عنوان

Journey Inwards

Number

TLpq2468395816

.Language of Text, Soundtrack etc

انگلیسی

Title Proper

Journey Inwards

General Material Designation

[Thesis]

First Statement of Responsibility

Emami, Ehsan

Subsequent Statement of Responsibility

Hatzis, Christos

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

University of Toronto (Canada)

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2020

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

34

Dissertation or thesis details and type of degree

D.M.A.

Body granting the degree

University of Toronto (Canada)

Text preceding or following the note

2020

Text of Note

Journey Inwards is a single-movement, ten-minute orchestral composition scored for a medium-sized orchestra. The instrumentation consists of two flutes (piccolo), two oboes (English horn), two clarinets in Bb (bass clarinet), two bassoons (contrabassoon), four horns in F, two trumpets in C, two tenor trombones, one bass trombone, one tuba, one timpani, percussion (two players), one harp, one piano, and strings. The composition and its title are autobiographical: they reflect the composer's self-exploration of his inner psychological reality and its various emotional levels. The work comprises three main sections. The first and last sections mirror each other in that they document parallel explorations of meaning, together forming a musical interpretation of the mixed and conflicting emotional landscape of an immigrant composer, born and raised in Iran during the eight-year war with Iraq which followed the 1979 Revolution. The middle section documents a perpetual state of lamentation for the lost souls known to the composer and countless others unknown to him. It is a state perpetually challenged by war and external and internal conflict which has left an indelible mark on the composer's music.

Music theory

Musical composition

Emami, Ehsan

Hatzis, Christos

Electronic name

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[Thesis]

276903

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