Access Type
Open Access Thesis
Date of Award
January 2013
Degree Type
Thesis
Degree Name
M.M.
Department
Music
First Advisor
Karl Braunschweig
Abstract
The Art of Scoring for Improvisational Theater draws on traditions whose origins are obscured by the fog of History and Myth. With no prior plan, a musician is tasked with providing accompaniment that creates or reinforces mood, era, location, or genre. Through such accompaniment, a musician reads and activates nodes in a semiotic network, to generate context, subtext, or both. Drawing from sources in Semiotics, Multimedia, Marketing, Sociology, Artificial Intelligence, Film Music History, Theater, Music Theory, and Musicology, as well as interviews with an array of Participants and the Author's personal experience, this paper seeks to articulate a framework of musical understanding that is uniquely in-the-moment, yet ever-present.
Recommended Citation
Edwartowski, John, "Filling The Gaps: Playing The Semiotic Network In The Extemporization Of Scores For Improvisational Theater" (2013). Wayne State University Theses. 262.
https://digitalcommons.wayne.edu/oa_theses/262