Type
Text
Type
Dissertation
Advisor
Weymouth, Daniel | Goldstein, Perry | Semegen, Daria | Schober, David.
Date
2017-05-01
Keywords
Music | California, Composition, New York City, Symphony
Department
Department of Music
Language
en_US
Source
This work is sponsored by the Stony Brook University Graduate School in compliance with the requirements for completion of degree.
Identifier
http://hdl.handle.net/11401/76553
Publisher
The Graduate School, Stony Brook University: Stony Brook, NY.
Format
application/pdf
Abstract
Symphony No. 2 “The Great Expanse†is a 20-minute composition commissioned by the California Youth Symphony in 2016. The title of the work serves as a reference to its: 1) initial musical inspiration -- drawing on expanding and contracting interval sets; 2) construction of these sets around the expanse of the composer’s instrument, the piano; 3) metaphorical place in the composer’s ouvre – that this second symphony is an expansion of the composer’s abilities since his first symphony as a Bachelor’s student; and 4) programmatic elements dealing with the expanse of time, space and the unknown. The construction of this piece deals with many pre-compositional techniques, all of which aim to relate elements of pitch, rhythm, phrasing, and form simultaneously to the concepts of expansion and contraction. The result of that preplanning manifested itself in a two movement work (I. …of dark; and II. …of light), which is highly structured and deeply personal to the composer. | 72 pages
Recommended Citation
Knable, Sunny, "Symphony No. 2 "The Great Expanse"" (2017). Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions). 2452.
https://commons.library.stonybrook.edu/stony-brook-theses-and-dissertations-collection/2452