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Le monde du silence: A Reconsideration of the Symphonic Poem for the Twenty-First Century

Jolley, Jennifer
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1342104000

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2012, DMA, University of Cincinnati, College-Conservatory of Music: Composition.
During the second half of the nineteenth century, the symphonic poem thrived because it satisfied the key aspirations of its time: to relate music to the outside world and to integrate multi-movement forms, thus elevating instrumental program music to its highest level. Therefore, it became the apex of music, and composers chose it as the genre for some of the most important works of the period. However, due to an increased preference for musical abstraction over extra-musical inspiration in symphonic works, it quickly fell out of favor in the 1920s. Nevertheless, the ideals that led to the genre's displacement can be replaced with a twenty-first century aesthetic by updating the subject matter, returning to the multi-movement symphonic form, and ultimately reintegrating extra-musical inspiration and expressiveness in music. My dissertation updates the symphonic poem in this way by splitting the single-movement form and by simultaneously evoking emotion and current images from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon incident through satiric narration.
Joel Hoffman, DMA (Committee Chair)
Mike Fiday, PhD (Committee Member)
Douglas Knehans, DMA (Committee Member)
41 p.
Music
orchestra with narration; symphonic poem; monologues with music; deepwater horizon; program music; captivism;

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  • Jolley, J. (2012). Le monde du silence: A Reconsideration of the Symphonic Poem for the Twenty-First Century [Doctoral dissertation, University of Cincinnati]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1342104000

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Jolley, Jennifer. Le monde du silence: A Reconsideration of the Symphonic Poem for the Twenty-First Century. 2012. University of Cincinnati, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1342104000.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Jolley, Jennifer. "Le monde du silence: A Reconsideration of the Symphonic Poem for the Twenty-First Century." Doctoral dissertation, University of Cincinnati, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1342104000

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