Browse All

Theses & Dissertations

Submissions

  • Submissions (Articles, Chapters, and other finished products)

Help

Irna Priore

Irna Priore joined the UNCG School of Music in the Fall of 2005. Previously, she taught music theory and analysis at the North Carolina School of the Arts, the University of Iowa, and the University of New Mexico. She holds a Ph.D. in music theory from the University of Iowa (2004), a doctoral degree in flute performance from C.U.N.Y. (1994), and a master’s degree in performance from Queens College, New York (1991). In the summer 2001, she was a fellow at the Mannes Institute for Advanced Studies in Music Theory. Dr. Priore has presented papers in learned societies around the US and abroad and won the “best student paper award” for her presentation at the Music Theory Southeast meeting in 2002. Her research interests and publications are in Schenkerian Theory, the Darmstadt School, Luciano Berio, and Brazilian popular music. She was a research scholar at the Darmstadt Institute for New Music (IMD) in 2006 and 2007.

There are 5 included publications by Irna Priore :

TitleDateViewsBrief Description
The Compositional Techniques of Messiaen’s Le Merle Noir 2001 1184 Olivier Messiaen infused compositions with a love of nature and the Catholic faith. Messiaen (1908-1992) stayed away from fashionable trends and schools, opting to develop a highly personal style for rhythmic complexity, rich tonal colors, and unusua...
Density 21.5 2000 485 As a flute student, I was aware of discussions concerning a possible wrong note in the score of Edgard Varèse's Density 21.5. When I shifted my focus from the flute to music theory, Tadeu Coelho asked me for an analysis to support such a claim. A stu...
Further Considerations about the Continuous ^5 with an Introduction and Explanation of Schenker’s Five Interruption Models 2004 329 Schenker’s works span about thirty years, from his early performance editions in the first decade of the twentieth century to Free Composition in 1935. Nevertheless, the focus of modern scholarship has most often been on the ideas contained in this ...
Griffes' Poem: Considerations about Performance Practice 1996 2150 Poem by Charles Tomlinson Griffes is one of the most- loved pieces in the American flute repertoire. With all its popularity, the work has been a target of arguments concerning wrong notes, cadenzas, and the validity of Barrère's edition. Flutists st...
A Response to John Wion 2001 130 In response to John Wion's letter in the January issue, my article on Density 21.5 cited the views of Thomas Nyfenger on possible errors in measure 23. Despite the implication of Flute Talk's title, I was not trying to correct Varese, but rather vali...