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An Original Composition, Diamundo, And A Historical Survey Of Music Spatialization, Amaro Borges Moreira Filho
An Original Composition, Diamundo, And A Historical Survey Of Music Spatialization, Amaro Borges Moreira Filho
LSU Doctoral Dissertations
This dissertation is divided in two parts. Part one is an original composition, Diamundo, for percussion, winds, strings, and loudspeakers, based on the poem of the same name by the Brazilian poet Carlos Drummond de Andrade. It is scored for a chamber orchestra with a main ensemble formed by strings, piano, percussion, and guitar, plus electroacoustic sounds, and four solo wind instruments: flute, saxophone, trumpet, and trombone. The ensemble and the eight-channel loudspeakers are spatialized. The piece is divided in six movements without interruption. The first five movements are separated by 4 cadenzas for the solo instruments. Most of the …
An Original Composition, Vestiges Of Kubla And An Analysis Of George Crumb's Quest For Guitar, Soprano Saxophone, Harp, Contrabass, And Percussion, John Manuel Crabtree
An Original Composition, Vestiges Of Kubla And An Analysis Of George Crumb's Quest For Guitar, Soprano Saxophone, Harp, Contrabass, And Percussion, John Manuel Crabtree
LSU Doctoral Dissertations
Vestiges of Kubla is scored for the following instrumentation: piccolo, 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 4 horns, 2 trumpets, 2 trombones, tuba, timpani, 3 percussionist, guitar, and strings. Structured differently than a traditional concerto form, the overall architecture of the work is a large-scale sonata-allegro form in which the first movement is an exposition, the second movement is a slow development, and the third movement is a recapitulation of musical ideas from in the first, followed by a concluding coda. Although the concerto is unified by thematic, motific, and harmonic content presented in the first movement - …