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A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF SCENES, SCENES REVISTED, and LAST SCENES by VERNE REYNOLDS

JONES, BRANDON D.
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1147132525

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2006, DMA, University of Cincinnati, College-Conservatory of Music : Conducting, Wind Emphasis.
American French hornist and composer Verne Reynolds (b. 1926) spent most of his career on the faculty at the Eastman School of Music as Professor of Horn. During his thirty-six year tenure there (1959–1995) he was a founding member of the Eastman Brass Quintet as well as their chief arranger. Reynolds also held positions in the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, the American Woodwind Quintet, and the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra. In addition to his teaching and arranging duties, Reynolds is a prolific composer. His oeuvre spans nearly every genre, including solo, chamber and pedagogical works as well as compositions for orchestra and wind ensemble. In the 1970s, Reynolds composed three works for wind ensemble entitled Scenes, Scenes Revisited, and Last Scenes. In these works he utilized various techniques and influences that include serialism, jazz, and aleatory along with more traditional compositional methods such as variation, imitation, and development of motivic ideas. This study examines each of these three works individually in terms of their use of serialism, orchestration, jazz influence, aleatory, and form. A descriptive analysis is then presented for each work, which seeks to aid in study of the scores. These elements are then compared to demonstrate the relationships among all three works. Also included is an appendix listing all of Reynolds’s compositions and transcriptions for wind and percussion instruments, which total over one hundred.
Rodney Winther (Advisor)
90 p.
Music
Verne Reynolds; Scenes; Scenes Revisited; Last Scenes; analysis; wind ensemble

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  • JONES, B. D. (2006). A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF SCENES, SCENES REVISTED, and LAST SCENES by VERNE REYNOLDS [Doctoral dissertation, University of Cincinnati]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1147132525

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • JONES, BRANDON. A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF SCENES, SCENES REVISTED, and LAST SCENES by VERNE REYNOLDS. 2006. University of Cincinnati, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1147132525.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • JONES, BRANDON. "A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF SCENES, SCENES REVISTED, and LAST SCENES by VERNE REYNOLDS." Doctoral dissertation, University of Cincinnati, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1147132525

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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