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Perihelion I

Percoco, Bryan A.
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1337714862

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2012, M.M., University of Cincinnati, College-Conservatory of Music: Composition.
Perihelion is an example of post modern eclecticism in that within this singular piece, multiple genres come together to form a unified entity. Elements such as minimalism, post minimalism, post-rock, progressive rock, and avant-garde converge to form a whole. The exploration of the Moog electric guitar, an instrument which can sustain pitches infinitely, adds to the progressive rock feel of the piece, which is already constantly shifting from duple to triple meter, much like many progressive rock groups. The implementation of radios and television sets allots an experimental edge to this piece and verges on avant-gardism in it's approach to using noise-generating objects to project sound into a musical space otherwise dominated by traditional musical instruments. The main inspiration for this piece is the astronomical event of an actual perihelion, which is when, in the earth's orbit around the sun, there is the least amount of distance between the earth and the sun. This event is treated metaphorically within the piece and is represented through the music; the final zenith nearing the end of the piece represents the final apotheosis, and thereafter, the listener gradually drifts away from the point at which they were closest to the sun as they will ever get, then back into orbit, going farther away from the sun until the next annual occurrence of the perihelion.
Mara Helmuth, DMA (Committee Chair)
Mike Fiday, PhD (Committee Member)
58 p.
Music
post minimalism; post-modernism; moog guitar; perihelion; avant-garde; polyrhythms;

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  • Percoco, B. A. (2012). Perihelion I [Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1337714862

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Percoco, Bryan. Perihelion I. 2012. University of Cincinnati, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1337714862.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Percoco, Bryan. "Perihelion I." Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1337714862

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