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Date of Graduation
Spring 5-3-2013
Document Type
Dissertation
Degree Name
Doctor of Musical Arts (DMA)
Department
School of Music
Advisor(s)
Pedro Aponte
Eric Ruple
Jason Haney
Abstract
This document is a study of Augusta Read Thomas’s piano études from the point of view of mood and atmosphere. These expressive aspects of Thomas’s piano pieces spring out from both the descriptive titles and from the suggestive piano writing. The music analysis of Thomas’s piano études utilizes cinema art as a means to elaborate on musical imagery, based on the cinema’s potential to convey mood and atmosphere. The crossroads between Thomas’s piano études and cinema art affords to create a pedagogical tool as a means for expressive and convincing performances of Thomas’s pieces.
Recommended Citation
Gonzalez, Luis Bernardo, "Pedagogical use of cinematic imagery in Augusta Read Thomas's Piano Etudes" (2013). Dissertations, 2014-2019. 90.
https://commons.lib.jmu.edu/diss201019/90
