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Creation through Imitation: A Research of Realistic Imitation of Baroque Instrumental Music

Yoon-kyung Park 1

1서울대학교

Candidate

ABSTRACT

This thesis considers the intellectual and cultural background that madeBaroque composers exploit realistic imitation as an inspiration for creation,based on the increasing interest in imitation, nature as the model ofmimesis, the original versus copy, and in naturalness versus artificialitysince the Renaissance. The Baroque period, ranging from the ScientificRevolution to the Enlightenment, admired the art's capability to employnature as an expressive resource and cultivated the ability to recognize andenjoy a work of art as artificial and false. By examining examples ofBaroque solo instrumental music, this thesis investigates how realisticimitation provided the contemporary composers with significant materialsand ideas for creation. Composers were not satisfied with a mere imitationof natural sound through musical onomatopoeia, but they always tried tomake the sound fit in a certain structure, style, genre, and emotive contents.

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