STYLISTIC DIVERSITY IN LATE TWENTIETH-CENTURY AMERICAN HYMN TUNES

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dc.contributor.advisorSmith, Rob
dc.contributor.committeeMemberMaroney, Marcus K.
dc.contributor.committeeMemberDurrani, Aaminah O.
dc.contributor.committeeMemberSposato, Jeffrey S.
dc.creatorBryson, Michael S.
dc.date.accessioned2016-02-29T02:49:57Z
dc.date.available2016-02-29T02:49:57Z
dc.date.createdMay 2015
dc.date.issued2015-05
dc.date.updated2016-02-29T02:49:57Z
dc.description.abstractIn the closing decades of the twentieth century, America experienced a surge of hymn writing and composition sometimes referred to as a “hymn explosion.” Responding to the radical revolutions in society and religion, hymn writers initiated changes in language, subject matter, and even poetic form to create a new body of congregational song for the modern twentieth-century church. Hymn composers, seeking contemporary musical means to express the hymn texts, applied recent composition techniques to congregational song. This essay summarizes the musical style of late twentieth-century American hymns based on the analysis of over eighty-five tunes composed after 1970. The results reveal an increased flexibility in modal usage; the inclusion of rhythmic devices such as mixed meter and syncopation; experimentation with strophic form; an expanded role of accompaniments; and, most noticeably, a widened harmonic palette replete with color chords, modern modulations, and untraditional voice-leading.
dc.description.departmentMusic, Moores School of
dc.format.digitalOriginborn digital
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdf
dc.identifier.orcid0000-0002-8673-4333
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10657/1253
dc.language.isoeng
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dc.subjectAmerican hymn explosion
dc.subjectTwentieth century
dc.subjectHymns
dc.subjectComposers
dc.subjectMusical style
dc.subjectMusic
dc.subjectComposed after 1970
dc.titleSTYLISTIC DIVERSITY IN LATE TWENTIETH-CENTURY AMERICAN HYMN TUNES
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dc.type.genreThesis
thesis.degree.collegeCollege of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences
thesis.degree.departmentMusic, Moores School of
thesis.degree.disciplineMusic
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of Houston
thesis.degree.levelDoctoral
thesis.degree.nameDoctor of Musical Arts

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