Theses and Dissertations from UMD
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Item Traditional Folk Music Influences in Classical Saxophone Repertoire: 1910–2018(2021) Braus, Carolyn Clare; Votta, Michael; Music; Digital Repository at the University of Maryland; University of Maryland (College Park, Md.)This dissertation identifies and presents four works for saxophone, each featuring folk elements from a different culture. The introduction to this document outlines the historical development and implications of the term “folk music.” Rather than an art set in stone, folk music is the result of a continuous process of change. It is influenced not only by a culture’s own people, but also by other cultures and other styles of music, including music of the Western classical tradition. The remainder of the paper explores how Leoš Janáček, Fernande Decruck, Dorothy Chang, and Jerod Impichchaachaaha' Tate incorporate folk music into their classical compositions and their motivations for doing so. Leoš Janáček’s Pohádka, composed for cello and piano, was arranged for baritone saxophone by Paul Nason. Janáček was an early ethnomusicologist who collected thousands of folk songs from his native Moravia. By the time he wrote Pohádka in 1910, Janáček no longer used direct folk melodies in his works; rather, the folk style had become part of his musical language. Fernande Decruck’s Sonata in C# is a saxophone standard. The main theme of the work’s second movement is based on the French carol “Noël Nouvelet,” and the third movement contains motives based on the French children’s song “Ainsi Font, Font, Font.” In her piece New Stories, Dorothy Chang uses an all-embracing compositional approach, combing all of her musical influences as a second-generation Chinese American who has lived in both North America and Asia. Composing the piece helped her to express an important layer of her self-identity. Jerod Tate is a Chickasaw classical composer who is trained in the Western classical tradition and incorporates American Indian elements or subjects into all of his works. His goal is to express through music how he feels about being a Chickasaw Indian person.Item Folkloristic And Ethnic Influences In Selected Violin Repertoire: A Study Of Music Inspired By Scottish, Jewish, And Latin American Cultures(2019) Borowsky, Emmanuel; Stern, James; Music; Digital Repository at the University of Maryland; University of Maryland (College Park, Md.)This dissertation examines and discusses folk and ethnic elements in selected violin compositions of the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries, including works by living composers. In examining compositions from several centuries, the aim is to establish a lineage between the past and the present in regards to the usage of traditional folk and ethnic musical elements. Additionally, the analyses will help to identify any differences in the implementation of folk music idioms in works by composers native to the given culture, as compared with works by composers of another origin who sought to emulate these musical characteristics. The focus is on compositions inspired by Scottish fiddling; Jewish spiritual, folk and klezmer music; and Latin-American dances. To show the link between the original sources of inspiration and the presented works, I have considered such musical elements as melody, harmony, rhythm, texture, timbre, and scales, as well as extra-musical subject matter when applicable. By expanding my knowledge of the authentic music that inspired these composers, I deepened my understanding of these works and created a more compelling interpretation. It is my desire to bring to light lesser-known composers who deserve their compositions to be heard. These works were featured in three recitals at the University of Maryland College Park. The first and third recitals were performed in Smith Lecture Hall and the second in Ulrich Recital Hall. A re-recording of Paul Ben-Haim’s Sonata in G, Maurice Ravel’s Kaddish, and Faustas Latenas’ Jerusalem of Lithuania from the second recital took place on May 25, 2017. Recordings of all three recital programs can be found in the Digital Repository at the University of Maryland (DRUM).