This thesis illustrates how I hear processes of expansion organizing musical materials in the First String Quartet. By employing a flexible approach to expansion and developing models of wedge and additive expansions beyond the bounds of specific voice-leading or rhythmic augmentation procedures, expansion processes can be understood in each of the varied episodes of the quartet. Gubaidulina’s use of expansion processes, embodied organically in pitch, rhythm, form, and physical space, unifies the episodic materials of the First String Quartet and provides an inevitable conclusion to the work’s loose narrative.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:unt.edu/info:ark/67531/metadc149671 |
| Date | 08 1900 |
| Creators | Stroud, Cara |
| Contributors | Schwarz, David, 1952-, Arthurs, Daniel J., 1981-, Sovik, Thomas Paul |
| Publisher | University of North Texas |
| Source Sets | University of North Texas |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | Text |
| Rights | Public, Stroud, Cara, Copyright, Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights Reserved. |
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