Roger Sessions' adoption of the twelve-tone method.

Title: Roger Sessions' adoption of the twelve-tone method.
Identifier: AAI9029920
identifier: 9029920
Creator: Campbell, Alan Douglas.
Contributor: Adviser: Henry Weinberg
Date: 1990
Language: English
Publisher: City University of New York.
Subject: Music
Abstract: Roger Sessions' gradual adoption of the twelve-tone method in his music from the mid-forties through the early fifties is studied from the standpoint of his own writings on music.;The paper focusses on the piano pieces From My Diary, Nos. 1 and 2 (1937-40), Piano Sonata No. 2 (1946), and the Sonata for Violin (1953) in order to trace the composer's growing use of serial techniques and to find common elements which link these works with his mature twelve-tone compositions. These common elements include an emphasis on whole-tone and diatonic/perfect fourth collections, the use of semitonal displacement of stable (whole-tone/diatonic) pitches, the projection of long-range pitch/pitch complex priority, and the unified use of all musical elements to create a sense of musical progression and movement.;The culmination of the study is an analysis of the first movement of Sessions' Piano Sonata No. 3 (1963-65).
Type: dissertation
Source: PQT Legacy CUNY.xlsx
degree: Ph.D.