An Analysis in Davies's Eight Songs for a Mad King and Self-composition

• Main Authors: Lo, You-Ting, 羅宥婷
• Other Authors: 蕭慶瑜
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2015
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/58453594618324679101

碩士 === 國立臺灣師範大學 === 音樂學系 === 103 === Sir Peter Maxwell Davies is currently an active English composer, music educator and conductor. Through co-founding the chamber music ensemble “Pierrot Players”, Davies had enthusiastically explored the possibilities in music theater creation and practices in this phase. Eight Songs for a Mad King marks the highlight of this period. The thesis mainly discusses the diverse facets of human voice and its expansion in music theater practices through researching on Davies’s Eight Songs for a Mad King. The composer puts the compositional idioms into practice in her own composition. The thesis is divided into five chapters: chapter one “research motivation” makes a description of research motives, purposes and the methods as well as the structure of the research; chapter two “the overview of Davies’s life and works” narrates his living, compositional and music educating background in short, while his important works are briefly laid out by order of completion dates; chapter three “an analysis of Eight Songs for a Mad King” includes the respective analysis of eight songs as well as the entire work as a whole; chapter four “the fulfillment in my own music compositional ideas” is the application after finishing the research of Eight Songs for a Mad King; chapter five “conclusion” summarizes the thesis and proposes my thoughts after the research.