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Symbolic structure in the music of Gubaidulina

Neary, Fay Damaris

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1999, Doctor of Musical Arts, Ohio State University, Music.
The Russian composer Sofia Gubaidulina (b.1931) began to receive acclaim in the West during the late 1980s. Since moving to live in Hamburg, Germany, in 1992, she has received commissions from a number of leading international orchestras and other organizations. The composer’s self-confessed preoccupation with symbolic themes of a religious or mystical nature, particularly evident in her typically-religious titles, has resulted in a bibliography centered around programmatic concerns, aimed at exposing in her music symbols of her diverse national and religious heritage. This document addresses the symbolic generative force underlying Gubaidulina’s music, and its relation to elements of formal organization, melodic structure, thematic content, rhythm, phraseology, and timbre. To this end it concentrates on two pieces in detail: In Croce, for cello and organ (1976) and Garten von Freuden und Traurigkeiten, for flute, viola and harp (1980).
Jan Radzynski (Advisor)
196 p.

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  • Neary, F. D. (1999). Symbolic structure in the music of Gubaidulina [Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1120157817

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Neary, Fay. Symbolic structure in the music of Gubaidulina. 1999. Ohio State University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1120157817.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Neary, Fay. "Symbolic structure in the music of Gubaidulina." Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University, 1999. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1120157817

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