La composición de música actual para banda en el País Valenciano: propuestas sonoras no convencionales

PhD Thesis

Abstract

Music bands from Valencian Country are educative, artistic, cultural and social entities, which claim their role as main axis of the Valencia's musical life. Conventionalism mostly dominates the musical composition from this kind of groups. However, we are currently able to see new proposals providing new musical languages and aesthetics more in accordance with our time. In this sense, new incentives are needed for this kind of proposals in order to push they toward others creational paradigms, which are able to update the means of musical productions. In addition, paradigms need to incorporate, on one hand, extended instrumental techniques, and on the other hand, new technologies. The final goal of this update will be normalise the contemporaneous music into the interpretative life of the music bands. This thesis is focused on the study and development of current musical composition for symphonic band. A model of musical artistic research based on compositional praxis and empirical knowledge will be used. The main point of this research is the description of creative composition process by PhD student. This process comes from an auto-ethnographic model whose main goal consists in performing new insights into the field of current band musical composition. At the same time, this model shows the synergies and issues faced by the composer throughout the development of the artistic process when compositions for these kinds of groups are written.

University: Universitat Politècnica de València

Thesis director: Sixto Manuel Herrero Rodes

Data of defense: September 8th, 2017

Available: https://riunet.upv.es/handle/10251/90394