Dissertation
Saxophone music inspired by birds: an international perspective
University of Iowa
Doctor of Musical Arts (DMA), University of Iowa
Autumn 2022
DOI: 10.25820/etd.006576
Abstract
The final product of this project will be a saxophone recording of six pieces and an accompanying paper, for the purpose of enriching saxophone repertoire and providing resources for saxophonists at all levels and other who are interested in saxophone music.The music was written by composers from America, China, and Japan, and all six pieces feature the theme of birds. The recordings demonstrate several different musical languages (jazz, classical and contemporary), diverse instrument configuration (saxophone with percussion, piano, electronics, or solo), and a broad display of the instrument’s capabilities (saxophone techniques such as altissimo, slap-tongues, glissandi, double- tonguing, multi-phonics, etc).
The accompanying paper includes the background of each composer and a discussion of the repertoire, liner notes for each piece, a brief conclusion, and appendixes. In the appendixes, it notably includes a list of saxophone repertoire inspired by birds, and a transcript of an interview with composer Wantong Jiang about his newly commissioned music, Capriccio of Swan Goose Theme.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Saxophone music inspired by birds: an international perspective
- Creators
- Jichen Zhang
- Contributors
- Kenneth Tse (Advisor)Benjamin Coelho (Committee Member)Jorge Montilla (Committee Member)Réne Lecuona (Committee Member)
- Resource Type
- Dissertation
- Project Type
- Recording Thesis
- Degree Awarded
- Doctor of Musical Arts (DMA), University of Iowa
- Degree in
- Music
- Date degree season
- Autumn 2022
- Publisher
- University of Iowa
- DOI
- 10.25820/etd.006576
- Number of pages
- v, 34 pages
- Copyright
- Copyright 2022 Jichen Zhang
- Language
- English
- Description bibliographic
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 25-26) and discography (page 27).
- Public Abstract (ETD)
The final product of this project will be a saxophone recording of six pieces and an accompanying paper, for the purpose of enriching saxophone repertoire and providing resources for saxophonists at all levels and other who are interested in saxophone music.
The music was written by composers from America, China, and Japan, and all six pieces feature the theme of birds. The recordings demonstrate several different musical languages (jazz, classical and contemporary), diverse instrument configuration (saxophone with percussion, piano, electronics, or solo), and a broad display of the instrument’s capabilities (saxophone techniques such as altissimo, slap-tongues, glissandi, double-tonguing, multi-phonics, etc).
The accompanying paper includes the background of each composer and a discussion of the repertoire, liner notes for each piece, a brief conclusion, and appendixes. In the appendixes, it notably includes a list of saxophone repertoire inspired by birds, and a transcript of an interview with composer Wantong Jiang about his newly commissioned music, Capriccio of Swan Goose Theme.
- Academic Unit
- School of Music; DMA Recording Thesis
- Record Identifier
- 9984362958502771
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