Date of Award

8-16-2024

Document Type

Open Access Dissertation

Department

School of Music

First Advisor

Scott Weiss

Abstract

Sonification, or the transformation of data relations into sound, has inspired composers of orchestral and wind ensemble music over the past several years. Two of the resulting works included there are no words by James Stephenson and red hot sun turning over by David Kirkland Garner. Both works were analyzed, and their histories detailed in this study. Issues in American society and the American South such as gun violence, civil rights, and American Civil War monuments are revealed as inspiration for composers to map empirical processes onto sound. These musical protests against misinformation were shown to illuminate histories and correlations between violence and memorials or monuments. Empirical data from the stages of grief closely matched musical parameters in a work where the composer did not intend to carry out sonification.

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© 2024, Nathan Lee Tucker

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