Off-campus UNL users: To download campus access dissertations, please use the following link to log into our proxy server with your NU ID and password. When you are done browsing please remember to return to this page and log out.
Non-UNL users: Please talk to your librarian about requesting this dissertation through interlibrary loan.
Asian and European Musical Images of Water: Exploring the Stylistic Evolution and Development of Musical Language by Comparing Selected Water-themed Piano Works from the Nineteenth Century to the Present
Abstract
This document aims to explore the stylistic evolution and development of musical language by comparing water-themed piano works selected from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century. The study first examines how water-related pieces were developed through the nineteenth to the twentieth century demonstrating the growth of compositional language on this particular theme. At the turn of the twenty-first century, the document focuses on the similarities and differences between Asian and European water pieces by Karen Tanaka and Andrea Granitzio. The goal of the study is to discuss how the previous generations influenced later composers’ works and how the current generation has developed new styles through constant evolution of traditional musical language. There are many water-related pieces by Asian composers written during the twentieth century. The water theme was attractive to them even though their philosophies are different from Western composers. The outcome of this comparison shows that the characteristics of Western culture and music were gradually absorbed into Eastern culture through easier and frequent cultural communication.
Subject Area
Music|Performing Arts|Asian Studies
Recommended Citation
Wang, Chubing, "Asian and European Musical Images of Water: Exploring the Stylistic Evolution and Development of Musical Language by Comparing Selected Water-themed Piano Works from the Nineteenth Century to the Present" (2019). ETD collection for University of Nebraska-Lincoln. AAI22622008.
https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/dissertations/AAI22622008