Riccardo Formosa has been identified as being an important and widely recognised young Australian composer. Formosa's possession of a sophisticated composition technique is central to his approach to composition and to his reputation among contemporary composers.
Vertigo: Riccardo Formosa's Composition Technique aims to define the composition technique employed by Formosa. It does so by analysing the works from a number of clearly defined perspectives.
The study proceeds firstly through a description of the works as a whole and their relationship to the composers personal history. Secondly, the note-to-note operations Formosa has employed are reassembled through a detailed examination of the scores. Thirdly, an assessment is made of the function of the various techniques within the musical texture. Lastly, a number of comparisons are made between Formosas work and the work of his compositional models.
The study concludes that Formosas works show evidence of a composition technique operating effectively on different levels. The note-to-note processes, simple in themselves, are multiplied to form a complex counterpoint. On both the note-to-note level and the relationship between larger sections of the works, the controlling factor was found to be one of binary expression in the form of symmetry or complementarity, a compositional aesthetic also held by Formosa's teacher. Franco Donatoni.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:ADTP/217159 |
| Date | January 1994 |
| Creators | Barkl, Michael Laurence Gordon, mikewood@deakin.edu.au |
| Publisher | Deakin University. |
| Source Sets | Australiasian Digital Theses Program |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Rights | http://www.deakin.edu.au/disclaimer.html), Copyright Michael Laurence Gordon Barkl |
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