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Echoes of Venice: The Origins of the Barcarolle for Solo Piano
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MARGETTS, JAMES ANOR
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Abstract Details
Year and Degree
2008, DMA, University of Cincinnati, College-Conservatory of Music : Piano.
Abstract
This document traces the development of the solo keyboard barcarolle from its origins in late seventeenth-century opera through its establishment as a popular vehicle for wordless musical expression at the dawn of the Romantic era. Opera composers that were initially inspired by romantic notions of Venice and its surrounding waterways eventually widened the dramatic scope of the barcarolle by adapting the form to a variety of other situations and locales. Felix Mendelssohn drew upon both the vocal origins and the Venetian roots of the genre in crafting his four textless "Gondellieder" for solo piano. At approximately the same time, Frederic Chopin issued a more extended and complex
Barcarolle
, still regarded as the highest standard in barcarolle composition. The models provided by these two masters ultimately inspired the creation of well over four hundred additional works, many of which are listed in the concluding chapter and appendix.
Committee
Robert L. Zierolf, PhD (Advisor)
Frank M. Weinstock, MM (Committee Member)
Stephanie P. Schlagel, PhD (Committee Member)
Pages
87 p.
Subject Headings
Music
Keywords
barcarolle
;
Mendelssohn
;
Chopin
;
seventeenth-century opera
;
Gondellied
;
Venice
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MARGETTS, J. A. (2008).
Echoes of Venice: The Origins of the Barcarolle for Solo Piano
[Doctoral dissertation, University of Cincinnati]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1218894990
APA Style (7th edition)
MARGETTS, JAMES.
Echoes of Venice: The Origins of the Barcarolle for Solo Piano.
2008. University of Cincinnati, Doctoral dissertation.
OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center
, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1218894990.
MLA Style (8th edition)
MARGETTS, JAMES. "Echoes of Venice: The Origins of the Barcarolle for Solo Piano." Doctoral dissertation, University of Cincinnati, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1218894990
Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)
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