Some of the material in is restricted to members of the community. By logging in, you may be able to gain additional access to certain collections or items. If you have questions about access or logging in, please use the form on the Contact Page.
The work is a treatment of the dual nature of musical intervals, and the semantic values attributed to them. By "dual nature," I am referring to the distance between two notes (e.g. [C] and [E]) being measured as either a major third or a minor sixth, depending on which of the two pitches you are travelling from and the direction in which you are travelling. The work's opening eight measures find the violinist between two outlooks represented by inverted forms of a single interval, with orchestra serving as chorus to add emotional heaviness to the melodic utterance. In the proceeding music, the orchestra continues to respond, first literally (with the exact notes of), then contrapuntally (in reaction to), the gestures of the violin soloist as it vacillates between these two antithetical affective states. Synthesis occurs in the form of a cadenza: the violinist, free of the projected reality provided by the orchestra quietly enacts counterpoint that rectifies the troubled binary between the two intervallic motives. The transgressing motive is called one last time as the violinist slowly descends to a cadence in an effort to finalize this Hegelian dialectic.
A Thesis submitted to the College of Music in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Music.
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references.
Advisory Committee
Evan A. Jones, Professor Directing Thesis; Clifton Callender, Committee Member; Mark Wingate, Committee Member.
Publisher
Florida State University
Identifier
FSU_2016SP_Castro_fsu_0071N_13262
Use and Reproduction
This Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. For other uses you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s). The copyright in theses and dissertations completed at Florida State University is held by the students who author them.