Author ORCID Identifier
Date Available
4-28-2023
Year of Publication
2023
Document Type
Doctoral Dissertation
Degree Name
Doctor of Musical Arts (DMA)
College
Fine Arts
Department/School/Program
Music Performance
Advisor
Professor Bradley Kerns
Co-Director of Graduate Studies
Dr. Jacob Coleman
Abstract
Gerald Finzi is a twentieth-century British composer. Though he also composed for orchestra and chamber ensembles, he is primarily known as a composer of vocal works, both solo and choral. In this solo vocal works, he favored the poetry of Thomas Hardy; six of his nine song cycles set Hardy’s poetry. One of these, A Young Man’s Exhortation, was Finzi’s second song cycle for voice and piano, but the first to earn notable success. Finzi writes for the piano lyrically and independently, as though the piano were a duetting voice—or in many cases, voices. This paper focuses on a pianist’s view of Finzi’s writing, as seen in A Young Man’s Exhortation, Op. 14.
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.13023/etd.2023.094
Recommended Citation
Wilder, Mary Ann, "A Pianist Looks at Gerald Finzi's A Young Man's Exhortation, Op. 14" (2023). Theses and Dissertations--Music. 217.
https://uknowledge.uky.edu/music_etds/217
