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Petals of a Rose Close
Author Info
Keenan, Brendan Owen
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http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1406810012
Abstract Details
Year and Degree
2014, DMA, University of Cincinnati, College-Conservatory of Music: Composition.
Abstract
Petals of a Rose Close examines in music and prose a poem by Sylvia Plath, Edge (1963) and a passage from the novel Le Cote de Guermantes (The Guermantes Way) (1921), by Marcel Proust. Both are about a deceased woman: Proust writes about his grandmother, while Plath’s poem is more abstract in that the figure has no identity. Both passages are about purification and perfection following each subject’s demise. Compositionally, the piece consists of six spoken essay portions and five pairs of companion canons set to the passage by Proust. Each companion canon uses the same melody, but alters the temporal, intervallic and key relationships. Each pair is unique, demonstrating the inexorable changes leading to the visions of perfection presented by Plath and Proust. The title refers to a sentence in the poem: She has folded Them back into her body as petals Of a rose close . . .
Committee
Mara Helmuth, D.M.A. (Committee Chair)
Mike Fiday, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
Joel Hoffman, D.M.A. (Committee Member)
Pages
33 p.
Subject Headings
Music
Keywords
SSA choir
;
organ
;
sylvia plath
;
marcel proust
;
edge
;
reader
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Keenan, B. O. (2014).
Petals of a Rose Close
[Doctoral dissertation, University of Cincinnati]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1406810012
APA Style (7th edition)
Keenan, Brendan.
Petals of a Rose Close.
2014. University of Cincinnati, Doctoral dissertation.
OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center
, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1406810012.
MLA Style (8th edition)
Keenan, Brendan. "Petals of a Rose Close." Doctoral dissertation, University of Cincinnati, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1406810012
Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)
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