Department or Program
Music
Abstract
For centuries, composers have frequently endeavored to fulfill two tasks: to compose music that tells a story with some degree of concreteness, what musicologists call “program music,” and to represent a subject that stimulates a set of ideas in the listener. Gibbon’s Rome is an endeavor to accomplish both. First, it explores the world of the Roman Empire as told by the English historian Edward Gibbon (1737-1794) in his magnum opus The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Second, it represents Ancient Rome as it musically exists in the minds of modern western listeners.
The recording of the premiere performance may be found here.
Level of Access
Open Access
First Advisor
Miura, Hiroya
Date of Graduation
5-2017
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts
Recommended Citation
Franco, Kevin H., "Gibbon's Rome for Chamber Orchestra" (2017). Honors Theses. 226.
https://scarab.bates.edu/honorstheses/226
Number of Pages
108
Components of Thesis
1 PDF
Open Access
Available to all.