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Part I: Concerto for Percussion Quartet and Wind Ensemble Part II: The Compositional Technique of Joseph Schwantner as presented in LUMINOSITY "Concerto for Wind Orchestra"

Puckett, James L.
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1554805885529634

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2019, PHD, Kent State University, College of the Arts / School of Music, Hugh A. Glauser.
Part One of this dissertation is a fifteen-minute work, Concerto for Percussion Quartet and Wind Ensemble. The three-movement concerto features four percussionists playing a combined total of 32 instruments accompanied by wind ensemble. The first movement begins with driving rhythms from the percussion delivered in alternating meters. These patterns are supported and enhanced by the addition of secondary themes from the winds. The second movement is tranquil and ethereal in its properties. The ensemble is called upon to utilize extended techniques including finger snaps, key and valve clicks, spoken word, and mass improvisations as well as standard techniques. The closing movement is built upon three collections of pitches and three rhythmic motives ultimately closing with themes from all three movements present. Part Two of the dissertation is a related study of the 2014 work Luminosity Concerto for Wind Orchestra by Joseph Schwantner, written for four percussionists and wind ensemble. In this study the large-scale structures in Luminosity’s three movements are analyzed through the study of rhythmic patterns, pitch organization, and motivic material. The study finds pitch material derived from multiple iterations and subsets of two primary pitch-class sets and built around eight rhythmic motives delivered through compositional techniques found to be common in Schwantner works. This research was influential in the development of the work in Part One.
Richard Devore (Committee Co-Chair)
Frank Wiley (Committee Co-Chair)
H. Gerrey Noh (Committee Member)
Jesse Leyva (Committee Member)
206 p.
Composition; Music; Performing Arts
Percussion, Concerto, Quartet, Schwantner, Luminosity, Wind Ensemble, Band

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  • Puckett, J. L. (2019). Part I: Concerto for Percussion Quartet and Wind Ensemble Part II: The Compositional Technique of Joseph Schwantner as presented in LUMINOSITY "Concerto for Wind Orchestra" [Doctoral dissertation, Kent State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1554805885529634

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  • Puckett, James. Part I: Concerto for Percussion Quartet and Wind Ensemble Part II: The Compositional Technique of Joseph Schwantner as presented in LUMINOSITY "Concerto for Wind Orchestra". 2019. Kent State University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1554805885529634.

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  • Puckett, James. "Part I: Concerto for Percussion Quartet and Wind Ensemble Part II: The Compositional Technique of Joseph Schwantner as presented in LUMINOSITY "Concerto for Wind Orchestra"." Doctoral dissertation, Kent State University, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1554805885529634

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