"""The Form Must Be Ripped Endlessly Open"": Narrative and Gesture in the Late Music of Stefan Wolpe"

Two of the gesture types identified relate directly to Wolpe's preoccupation with opposition: interruption and clearing. The interruption gesture type occurs frequently as means to introduce and integrate extreme contrasts. Influencing the music on a more global scale, the clearing gesture is a more forceful application of opposition; its appearance signals a major shift in the trajectory of a work. While interruption and clearing involve redirection of narrative, the continuation gesture is used as a means of prolongation. Wolpe uses the coalescence gesture as a kind of cadence. Like a traditional cadence coalescence provides a moment of repose; however, unlike traditional cadences this does not result in a feeling of resolution or closure.

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

• Drews, Michael R.

Contributors dc:contributor

• Garnett, Guy E.

• Music

Language dc:language

eng

Identifier

(MiAaPQ)AAI3269881

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/85785