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Photographs

Hayes, Harold Eugene, III
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1715347825926999

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2024, Master of Music (MM), Bowling Green State University, Music Composition.
Photographs is a thirteen-minute, four-movement piece for reed quintet, featuring oboe, B-flat clarinet, E-flat alto saxophone doubling B-flat soprano saxophone, B-flat bass clarinet,and bassoon. Photographs takes its inspiration from landscape photography captured by the group’s saxophonist, who selected two photos to serve as artistic influence for the piece’s second and fourth movements. This work employs a similar structure to Modeste Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition by featuring two short call-and-response promenades that serve as Photographs’ first and third movements. These movements develop a single auxiliary melodic idea, with the first promenade’s musical material standing independently from the longer movements, and the second integrating content from them to further develop the auxiliary melodic idea. Photographs uses tone poetry to abstractly portray the emotional essence of the two aforementioned photos. The second movement, “Chromatic Forest,” is inspired by a photograph of an autumn forest scene. It employs a structural polyrhythm and an ever-morphing tone row to emulate agitated birdsong and rustling leaves. This chaotic structure suddenly gives way to an extremely slow section utilizing constant trills, bass clarinet multiphonics, and the unusual bassoon-soprano saxophone unison to symbolize the ethereal beauty found in vibrant-yet-dying October leaves. The other photo, depicting a beach sunrise, serves as inspiration for the composition’s fourth movement, “Pink Sunrise.” This beach scene captures the colorful beauty of dawn over the water, painting the sky with shades of pink, purple, and blue. Musical material portrays this vibrant, yet lonely scene through a winding melodic line comprised of consonant harmonies and accelerating rhythms. As the sun rises above the horizon, the music grows brighter and more rhythmically intense, leading to a hymn-like climax representing the sun fully illuminating the beach. Photographs represents a broad shift and significant development in my artistic approach and musical style. Composed first, the hymn-like climax in "Pink Sunrise" is indicative of my undergraduate conceptions of tonal counterpoint and melody-led composition. Contrastingly, "Chromatic Forest's" extremely slow section (composed significantly later) indicates a new emphasis on timbre, pitch manipulation, and a more advanced melodic conception.
Elainie Lillios, D.M.A. (Committee Chair)
Piyawat Louilarpprasert, D.M.A. (Committee Member)
32 p.
Composition
Composition; Quintet; Photographs; Reed

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  • Hayes, III, H. E. (2024). Photographs [Master's thesis, Bowling Green State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1715347825926999

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Hayes, III, Harold. Photographs. 2024. Bowling Green State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1715347825926999.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Hayes, III, Harold. "Photographs." Master's thesis, Bowling Green State University, 2024. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1715347825926999

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