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Fractures

Loutzenheiser, Max J
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ksuhonors1463053698

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, BFA, Kent State University, College of the Arts / School of Music, Hugh A. Glauser.
Fractures is a creative work for piano and fixed media that explores sectional, post-minimalistic writing over the span of twenty-five minutes. It is heavily thematic, both in its use of musical ideas and its incorporation of aspects of nature, and it borrows material from each section to produce a work that develops slowly and organically. Musical ideas that dominated this piece include modulation by minor thirds and the use of octatonic scales. Also important were fugal techniques such as subject statement, multiple entrances, diminution, augmentation, and stretto. The goal of Fractures is to create a series of settings and atmospheres that the listener travels through during the performance. The fixed media material’s role is to contribute the sounds the piano cannot provide and to help create these settings and atmospheres, building on the themes of the unyielding flow of time and the raw power of nature.
Frank Wiley (Advisor)
Composition; Music

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  • Loutzenheiser, M. J. (2016). Fractures [Undergraduate thesis, Kent State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ksuhonors1463053698

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Loutzenheiser, Max. Fractures. 2016. Kent State University, Undergraduate thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ksuhonors1463053698.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Loutzenheiser, Max. "Fractures." Undergraduate thesis, Kent State University, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ksuhonors1463053698

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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