"Deadly Sins": Trio for alto saxophone, violoncello, and piano. (Original composition)
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Title
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"Deadly Sins": Trio for alto saxophone, violoncello, and piano. (Original composition)
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Identifier
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AAI9510627
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identifier
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9510627
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Creator
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Ardito, Linda.
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Contributor
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Adviser: Henry Weinberg
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Date
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1994
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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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Deadly Sins, a musical composition scored for alto saxophone, violoncello, and piano, is dedicated to composer Henry Weinberg whose musical insights, experience and guidance continue to provide immeasurable inspiration in my own works.;Three other sources of inspiration for Deadly Sins should be mentioned. First, there is a vague but operative programmatic association with two works by Renaissance artist Hieronymus Bosch: the central panel of the Triptych of the Haywain (c. 1500-1505), which portrays the deadly sins, and the giant triptych, Garden of Earthly Delights (c. 1510-1515). The once popular medieval theme of the virtues and vices is resurrected in these two works by Bosch, and, particularly focusing upon the vices, suggested something of the dramatic nature of the music composition. Secondly, Arnold Schoenberg's String Trio, Op. 45 (1946) suggested an approach to contrapuntal and harmonic compositional procedures. Lastly, for some time, I had been inspired by the lyricism and tone quality achieved by saxophonist Cynthia Sikes, a member of the chamber group, The Urban Birds Trio. This group originally suggested that I compose a work based upon the medieval notion of the Seven Deadly Sins. This immediately appealed to me. I decided, however, to replace the number seven with any number of "sins" to be conjured up by the listener's imagination so that the resulting title is simply Deadly Sins.;While the work is not strictly serial, relying rather on the formation of various sets within a prescribed combinatorial hexachordal series and its inversion, there are some literal statements of the row. The original series is successively transposed at the interval of a perfect fifth and closes in the original tonality.
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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.
