Award Date

May 2023

Degree Type

Dissertation

Degree Name

Doctor of Musical Arts (DMA)

Department

Music

First Committee Member

Ambroise Aubrun

Second Committee Member

Weiwei Le

Third Committee Member

Kate Hamilton

Fourth Committee Member

Jonathan Lee

Fifth Committee Member

Lisa Bendixen

Number of Pages

92

Abstract

Throughout an important period of his career as a composer, César Guerra-Peixe demonstrated a preoccupation with both the issue of communicability between listeners and the musical composition, as well as avenues for expressing national identity in music. The works composed between 1944 and 1948 present several possible paths for answering these questions with the musical language of the twelve-tone style. Música no. 1 and Música no. 2 for solo violin demonstrate a search for familiarity through the use of chords created by grouping sets of pitches from the originating tone row. The simple linear motif of the movements within these works and the development of these musical ideas are indicative of another facet of the composer’s musical aesthetic of the period, which aimed to create the musical equivalent to a cubist drawing with malleable structures. This document conducts an analysis of the solo violin works in the context of Guerra-Peixe’s musical career and the historical perspectives found within the wider setting of early-twentieth-century modernist music in Brazil.

Disciplines

Composition

Degree Grantor

University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Language

English

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