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2025
79 pages
Doctoral Dissertation
Academic theses
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Son, Jennifer
Landschoot, Thomas
Rotaru, Catalin
Solís, Ted
Arizona State University
Partial requirement for: D.M.A., Arizona State University, 2025
Field of study: Music
In this paper, I will discuss the background, structure, and performance practices of an original commissioned work called “Saraswati,” a composition for solo cello and violin ensemble with Indian classical music influences. In commissioning this piece, I hoped to reconcile selected Indian classical music melodic and rhythmic elements, primarily those of the Northern Indian Hindustani tradition, with Western classical structural form and instrumentation. I provide some general Indian musical background as well as my motivation for the project, including adapting performance venues, personnel, instrumentation, and the recording process to contexts dictated by the Covid pandemic. A key component of this document is an analysis of the different ways composer Rockmaker and I negotiated the relationship between traditional Indian music aesthetics and procedures and what was feasible considering the Western backgrounds of the composer, soloist, and accompanying musicians. You may find the original score, which will be provided at the end of the paper along with a live recording featuring violinists from the MusicaNova Chamber Orchestra, based in Phoenix Arizona.
Music
Saraswati: For Solo Cello and Violin Ensemble by Jody Rockmaker A Recording Project Exploring Indian Classical Music for the Western Classical Musician