"""The Form Must Be Ripped Endlessly Open"": Narrative and Gesture in the Late Music of Stefan Wolpe"
Drews, Michael R.
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Description
Title
"""The Form Must Be Ripped Endlessly Open"": Narrative and Gesture in the Late Music of Stefan Wolpe"
Author(s)
Drews, Michael R.
Issue Date
2007
Doctoral Committee Chair(s)
Garnett, Guy E.
Department of Study
Music
Discipline
Music
Degree Granting Institution
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Degree Name
D.M.A.
Degree Level
Dissertation
Keyword(s)
Music
Language
eng
Abstract
Two of the gesture types identified relate directly to Wolpe's preoccupation with opposition: interruption and clearing. The interruption gesture type occurs frequently as means to introduce and integrate extreme contrasts. Influencing the music on a more global scale, the clearing gesture is a more forceful application of opposition; its appearance signals a major shift in the trajectory of a work. While interruption and clearing involve redirection of narrative, the continuation gesture is used as a means of prolongation. Wolpe uses the coalescence gesture as a kind of cadence. Like a traditional cadence coalescence provides a moment of repose; however, unlike traditional cadences this does not result in a feeling of resolution or closure.
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