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“…For the Waters Are Come in Unto My Soul…” – Fragments of Psalm 69

McDonough, Daniel Thomas
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1178139061

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2007, Master of Music (MM), Bowling Green State University, Music Composition.
“…for the waters are come in unto my soul…” – Fragments of Psalm 69, is a sixteen minute work for mixed chorus, wind quartet (flute, B-flat clarinet, horn, and bassoon), and piano. The text, consisting of particular lines from the King James Version of Psalm 69, depicts the varying emotional states of a devout person in great distress. The piece consists of three main sections: the first evokes a sense of hallucination and lack of focus, the second is more static in mood and texture, and the third recapitulates material from the first section. The work’s large-scale structure is articulated by the use of certain musical techniques and/or musical textures. During the first section particular lines have been set in a freely imitative counterpoint that borders on heterophony. In the second section, chords are sustained for longer periods of time and the male and female voices are clearly separated. Musical ideas and techniques from the first section reappear in the third section, allowing the listener to hear the general formal divisions in the piece. Much of the fundamental harmonic language is based on tri- and tetra-chord pitch-class sets (such as 3-2[013] and 4-25[0268]) as important developmental and referential sonorities. Additionally, canonic and imitative counterpoint has been used to generate a large part of the musical texture.
Mikel Kuehn (Advisor)
Music
Choral Music; Post-Tonal; King James

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  • McDonough, D. T. (2007). “…For the Waters Are Come in Unto My Soul…” – Fragments of Psalm 69 [Master's thesis, Bowling Green State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1178139061

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • McDonough, Daniel. “…For the Waters Are Come in Unto My Soul…” – Fragments of Psalm 69. 2007. Bowling Green State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1178139061.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • McDonough, Daniel. "“…For the Waters Are Come in Unto My Soul…” – Fragments of Psalm 69." Master's thesis, Bowling Green State University, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1178139061

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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