Compositional idiom in two of the late violin and piano works of George Enescu.
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Title
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Compositional idiom in two of the late violin and piano works of George Enescu.
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Identifier
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AAI3159214
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identifier
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3159214
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Creator
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Gustavsson, Marka.
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Contributor
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Adviser: Fred Hauptman
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Date
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2005
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Language
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English
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Publisher
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City University of New York.
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Subject
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Music | Biography
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Abstract
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George Enescu's (1881--1955) development of a compositional idiom that made use of both his highly schooled musical training woven together with the influence of his Romanian folk heritage, produced remarkable music and defined the composer's artistic identity. Enescu's synthesis reached fruition in two works for violin and piano: the Third Sonata, Opus 25 of 1926, and the Impressions d'enfance, Opus 28 of 1940. Each of these pieces was, in its different way, experiential and narrative, a twenty-five minute tone poem. This dissertation does not attempt a broader comparison of these works in the context of Enescu's entire output or the music of his contemporaries, but instead attempts to develop an analytic approach to these two works, in order to clarify the logic behind their stylistic and formal uniqueness.;In these works, Enescu developed a style that integrated Romanian folk materials with European elements of formal expansion creating highly evolved yet culturally referential concert music. The elements he chose to produce this synthesis included the use of modal scales in the generation of melody, harmony and bass motion, the use of heterophonic textures, the repetition of folk-like rhythmic motives in association with specific interval content, the adoption of formal aspects of the doina style, and the implementation of personal and pictorial programs based on the Romanian folk ballad. This music was also characterized by a new level of notational detail and unconventional instrumental writing. His methods of organizing these materials created innovative formal processes, which nevertheless resulted in coherent musical structures. The analytical goals of this dissertation focus on the manifestation of these elements in Enescu's last two pieces for violin and piano.
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Type
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dissertation
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Source
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PQT Legacy CUNY.xlsx
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degree
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D.M.A.
