John Corigliano's Etude Fantasy (1976) is a significant and challenging addition to
the late twentieth century piano repertoire. A large-scale work, it occupies a particularly
important place in the composer's output of music for piano. The remarkable variety of
genres, styles, forms, and techniques in Corigliano's oeuvre as a whole is also evident in
his piano music. This profusion of sources and its application to the Etude Fantasy are
explored in the introduction, which is a general discussion o f the composer's background
and aesthetic stance.
The intriguing title of the Etude Fantasy implies the coexistence of two genres and
raises the issue of the role of each genre in the thematic and structural organization o f the
work. It is this issue which is the principal subject of inquiry in the thesis.
Chapter I examines the historical background o f the etude genre, discussing
similarities between the pianistic techniques employed in Corigliano's work and those
found in specific historical instances of the etude genre over two centuries.
Chapter II focuses on the historical background of the fantasia genre, emphasizing
contrasting characters, textures, and keys as the main indicators o f a free form, and at the
same time drawing attention to thematic transformation as a device of structural
unification.
Chapter III concentrates on elements that produce structural and formal coherence
in John Corigliano's Etude Fantasy. These elements are motivic, intervalic, melodic, and
harmonic in nature.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:BVAU.2429/13113 |
| Date | 05 1900 |
| Creators | Kuzmas, Janina |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Relation | UBC Retrospective Theses Digitization Project [http://www.library.ubc.ca/archives/retro_theses/] |
Page generated in 0.0018 seconds