Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/2440/82035
Type: Thesis
Title: Creating both text and music for oratorios: portfolio of compositions and exegesis.
Author: Wood, Callie
Issue Date: 2013
School/Discipline: Elder Conservatorium of Music
Abstract: This composition portfolio and exegesis submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, at the Elder Conservatorium of Music, contains original creative works supported by a comprehensive commentary. The submission consists of one volume in two parts containing primary materials of original libretti and musical scores, and the secondary component of an explanatory exegesis. Part A includes the major oratorio work, called Bushfire Oratorio, as well as two small oratorio studies or minor works, called Bright Star: Estelle and Lionheart: The Threshold. Part B is comprised of an exegesis, which provides a commentary on the genesis, libretti writing and composition approaches, limitations and elucidations of the original works in the portfolio. Appendices follow the exegesis and include a list of sources, compact discs of sound recordings, and several other compositions relevant to the research. The purpose of the research was to investigate composing both the text and the music for oratorios linked by the archetypal literary form of the hero’s journey. The research method combined the creative roles of librettist and composer and, in doing so, facilitated a deeper understanding of the genre today. The disciplines of creative writing and musical composition overlap in this work and it is the convergence of these distinct trajectories in oratorio that was the focus of the research.
Advisor: Rae, Charles Bodman, 1955-
Crossin, Carl Bryce David
Dissertation Note: Thesis (Ph.D.) -- University of Adelaide, Elder Conservatorium of Music, 2013
Keywords: oratorio; composing; composition; creating text and music; libretto; bushfire; choral; hero's journey; Joseph Campbell; Callie Wood
Provenance: Copyright material removed from digital thesis. See print copy in University of Adelaide Library for full text.
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