Pedagogical Approaches and Analysis to Incorporate Julia

Dr. Lynnsey Lambrechtllambrecht@bradley.edu

Bradley UniversityMusic by Women Festival 2019

Pedagogical Approaches and Analysis to Incorporate Julia Wolfe’s

Pulitzer Prize Winning Anthracite Fields into Music Courses

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Julia Wolfe (b. 1958)

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Anthracite Fields

I. Foundation

II. Breaker Boys

III. Speech

IV. Flowers

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Flowers

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Flowers – A Section

• A1 o Acoustic guitar with folk picking patterno Canonic entranceso ACDEF

• A2o Faster entranceso More overlapo Thicker texture

• Text: We all had flowers/gardens

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Example 1– A Section

Example 2 – A Section

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Flowers – B Section

• B1 o Larger instrumentationo Percussive treatment of voiceso Text: Flowers, Gardenso Chromatic alterations

• B2o Text: Flau Wer

• B3o Text: Flau Wero High Hat

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Example 3 – B Section

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Example 4 – B Section

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Flowers – C Section• C1

o Lists flower nameso Block of sound

• C2o Lists flower nameso Texture thinso Hemiolao Shift to compound metero Bicycle wheel

• C3o Droneso “Forget me not”o Bicycle wheel

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Example 5 – C Section

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Example 6 – C Section

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Core Music Theory Courses

• Rhythm• Meter• Melodic contour• Motif• Hemiola• Pentatonic scales and collections

• Melody• Harmony • Timbre• Texture• Form

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Advanced Post-Tonal Courses

• Example 7

Advanced Post-Tonal Course• Example 8

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Composition Lessons/Seminars• Wolfe used everyday items, like the bicycle wheel in

Flowers, to give added effects to the narrative and message.

• The motif, “Flowers,” is repeated, layered, and echoed through all the choral parts.

• I founder her use of polyrhythms that foreshadowed the shift from simple meter to compound meter really cool!

• The piece goes from having most instruments playing the same parts, to having almost every instrument doing something different, back to being simple again.

Music Appreciation Courses

• Fusion of style• Minimal music • Rock • Folk

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Dr. Lynnsey Lambrechtllambrecht@bradley.edu

Bradley UniversityMusic by Women Festival 2019

Pedagogical Approaches and Analysis to Incorporate Julia Wolfe’s

Pulitzer Prize Winning Anthracite Fields into Music Courses

Digital Handout: bit.ly/wolfeflowers