Edgard Varèse's Amériques: A Next-Level Transcription for Organ, Percussion and Assistant

dc.contributor.advisorStallmann, Kurten_US
dc.creatorMcCoy, Yuri Haydenen_US
dc.date.accessioned2019-05-17T18:53:14Zen_US
dc.date.available2019-05-17T18:53:14Zen_US
dc.date.created2019-05en_US
dc.date.issued2019-04-17en_US
dc.date.submittedMay 2019en_US
dc.date.updated2019-05-17T18:53:14Zen_US
dc.description.abstractThe musical world of the 1920’s gave rise to wildly opposing aesthetic views. Composers were, at one extreme pushing forth a modernist ideal indifferent to audience tastes, and at the other extreme, producing historically inspired, tuneful music. Composers such as Edgard Varèse marched boldly forward into the abyss always searching for the new, whereas, following his Russian period, Igor Stravinsky and the neoclassical camp focused their attention rearward, mining proven composition techniques of olden times and creating new versions of them. As it turns out, the world of organ building in the 1920’s was embroiled in a similar debate of wether to push forward with new technology, or return to past models. In the 19th century, symphonic organ builders in England developed new technologies allowing for the storing of memory, and greater means of expression through electric action and multiple swell shades. This allowed the genre of symphonic transcriptions to soar in popularity. Neoclassicism’s parallel movement in organ building was called orgelbewegung (or, organ reform movement) which sought to recreate the mastery of centuries old European schools of organ building. Orgelbewegung came on the footsteps of the huge boom in large symphonic organ installations. With an eye towards tradition, these earlier symphonic organs were altered or dismantled altogether, in order to reflect the ideals of clarity and counterpoint. The transcription of Varèse’s Amériques presented here is inspired directly from the golden age of symphonic organ building, the popular genre of symphonic transcriptions, and the unapologetic modernist aesthetic of the early 1920’s. In recent years, organ transcriptions, and the symphonic instruments they were composed for have experienced a revival of sorts, making Amériques fertile ground for a next-level transcription project.en_US
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dc.identifier.citationMcCoy, Yuri Hayden. "Edgard Varèse's Amériques: A Next-Level Transcription for Organ, Percussion and Assistant." (2019) Diss., Rice University. <a href="https://hdl.handle.net/1911/105965">https://hdl.handle.net/1911/105965</a>.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1911/105965en_US
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.rightsCopyright is held by the author, unless otherwise indicated. Permission to reuse, publish, or reproduce the work beyond the bounds of fair use or other exemptions to copyright law must be obtained from the copyright holder.en_US
dc.subjectOrganen_US
dc.subjectTranscriptionen_US
dc.subjectVarèseen_US
dc.subjectAmeriquesen_US
dc.titleEdgard Varèse's Amériques: A Next-Level Transcription for Organ, Percussion and Assistanten_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
dc.type.materialTexten_US
thesis.degree.departmentOrgan Performanceen_US
thesis.degree.disciplineMusicen_US
thesis.degree.grantorRice Universityen_US
thesis.degree.levelDoctoralen_US
thesis.degree.majorOrgan Performanceen_US
thesis.degree.nameDoctor of Musical Artsen_US
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