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Date Permissions Signed

5-9-2012

Date of Award

2012

Document Type

Masters Thesis

Degree Name

Master of Music (MMus)

Department

Music

First Advisor

Sommer, Lesley, 1967-

Second Advisor

Briggs, Roger, 1952-

Third Advisor

Hamilton, Bruce, 1966-

Abstract

In this work, orchestral color takes on a nebulous quality as it changes over time. The first major portion of the piece is driven by a single melody which typifies each subsection. As this melody repeats, it is sometimes veiled by orchestral color and strata in a pandiatonic fashion, with foreign pitches progressively thwarting its consonance. Rhythmic stratification takes on a stochastic quality and various musical events may support or combat motivic and thematic elements over time. The middle section is the culmination of stochastic rhythmic ideas and where motivic elements are derived from earlier ideas but now articulated through an atonal lens (melodic contours are maintained but pitches are altered). The idea of pandiatonicism returns as the piece reaches an apex with multiple layers of rhythmic syncopation and groupings. The piece closes with the return of the piece's opening texture which, like earlier sections, occurs seemingly by happenstance.

Type

Text

DOI

https://doi.org/10.25710/jsa8-r673

Publisher

Western Washington University

OCLC Number

793432739

Subject – LCSH

Orchestral music--Scores

Format

application/pdf

Genre/Form

masters theses

Language

English

Rights

Copying of this document in whole or in part is allowable only for scholarly purposes. It is understood, however, that any copying or publication of this thesis for commercial purposes, or for financial gain, shall not be allowed without the author's written permission.

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