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Dr. Lynnsey [email protected]
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
V. AppliancesDigital Handout: bit.ly/wolfeflowers
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 [email protected]
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