Chester, NJ" for full orchestra and electronics, and, The chromatic scale and other iterative loops in Beat Furrer's Konzert fuer Klavier and Orchester

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Title Chester, NJ" for full orchestra and electronics, and, The chromatic scale and other iterative loops in Beat Furrer's Konzert fuer Klavier and Orchester
Publication Type dissertation
School or College College of Fine Arts
Department Music
Author Maxwell, Devin Cole
Date 2016
Description Chester, NJ is a composition for electronics and full orchestra that explores the relationship between the propensity for artificiality inherent in electronic music and the richly human experience of performing orchestral music. The work unfolds in four distinct sections, outlining a slow moving symmetrical ascent of major thirds: C E G# and C. The analysis of Beat Furrer's Konzert für Klavier and Orchester asserts that Furrer's concerto self-defines through a number of iterative loops, the most important being the recurrence and transformation of the ordered chromatic collection: the chromatic scale. Furrer's extensive and clear use of the chromatic scale in conjunction with other identity-building loops places his concerto in the category of a strange loop as defined by Douglas Hofstadter.
Type Text
Publisher University of Utah
Subject Music
Dissertation Name Doctor of Philosophy
Language eng
Rights Management (c) Devin Cole Maxwell
Format application/pdf
Format Medium application/pdf
ARK ark:/87278/s6d84c8n
Setname ir_etd
ID 1500722
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6d84c8n
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