ELIZABETH GAMARD MEMORIAL TRAVEL FELLOWSHIP
CREATING A PROCESS FOR INTERPRETING
MUSIC + SPACE
Erica Perine
May 17-31, 2018
Lecture: September 21, 2018
CREATING A PROCESS FOR INTERPRETING MUSIC AND SPACE
BY ERICA PERINE | Elizabeth Gamard Memorial Travel FellowshipFrom May 17-31, 2018, I walked around Vienna’s historic Innere Stadt and sometimes outside of it, visiting the city’s greatest architectural and urban planning masterpieces.
But their significance goes beyond the spatial: Beethoven composed his 6th Symphony in his suburban Heilegenstadt apartment, one of about 70 places in Vienna that he lived; Johann Strauss II’s famous waltz “The Blue Danube” pays ode to the great river running through the city’s northeast. Schubert spent his entire life in Vienna. Brahms is buried, along with Beethoven and Mozart, in the city’s cemeteries. Austria’s capital might be the most musically significant city in the world.
I have selected my favorite locations from the two-week trip and produced synesthetic graphic scores depicting my experience as I traversed through each space. I have paired each space with a piece of classical music from the same era, and created a second set of graphic scores relaying my experience listening to these. The result is a juxtaposition. My goal is to begin to understand how these interpretations occurred. If architecture relies on a process, then so must music. How do these processes compare?
I owe many thanks to the following:
Elizabeth Gamard and her friends and colleagues
Jennifer Gaugler and Simcha Ward
Tulane School of Architecture
Scott Bernhard
Emily Parsons
Sarah Gamard
All who attended my lecture
Mom and Dad
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CLOUDS AT DUSK
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WILDFLOWER AROMA
PEDESTRIAN TUNNEL RETURNING TO CIVILIZATION
INSECTS CHIRPING
NORTH BANK SOUTH BANKVERSE 1: SOLO VIOLIN
HARMONIES CLIMB WITH GREATER CONVICTION
HIGH NOTE HELD
DRAMATIC ASCENT SOFT PLUCKING
DECRESCENDO
WARM OPENING
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GENTLY DESCENDING RESPONSE
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GUSTAV HOLST THE PLANETS: II. VENUS 1914-16
EARLY MODERN MARBLE LOBBY
STAIRWAYS
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BIGSOUND
MOZART-SAAL (MEDIUM HALL)
GROßER-SAAL (BIG HALL)
BERIO-SAAL (MODERN HALL)
SCHUBERT-SAAL (SMALL HALL)
WEAVING VIOLIN MELODY
OPENING PHRASE REPEATED
HIGH-REGISTER ARRIVAL MELODY REPEATED BY OBOE
ASCENDINGHORNCALL GENTLE
FLUTE RESPONSE
FULL-ORCHESTRA RESPONSE
ROCKING HALTS HORNCALL AGAIN
VIOLINS WEAVE
FULL-ORCHESTRA ARPEGGIO CELLO ECHOES ORCHESTRA
CELLO ARPEGGIOS
HARMONIES DESCEND
RESOLUTION
GENTLE
ROCKING
TRICKLING BELLS
RHYTHM
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BELLS
CELLO ARPEGGIOS
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THE GOLDBERG VARIATIONS: I. ARIA
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VAULTED CEILINGS
ROUNDED BALCONIES
OTHOGANAL HALL
LIGHT STREAMING THROUGH WINDOWS
WINDOWS FRAMED BY BOOKSHELVES STEEP
BOOKS IN ALL PLACES
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VIOLA-CELLO COUNTERPOINT
VIOLIN-VIOLA COUNTERPOINT
WALKING BASS TO CONCLUSION
CONCLUDING FLOURISH
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AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE VIENNA MUSEUM
L.V. BEETHOVEN SYMPHONY NO. 6: I. ALLEGRO MA NON TROPPO 1808
FUZZINESS
COUNTRYSIDE: EVERYTHING IN ORDER
EARLY LIFE
LATER LIFE
SMALL SHADED COURTYARD; MUSEUM HAS 5 PARTS
HILLYSUBURB MODEST STREET
CHAOS
MIND’S EAR
SILENCE
DEATH
STRING RESPONSE
CRESCENDOINTO THEMERESOLUTION, STACCATOSTRINGVER.
RESOLUTION
WOODWIND RESPONSE
SUSPENSE BUILDS
PENTATONICREPETITIVEDESCENT
DEVELOPMENT
RICH STRING TEXTURE
BRIGHT, STACCATO
VIOLIN OPENING
FULLCRESCENDOINTO ORCHESTRATHEME
VIOLINRESPONSE
WOODWIND TRIPLETS
COOLDOWN
FALSE ENDINGS REAL ENDING
HEINRICH VON FERSTEL UNIVERSITÄT 1877
JOHANNES BRAHMS
SYMPHONY NO. 1: II. ANDANTE SOSTENUTO
1855-76
DOMED ROOM
ALMOST-PERFECT SYMMETRY
REVERENCE TO INTELLECTUAL GROWTH
SIDE HALLWAY
COLUMN-FOREST LOBBY
MAINBALCONYFACADE
SIDECOURTYARD
OUTDOOR SHADE
SIDE COURTYARD SIDE
ORIGINAL STAIRS CLERESTORIES
MODERNSTAIR TOWERS
MAIN COURTYARD
CIRCULATION
COURTYARD STUDENT
VIOLIN ASCENT + CLIMAX
RICH CELLO/BASS TEXTURE
OPENING
ARPEGGIATED STRING
CALMING RESOLUTION
SUSPENSEFUL ASCENT + CRESCENDO
MINOR-KEY TENSE BUILDUP
DEVELOPMENT WITH STEPPING RHYTHM
OPENINGPHRASE DESCENDS
STRING DIALOGUE
SERENE MELODY RETURNS
SERENE OBOE MELODY
STRING DIALOGUE DOWNWARD
WIND + STRING CALL AND RESPONSE
WEAVINGWINDS
SOLO VIOLIN JOINS
WOODWIND RESPONSE
UNSETTLINGCLIMBDOWN
THEMES REPEAT IN FINAL BUILDUP
CONCLUDING FERMATA
GOTTFRIED SEMPER / KARL FREIHERR VON HASENAUER BURGTHEATER 1888
ANTONÍN DVOŘÁK
CELLO CONCERTO: I. ALLEGRO
1894-95
CURVED FORM
THEATER: VIEWING BOXES
SURROUNDING HALLWAYS
SYMMETRICAL GRAND STAIR HALLS
IMMENSE, LAVISH WINGS
LARGE WINDOWS
LOCATION
FACING RATHAUS
SIMPLE MAIN VOLUME
EXPERIENCE REPEATS ITSELF
PROUD MAIN THEME
FIERCECHORDS
RAPID FLURRIES IN RESPONSE
SHIFTING TRILLS
DEVELOPMENTTHEME CALMLYINTRODUCED
THEME AGAIN, TRANSPOSED
RESOLUTION
SHORTCADENZA BUILDINGTOFINALE
RETURNS, IN MINOR
MOTIFREPEATED INDISTRESS
BUSY VARIATION ON MAIN THEME
THEME
SPRIGHTLY STACCATO CHROMATIC ASCENT
ANSWER:
SCALESRISEANDFALLTEMPERRISES TRILLED CLIMAX
SUDDEN DE-ESCALATION
CHROMATIC ASCENT, AGAIN
VARIATION ON DEVELOPMENT THEME DISTRESS RETURNS
FALSELY TRIUMPHANT RESOLUTION
ENTER
CELLO SOLO
