Analysis of ‘America: A Prophecy’ by Thomas Ades

Aum, Shin Young

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Title

Analysis of ‘America: A Prophecy’ by Thomas Ades

Author(s)

Aum, Shin Young

Issue Date

2012

Director of Research (if dissertation) or Advisor (if thesis)

Taylor, Stephen Andrew

Doctoral Committee Chair(s)

Taube, Heinrich

Committee Member(s)

• Lund, Erik
• Magee, Jeffrey

Department of Study

Music

Discipline

Music

Degree Granting Institution

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Degree Name

A.Mus.D.

Degree Level

Dissertation

Keyword(s)

• Thomas Adès
• consistency
• unification
• opposition

Language

en

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to show two of composer Thomas Adès’ musical strengths: the consistency with which his work employs durational or intervalic succession, and the unification resulting from continuous motivic transformation. In this thesis, Adès' orchestral work 'America: A Prophecy' will be thoroughly discussed to show how the main concept of the work, opposition is expressed as well as how the music expresses its texts - the Mayan Chilam Balam and the Spanish La Guerra - at both dramatic and structural levels.

Type of Resource

• text
• image

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Copyright 2012 Shin Young Aum

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