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IMPETUS
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Kennaugh, Adam Kord, Kennaugh
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Abstract Details
Year and Degree
2018, Master of Music (MM), Bowling Green State University, Music Composition.
Abstract
Impetus is a six-minute single movement piece for orchestra consisting of 3 flutes (3rd doubling piccolo), 2 oboes, English horn, 2 clarinets in Bb, bass clarinet in Bb, 2 bassoons, contrabassoon, 4 horns, 3 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba, timpani, 3 percussion, harp, piano, and strings. The title is in reference to the interjections that take place throughout the piece, which may cause the preceding material to drastically change, or at times not change at all. The piece is in three large, contrasting sections, each connected by two different types of transitions. The first section involves a quiet, dense, slow moving texture using quarter-tones. This density is interrupted—but not affected—by loud, abrupt interjections from the entire orchestra. The second section is a loose reflection of the first; however, the loud, abrupt interjections do change the preceding material. This section is fragmentary and episodic, alternating between the orchestral interruptions and material differing completely in instrumentation, timbre, dynamics, and character. The third and final section begins with slow, quiet swells transferred throughout the orchestra. It also features sound-based techniques that have not been used at any other point in the piece: air sounds, scratching/rubbing parts of the instruments, and key clicks. Through the use of these techniques, references to the first section will take place; however, these references are blurred and ultimately unrecognizable.
Committee
Marilyn Shrude, Dr. (Advisor)
Christopher Dietz, Dr. (Committee Member)
Pages
23 p.
Subject Headings
Music
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Music Education
Keywords
Orchestra
;
microtone
;
microtonal
;
extended techniques
;
symphony
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Kennaugh, Kennaugh, A. K. (2018).
IMPETUS
[Master's thesis, Bowling Green State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1522173859721773
APA Style (7th edition)
Kennaugh, Kennaugh, Adam.
IMPETUS.
2018. Bowling Green State University, Master's thesis.
OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center
, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1522173859721773.
MLA Style (8th edition)
Kennaugh, Kennaugh, Adam. "IMPETUS." Master's thesis, Bowling Green State University, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1522173859721773
Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)
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© 2018, some rights reserved.
IMPETUS by Adam Kord Kennaugh Kennaugh is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License. Based on a work at etd.ohiolink.edu.
This open access ETD is published by Bowling Green State University and OhioLINK.