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Dissonance Treatment in Fuging Tunes by Daniel Read from The American Singing Book and The Columbian Harmonist

This thesis treats Daniel Read's music analytically to establish style characteristics. Read's fuging tunes are examined for metric placement and structural occurrence of dissonance, and dissonance as text painting. Read's comments on dissonance are extracted from his tunebook introductions. A historical chapter includes the English origins of the fuging tune and its American heyday. The creative life of Daniel Read is discussed. This thesis contributes to knowledge of Read's role in the development of the New England Psalmody idiom. Specifically, this work illustrates the importance of understanding and analyzing Read's use of dissonance as a style determinant, showing that Read's dissonance treatment is an immediate and central characteristic of his compositional practice.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:unt.edu/info:ark/67531/metadc501161
Date05 1900
CreatorsSims, Scott G.
ContributorsKillam, Rosemary N., Brown, Newel K., McCroskey, Lenora
PublisherNorth Texas State University
Source SetsUniversity of North Texas
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeThesis or Dissertation
Formatx, 101 leaves : music, Text
RightsPublic, Copyright, Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights reserved., Sims, Scott G.

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