"Rooms in the Wilderness" for soprano and chamber ensemble.
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Title
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"Rooms in the Wilderness" for soprano and chamber ensemble.
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Identifier
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AAI9807966
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identifier
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9807966
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Creator
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Matthews Whiteman, Carol Leonore.
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Contributor
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Adviser: Thea Musgrave
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Date
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1997
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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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Rooms in the Wilderness is a four movement work for chamber ensemble. The forces consist of flute, clarinet, tenor saxophone, trumpet, two percussion, piano, two violins, viola, cello, bass, and soprano. The work is approximately 20 minutes long with sections of senza mesura in the first movement as well as a free candenza for the soprano in the last movement. Some extended technique is required of all instruments and the soprano must be able to sing, speak, and use sprechstimme.;Each movement is generated from several sources: a pitch class cell of three pitches, a particular tempo, a particular style, and a variation on the theme of wilderness. The first movement is entitled "The Desert From My Bedroom Window," and is an impression of the actual desert as experienced by a child. Pointillistic, angular, and dry it relies on the piano, percussion, and the percussive effect of the strings to create the spare landscape. The second movement has a jazz effect of light swing. "Soup Kitchen" is about the wilderness of the inner city, poverty, homelessness, loneliness. It moves from a deliberate insouciance to high tension and back again. The third movement, "Late Night Television," is a ballad, a song for the wilderness of the heart and is scored for soprano and strings. Here the soprano only sings and the strings are full and melodic. The last movement is scored for the entire ensemble and looks at the wilderness of the mind and soul. "Hydra: Cold Water Dreams" has only vocables for text until the very last when they coalesce into "anima mea.".;This work was created on a non-narrative premise that presents each movement as a separate picture, a room where the listener is central to a particular landscape.
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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.
