Judith Weir's Instrumental Music as Description

Abstract This study explores Judith Weir's abstract descriptive technique in her instrumental music, Distance and Enchantment (1988) for piano quartet and Musicians Wrestle Everywhere for ten instruments (1994). Folksongs and a location used and described in the music, respectively, are interpr...

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Main Author: Kheng K. Koay
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Escola de Música da UFMG 2016-04-01
Series:Per Musi
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1517-75992016000300059&tlng=en