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Wilson, John. Musical borrowing in the works of Caroline Shaw. Retrieved from https://doi.org/doi:10.7282/t3-4e8d-fw67

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TitleMusical borrowing in the works of Caroline Shaw
NameWilson, John (author); Ordway, Scott (chair); Gardner, Patrick (member); Ordway, Scott (member); Johnson, Douglas (member); Rutgers University; Mason Gross School of the Arts
Date Created2021
Other Date2021-05 (degree)
SubjectMusic, Music theory, Blueprint, Borrowing, Caroline Shaw, Gustave Le Gray, Shaw, To The Hands
Extent1 online resource (iii, 101 pages) : illustrations, music
DescriptionCaroline Shaw’s compositions resonate with audiences and critics alike. She was the youngest recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 2013 for Partita for 8 Voices, and her other works have been performed by a litany of exemplary musicians and ensembles. Many of Shaw’s works use or respond to preexisting material but do so to varying degrees. Of her sixteen self-published works, twelve engage with preexistent compositions. This study addresses the manner in which Shaw utilizes borrowed material and the resulting expressive effect that is achieved through this borrowing. Four of Shaw’s pieces were selected for analysis: Blueprint (2016), Entr’acte (2011), both works for string quartet, Gustave Le Gray (2012), written for piano, and To the Hands (2016), written for choir and string ensemble.
While composers can integrate borrowed material in a wide variety of ways, a tension exists between newly composed music and passages that originate from other sources. This study describes how certain motivic and formal methods impact this tension. Additionally, I focus on how unity and large-scale coherence is affected by the presence of borrowed material.
NoteD.M.A.
NoteIncludes bibliographical references
Genretheses
Persistent URLhttps://doi.org/doi:10.7282/t3-4e8d-fw67
LanguageEnglish
CollectionMason Gross School of the Arts Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Organization NameRutgers, The State University of New Jersey
RightsThe author owns the copyright to this work.
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