Date of Award
8-1991
Degree Name
Master of Music
Department
Music
First Advisor
Dr. David Sheldon
Second Advisor
Dr. Stephen Zegree
Third Advisor
Dr. Ramon Zupko
Access Setting
Masters Thesis-Open Access
Abstract
The compositional use of Guillaume de Machaut's rondeau Rose, liz, printemps (Rose, lily, spring) is intended to be a modern reflection of the social, religious, and political trends of fourteenth century Europe.
While the thirteenth century witnessed the perfecting of a universal philosophy that reconciled revelation and reason, the divine and the human, the religious and the political in one unbroken and harmonious order of thought, the fourteenth century perceived each arena of thought as independent in itself and not subject to the others.
Similarly, through isolation and independent use of Machaut's melodic and rhythmic motives in composition for chamber orchestra, I have represented the disjunct characteristics of life in Europe at the time Rose, liz, printemps was composed.
The late medieval and early Renaissance composer's propensity toward concealed meaning, capriciousness, and sometimes perverse obscurity of musical thought, further parallels my treatment of the model.
Recommended Citation
Bourcier, Thomas M., "Rose, Lily, Spring for Chamber Orchestra" (1991). Masters Theses. 941.
https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/masters_theses/941