Advisor
Faganel, Gal
Committee Member
Krawitz, Justin
Committee Member
Fulks, Jubal
Department
Cello Performance
Institution
University of Northern Colorado
Type of Resources
Text
Place of Publication
Greeley (Colo.)
Publisher
University of Northern Colorado
Date Created
12-2020
Extent
131 pages
Digital Origin
Born digital
Abstract
The twenty-first century boasts a vast repertoire of solo cello pieces. While many editions might feature phrase markings and other performance indications by the composer, they rarely include bowing indications, fingerings, and other practical advice. Due to the diversity and sometimes technical difficulty of the twenty-first-century solo cello repertoire, most new works now include guidelines or performance guides written by the composer or first performer. I have selected three pieces according to the following criteria: no performance guide is currently available; the published score lacks editorial guidance on performance issues such as bowing and fingering; and no commercially available recording has yet been released. These three pieces are: Lera Auerbach’s La Suite dels Ocells (Suite of the birds), Olli Mustonen’s Frei, aber einsam (Free, but lonely), and Giovanni Sollima’s La Folia. This document provides valuable background information about the above-mentioned composers and their compositions, a performance guide with fingerings and bowings for the works selected for this study, interviews with the composers and the cellists who gave the world premiere of these works, and recordings of these pieces. I have also compiled what aims to be a complete catalog of all published works for solo cello written between 2000 and 2020.
Degree type
DMA
Degree Name
Doctoral
Local Identifiers
Pliego_unco_0161D_10888
Rights Statement
Copyright is held by the author.
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