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Snow Flakes

Glaser, Michael
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1174418689

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2007, Master of Music (MM), Bowling Green State University, Music Composition.
In partial fulfillment of the Master of Music in Composition I have composed Snow Flakes, a nine-minute single movement work for choir and chamber ensemble based on a poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882). The work is scored for chamber choir (a minimum of three voices per part), wind quartet (flute, oboe, B-flat clarinet, and bassoon), and strings (violin I, violin II, viola, and cello). The harmonic language is set in a neo-classical style. Snow Flakes consists of three large sections each based on one of the poem’s three stanzas. The vocal setting utilizes techniques of repetition, text painting, and instrumental doubling to accentuate significant passages of text. For example, in the musical setting of the poem’s first line, “Out of the bosom of the air,” I emphasized the idea of air and clarity through the use of harmonics and tremolo in the strings. To articulate the inherent mood of the text, I have employed text-painting devices such as doubling, imitative counterpoint, flutter tonguing, and string harmonics. Two particular influences in the orchestration of Snow Flakes were Samuel Barber’s Summer Music, because of its idiomatic wind scoring, and Joan Tower’s Petroushskates because of the clarity and precision of her orchestration.
Mikel Kuehn (Advisor)
48 p.
Music
Music; Composition; Snow Flakes; Henry Wadsworth Longfellow; Neo-Classical; Chamber Orchestra; Choir

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  • Glaser, M. (2007). Snow Flakes [Master's thesis, Bowling Green State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1174418689

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Glaser, Michael. Snow Flakes. 2007. Bowling Green State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1174418689.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Glaser, Michael. "Snow Flakes." Master's thesis, Bowling Green State University, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1174418689

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