EARLY INSTRUMENTS IN 21ST CENTURY COMPOSITION AND AN ORIGINAL COMPOSITION FOR SAXOPHONES AND VIOLS

<p>Composers continually seek new timbres and sonorities to bend to their will. The early music revival of the twentieth century has resurrected dozens of instruments that have gone unutilized in contemporary composition for centuries. The historically-informed-performance movement has now evolved to a point where early instruments and period performance techniques can add extraordinary new characters to twenty-first century compositions. This thesis explores how composers effectively utilize early instruments like the viola da gamba, harpsichord, lute, and recorder in their compositions.</p> <p>The document also contains interview transcripts from eight composers and performers, including Nico Muhly, Liam Byrne, Martha Bishop, David Loeb, Yukimi Kambe, Sarah Mead, Heather Spence, and Lisa Terry. Finally, my original composition for an octet of four saxophones and four viola da gambas realizes the research and implements the advice sought during the interview process and is accompanied by an analysis of core concepts.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Music

Level thesis:degree_level

Thesis

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

School of Music

Year dc:date.available

2023

Author dc:creator

• Bitinas, Jacob

Contributors dc:contributor

• Stephen Lias
• Alexander Amato
• Kathryn Fenton

• composition
• early music
• historical instruments
• interview
• viola da gamba
• saxophone
• Musicology
• Music Theory
• Renaissance Studies

Repository record dc:identifier

https://scholarworks.sfasu.edu/etds/497

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:scholarworks.sfasu.edu:etds-1526