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Piano Quintet

abstract: Piano Quintet> is a three movement piece, inspired by music of Eastern Europe. Sunrise in Hungary starts with a legato song in the first violin unfolding over slow moving sustained harmonics in the rest of the strings. This is contrasted with a lively Hungarian dance which starts in the piano and jumps throughout all of the voices. Armenian Lament introduces a mournful melody performed over a subtly shifting pedal tone in the cello. The rest of the voices are slowly introduced until the movement builds into a canonic threnody. Evening in Bulgaria borrows from the vast repertoire of Bulgarian dances, including rhythms from the horo and rachenitsa. Each time that the movement returns to the primary theme, it incorporates aspects of the dance that directly preceded it. The final return is the crux of the piece, with the first violin playing a virtuosic ornaments run on the melody. / Dissertation/Thesis / M.M. Composition 2014

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:asu.edu/item:24906
Date January 2014
ContributorsGiese, Adam (Author), Hackbarth, Glenn (Advisor), Demars, James (Committee member), Feisst, Sabine (Committee member), Arizona State University (Publisher)
Source SetsArizona State University
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeMasters Thesis
Format50 pages
Rightshttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/, All Rights Reserved

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