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The Choral Works of Robert Ward: A View of His Compositional Approach to Text Settings and His Use of Symbols and Allusions
… establishing an unmistakable interweaving of text, composition, and context. This study examines several of Ward's short choral compositions as they relate to the composer's use of symbols and allusions. Comparisons are made to Ward's use of these devices in his operatic works as a means of …
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"Petr Eben's Oratorio ""Apologia Sokratus"" (1967) and Ballet ""Curses and Blessings"" (1983): An Interpretative Analysis of the Symbolism Behind the Text Settings and Musical Style"
The dissertation examines the significant features of Eben's music. His melodic style incorporates influences as diverse as Gregorian chant and folk tunes on the one hand, and modern vocal techniques such as Sprechgesang and vocal aleatoricism on the other. His harmonic language includes bitonality …
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Petr Eben's oratorio Apologia Sokratus (1967) and ballet Curses and Blessings (1983): An interpretative analysis of the symbolism behind the text settings and musical style
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"A Study and Critical Edition of Samuel Capricornus's ""Theatrum Musicum"" (1669, 1670) and ""Continuatio Theatri Musici"" (1669)"
… an examination of three known exemplars, a brief text study, a discussion of stylistic category, and an appraisal of the collection's musical style for the purpose of identifying a composer. Three works in the Continuatio theatri musici, besides Judicium Salomonis, are spurious or doubtful. Based …
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Requiem : an original composition for choir, soloists and chamber wind ensemble
… and chamber wind ensemble. The liturgical Latin text is set in ten movements with a performance duration of an hour. The composition has a mix of traditional elements—tripartite formal structures, movement symmetry, and text setting conventions—and contemporary elements—chromatic melodies, …
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Singing Petrarch in the Cinquecento: Embodied Reading and the Italian Madrigal
… focused on musical depictions of the text’s semantics. The analysis in chapters 2, 3, and 4 shows that composers used a consistent set of techniques from the madrigals of Arcadelt to those of Monteverdi, and musical examples draw from large collection of madrigals on Petrarch sonnets. …