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Galina Ustvolskaya (1919-2006): Analytical Approach To The Pitch Content Of Selected Compositions, Lindsay S. Murrell
Galina Ustvolskaya (1919-2006): Analytical Approach To The Pitch Content Of Selected Compositions, Lindsay S. Murrell
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Galina Ustvolskaya was overshadowed throughout her lifetime, both personally and professionally, by her compositional colleague, Dmitri Shostakovich. This dissertation seeks to establish Ustvolskaya’s separate identity, making her idiosyncratic compositional design the forefront of the research. A contextual transformational approach suits her compositional design built upon the element of repetition. Employing Joseph Straus’s analytical approach to the music of Ruth Crawford Seeger, this dissertation will explore a selection of Ustvolskaya’s work, demonstrating the evolution of her compositional design.
The melodic foundations of Ustvolskaya’s compositional approach are based upon compact motives established at the onset of each work. The motives are then …