Programmatic Elements in Selected Post -1950 Works for Solo Oboe

Excerpted text from Ovid's Metamorphoses and the interpretations of Ovid scholars are used to analyze Benjamin Britten's Six Metamorphoses After Ovid, op. 49. Henri Tomasi's representation of four women from Peru, Nigeria, Cambodia, and Scotland in Evocations is examined in relation to musical traditions of each country. The six movements of Tina Nicholson's Moments from Women, representing personalities of various women, are examined with assistance from an interview with the composer. Excerpted text from Homer's The Odyssey and Helmut Schmidinger's compositional ideas support this analysis of Vier gefiederte Worte des Odysseus. An annotated select bibliography of other programmatic works for solo oboe is provided in an appendix.

Name thesis:degree_name

D.M.A.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Music

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2015

Author dc:creator

• Robuck, Alison Marie

Contributors dc:contributor

• Christopher Hopkins

• Music

Language dc:language

eng

Identifier

(MiAaPQ)AAI3131016

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/85730