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George Rochberg’s Caprice Variations for Unaccompanied Violin: A Stylistic Study and Performance Guide

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2017, DMA, University of Cincinnati, College-Conservatory of Music: Violin.
George Rochberg (1916–2005) composed the Caprice Variations, his large-scale set of fifty variations on Paganini’s twenty-fourth caprice, in 1970, over a year before his String Quartet No. 3. While the Quartet is one of the most discussed pieces in scholarly essays concerning musical postmodernism, the Caprice Variations has received scant attention despite also participating in a poly-stylistic combination of past musical styles and modernist techniques. This performance guide views the variations through the lens of Rochberg’s notions of ars combinatoria, an aesthetic that is often applied to the Quartet No. 3. It provides performers with knowledge of the multitude of styles and structures found in the variations, helpful instruction concerning the difficulties of the work, and advice for performers who wish to perform selections of the work.
Kurt Sassmannshaus, M.M. (Committee Chair)
Lee Fiser (Committee Member)
Piotr Milewski, D.M.A. (Committee Member)
90 p.

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  • Park, S. (2017). George Rochberg’s Caprice Variations for Unaccompanied Violin: A Stylistic Study and Performance Guide [Doctoral dissertation, University of Cincinnati]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1491818327037456

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Park, Siryung. George Rochberg’s Caprice Variations for Unaccompanied Violin: A Stylistic Study and Performance Guide. 2017. University of Cincinnati, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1491818327037456.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Park, Siryung. "George Rochberg’s Caprice Variations for Unaccompanied Violin: A Stylistic Study and Performance Guide." Doctoral dissertation, University of Cincinnati, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1491818327037456

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)