Caegan Quimby

Date of Award

2012

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Bachelors

Department

Humanities

First Advisor

Miles, Stephen

Keywords

Mash-Up, Configurable Culture, Music

Area of Concentration

Music

Abstract

My Thesis resulted in an original music composition and an accompanying paper. My composition utilized three native New College ensembles (The NEW Ensemble, The New Cats and Physical Plant) and had four sections. The first three sections were small separate pieces that I composed specifically for each ensemble and the final section was a "Mash-up" of the first three pieces; all the ensembles played together, utilizing the same musical material from their initial pieces to from a new piece that combined all the initial pieces together. The majority of my paper details my entire compositional process from start to finish, starting with recruiting ensembles, and ending with the final performance. In the second half of the paper, I attempt to give some context for how my composition relates to the recent practices of configurable culture. I hope this final section will give some idea of how my composition is relevant to some of the most important philosophical issues that our western musical culture is currently grappling with.

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