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AN ANALYSIS AND PERFORMANCE GUIDE FOR THREE SAXOPHONE WORKS BY JOHN ANTHONY LENNON: DISTANCES WITHIN ME, AETERNA, AND ELYSIAN BRIDGES

Chen, Pin-Hua

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Title
AN ANALYSIS AND PERFORMANCE GUIDE FOR THREE SAXOPHONE WORKS BY JOHN ANTHONY LENNON: DISTANCES WITHIN ME, AETERNA, AND ELYSIAN BRIDGES
Author(s)
Chen, Pin-Hua
Issue Date
2016
Director of Research (if dissertation) or Advisor (if thesis)
Professor Erik Lund
Doctoral Committee Chair(s)
Professor Debra Richtmeyer
Committee Member(s)
  • Professor William Kinderman
  • Associate Professor Linda R. Moorhouse
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)
  • Music
  • John
  • Anthony
  • Lennon
  • saxophone
  • analysis
  • distances
  • within
  • me
  • aeterna
  • elysian
  • bridges
  • Pin-Hua
  • Chen
Language
en
Abstract
The American composer John Anthony Lennon (b. 1950) established his reputation in the saxophone community through his early works including Distances Within Me (1979) and the Symphonic Rhapsody (1984). He is an active and productive composer and still writing music for saxophone. This thesis provides an analysis along with a performance guide for three selected works: Distances Within Me for alto saxophone and piano (1979); aeterna for solo alto saxophone (1996); and Elysian Bridges for saxophone quartet (2011). The analyses focus on 1) the interval-classes and the principal sets used in each piece, and 2) a study of the motivic figures by which the formal structure of each work is defined. The musical character and emotional content (where feelings and emotion direct elements such as tempo and rhythm) is given consideration, and the performance guides are based on integrating the emotional content with the technical indications.
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text
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