From Pentecost to Dodecaphony
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2013
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Melbourne Conservatorium of Music
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Perkins, A. M. E. (2013). From Pentecost to Dodecaphony. PhD thesis, Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, The University of Melbourne.
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© 2012 Dr. Andrew Michael Ellis Perkins
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Through analysis of the compositions contained within the portfolio, this thesis describes my idiosyncratic creative processes and how I recognise, define, and fulfil a compositional niche that is both complementary and tangential to my compositional perspective, with the objective of creating new directions in my composition. Using the analogy of the artist as historical bricoleur, the thesis explains how I utilise practice- based research to investigate, analyse, and reinterpret, for my own purpose, compositional techniques and materials of music from important periods of innovation in the history of music composition. I refer to these periods as historic nodal points. Drawing on these historical reference points, the music in the folio reasserts the central importance of melody. The outward radiating construction of the music is not dependent on a fundamental harmonic bass line, but represents a new perspective in composition, a form of centrifugal polyphony that has the melodic and rhythmic freedom of medieval plainchant.
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compositional technique