Producing Incantations: Salvatore Sciarrino's Works for Flute
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Title
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Producing Incantations: Salvatore Sciarrino's Works for Flute
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Identifier
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d_2009_2013:d2aa4bb7f7e4:11371
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identifier
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11801
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Creator
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Michel, Roberta,
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Contributor
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Shaugn O'Donnell | Philip Lambert
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Date
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2012
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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 | extended techniques | flute | l'Opera per flauto | new music | Salvatore Sciarrino
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Abstract
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Salvatore Sciarrino's works hold a seminal place in the avant-garde repertoire of the late twentieth century. Sciarrino's musical language is not widely understood, nor are his unique techniques for playing many instruments. Of the two instruments he most consistently favors, the piano and the flute, the flute is the instrument with which he repeatedly achieves human intensity and breathable warmth. In this dissertation I show how he creates a new sonic palette, fabricating a new instrument out of the traditional flute, a "superflute" of sorts.;Using his first volume of solo flute music, I borrow Sciarrino's own analytical tools to analyze these works, using his "figures" as interpretive, as well as analytical, tools. Sciarrino's flute works appears a daunting undertaking to flutists because of their notation and the almost complete absence of any traditional flute sonorities. I provide a guide to learning the techniques of his works and turning those physical techniques into musical gestures while suggesting possible interpretations through my experience of learning the pieces.
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Type
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dissertation
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Source
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2009_2013.csv
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degree
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D.M.A.
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Program
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Music
