Award Date
5-15-2018
Degree Type
Dissertation
Degree Name
Doctor of Musical Arts (DMA)
Department
Music
First Committee Member
Marina Sturm
Second Committee Member
Richard Miller
Third Committee Member
Taras Krysa
Fourth Committee Member
Margaret Harp
Fifth Committee Member
Kenneth Hanlon
Number of Pages
100
Abstract
Leonardo Balada (1933) is a Catalan born composer who came to New York City in 1956 and began teaching at Carnegie Mellon University in 1970, where I became acquainted with him. He studied composition with Vincent Persichetti, Aaron Copland and conducting with Igor Markevitch. He composes in a stylistic synthesis of a new level of surrealistic avant-garde. He is a postmodern composer that has clearly assimilated every possible trend or technique of the 20th Century and incorporated them into a vocabulary which is very specific and categorized as his own. His writing represents a true synthesis of styles that provides his works with a dynamic integrity. Balada’s collaboration with the prominent surrealist artist Salvador Dali had a profound influence on the formation of his style of composing. I will show how his compositional surrealistic approach works by using a style analysis. While attending Carnegie Mellon, I was fortunate to work with Maestro Balada during recording sessions of his clarinet compositions and this paper will focus on one of those clarinet works.
Keywords
Art; Balada; Clarinet; Leonardo; Music; Surrealism
Disciplines
Theatre and Performance Studies
File Format
Degree Grantor
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Language
English
Repository Citation
Ivanov, Ivan, "Leonardo Balada and Surrealism in Music" (2018). UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones. 3267.
http://dx.doi.org/10.34917/13568503
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