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Two Movements from the Delphic Suite: A Composition for Orchestra

Delphic Suite is a composition for orchestra that depicts specific events narrated in Homer's epic tale, Odyssey. For the purpose of this thesis the second movement, Raid on Ismarus, has been omitted so as to focus on the melodic, rhythmic, and harmonic structures of the first movement, Lament from Troy, and the third movement, Ruler of the Winds. Each of these musical parameters will be analyzed in order to illustrate the Suite's imitation of compositional techniques exemplified in the music of Homer's era, and the musical results obtained by juxtaposing those parameters upon a twentieth-century tonal scheme that provides the Suite with an eclectic ambience.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:unt.edu/info:ark/67531/metadc501059
Date12 1900
CreatorsWalczyk, Kevin, 1964-
ContributorsMcTee, Cindy, 1953-, Cho, Gene J., Joyner, David Lee
PublisherUniversity of North Texas
Source SetsUniversity of North Texas
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeThesis or Dissertation
Format1 score (xxxi, 37 leaves): ill., Text
RightsPublic, Walczyk, Kevin, 1964-, Copyright, Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights reserved.

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