A stylistic and pedagogical study of Reinhold Glière's Three Mazurkas, Op. 29 and selected pieces from Twenty-Five Preludes, Op. 30

Kim, Yunhee

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Title

A stylistic and pedagogical study of Reinhold Glière's Three Mazurkas, Op. 29 and selected pieces from Twenty-Five Preludes, Op. 30

Author(s)

Kim, Yunhee

Issue Date

2020

Director of Research (if dissertation) or Advisor (if thesis)

Tsitsaros, Christos

Doctoral Committee Chair(s)

Hobson, Ian

Committee Member(s)

• Heiles, William
• Mattax Moersch, Charlotte

Department of Study

School of Music

Discipline

Music

Degree Granting Institution

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Degree Name

A.Mus.D. (doctoral)

Keyword(s)

• Romantic
• piano pedagogy
• Reinhold Glière
• Mazurkas
• Preludes
• interpretative stylistic features
• Yunhee Kim
• piano

Language

en

Abstract

This study discusses the following compositions for solo piano by Reinhold Glière (1875-1956): Three Mazurkas, Op. 29 (1906) and selected pieces from the Twenty-Five Preludes, Op. 30 (1907). Like some of his peers, Glière was a composer and pianist at the same time, and he wrote an extensive number of piano works, especially sets of small pieces. His collections of small pieces include Twenty-Five Preludes, Op. 30, Three Mazurkas, Op. 29, and multiple sets of Morceaux and Romances. His compositions reflect a continuation of the traditional Russian Romanticism, which was inherited from Chopin. Unlike his large-scale works, Glière’s piano compositions have been nearly neglected and unexplored in the scholarly literature. This project provides both a stylistic study and a pedagogical overview of the Three Mazurkas and Twenty-Five Preludes. More specifically, I undertake analysis of the forms, harmonies, melodic content, textures and rhythms of the compositions. Furthermore, I explore various performance issues as well as offer a pedagogical overview of them. This thesis consists of four chapters. The first chapter serves as an introduction, containing Glière’s biography and an overview of his compositions and writing style. The second chapter provides a comprehensive analysis and pedagogical examination of the Three Mazurkas, Op. 29. The third chapter provides a detailed analysis of selected preludes from the Twenty-Five Preludes, Op. 30 and performance considerations that must be confronted on account of Glière’s extreme virtuosic writing. The fourth chapter provides a conclusion, summarizing the compositional style in Glière’s piano music.

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