FOUR COMPOSITIONS BY TADEUSZ BAIRD: AN ANALYTIC ESSAY.
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Title
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FOUR COMPOSITIONS BY TADEUSZ BAIRD: AN ANALYTIC ESSAY.
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Identifier
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AAI8501144
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identifier
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8501144
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Creator
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JAZWINSKI, BARBARA MARIA.
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Contributor
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Joel Lester
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Date
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1984
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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
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Abstract
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Tadeusz Baird (1928-1981) is generally considered to be one of the important contemporary European composers. His numerous works, frequently performed and recorded in Europe but relatively unknown in the United States, show him to be a talented composer, greatly concerned with tradition but also eager to experiment with new styles and techniques. In his works, Baird successfully combines various disparate compositional techniques with intense lyricism and expressiveness.;The intention of this dissertation is to focus on the development of Baird's compositional technique between 1957 and 1973. The discussion of Baird's compositional technique is based on analyses of pitch-structure, texture, and form in four of his works: String Quartet No. 1 (1957), Four Essays (1958), Exhortation (1959-1960) and Elegeia (1973). Each work represents a different stage in the development of Baird's musical language.;In these four works the pitch-structure undergoes a gradual transformation from strict twelve-tone technique toward entirely free, atonal structures. Textural changes exhibit a gradual progression in Baird's style from the traditional toward a new handling of texture, from clearly differentiated textures to blurred distinctions. The formal divisions in the early works resemble stereotyped forms. Later works exploit through-composed forms, governed by the sense of individual inner logic.
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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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Ph.D.
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Program
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Music
