INFLUENCE OF POETRY ON COMPOSITIONAL PRACTICES IN SELECTED CHORAL MUSIC OF GORDON BINKERD (TEXT PAINTING)

• Other Authors: SALADINO, DAVID ANDREW.
• Format: Others
• Subjects: Music
• Online Access: http://purl.flvc.org/fsu/lib/digcoll/etd/3085925

Gordon Binkerd has composed one of the largest choral repertoires in the twentieth century. Including works in preparation, the repertoire now totals more than one-hundred compositions--all but six, published by Boosey & Hawkes, Inc. === Three major areas are explored: (a) influences which helped shape Binkerd's musical growth as well as his understanding and love of poetry; (b) borrowed music: the process of adapting texts to music of composers from earlier periods to create an interesting and unique genre in twentieth-century choral repertoire; and (c) musical implications of text-painting analyzed in four compositions. === Binkerd has combined preparation as a musicologist, while at Harvard (1946-49), with love and knowledge of literature and poetry. This blend of disciplines is a principal reason for the large choral repertoire and for the genre of composition identified as borrowed music: use of the compositional techniques of parody, paraphrase, intabulation and contrafactum in adapting poetry to music--primarily keyboard works--of composers from earlier periods. The study explores poetical influence on this and other facets of Binkerd's choral repertoire with particular attention to how this influence has contributed to Binkerd's text-painting style. The final chapter outlines briefly the educational value found in this extensive repertoire. === Included are three appendices which contain a complete catalog of choral works; an annotated alphabetical listing of poems and other textual sources used in the settings; and, available only from the Florida State University Music Library, six cassettes containing thirty-six recordings of compositions from the choral repertoire and full scores of the eleven compositions analyzed in Chapters IV and VI. === Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 45-09, Section: A, page: 2690. === Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1984.