Taste
department or school: Arts, Faculty of
department or school: Music, School of
data provider: DSpace
degree campus: UBCV
creator: Trew, Ryan McLean
issued: 2013-08-07T06:06:52Z
issued: 2013
related degree: Doctor of Musical Arts - DMA
degree grantor: University of British Columbia
description: Taste is a work for a medium sized orchestra consisting of four movements and is approximately 23 minutes in length. Each movement is a musical illustration of one of the four traditional basic physiological tastes as perceived by humans: bitter, sour, sweet and salty. To represent the four physiological tastes musically, this work applies three unifying conceptual devices. The first device is the assimilation of the physical properties of taste into musical properties including form and texture. The second device associates both taste and sound with human emotions. The third device is the application of varied styles of music, or “polystylism” as representation of different aesthetic preferences or “tastes.” By presenting each taste in the context of a musical composition, this work draws a link between the human sense of taste and the sense of hearing.
aggregated CHO: https://circle.library.ubc.ca/rest/handle/2429/44775
note: TASTE by RYAN MCLEAN TREW B.MUS., WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY, 2002 M. MUS., UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO, 2004 A THESIS SUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF MUSICAL ARTS in THE FACULTY OF GRADUATE STUDIES THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA (VANCOUVER) AUGUST 2013 ! RYAN TREW, 2013 ii ABSTRACT Taste is a work for a medium sized orchestra consisting of four movements and is approximately 23 minutes in length. Each movement is a musical illustration of one of the four traditional basic physiological tastes as perceived by humans: bitter, sour, sweet and salty. To represent the four physiological tastes musically, this work applies three unifying conceptual devices. The first device is the assimilation of the physical properties of taste into musical properties including form and texture. The second device associates both taste and sound with human emotions. The third device is the application of varied styles of music, or ?polystylism? as representation of different aesthetic preferences or ?tastes.? By presenting each taste in the context of a musical composition, this work draws a link between the human sense of taste and the sense of hearing. iii PREFACE This dissertation is original, unpublished, independent work by the author and composer, Ryan McLean Trew. iv TABLE OF CONTENTS Abstract .............................................................................................................................................ii Preface ............................................................................................................................................. iii Table of Contents .............................................................................................................................iv List of Tables ...................................................................................................................................vi List of Figures ............................................…
has type: Thesis/Dissertation
date issued: 2013-11
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0074050
language: eng
degree discipline: Music
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: University of British Columbia
rights: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported
rights URI: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/
scholar level: Graduate
type: Text
identifier URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2429/44775