dc.contributor.author | Oliver-Cormier, Joel | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2018-04-05T16:48:45Z | |
dc.date.available | 2018-04-05T16:48:45Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2018-04-05T16:48:45Z | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10222/73826 | |
dc.description.abstract | Despite the common association of jazz with urban environments, contemporary large-ensemble jazz composer Maria Schneider has written numerous programmatic pieces in which she and her ensemble celebrate and represent wildlife and exurban places/spaces. In this thesis, I analyse three of Schneider’s pieces—“The Thompson Fields”, “Nimbus”, and “Cerulean Skies”—through an ecocritical lens, exploring the compositional and performance techniques used to represent these subjects. I argue, moreover, that these pieces act as a musicalization of early twentieth-century conservationist Aldo Leopold’s ‘land ethic’, which advocates for an expansion of the boundaries of our community-concept to include “soils, waters, plants, and animals, or collectively: the land”. | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.subject | Music | en_US |
dc.subject | Jazz | en_US |
dc.subject | Ecocriticism | en_US |
dc.subject | Ecomusicology | en_US |
dc.subject | Environmental Criticism | en_US |
dc.subject | Schneider, Maria | en_US |
dc.subject | Land Ethic | en_US |
dc.subject | Schneider, Maria, 1960- | |
dc.title | "Quietly Present in the Land and the Wind": Maria Schneider's Musical Land Ethic | en_US |
dc.type | Thesis | en_US |
dc.date.defence | 2018-03-12 | |
dc.contributor.department | Fountain School of Performing Arts | en_US |
dc.contributor.degree | Master of Arts | en_US |
dc.contributor.external-examiner | Summerby-Murray, Robert | en_US |
dc.contributor.graduate-coordinator | Joubert, Estelle | en_US |
dc.contributor.thesis-reader | Joubert, Estelle | en_US |
dc.contributor.thesis-supervisor | Baur, Steven | en_US |
dc.contributor.ethics-approval | Not Applicable | en_US |
dc.contributor.manuscripts | Not Applicable | en_US |
dc.contributor.copyright-release | Not Applicable | en_US |