DOI
10.17077/etd.hrub7lpe
Document Type
Dissertation
Date of Degree
Spring 2018
Degree Name
DMA (Doctor of Musical Arts)
Degree In
Music
First Advisor
Coelho, Benjamin
First Committee Member
Gompper, David
Second Committee Member
Platte, Nathan
Third Committee Member
Miller, Courtney
Fourth Committee Member
Montilla Moreno, Jorge
Abstract
Recent studies of bassoon music in twentieth-century Russia have unearthed a rich trove of previously little-known repertoire. Despite the abundance of original Russian bassoon music, little of it approaches the sophistication of the bassoon writing within the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Russian symphonic tradition. One work which does come close to equaling those aesthetic standards is Lev Knipper’s Concerto for Bassoon and String Orchestra (1970), which confronts the bassoonist with far greater expressive and technical demands than previous Russian solo bassoon works. In order to facilitate this concerto’s incorporation into the standard bassoon repertoire, the present study has produced the first-available critical edition of the score, piano reduction and solo bassoon part to this concerto. The edition is framed by a concise biography of the composer, including an overview of his various compositional style periods, historical background on the concerto itself and an assessment of its musical contents.
Keywords
Bassoon, Concertos (Bassoon) -- Scores, Knipper, Lev, 1898-1974
Pages
vii, 138 pages
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 137-138).
Copyright
Copyright © 2018 Alex Christopher Widstrand
Recommended Citation
Widstrand, Alex Christopher. "Lev Konstantinovich Knipper's concerto for bassoon and string orchestra: introduction and critical performing edition." DMA (Doctor of Musical Arts) thesis, University of Iowa, 2018.
https://doi.org/10.17077/etd.hrub7lpe
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