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Germinal Ideas and Processes within plies (2002): A Chamber Work for Eleven Players

The piece is a twenty minute work discoursing the integration and eventual dissolution of two separate musical strands. The pitch material of each strand is determined from synthetic scales whose intervalic content duplicates at the following intervals: Perfect 12th, Diminished 12th, Minor 9th, Perfect 8ve, and Major 7th. A proportional means of temporal compression is generated through the use of the factor, 11/15 (e.g. Event 2 is 11/15 the duration of Event 1). Various elements of jazz music informed the construction of plies, including the instrumentation of the ensemble and the means by which the performers interact throughout the piece. Internal cueing and performer decisions are meant to eliminate the need of a conductor in favor of increased interpretive freedom by the performers.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:unt.edu/info:ark/67531/metadc3309
Date12 1900
CreatorsStecher, David
ContributorsKlein, Joseph, 1962-, Phipps, Graham Howard, Nelson, Jon Christopher
PublisherUniversity of North Texas
Source SetsUniversity of North Texas
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeThesis or Dissertation
FormatText
RightsPublic, Copyright, Stecher, David, Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights reserved.

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