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Sources of inspiration in selected piano works by Sergei Slonimsky

Kozlova, Yulia V
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1117574266

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2005, Doctor of Musical Arts, Ohio State University, Music.
Sergei Slonimsky is an important composer, without whom Russian music would be incomplete and less controversial. It is not easy to find composers who, with the same success, utilize virtually every existing classical and modern music genre in their compositions. His output covers opera, symphony, ballet, oratorio, and sonata. He is the author of numerous chamber compositions, music for folk instruments, and teaching pieces for children. His vividly imaginative compositions show a brilliant composer's mastery. Slonimsky draws on many historical eras and cultural epochs: Antiquity, Middle Ages and Renaissance, Baroque, Classicism, and Romanticism. His music consists of a variety of images that contain an abundance of artistic information. However, most of Sergei Slonimsky's works are unpublished and rarely performed in the United States. Included in the document is a biographical background of the composer as well as a description of his compositional style and accomplishments. The document will focus on the composer's piano works and the extra-musical stimuli that inspired these compositions. The main emphasis of investigation will be related to the works inspired by music's sister arts - painting and sculpture (the suite Three Graces and Passing-by Beauty). The visual and sound images and the message both the artist and the composer try to convey will be compared and contrasted. The literary aspect of Slonimsky's piano works, his fascination with Romanticism, and his continuation of the Russian tradition of imitating bell sounds in music will also be explored.
Steven Glaser (Advisor)
114 p.
Music
Sergei Slonimsky; Russian Piano Music; Bells in piano music; Music inspired by Art; Music inspired by Literature

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  • Kozlova, Y. V. (2005). Sources of inspiration in selected piano works by Sergei Slonimsky [Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1117574266

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Kozlova, Yulia. Sources of inspiration in selected piano works by Sergei Slonimsky. 2005. Ohio State University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1117574266.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Kozlova, Yulia. "Sources of inspiration in selected piano works by Sergei Slonimsky." Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University, 2005. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1117574266

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