THE BIRTH OF THE ETERNAL FOR STRING ORCHESTRA, PIANO AND PERCUSSION. A DISSERTATION IN Music Composition

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1 THE IRTH O THE ETERNAL OR STRING ORCHESTRA, IANO AND ERCUSSION A DISSERTATION IN Music Comosition resented to the aculty of the University of MissouriKansas City in artial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree DOCTOR O MUSICAL ARTS y TATEV AMIRYAN A, MA, Komitas State Conservatory in Yerevan, Armenia, 2007 Kansas City, Missouri 2016

3 THE IRTH O THE ETERNAL OR STRING ORCHESTRA, IANO AND ERCUSSION Tatev Amiryan Candidate for the Doctoral of Musical Arts Degree University of MissouriKansas City, 2016 ASTRACT The irth of the Eternal is a onemovement comosition for string orchestra, iano and ercussion It is ritten as a centennial commemoration of the 1915 Armenian Genocide and honors the memory of the victims of the Genocide The iece symolizes reirth and revival and accentuates the oer of elief The main asects that contriute to the realization of the idea of the iece are its instrumentation, form, harmonic language and texture In the iece, instrumental timres lay secific roles in regard to the message of rememering The chimes, reresenting church ells, symolize the undying memory of the martyrs of the Genocide The static nature and the stretched sounds of the string section aim to create a feeling of the eternal and ork in comination ith the chimes The iano serves as a narrator and through this art I exress my on feelings and look to the ast The virahone aims to create a feeling of siritual aakening in comination ith the strings It also suorts the narrative function of the iano iii

4 The iece has a sectional, sequential structure that is similar to liturgy The asence of contrasts and dramatic conflict is exlained y the siritual nature of the comosition The musical language is tonal and is ased mostly on minor keys A major key is estalished for the first time only at the very end of the iece, thus highlighting its main concet moving through darkness to light The texture is mostly light, transarent and ethereal, in accordance ith the main message of the comosition iv

5 AROVAL AGE The faculty listed elo, aointed y the Dean of the Conservatory of Music and Dance, have examined a dissertation titled The irth of the Eternal, resented y Tatev Amiryan, candidate for the Doctoral of Musical Arts degree, and certify that in their oinion it is orthy of accetance Suervisory Committee Dr Chen Yi, DMA, Committee Chair Conservatory of Music and Dance Dr Zhou Long, DMA Conservatory of Music and Dance Dr ames Moerley, DMA Conservatory of Music and Dance Dr William Everett, hd Conservatory of Music and Dance Dr Mara Gison, hd Conservatory of Music and Dance v

6 CONTENTS ASTRACTiii INSTRUMENTATIONvii ROGRAM NOTES viii THE IRTH O THE ETERNAL1 VITA 17 vi

7 INSTRUMENTATION: ercussion (one layer): Virahone, Chimes iano Strings: Violin I (12) Violin II (10) Viola (8) Cello (6) Doule ass () Duration: 16 min vii

8 ROGRAM NOTES In 1915 the Ottoman Turks massacred 15 million Armenians The Ottoman government s systematic extermination of its on nonturkish and nonmuslim minority is marked in history as the Armenian Genocide; in fact, the very ord "genocide" as coined to descrie this articular event and the intentions ehind it As time assed, even after a hundred years, the ain of such an immense human loss remains alive among the Armenian eole, a ain that they carry in their lood from generation to generation Having survived this attemt at extermination in 1915, the Armenian eole today also mark that year as a time of revival Much like the myth of the hoenix, this dark age in history gave a ne irth, and a ne life to the Armenian eole, ho roved their great strength and resilience It also estalished a stronger elief among Armenians in their aility to endure This iece is a musical triute to my erished ancestors It is also a look ack to this most tragic eriod of Armenian history from a descendent of Genocide survivors and from a tentyfirst century ersective My ork is also a call for eace, ith a hoe that atrocities of this kind ill never again haen anyhere in the orld viii

9 Virahone Chimes Violin I Violin II Viola Cello Doule ass iano Adagio q = 100 R cresc cresc cresc cresc cresc Vi Chm Vln I Vln II Vla Vc D 1 r dim dim dim dim dim Ȯ U O U U j U j U j O Ȯ O div The irth of the Eternal TATEV AMIRYAN Coyright 2016 y Tatev Amiryan In commemoration of the centennial of the Armenian Genocide or string orchestra, iano and ercussion

10 The irth of the Eternal 2 Vi Vln I Vln II 25 div Vi Vln I Vln II * * * dim rit j no 2 con edale Vln I Vln II Vla Vc D 2 Unis Unis

11 The irth of the Eternal Vi no Vln I 51 Vln II Vla Vc D Vi no Vln I Vln II Vla Vc D 60 rit a temo

12 The irth of the Eternal 70 Chm Vln I Vln II Vla 81 Chm Vln I Vln II Vla Vi Chm no 91 Andante q = 60 con edale legato * Vln I Vln II Vla dim dim dim

13 The irth of the Eternal 5 Vi no 101 Vi 106 rit ad liitum a temo no Vln I Vln II Vla Vc D

14 The irth of the Eternal 6 no 111 Vln I Vln II Vla Vc D Chm no 117 rit a temo j j Vln I Vln II Vla Vc D R R R

15 The irth of the Eternal Chm Vln I Vln II Vla Vc D R j R R R j R 126 Chm Vln I Vln II Vla Vc R R cresc cresc cresc R D cresc r fl R r R R

16 The irth of the Eternal 8 Chm 10 j r r j allargando Vln I div Vln II div cresc Vla cresc Vc R R R R cresc R D R R r fl R R fl r fl fl 1 a temo Chm Vln I Vln II Vla f f f div f Vc D f f r fl r fl r r r fl

17 The irth of the Eternal 9 Vi Chm Vln I Vln II Vla D 19 dim dim dim r fl rit j O Adagio q = 100 O O div Unis div Vi Vln I 19 * * * Vln II Vi no 159 con edale non legato U Andante q = 60 Vln I Vln II dim dim U U u Unis

18 The irth of the Eternal no Vln I Vln II Unis div div 17 rit U con edale no dim U legato Vln I Vln II U dim U Unis Vla dim U Unis no 179 Vln I Vla Vc D

19 The irth of the Eternal 11 no 18 f Vln I Vln II Vla Vc D f f f f f 187 Chm no cresc j ƒ ƒ Vln I Vln II Vla Vc D j j cresc cresc cresc cresc cresc div r ƒ div ƒ div ƒ ƒ div ƒ

20 The irth of the Eternal Chm no Vln I Vln II Vla Vc D j r div Ï Ï Ï Ï Ï Ï Ï 195 Chm no Vln I Vln II Vla n n n n n n n n Vc n n n D n n

21 The irth of the Eternal 1 Chm no Vln I Vln II Vla Vc D 199 n 20 rit cresc cresc n cresc cresc n cresc n cresc cresc rit allargando Î legato Î Î Î Î Î Î Andante q = 50 j no Vln I Vln II Vla Vc D j j j j Unis Unis Unis j

22 The irth of the Eternal rit no j j j dim j Vln I dim Vln II Vla dim Vc dim dim D dim Chm no 216 U U U Adagio q = 100 Vln I Vln II Vla Vc D U U U U U Unis

23 Chm Vln I Vln II Vla Vc 228 Con sord Chm Vln I Vln II Vla Vc 29 dim dim dim dim div U U U U U Vln I Vln II Vla Vc D 251 div R Unis Unis 15 The irth of the Eternal

24 Chm Vln I Vln II Vla Vc D 26 dim dim dim dim Chm Vln I Vln II Vla Vc D 275 sul ont Chm Vln I Vln II Vla Vc D 28 dim dim dim dim dim U U U U U 16 The irth of the Eternal

25 VITA Tatev Amiryan is a comoser and ianist devoted to exloring the sounds of her native Armenian homeland With comositions ranging from vocal, instrumental, chamer to symhonic, her music utilizes sace, stretching structural exectations and ulling from her love of imrovisational erformance, tyical of much of the folk music she gre u ith Her music has een erformed in the United States, Armenia, Russia, England, oland, Germany, Netherlands, elgium, and aan y such renoned ensemles and erformers as Care Diem String Quartet, Ensemle Oktolus, Metroolitan Choral of Kansas City, ianists effrey aco, Artur Avanesov, Hayk Melikyan and thereminist Thorald ørgensen Ms Amiryan has received such aards as the 1st rize at the Armenian Allied Arts 71st Annual Comosition Cometition, the UMKC Conservatory Chamer Music Comosition Cometition, and the Metroolitan Chorale of Kansas City s Chorale Comosition Contest In 201 she as commissioned a iece y North German Radio NDR Norddeutscher Rundfunk hich as remiered y Ensemle Octolus in Hannover, Germany in 201 In 2016 Ms Amiryan as aarded the 2nd rize at Ne Ariel Recordings ifth International iano Comosition Cometition and her iece Tristesse as chosen to e recorded y American ianist effrey aco as a art of his American iano music alum hich as released in 2016 In Aril 2016, she released her first alum of iano comositions erformed y Armenian ianist, Honored Artist of Armenia Hayk Melikyan Ms Amiryan as a reciient of the Dr Carolann S Najarian Scholarshi from the Armenian International Women s Association, the AGU erforming Arts elloshi

26 from the Armenian General enevolent Union and the Women s Council GA Aard from University of MissouriKansas City Women s Council She has erformed extensively in Armenia and in different arts of the United States, oth her on music and ieces from classical and contemorary reertoire, and iano imrovisations She has resented lectures and lecturerecitals at a numer of international conferences and festivals in the United States and in Euroe, including Women in the Arts International Conference at University of MissouriSt Louis, Women Comosers estival of Hartford at Hartt School of Music in Connecticut, London International iano Symosium at the Royal College of Music, the 12th Annual Haaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities in Honolulu, Haaii, US Ne Music International estival at the University of South lorida and the rd Hildegard estival of Women in The Arts at California State University in Stanislaus She also resented lectures and lecturerecitals as a guest comoser at lorida State University in Tallahassee and at the University of Connecticut, UConn, and as an artist in residence at Southern Connecticut State University Ms Amiryan holds achelor s and a master s degrees in comosition and musicology from Komitas State Conservatory of Yerevan, Armenia, and currently she is ursuing her doctoral degree from University of MissouriKansas City Conservatory of Music and Dance Her rincial teachers have included Aram Satyan, Ashot Zohrayan, Chen Yi, Zhou Long, and ames Moerley

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