Date of Graduation

5-2025

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Bachelor of Music

Degree Level

Undergraduate

Department

Music

Advisor/Mentor

Jahnke, Katelyn J.

Committee Member

Bentley, Christa A.

Second Committee Member

Corrigan, Lisa M.

Abstract

In recent years, diversity has come to the forefront of many discussions within western art music. Several organizations have been founded to promote the inclusion and representation of musicians of various genders, races, backgrounds, and ethnic roups, but disability is often left out of these conversations. Due to the barriers continually faced by composers and musicians with disabilities, their voices are seldom heard within horn repertoire. However, several works for horn exist which represent disability programmatically, both by disabled and non-disabled composers. In this presentation, I will examine the musical representations of disability in these works as it relates to the current social progress of the disabled community. Through interviews with composers, historical research, and musical analysis, I will place these works within a modern framework of disability studies and examine their impacts on perceptions of disability in a broader societal context.

Keywords

diversity; repertoire; programming; accessibility; composers

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