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Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Prologue to performance

Abstract

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"Having being fixed on paper or retained in the memory music exists already, prior to its actual performance differing in that respect from all the other arts. The musical entity thus presents the remarkable singularity of existing successively and distinctly in two forms separated from each other by the hiatus of silence. This peculiar nature of music determines its very life as well as it's repercussions in the social world for it presupposes two kinds of musicians: the creator and the performer." Igor Stravinsky This thesis is an investigation of how architecture becomes the threshold manifesting that hiatus of silence; preparing the spectator; preparing, reinforcing and introducing the spectacle, only to be completed by the final act, that of the performer. It is that in between through which one passes in anticipation and preparation. The form in which the creative phenomenon exists then becomes the prologue of the performance.

Degree

thesis:*
Name thesis:degree_name
Master of Architecture
Level thesis:degree_level
masters
Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
Architecture
Department dc:contributor.department
Architecture
Grantor dc:publisher
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Year dc:date.issued
1994

Author and committee

dc:creator, dc:contributor.*
Author dc:creator
  • Garud, Jyutika T.
Chair dc:contributor.committeechair
  • Bliznakov, Milka T.
Committee members dc:contributor.committeemember
  • Galloway, William U.
  • Schnoedt, Heinrich

Rights

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Statement dc:rights
  • In Copyright
Language dc:language.iso
en_US

Identifiers

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Handle dc:identifier.uri
http://hdl.handle.net/10919/53374
OAI identifier oai:identifier
oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/53374

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Garud, Jyutika T.. Prologue to performance. masters thesis, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/53374