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Judith Weir's Instrumental Music as Description
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Abstract This study explores Judith Weir's abstract descriptive technique in her instrumental music, Distance and Enchantment (1988) for piano quartet and Musicians Wrestle Everywhere for ten instruments (1994). Folksongs and a location used and described in the music, respectively, are interpreted and "produced" through musical characters and mood. In most cases musical characters and gestures have a tendency to associate musical motion to arouse images. The decisions, ideas and styles in these compositions may be applied to works in other genres and her later works, as well.
Title: Judith Weir's Instrumental Music as Description
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Abstract This study explores Judith Weir's abstract descriptive technique in her instrumental music, Distance and Enchantment (1988) for piano quartet and Musicians Wrestle Everywhere for ten instruments (1994).
Folksongs and a location used and described in the music, respectively, are interpreted and "produced" through musical characters and mood.
In most cases musical characters and gestures have a tendency to associate musical motion to arouse images.
The decisions, ideas and styles in these compositions may be applied to works in other genres and her later works, as well.
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