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SIDEWAYS

BERN, ALAN SETH
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1145547580

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2006, DMA, University of Cincinnati, College-Conservatory of Music : Composition.
Throughout the 20th century, composers have written works reflecting or portraying different states of time consciousness. Not infrequently, such compositions have been stimulated by composer-choreographer collaborations, such as the one between John Cage and Merce Cunningham. The present work is also the result of a collaboration, with choreographer Eliza Miller. The theme is that peculiar state of consciousness we call "absent-mindedness," in which we move through time and space apparently only subliminally aware of our surroundings and ourselves, mentally preoccupied with our own memories, inner monologues, melodies, plan-making, and so on. Most of us are familiar with the experience of emerging from such a fog and suddenly becoming aware of ourselves and others. The challenge to explore such states musically is analogous to the philosophical problem posed by Heidegger: how to articulate absence in a language of presence. Neither the repetitive structures of minimalism nor the progressive structures of more teleological musical languages reflect a state of mind that is neither trance-like nor narrative, but somewhere in between. In "Sideways" I have tried to find and develop a musical language both adequate to this task and inspiring to my esteemed artistic collaborator and her fine dance company.
Dr. Joel Hoffman (Advisor)
77 p.
Music
new music; piano; keyboard; clarinet; bass clarinet; dance

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  • BERN, A. S. (2006). SIDEWAYS [Doctoral dissertation, University of Cincinnati]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1145547580

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • BERN, ALAN. SIDEWAYS. 2006. University of Cincinnati, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1145547580.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • BERN, ALAN. "SIDEWAYS." Doctoral dissertation, University of Cincinnati, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1145547580

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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