Analysis and Interpretation on William Bolcom’s “The Garden of Eden”

• Main Authors: Cho, Kuang Yu, 卓光煜
• Other Authors: Chen, Sou Tin
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2014
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/k55326

碩士 === 國立臺灣藝術大學 === 音樂學系 === 102 === William Bolcom（1938- ）are the significant composers who devoted to the revival of Ragtime from 1967 to 1975. The suite “The Garden of Eden”（1969）were composed during this time which not only used the traditional harmonic system of the European classical music, but also combined American traditional Ragtime, Jazz and Blues elements such as rhythm, scales or special notes. Through analyzing “The Garden of Eden” we could figure out how the composer fuse variant musical elements to exapand the range between classical music and popular music, further more to indicate precise interpretation for this kind of music style. The thesis is divided into six chapters: Chapter one is outline of the research’ objectives and motivation. Chapter two discusses on Bolcom’s background, music education and achievement also discusses the Ragtime from music historical viewpoints to present it’s development and variant styles. Chapter three analyzing each piece of the suite, concentrate on music background, form, texture and characteristics to understand Bolcom’s compositional techniques. Chapter four compares the solo version with two pianos version , though these two versions published at same year but the two pianos version has more performance details that offer more precise interpretation viewpoints. Chapter five discusses the interpretation of the suite based on the previous chapter’s analysis. Chapter six is the conclusion of the research based on the study results and fulfillment of the whole thesis.