Rachmaninoff's changing view of symphonic structure [microform]
- Bib ID:
- 3283370
- Format:
- Book and Microform
- Author:
- Cannata, David Francis Butler
- Description:
- 256 p.
- Summary:
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Despite his expertise as an executant, Sergei Rachmaninoff, throughout his life, thought of himself as a composer. Through a discussion of the principles by which he constructed his symphonic works, this dissertation highlights Rachmaninoff's music as the culmination of the Russian, post-Wagnerian tradition. Chapter 1 places Rachmaninoff's life and music within the historical framework of the late-19th century. An explanation of the various repositories for the Rachmaninoff Nachlass is included. Chapter 2 reviews Rachmaninoff's working method through an examination of the extant MSS, and, using the Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini as an example, shows how these documents typically interact. Chapter 3 examines the methods by which Rachmaninoff constructed his more important symphonic works up to 1917.
Using the precedent of a new source for the First Concerto, the discussion in Chapter 4 concludes that Rachmaninoff's revisions for the Second Symphony and Isle of the Dead cannot be considered viable performance options. Chapter 5 analyzes the Third Symphony as a tonal construction. By reinterpreting the means by which he had constructed previous symphonic pieces, Rachmaninoff found the symphony a viable medium for musical expression well after most of his contemporaries had died or abandoned the idiom.
- Notes:
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- (UnM)AAI9317564
- Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 54-02, Section: A, page: 0360.
- Adviser: Robert Bailey.
- Thesis (Ph.D.)--New York University, 1993.
- Reproduction:
- Microfiche. Ann Arbor, Mich.: University Microfilms International.
- Subject:
- Music
- Other authors/contributors:
- New York University
- Copyright:
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