Leo Ornstein: the rise and fall of a forgotten genius: early modernism, Hebraic elements, and stylistic evolution in his pianistic idiom

Abstract

The purpose of this dissertation is to shed light on the historical significance and stylistic diversity of Leo Ornstein’s music. During the course of my doctoral research, I performed several of Ornstein’s most characteristic piano works, and I researched both published and unpublished resources. A milestone in my research includes my unexpected discovery of a previously overlooked Ornstein manuscript of a piano sonata, Sonata pour le Piano (1917), that I found in the “Leo Ornstein Papers” archive at the Irving S. Gilmore Music Library, Yale University. I provide herein the first edition and extensive analysis of this remarkable unpublished work. Based on the above research, I propose new methods of analyzing Ornstein’s music using the following: pitch sets, contour segmentation, post-tonal theory, and motivic cells, in order to define the basic traits of his pianistic idiom. The comparative analysis of his piano works and the recurring patterns in his writing style, which ranges from ...
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DOI
10.12681/eadd/49979
Handle URL
http://hdl.handle.net/10442/hedi/49979
ND
49979
Alternative title
Leo Ornstein: ανοδος και πτώση μιας ξεχασμένης ιδιοφυΐας: πρώιμος μοντερνισμός, Εβραϊκά στοιχεία και στυλιστική εξέλιξη στο πιανιστικό του ιδίωμα
Author
Apostolou, Andreas-Foivos (Father's name: Nikolaos)
Date
2021
Committee members
Zervas Athanasios
Baker Claude
Chou Shun-Lin
Levinson Ilya
Rentzeperi Anna-Maria
Petrin Igor
Carastathis Aris
Discipline
Humanities and the ArtsArts (arts, history of arts, performing arts, music) ➨ Music
Keywords
Leo Ornstein; A Morning in the Woods; Wild Men’s Dance; Three Moods; Solitude; To a Grecian Urn; Piano Quintet; Sonata No. 4; Impromptu; A Reverie; Three Fantasy Pieces; Metaphors; Mother O’ Mine; Severo Ornstein; Sarah Cahill; Mockingbird; The Leo Ornstein Papers; Music modes; Hitzaz; Mi Sheberach; Poimenikos; Hebraic music; Slavic music; Eastern European music; Middle Eastern music; Russian Orthodox music; Piano; Modernism; Futurism; Italian Futurism; Orientalism; Tone-cluster; Polymeter; Polyrhythm; Dadaism; Ukraine; Russia; Pogrom; Cowell; Ives; Stravinsky; Bartók; Schoenberg; Debussy; Ravel; Messiaen; Calvocoressi; Judaism; Cantor; Set theory (music); Contour analysis; Contour segment; Allen Forte; Michael Friedmann; Golden Age of Piano; Michael Broyles; Vivian Perlis; Oral history; Yale University; Music; Music analysis; Historical musicology; Set theory; Music theory; Music interpretation; Music historiaography; Music composition; Modal music; Contemporary music; Classical music; Baroque; Aesthetics of music; Emotional content of music; Emotional meaning of music; Music education; Music research; Musical expression; Music, History of; Musical talent; Music improvisation; Eastern music; Music segmentation; Experimental music; Improvisational capability; Chromatic music; Neoromanticism
Country
Greece
Language
English
Description
im., tbls., maps, fig., ch.
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