The University of Southern Mississippi The Aquila Digital Community Dissertations Spring 2020 An Analysis and Stylistic Comparison of Five Works for Unaccompanied Tuba by John Stevens Tracy Bedgood Follow this and additional works at: https://aquila.usm.edu/dissertations Part of the Music Commons Recommended Citation Bedgood, Tracy, "An Analysis and Stylistic Comparison of Five Works for Unaccompanied Tuba by John Stevens" (2020). Dissertations. 1770. https://aquila.usm.edu/dissertations/1770 This Dissertation is brought to you for free and open access by The Aquila Digital Community. It has been accepted for inclusion in Dissertations by an authorized administrator of The Aquila Digital Community. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. AN ANALYSIS AND STYLISTIC COMPARISON OF FIVE WORKS FOR UNACCOMPANIED TUBA BY JOHN STEVENS by Tracy Bedgood A Dissertation Submitted to the Graduate School, the College of Arts and Sciences and the School of Music at The University of Southern Mississippi in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Musical Arts Approved by: Dr. Richard Perry, Committee Chair Dr. Jacquelyn Adams Dr. Benjamin McIlwain Dr. Joseph Brumbeloe Dr. Edward Hafer ____________________ ____________________ ____________________ Dr. Richard Perry Dr. Jay Dean Dr. Karen S. Coats Committee Chair Director of School Dean of the Graduate School May 2020 COPYRIGHT BY Tracy Bedgood 2020 Published by the Graduate School ABSTRACT In this dissertation, the five unaccompanied works for tuba by John Stevens are examined. The first half of this project is the analysis. The compositions are introduced with their collected background material, which includes the date of composition, programmatic elements (if any), and the circumstances under which the pieces were written.