Urtext and performance editions of sonata for Violoncello Alone (1968) by Peter Paul Fuchs

UNCG Author/Contributor (non-UNCG co-authors, if there are any, appear on document)
Ryan James Graebert (Creator)
Institution
The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG )
Web Site: http://library.uncg.edu/
Advisor
Alexander Ezerman

Abstract: Peter Paul Fuchs’s Sonata for Violoncello Alone (1968)—previously unpublished—is typeset from the autographed manuscript through a methodical process of analysis and interpretation resulting in an urtext edition with critical commentary and a performance edition with editorial commentary. In the urtext, efforts are made to maintain aural purity with the autograph while conforming unconventional notation and music glyphs to modern standards of music notation. In cases where pitch classes in the autograph are ambiguous, selections for the urtext are made contextually based on theoretical analysis. The performance edition is based on the urtext and prioritizes clarity and playability while altering as few of the composer’s original markings as possible. Bowings, fingerings, and string indications are added, and clefs are changed, added, and taken away. These editions provide a basis for future scholarship on Peter Paul Fuchs and transition the manuscript to a performable state.

Additional Information

Publication
Dissertation
Language: English
Date: 2015
Keywords
12-Tone Serialism, 20th Century Music, Cello, Peter Paul Fuchs, Sonata for Violoncello Alone (1968)
Subjects
Fuchs, Peter Paul $t Sonata for violoncello alone
Fuchs, Peter Paul $x Manuscripts
Sonatas (Cello) $v Scores
Twelve-tone system

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