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Valery Gavrilin: A Theoretical and Historical Analysis of Select Works for Voice and Piano

MILLER, KATHLEEN A.
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1201116646

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2008, DMA, University of Cincinnati, College-Conservatory of Music : Voice.
The Russian composer Valery Gavrilin, 1939-1999, composed music from the heart and hoped that his compositions would move his listeners in the same way all music, whether urban, folk or classical, moved him. He believed that music should be accessible to the audience and that it should connect and resonate with the listener. It should not stand above them nor force them to struggle to find its meaning. Though he wrote music in a variety of forms and for a variety of instruments, it is in his compositions for the voice,whether choral, operatic or art song, that Valery Gavrilin best achieved his aesthetic ideals. It is through this uniquely human instrument and its ability to bring to life the written word that Gavrilin finds his own expressive voice. Though his compositions are born of a variety of social, political, cultural and musical influences, Gavrilin’s compositions remain uniquely individual, uniquely Gavrilin. By means of an exploration of the cultural and political history of Russian music from the turn of the nineteenth century through 1999, a review of Valery Gavrilin’s musical heritage, a reflection on his life experience and an analysis of select works for voice and piano, this paper shows that Valery Gavrilin achieved a unique musical style that affords his works for voice and piano an important place not only in Russian vocal literature but also in the international standard vocal repertory.
Mary Henderson-Stucky (Advisor)
100 p.
Music
Gavrilin, Valery; Music; Russian Art Song; Russian folk music

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  • MILLER, K. A. (2008). Valery Gavrilin: A Theoretical and Historical Analysis of Select Works for Voice and Piano [Doctoral dissertation, University of Cincinnati]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1201116646

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • MILLER, KATHLEEN. Valery Gavrilin: A Theoretical and Historical Analysis of Select Works for Voice and Piano. 2008. University of Cincinnati, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1201116646.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • MILLER, KATHLEEN. "Valery Gavrilin: A Theoretical and Historical Analysis of Select Works for Voice and Piano." Doctoral dissertation, University of Cincinnati, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1201116646

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