Creator

Gregory Klug

Advisor

Ehle, Robert C.

Advisor

Bellman, Jonathan

Committee Member

Liu-Rosenbaum, Aaron

Committee Member

Luttmann, Stephen

Committee Member

Guyver, Russell

Department

Music

Institution

University of Northern Colorado

Type of Resources

Text

Place of Publication

Greeley (Colo.)

Publisher

University of Northern Colorado

Date Created

5-1-2012

Genre

Thesis

Extent

149 pages

Digital Origin

Born digital

Description

The choral symphony is a hybrid genre. A symphony may be defined as an orchestral work that balances musical variety with an overarching unity, and creates the sense of a journey. Formal cohesion and a sense of inevitability are integral. These ends may be achieved without adherence to Classical symphonic structure. Franz Liszt's Dante Symphony and Hilding Rosenberg's Revelation of St. John are choral symphonies that use text from the Bible, and merit close analysis. They both serve as models in various ways to an original composition, the Symphony of Creation. Analysis of all three of these works shows the use of rhetorical formal structures, and demonstrates the explanatory power of a theory about the meaning of music: it is a language in which musical phenomena are recognized as metaphors for extra-musical phenomena. All the parameters of music--pitch, rhythm, timbre, harmony, dynamics, and range--collaborate to generate metaphors for such ideas as height and depth, light and dark, malevolence and benevolence, pain and pleasure, violence and gentleness.

Degree type

DMA

Degree Name

Doctoral

People

Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321

People

Liszt, Franz, 1811-1886

Language

English

Local Identifiers

Klug_unco_0161D_10130.pdf

Rights Statement

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