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Submitted to the graduate degree program in Music Theory and the Graduate Faculty of the University of Kansas in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, defended 16 Dec 2011.
It can be said that Heitor Villa-Lobos, Frank Martin, and Benjamin Britten all have a musical aesthetic premised on tonal unity; however, each of these composers subvert the security of a homogenous tonal syntax by placing mechanisms of conflict into their musical language. This integration of chronologically distant musical structures brings about a conflict between old and new, and it is this conflict that is vital to all of the music examined in this study. When the coexistence of old and new structures is irreconcilable, the analytical approach taken is tailored to address this conflict as a continual disunity. However, the coexistence of chronologically distant structures may also be ameliorated as well, through analytical approaches that, in some respects, unite elements of old and new. Examined herein are Villa-Lobos’s Études Nos. 1 and 12, and Préludes Nos. 2 and 3, from Twelve Études for Guitar (1929) and Cinq Préludes for Guitar (1940), Martin’s first and fourth movements from Quatre Pièce Brèves (1933), and Britten’s first movement from Nocturnal after John Dowland (1963). In an effort to unlock the structural imperatives of these three composers, this study follows the lead of other analysts dealing with similar musical settings and adopts an approach that allows tonal interpreters to express components that contribute to a traditional tonal reading without asserting that all components so contribute, while, conversely, allowing post-tonal analytical strategies to express nontraditional components without asserting the work is atonal. The evaluation of elements of conflict is aided by this study’s chief organizational system: that of hierarchical organization, and since the musical structures are both tonal and post-tonal, both prolongational and associational models are considered. Further aiding the investigation of conflicting musical structure is Joseph Straus’s notion of “misreading,” herein defined as a transformation or recomposition of salient aspects of traditional tonal music.Download this Resource
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Copyright NotesThis dissertation is also contained with the ProQuest/UMI database.
Keywordsclassical music, music theory, guitar, composers, Heitor Villa-Lobos, Frank Martin, Benjamin Britten, musical structures, tonal music
Degree AwardedPhD
Awarding InstitutionUniversity of Kansas
Committee MembersChairperson Dr. Deron McGee, Dr. Paul Laird, Dr. Scott Murphy, Dr. Roberta Schwartz, Dr. Thomas Volek
Supervisor or ChairDr. Deron McGee
Peer Reviewed?No