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The Shaping of Time in Kaija Saariaho's Émilie: a Performer's Perspective

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2020, Doctor of Musical Arts (DMA), Bowling Green State University, Contemporary Music.
This document examines the ways in which Kaija Saariaho uses texture and timbre to shape time in her 2008 opera, Emilie. Building on ideas about musical time as described by Jonathan Kramer in his book The Time of Music: New Meanings, New Temporalities, New Listening Strategies (1988), such as moment time, linear time, and multiply-directed time, I identify and explain how Saariaho creates linearity and non-linearity in Emilie and address issues about timbral tension/release that are used both structurally and ornamentally. I present a conceptual framework reflecting on my performance choices that can be applied in a general approach to non-tonal music performance. This paper intends to be an aid for performers, in particular conductors, when approaching contemporary compositions where composers use the polarity between tension and release to create the perception of goal-oriented flow in the music.
Emily Freeman Brown, D.M.A. (Advisor)
Brent E. Archer, Ph.D. (Other)
Elaine Colprit, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
Nora Engebretsen-Broman, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
79 p.

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  • Diaz Garcia, M. M. (2020). The Shaping of Time in Kaija Saariaho's Émilie: a Performer's Perspective [Doctoral dissertation, Bowling Green State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1579431479557928

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  • Diaz Garcia, Maria. The Shaping of Time in Kaija Saariaho's Émilie: a Performer's Perspective . 2020. Bowling Green State University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1579431479557928.

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  • Diaz Garcia, Maria. "The Shaping of Time in Kaija Saariaho's Émilie: a Performer's Perspective ." Doctoral dissertation, Bowling Green State University, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1579431479557928

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