii), young organ students from Hamburg, traveled to Amsterdam around the turn of the seventeenth century in order to study with the Dutch organist Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck. While ...
Primitive Polyphony? Simple Polyphony Outside the Mainstream of the Music History Narrative

Lese, Amy (University of Oregon, 2015-08-18)

This thesis addresses the relatively narrow understanding of simple polyphony in music history. Using three examples, I provide a survey, mostly of secondary literature available in English, and offer an overview of the ...
Rhetoric without Words: The Aural and Cultural World of the Keyboard Works of Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck

Schultz, Bradley (University of Oregon, 2022-10-04)

Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck (1562-1621) stands among the earliest keyboard players to leave their imprint on music history as both a composer and teacher. Though his influence on the composing and performing traditions of ...
Somaesthetic Approaches to the Keyboard Sonatas of Domenico Scarlatti: Integration of Bodily Perception and Performance

Wallace, Emily (University of Oregon, 2019-09-18)

Eighteenth-century composer Domenico Scarlatti is celebrated for his more than five-hundred keyboard sonatas, but traditional scholarship is in need of new avenues. Responding to the call for bolder approaches to the ...
Sounds of Power: Missionary Pipe Organs and Andean Resistance

Reich, Natalie (University of Oregon, 2021-11-23)

In colonial Peru, the Spanish crown relied on religious orders, most notably Dominicans, Franciscans, and Jesuits, for accelerating processes of colonization. The dissemination of Christian art, architecture and music, and ...
‘THE SONGS OF SOLOMON’: SALAMONE ROSSI AS COMPOSER, MUSICIAN AND CULTURAL FIGURE IN THE ITALIAN BAROQUE ERA

Burian, Leah (University of Oregon, 2022)

Salamone Rossi, an Italian performer, composer, and Jew in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth century lives on, for the most part, in brief mentions in textbooks for undergraduates in music history classes. Only a ...
The Trombone in A: Repertoire and Performance Techniques in Venice in the Early Seventeenth Century

Pfost, Bodie (University of Oregon, 2016-02-23)

Music published in Venice, Italy in the first half of the seventeenth century includes a substantial amount specifying the trombone. The stylistic elements of this repertoire require decisions regarding general pitch, ...
Written Fragments of an Oral Tradition: "Re-Envisioning" the Seventeenth-Century Division Violin

Rogers, Katherine (University of Oregon, 2012)

Seventeenth-century division violin music is not considered part of the classical canon, but its background as a European art form may make it seem “too Western” for traditional ethnomusicological study. The purpose of ...