"Aspects of Renaissance Influence in Selected Movements of Morten Lauridsen's ""Madrigali: Six 'Fire Songs' on Italian Renaissance Poems"" and ""Lux Aeterna"""

Young, Welborn Edward

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Title

"Aspects of Renaissance Influence in Selected Movements of Morten Lauridsen's ""Madrigali: Six 'Fire Songs' on Italian Renaissance Poems"" and ""Lux Aeterna"""

Author(s)

Young, Welborn Edward

Issue Date

2003

Doctoral Committee Chair(s)

Stoltzfus, Fred

Department of Study

Music

Discipline

Music

Degree Granting Institution

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Degree Name

A.Mus.D.

Degree Level

Dissertation

Date of Ingest

2015-09-25T22:53:09Z

Keyword(s)

Music

Language

eng

Abstract

In these cycles he incorporates obvious musical devices such as chromaticism, cross-relations, canon, paired duets, cantus firmus, chant-like melodic writing, Augenmusik, abruptio, and imitation that are historical techniques generally associated with the aforementioned composers. Although he does not attempt to duplicate the prior styles, the question remains, does the appearance of influence in these cycles result from Lauridsen's application of a general idea or from the application of an historical practice in a contemporary idiom? The purpose of this dissertation, then, is to analyze and compare Lauridsen's use of inferred historical techniques in selected movements from the Madrigali and Lux Aeterna cycles with representative models by the specified composers to determine how and in what measure Lauridsen incorporates the historical traditions in these cycles.

Graduation Semester

2003

Type of Resource

text

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