THE CHORAL MUSIC OF NORMAN DELLO JOIO

 
 
 
 

THE CHORAL MUSIC OF NORMAN DELLO JOIO


Title: THE CHORAL MUSIC OF NORMAN DELLO JOIO
Author: Medley, Susan Annette
Description: Norman Dello Joio is a significant voice in twentieth century American music. His compositions have won him a Pulitzer Prize for music, an Emmy Award, two Guggenheim Fellowships, two New York Music Critic's Circle Awards, the Town Hall Composition Award, and the Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge Award. Such notable conductors as Walter, Szell, Ormandy, and Reiner have performed his works. He is one of only a few contemporary American composers who has been able to make his entire living composing. Despite Dello Joio's prominence as a composer, little attention has been devoted to his choral output. His contribution to American choral music warrants such a study. The choral music of Dello Joio spans five decades and includes over fifty titles. He seeks in his music to appeal to a broad public. By drawing from an eclectic mix of influences familiar to the listener, he is able to write music that communicates immediately with an audience. The purpose of this thesis is to provide choral conductors with a document that closely examines the compositional devices that make Dello Joio's choral music stylistically distinctive, speculates on the ways in which these devices make his music accessible to a variety of audiences, and includes a descriptive survey of all of the composer's published choral works. This document is also intended as a reference for the conductor considering performing a Dello Joio work, as it contains insights into the composer's organization of musical material and specific information on each choral work including circumstances surrounding its composition, characteristics unique to the work, origination of text, text setting, voicing, forces required, publisher, and timing. The first chapter includes biographical information on the composer. Chapter 2 focuses on Dello Joio's compositional devices as well as his choice and setting of texts. Chapters 3 and 4 consist of a chronological survey of all of his published secular and sacred choral works respectively, providing specific information on each work. The Appendix contains an alphabetical listing of this music, including voicing, publisher, forces required, and timing.
Permanent Link: http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin962990468
http://hdl.handle.net/2374.OX/10186
Date: 2000

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