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Temporal Brush Strokes: Aspects of Temporality and Musical Narrative in Grisey’s Partiels and Talea

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2017, Master of Arts, Ohio State University, Music.
Music can be observed as the construction of sound and silence throughout time. We have a vast vocabulary and many analytical tools to talk about the construction of music outside of time, but still, struggle to find ways to discuss music in terms of temporal relationships. Composers often use terms such as `pacing’ and `flow’ to describe temporal relationships in music. This thesis will attempt to address temporality and musical narrative in a more rigorous fashion, building on concepts from the literature of music perception and the author’s own observations. The methodologies presented in this paper will be illustrated through analysis of two works, Partiels and Talea, of Gerard Grisey, a founder of the musical style known as `spectral music’, one of the more pervasive styles of the later-twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Due to its nature, spectral music often avoids common tendencies of musical construction regarding melodic and motivic development and transformation. Rather, harmony and timbre are the tools composers look to for musical direction, and this paper intends to explore how composers shape these timbral and harmonic resources through time to create a sense of musical narrative. While the methodologies presented in this thesis are focused primarily on spectral music, the author feels that they can be applied, in a general sense, to musics of many other styles and genres.
David Clampitt (Advisor)
Thomas Wells (Committee Member)
Anna Gawboy (Committee Member)
61 p.

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  • Tickel, J. (2017). Temporal Brush Strokes: Aspects of Temporality and Musical Narrative in Grisey’s Partiels and Talea [Master's thesis, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1492782264976939

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  • Tickel, James. Temporal Brush Strokes: Aspects of Temporality and Musical Narrative in Grisey’s Partiels and Talea . 2017. Ohio State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1492782264976939.

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  • Tickel, James. "Temporal Brush Strokes: Aspects of Temporality and Musical Narrative in Grisey’s Partiels and Talea ." Master's thesis, Ohio State University, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1492782264976939

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)