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... After ..
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Xie, Wenhui
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http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1308312624
Abstract Details
Year and Degree
2011, DMA, University of Cincinnati, College-Conservatory of Music: Composition.
Abstract
The inspiration for the … After … is taken from the short story collection After the Quake, by Japanese author Haruki Murakami. The stories were written in response to Japan's 1995 Kobe earthquake, and each story is affected peripherally by the disaster. Translator Jay Rubin says of the collection, "The central characters in After the Quake live far from the physical devastation, which they witness only on TV or in the papers, but for each of them the massive destruction unleashed by the earth itself becomes a turning point in their lives. They are forced to confront an emptiness they have borne inside them for years." Murakami’s work made me consider the concept of life and death and the purpose of our life. The rapid swings of a seismograph’s ink pen reflect a mysterious shaking force that rocks the earth with uncertain changes. I want to commemorate the children who passed away during the earthquakes that happened in many places recently.
Committee
Joel Hoffman, DMA (Committee Chair)
Douglas Knehans, DMA (Committee Member)
Mike Fiday, PhD (Committee Member)
Pages
21 p.
Subject Headings
Music
Keywords
composition
;
music
;
orchestra
;
earthquake
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Xie, W. (2011).
... After ..
[Doctoral dissertation, University of Cincinnati]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1308312624
APA Style (7th edition)
Xie, Wenhui.
... After ..
2011. University of Cincinnati, Doctoral dissertation.
OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center
, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1308312624.
MLA Style (8th edition)
Xie, Wenhui. "... After .." Doctoral dissertation, University of Cincinnati, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1308312624
Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)
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