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Keywords
Concertos (Piccolo with string orchestra); Concertos (Oboe with string orchestra); Orchestral music; Suites (String orchestra); Symphonies (Wind ensemble); Academic theses;
Abstract
Mycenae was conceived in September 1982 and was completed in January 1983. It is scored for orchestra and two narrators prerecorded on tape. The composition was inspired by a poem by Greek poet George Seferis entitled "Mycenae." In an effort to stay within programmatic planes, the music reflects many of the metaphorical ideas of the poem and materializes them - or realizes them - by exploiting unusual sound effects. The poem thrives on the use of symbolism and metaphor by drawing analogues between the tragedy of one of the most prominent ancient civilizations (the civilization of Mycenae) and the tragedy of everyone's life--the perennial play of contentment and discontentment, achievement and decadence. As the glorious Kingdom of Mycenae did not escape the 1 stigma of depravity and cruel crime, so is everyone's life subject to reward and punishment, to praise and mockery, all of which is carefully controlled by fate.
Year of Submission
1983
Degree Name
Master of Music
Department
School of Music
First Advisor
Lathon Jernigan
Second Advisor
Ronald D. Ross
Third Advisor
Emil Bock
Date Original
1983
Object Description
1 PDF file (51 leaves)
Copyright
©1983 Aristocles Carastathis
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
Carastathis, Aristocles, "Graduate Composition Recital" (1983). Dissertations and Theses @ UNI. 2282.
https://scholarworks.uni.edu/etd/2282
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