Daydreaming at the keyboard : cyclical mediant drifts in nine of Mendelssohn’s Lieder ohne Worte

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dc.contributor.advisorAlmén, Byron, 1968-en
dc.contributor.committeeMemberBuhler, Jamesen
dc.creatorHorn, Katelyn Deniseen
dc.date.accessioned2010-11-29T19:50:25Zen
dc.date.accessioned2010-11-29T19:50:31Zen
dc.date.accessioned2017-05-11T22:20:45Z
dc.date.available2010-11-29T19:50:25Zen
dc.date.available2010-11-29T19:50:31Zen
dc.date.available2017-05-11T22:20:45Z
dc.date.issued2010-05en
dc.date.submittedMay 2010en
dc.date.updated2010-11-29T19:50:32Zen
dc.descriptiontexten
dc.description.abstractThrough in-depth analyses of nine of Mendelssohn’s Lieder ohne Worte, this paper argues that all nine pieces follow a single underlying event-arc typified by a cyclical drift into and out of the mediant key area. When considered in the specific context of Mendelssohn’s philosophical approach to song writing, the pianistic and cultural context of the pieces, and the connotations of the Lied genre along with strategic musical features common to all nine pieces, such as consistent accompaniment texture and relatively unstable opening melodic motives, this drift can be characterized as a musical embodiment of the internal experience of daydreaming. Though the nature and content of the “daydream” arc in each piece is different, the sense of drifting away and effortless return characteristic of this event-arc is always the same.en
dc.description.departmentMusicen
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2152/ETD-UT-2010-05-1349en
dc.language.isoengen
dc.subjectMendelssohnen
dc.subjectLieder ohne Worteen
dc.subjectSongs without wordsen
dc.subjectMusic analysisen
dc.subjectKeyboarden
dc.subjectDaydreamen
dc.subjectDaydreamingen
dc.titleDaydreaming at the keyboard : cyclical mediant drifts in nine of Mendelssohn’s Lieder ohne Worteen
dc.type.genrethesisen

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