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Twelve Bagatelles for Solo Piano

Pew, Douglas G.

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2009, M.M., University of Cincinnati, College-Conservatory of Music : Composition.
Twelve Bagatelles is a collection of short autobiographical pieces that depict a single mood, event, or facet of my life. The topics range from an unsuccessful attempt at fixing the kitchen faucet to listening to jazz guitarist Pat Metheny to sneaking to the kitchen for a mid-night snack while trying not to wake the baby. Others depict running laps through the house with our three year-old daughter, and my feelings for my wife. After completing the first half of this set, I realized that each piece seemed to hover to a different tonal center. Since I was planning on having twelve pieces all together, I decided to continue the trend and give each it's own tonal gravitation making the set one big tone-row. I am not a practitioner of traditional twelve-tone techniques, but the row created by each pieces tonal center created an irresistible jazz lick that I included in number 10. While I am sure that my tonal twelve-tone techniques have caused Schoenberg an involuntary turn in his grave, I have thoroughly enjoyed this twist on his methods.
Joel Hoffman (Committee Chair)
Michael Fiday (Committee Member)
Mara Helmuth (Committee Member)
28 p.

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  • Pew, D. G. (2009). Twelve Bagatelles for Solo Piano [Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1238667856

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Pew, Douglas. Twelve Bagatelles for Solo Piano. 2009. University of Cincinnati, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1238667856.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Pew, Douglas. "Twelve Bagatelles for Solo Piano." Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1238667856

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)