BOSTON UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF FINE ARTS Dissertation FOREFATHERS, ANTECEDENTS, AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF ALEXANDER ARUTIUNIAN’S ‘BIG SOVIET’ ARMENIAN STYLE by FREDERICK ADAM SIENKIEWICZ B.M., University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 2005 M.M., New England Conservatory of Music, 2007 Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Musical Arts 2019