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Seven compositions, five for live instruments and two for electroacoustics, comprise this thesis. The works for live instruments vary in genre, and include pieces for chamber ensemble, choir, and solo instrument. "Music for Solo Violin" employs thematic material modelled after Eastern...

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Main Author: Newsome, Gregory Lee
Language:English
Published: 2009
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/10429
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spelling ndltd-LACETR-oai-collectionscanada.gc.ca-BVAU.2429-104292014-03-14T15:44:03Z Compositions Newsome, Gregory Lee Seven compositions, five for live instruments and two for electroacoustics, comprise this thesis. The works for live instruments vary in genre, and include pieces for chamber ensemble, choir, and solo instrument. "Music for Solo Violin" employs thematic material modelled after Eastern European folk music and intervallic structures, as does "Bagatelle for String Quartet." "Lux aeterna" expands a small, core idea into an entire composition whose salient features are an added-tone harmonic structure and a time-varying polyphonic texture, "non-art," "The Sacrifice of Infinity," and the electroacoustic works "Chroma" and "Purity" reflect an interest in compositional syntax modelled after timbre, avoidance of a post-World War II concept of gesture, and psychoacoustics. 2009-07-08T22:21:47Z 2009-07-08T22:21:47Z 2000 2009-07-08T22:21:47Z 2000-05 Electronic Thesis or Dissertation http://hdl.handle.net/2429/10429 eng UBC Retrospective Theses Digitization Project [http://www.library.ubc.ca/archives/retro_theses/]
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description Seven compositions, five for live instruments and two for electroacoustics, comprise this thesis. The works for live instruments vary in genre, and include pieces for chamber ensemble, choir, and solo instrument. "Music for Solo Violin" employs thematic material modelled after Eastern European folk music and intervallic structures, as does "Bagatelle for String Quartet." "Lux aeterna" expands a small, core idea into an entire composition whose salient features are an added-tone harmonic structure and a time-varying polyphonic texture, "non-art," "The Sacrifice of Infinity," and the electroacoustic works "Chroma" and "Purity" reflect an interest in compositional syntax modelled after timbre, avoidance of a post-World War II concept of gesture, and psychoacoustics.
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