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Identity in the Clarinet Music of Michael Finnissy and Evan Ziporyn

HIRTHE, GUNNAR OWEN
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu163664908967754

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2021, Doctor of Musical Arts (DMA), Bowling Green State University, Contemporary Music.
ABSTRACT Several works for clarinet by composers Michael Finnissy and Evan Ziporyn feature elements, styles, or inspirations from music of non-Western cultures. However, these compositions resist categorization within the spheres of Western art music and non-Western musical traditions in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The collision of these worlds in the context of music, is inherently fraught with many of the same negative attributes a misunderstanding of cultural context has on social, historical, and political polemics. This scholarship seeks to understand how the construction of identity and its frameworks can be used to negotiate these traps of misunderstanding for the clarinetist performing their work in a globalized twenty-first century. This is achieved through investigating these composers and their influences, via interviews, and through a cultural analysis of their compositions with performance notes. The analysis of identity on culturally influenced music serves to offer performers of these and similar works for clarinet, a perspective that removes a musical idea from that of an object, to one of significant and thoughtful recreation. A perspective that in turn, will create audiences that are intellectually engaged and respectful to non-Western influenced and inspired music, rather than culturally ignorant to what they are hearing and experiencing.
Kevin Schempf, M.M. (Advisor)
Jerry Schnepp, Ph. D. (Other)
Susan Nelson, Ph. D. (Committee Member)
Katherine Meizel, D. M. A. (Committee Member)
127 p.
Music
identity; clarinet; music; Michael Finnissy; Evan Ziporyn

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  • HIRTHE, G. O. (2021). Identity in the Clarinet Music of Michael Finnissy and Evan Ziporyn [Doctoral dissertation, Bowling Green State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu163664908967754

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • HIRTHE, GUNNAR. Identity in the Clarinet Music of Michael Finnissy and Evan Ziporyn. 2021. Bowling Green State University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu163664908967754.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • HIRTHE, GUNNAR. "Identity in the Clarinet Music of Michael Finnissy and Evan Ziporyn." Doctoral dissertation, Bowling Green State University, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu163664908967754

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