Western Michigan University ScholarWorks at WMU Master's Theses Graduate College 6-2013 A New Kind of National: Modified String Quartet Practices in Post- Soviet Eurasia Adam Taylor Lenz Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/masters_theses Part of the Composition Commons, Ethnomusicology Commons, and the Musicology Commons Recommended Citation Lenz, Adam Taylor, "A New Kind of National: Modified String Quartet Practices in Post-Soviet Eurasia" (2013). Master's Theses. 162. https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/masters_theses/162 This Masters Thesis-Open Access is brought to you for free and open access by the Graduate College at ScholarWorks at WMU. It has been accepted for inclusion in Master's Theses by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks at WMU. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. A NEW KIND OF NATIONAL: MODIFIED STRING QUARTET PRACTICES IN POST-SOVIET EURASIA by Adam Taylor Lenz A thesis submitted to the Graduate College in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts School of Music Western Michigan University June 2013 Thesis Committee: Matthew Steel, Ph.D., Chair David Loberg Code, Ph.D. Christopher Biggs, D.M.A. ! A NEW KIND OF NATIONAL: MODIFIED STRING QUARTET PRACTICES IN POST-SOVIET EURASIA Adam Taylor Lenz, M.A. Western Michigan University, 2013 This thesis examines the practices of string quartet modification implemented by three post-Soviet Eurasian composers: Franghiz Ali-Zadeh (Azerbaijan), Vache Sharafyan (Armenia), and Dmitri Yanov-Yanovsky (Uzbekistan). After an introduction to the geography of the region and the biographies of the composers, their works containing modified string quartet configurations are examined within three distinct modification practices.