Concerto for orchestra is a twenty-minute work for large orchestra. It was conceived
from my personal interest in creating a musical narrative that could create different
moods, colors, contrast, agreement, tension, and resolution. I had a major influence from
Ligeti’s Double Concerto regarding pitch, mood and form organization. I used his
technique of interval signal to differentiate different sections of a movement as well as
chromatic balance─the alternation of diatonic scales related chromatically. I also had
influences from Mahler, Debussy, Nancarrow, and from my own work. The narrative of
my Concerto is based on Ligeti’s notion of states, events and transformations. My
Concerto presents states that are transformed into new states. The piece is divided in four
movements: Lights, Convergences, Lights II, Convergences II. The Lights movements
favor delicate texture, based on a major melodic line and a subtle accompaniment. They
also give prominence to solo sections. Convergences favors the idea of dialogue,
multitudinousness, contrast, and dense textures. Convergences II emphasizes the tutti
versus solo and ritornello form from Baroque concertos. / text
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UTEXAS/oai:repositories.lib.utexas.edu:2152/ETD-UT-2011-05-2780 |
| Date | 01 August 2011 |
| Creators | Passos, Luís Otávio Teixeira |
| Source Sets | University of Texas |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | thesis |
| Format | application/pdf |
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