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Symphony No.2 And The Text Setting Of Henry Purcell's Dido And Aeneas, Sungho Kim
Symphony No.2 And The Text Setting Of Henry Purcell's Dido And Aeneas, Sungho Kim
LSU Doctoral Dissertations
This work is conceived as a unit that has two parts. Part one is an original composition, Symphony No. 2. This piece is scored for symphony orchestra and it is a sequel of the composer’s master thesis, a symphonic poem titled Moonlight Sprite, which describes the various landscapes of imaginary sprites in nature. The compositional techniques include whole tone scale, octatonic scale, pentatonic scale, atonality, bitonality, polytonality, tone clusters, and minimalism. The piece’s orchestration style and techniques are mainly influenced by Stravinsky, Bartok, Schoenberg, Webern, Penderecki, Charles Ives, and Dinos Constantinides.
Part two is an analysis of the text …
A Survey Of French Cello Music Dating From The Baroque Era To The 20th Century, Chien-Hui Yang
A Survey Of French Cello Music Dating From The Baroque Era To The 20th Century, Chien-Hui Yang
LSU Doctoral Dissertations
This research aims to examine how French music progressed from the Baroque era to the 20th-century through the cello repertoire. This document will be a useful tool for people who are interested specifically in French cello compositions. The researcher will discuss fifteen composers and seventeen cello works. Through reading composers’ biographies and examining the selected cello compositions from these French composers, the researcher will better comprehend and attempt to describe the composers’ musical styles and their musical legacies within the canon of music for the cello.
From the Baroque era, François Couperin, Jean-Baptiste Barrière, and Martin Berteau are …