The Study Of John Corigliano's Orchestral Technique

John Corigliano is the one of the extraordinary American composers nowadays. This doctoral thesis in the study of the orchestral technique in Corigliano's composition reveals the characteristic of his orchestral technique by close analysing the means of the orchestration such as the timbre and the texture in his six orchestral works , and of his concept of the succession to the aesthetic tradition of western orchestral music and development from it.The thesis consists of the introduction, the text and the conclusion.In the introduction, it is explained about the reasons of the topic selecting and the meaning of the topic , and then it is expounded on the trend of return in the american contemporary music briefly , also to introduce the Corigliano's six orchestral works which are going to be discussed further in the thesis.The text of the thesis consists of five chapters . The discussions in the first three chapters are about the horizontal structure of the pitched texture , the vertical structure of the harmony , and the texture of the polyphony in the six orchestral works . In a summary analysis , mutual infiltrating and fusing but contrasting among the all of the elements of composition are discussed to figure out how the elements such as the texture and timbre effect the style of the orchestration . The contents in the chapterâ…£andâ…¤discuss the instrumentation about the works and the instrument position of stage , which causes the multiple acoustic direction , and then make a detailed study of Corigliano's orchestral techniques about the use of the irregular playing and the different registers of the instruments, also the special orchestration in the texture of the vertical multiparts.In the conclussion , the features of the technique and the style of the orchestration in Corigliano 's six orchestral works are summarized, also the reason of the elements which form the features.