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
Copyright is held by author.
