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Powell, Morgan Feller, Ross Alan 2011-05-07T12:11:53Z 2011-05-07T12:11:53Z 10000-01-01 1994 The labyrinth is a symbol which has at one time or another occupied most of the world's cultures. As a sign of complexity and difficult process, the excessive and meandering path of the labyrinth emphasizes the need for perseverance in spite of an ever-changing terrain. Of the two primary structural types--unicursal and multicursal--only the latter embraces error and failure through its employment of retracing, multiple paths and dead-ends. In this dissertation the importance of the labyrinthine in Brian Ferneyhough's notational and compositional practice is explored through a detailed analysis of Terrain, a recent chamber piece for nine instruments. Ferneyhough's music is characterized by a high level of difficulty, due in large part to his utilization of notational and compositional complexity. His works are also distinguished in regards to their ability to comment on themselves. Ferneyhough often uses non-musical sources which function as metaphorical and structural models for his compositions. In Terrain he utilized the writings of Robert Smithson and a poem by A. R. Ammons. The multicursal complexity inherent in Ferneyhough's notational practice suggests various ways for the performer to interpret the music in non-habitual ways which are particular to the given work. The interpretation required is one which partakes in meaningful, context-specific, and necessarily partial solutions to the various problems raised by each piece. The performer's interpretive gesture is both 'heroic' in the sense of having to struggle, and 'anti-heroic' because of the inevitability of failure. Made available in DSpace on 2011-05-07T12:11:53Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 license.txt: 4922 bytes, checksum: 910b249b4beec47e7ab768910c8f966f (MD5) 9512357.pdf: 9457224 bytes, checksum: 3704e51eeee5c3eb69318650d48cab43 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1994 Item marked as restricted to the 'UIUC Users [automated]' Group (id=2) by Howard Ding (hding2@illinois.edu) on 2011-05-07T14:37:58Z Item is restricted indefinitely. Restriction data tranferred 2014-07-01T11:15:42-05:00 Original Data Group with Access UIUC Users [automated] Release Date: none Reason: ETDs are only available to UIUC Users without author permission ETDs are only available to UIUC Users without author permission U of I Only AAI9512357 (UMI)AAI9512357 http://hdl.handle.net/2142/19574 eng Copyright 1994 Feller, Ross Alan Music Multicursal labyrinths in the work of Brian Ferneyhough text Music Music University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Dissertation D.M.A.