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A Style Analysis of William Bolcom’s Complete Rags for Piano
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YU, YEUNG
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Year and Degree
2007, DMA, University of Cincinnati, College-Conservatory of Music : Piano.
Abstract
William Bolcom: Complete Rags for Piano
is a collection of twenty-two of Bolcom’s piano rags written between 1967 and 1993. In this research, the rags are examined year by year; the stylistic analysis focuses on the use of form, rhythm, harmony, melody, and musical texture in each rag. In these rags, Bolcom perfectly blended a variety of musical styles and elements, including American traditional ragtime styles such as classic rag and stride styles, the nineteenth-century romanticism of Chopin and Schumann, and modern compositional techniques, such as tone clusters and atonal passages. By means of these varied compositional techniques, the music acquires a distinctive sound and identifies what has become known as Bolcom’s unique ragtime style.
Committee
Dr. Joel Hoffman (Advisor)
Pages
175 p.
Subject Headings
Music
Keywords
William Bolcom
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rags for piano
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style analysis
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YU, Y. (2007).
A Style Analysis of William Bolcom’s Complete Rags for Piano
[Doctoral dissertation, University of Cincinnati]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1177096593
APA Style (7th edition)
YU, YEUNG.
A Style Analysis of William Bolcom’s Complete Rags for Piano.
2007. University of Cincinnati, Doctoral dissertation.
OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center
, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1177096593.
MLA Style (8th edition)
YU, YEUNG. "A Style Analysis of William Bolcom’s Complete Rags for Piano." Doctoral dissertation, University of Cincinnati, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1177096593
Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)
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