David Stevens - List of Graduate Papers

List of Graduate Papers: 2013-2016

By David Stevens Comparative Structures: Formal and Tonal Congruities and Variances in the Original and Revised Versions of Brahms’s Piano Trio, Op. 8/I (May 2016, Master’s Thesis, Deborah Stein, 47pgs) Alban Berg’s String Quartet, Opus 3, no. 1: Thematic and motivic networks and transformational properties (5/6/15, Transformational Theory, Justin Lundberg, 28pgs) Eight Lines by Steve Reich: Understanding form and accent in minimalism through beat-class sets (5/5/15, Minimalism, Katarina Miljkovic, 22pgs) Le Merle Noir: Form in a Historical Context (12/16/15, Messiaen, Thomas Handel, 9pgs) The Early Years: Boulez’s Douze notations (no. 1,4,6,10) (12/17/14, Post-tonal Theory, Katarina Miljkovic, 11pgs and presentation) Understanding Webern’s Concerto for Nine Instruments through Set-Class Theory and Pulse Streams (4/30/14, Interpretive Analysis II, John Heiss, 7pgs) Brahms’s Piano Trio in B, Revised Version, Op.8/I: Energy and Agency (12/18/15, Musical Narrative, Roger Graybill, 11pgs) Spectrographic Speculation: Texture and Silence in the Kalmanovitch/Maneri Duo Improvisation (5/4/14, Advanced Sonic Analysis, Robert Cogan, Presentation) Isle of the Dead by Sergei Rachmaninoff: Performance Analysis and Composer Preferences (12/12/13, Issues of Historical Performance, John Gibbons, 9pgs) Ellington in Film: As Composer (11/18/14, Duke Ellington, Anthony Coleman, 6pgs) Soul Eyes: Harmony, Form, and Gesture in Coltrane’s Improvisation (5/6/14, Coltrane’s Classical Quartet, Brian Levy, 4pgs and performance)