In February of 2009 I began collaborating with the poet Margot Lurie on a series of songs for soprano voice and a large chamber ensemble. We worked separately for the following year and a half, meeting intermittently to exchange ideas and materials. I chose three poems of similar tone and thematic content, each illustrating a different "scene" which serves as a metaphor revealing a perspective of the human condition. Then I composed the music to support the text, preserving its raw clarity by allowing the piece to unfold on the surface level through simple harmonies and a primarily conjunct, speech-like vocal melody, as well as by controlling the density of instrumental textures and the rate at which new pitch information is introduced. The multiple meanings of the title are reflected in the work on several representational levels: as the vocal melody is rendered (distilled) from the surrounding harmony, the harmonies themselves render (surrender) their perceptual weight to the text, which is in itself a rendering (depiction).
Dissertation
Renderings
University of Iowa
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), University of Iowa
Summer 2010
DOI: 10.17077/etd.dgwmbkje
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Abstract
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Renderings
- Creators
- Zachary David Fischer - University of Iowa
- Contributors
- David K. Gompper (Advisor)Lawrence Fritts (Committee Member)Jennifer Iverson (Committee Member)Jerry Cain (Committee Member)Charlotte Adams (Committee Member)
- Resource Type
- Dissertation
- Degree Awarded
- Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), University of Iowa
- Degree in
- Music
- Date degree season
- Summer 2010
- Publisher
- University of Iowa
- DOI
- 10.17077/etd.dgwmbkje
- Number of pages
- vii, 59 pages
- Copyright
- Copyright 2010 Zachary David Fischer
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- School of Music
- Record Identifier
- 9983776620002771
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