Witness for 8 Instruments
Witness is about animals’ affliction due to humans’ indiscriminate abuse of them. The first movement is composed after seeing a photo of a 25-year old rhino who was butchered her horns by poachers; it was not only a disaster to a rhino and her family, but also to people who interacted with her and l...
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Florida State University
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| Online Access: | http://purl.flvc.org/fsu/fd/2019_Spring_Heo_fsu_0071N_15217 |
| Summary: | Witness is about animals’ affliction due to humans’ indiscriminate abuse of them. The first movement is composed after seeing a photo of a 25-year old rhino who was butchered her horns by poachers; it was not only a disaster to a rhino and her family, but also to people who interacted with her and loved her. I took a sound that I felt is similar as wailing animals— superball scraping on the bass drum skin— as a motive and tried to orchestrate the sound in different ways so that the motive is heard throughout the movement. I aimed to depict the agitation and confusion that I felt when I encountered the photo in the second movement; irregular rhythm and the fragments of sounds that are produced by different instruments in a random order are used. Finally, in the third movement, I wanted to remind the audience the importance of living with our nature (not only use them,) its beauty, and vulnerability caused by human’s consistent use of it— whistle tone on flute, multiphonics and air noise on clarinets, pitch bending on vibraphone, and harmonics on strings were used in the movement. === A Thesis submitted to the College of Music in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Music. === Spring Semester 2019. === April 17, 2019. === Includes bibliographical references. === Clifton Callender, Professor Directing Thesis; Evan Allen Jones, Committee Member; Benjamin Sung, Committee Member; Mark Wingate, Committee Member. |
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