Ordinary beauty
department or school: Arts, Faculty of
department or school: Music, School of
data provider: DSpace
degree campus: UBCV
creator: Padgett, Eileen Victoria
issued: 2017-10-23T16:44:45Z
issued: 2017
related degree: Doctor of Musical Arts - DMA
degree grantor: University of British Columbia
description: Ordinary Beauty is a piece for piano and strings (Violin I, Violin II, Viola, Cello, Bass). The string parts may be performed by a string orchestra, or with a single player on each part. The work is approximately 23 minutes in length, and comprises of 5 movements, each named after and inspired by scenes of commonplace beauty found in the natural surroundings of Vancouver. The movements are as follows: Leaf in the Wind, Petals in the Rain, Sunlit Grove, Hawk in Flight, and Ocean Spray. Ordinary Beauty overlays Romantic structures on minimalist patterns. The minimalist figures heighten the rhythmic interest, while the Romantic melodic and harmonic principles provide the piece with structure and direction. The piece pays homage to the natural world, but also explores the boundaries between nature and technology; minimalism has ties to industrialization and machinery, while Romanticism is associated with pastoral imagery. The intentional juxtaposition and hybridization of these styles questions the boundaries and limits of both the respective styles and their real-world associations.
aggregated CHO: https://circle.library.ubc.ca/rest/handle/2429/63398
note: ORDINARY BEAUTY by EILEEN VICTORIA PADGETT B.Mus., Queen’s University, 2009 M.Mus., The University of British Columbia, 2011 A THESIS SUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENT FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF MUSICAL ARTS in THE FACULTY OF GRADUATE AND POSTDOCTORAL STUDIES THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA (VANCOUVER) October 2017 © EILEEN VICTORIA PADGETT, 2017 Abstract Ordinary Beauty is a piece for piano and strings (Violin I, Violin II, Viola, Cello, Bass). The string parts may be performed by a string orchestra, or with a single player on each part. The work is approximately 23 minutes in length, and comprises of 5 movements, each named after and inspired by scenes of commonplace beauty found in the natural surroundings of Vancouver. The movements are as follows: Leaf in the Wind, Petals in the Rain, Sunlit Grove, Hawk in Flight, and Ocean Spray. Ordinary Beauty overlays Romantic structures on minimalist patterns. The minimalist figures heighten the rhythmic interest, while the Romantic melodic and harmonic principles provide the piece with structure and direction. The piece pays homage to the natural world, but also explores the boundaries between nature and technology; minimalism has ties to industrialization and machinery, while Romanticism is associated with pastoral imagery. The intentional juxtaposition and hybridization of these styles questions the boundaries and limits of both the respective styles and their real-world associations. ii Lay Abstract Ordinary Beauty is a piece of music for piano and strings. It is approximately 23 minutes long, and consists of 5 movements. Each movement is inspired by and named after scenes in the natural environment of Vancouver. The movements are titled: Leaf in the Wind, Petals in the Rain, Sunlit Grove, Hawk in Flight, and Ocean Spray. iii Preface This dissertation is original, unpublished, independent work by the author, Eileen Padgett. iv Table of Contents Abstract ............................................…
has type: Thesis/Dissertation
date issued: 2017-11
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0357240
language: eng
degree discipline: Music - Composition
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: University of British Columbia
rights: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
rights URI: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
scholar level: Graduate
type: Text
identifier URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2429/63398