dc.contributor.advisor | Schwartz, Roberta F | |
dc.contributor.author | Fillerup, Jessie | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2009-07-31T04:41:25Z | |
dc.date.available | 2009-07-31T04:41:25Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2009-04-28 | |
dc.date.submitted | 2009 | |
dc.identifier.other | http://dissertations.umi.com/ku:10353 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1808/5341 | |
dc.description.abstract | Since Ravel's death, both critics and scholars have questioned why a composer with his gifts would cling to convention--conservative forms, tertian harmonies--in an era of musical revolution. The grotesque, an aesthetic phenomenon characterized by unity among disjunction, engages this strand of criticism in three specific ways: 1) it provides an aesthetic framework for interpreting Ravel's diverse musical styles; 2) it offers a new context for his long-standing appreciation of Poe; and 3) it unveils transgressive elements within conventional musical structures. To differentiate the French grotesque from other varieties, I examine discourses by Hugo, Gautier, Baudelaire, and Berlioz before turning to the tales and criticism of Poe--a juncture where Ravel and the French grotesque meet. Four Ravel works--Sérénade grotesque, L'Heure espagnole, Daphnis et Chloé, and La Valse--manifest disjunctive relationships between music, text, rhythm and meter, gesture; these, combined with the works' reception histories, evoke the grotesque. | |
dc.format.extent | 370 pages | |
dc.language.iso | EN | |
dc.publisher | University of Kansas | |
dc.rights | This item is protected by copyright and unless otherwise specified the copyright of this thesis/dissertation is held by the author. | |
dc.subject | Music | |
dc.subject | Fine arts | |
dc.subject | Grotesque | |
dc.subject | Poe, Edgar Allan | |
dc.subject | Ravel | |
dc.title | Purloined Poetics: The Grotesque in the Music of Maurice Ravel | |
dc.type | Dissertation | |
dc.contributor.cmtemember | McGee, Deron | |
dc.contributor.cmtemember | Daugherty, James F | |
dc.contributor.cmtemember | Freeman, Charles | |
dc.contributor.cmtemember | Baron, Frank | |
dc.contributor.cmtemember | Caballero, Carlo | |
dc.thesis.degreeDiscipline | Music and Dance | |
dc.thesis.degreeLevel | Ph.D. | |
kusw.oastatus | na | |
kusw.oapolicy | This item does not meet KU Open Access policy criteria. | |
kusw.bibid | 6857483 | |
dc.rights.accessrights | openAccess | |