Music, Glenn Korff School of
Glenn Korff School of Music: Dissertations, Theses, Student Creative Work, and Performances
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First Advisor
Gregory Simon
Date of this Version
5-2020
Document Type
Thesis
Abstract
In Time Gone By is a song cycle for Baritone vocalist and Pierrot Ensemble + percussion that explores the value of life being a byproduct of its finitude. Only during the most vulnerable and difficult events of that life can self-realization occur. These topics are wrapped into a “love-story” narrative crafted from select poems from Chamber Music by James Joyce and select quotes from the prose Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions by John Donne. Using intervallic focus as a tool for development, the piece transitions from sparse quintal harmony to lush tertian harmony as a musical metaphor for the self-realization of the main character through the events of this narrative. Motivic fragments tie the six movements together into a single story and represent external and internal influences on the main character and his relationship with his love interest.
Advisor: Gregory Simon
Comments
A thesis Presented to the Faculty of The Graduate College at the University of Nebraska In Partial Fulfillment of Requirements For the Degree of Master of Music, Major: Music, Under the Supervision of Professor Gregory Simon. Lincoln, Nebraska: May 2020
Copyright 2020 Bryan Grosbach
Parts for this thesis are available at: www.bigbrookmusic.com