Den försvunna sången - En studie av en rekonstruktionsprocess
Major-minor tonalitySequenceMelodic twelvetone feelingTransformationChromaticMusicologyMusikvetenskapArts and Architecture
Title: The lost song. A study of a reconstruction process. I was asked by the daughter of the Swedish composer Svea Welander (1898 1985) for help to reconstruct a now lost song for voice and piano originally composed by her mother, where the melody of the song was used in the second movement of her first string quartett. The song was composed in 1955, words by Wilhelm Ekelund. My aim has been to describe the process of reconstructing the song. The research question is: What is the knowledge needed to reconstruct a song you have never seen and have not heard in its original version? In this process I used documents like the score of the string quartet and the composer's sheets of music of the quartet movement with some particular markings, as wellas recording of the daughter's attempt to sing the song from memory. Several music theory concepts and methods are used. Reference is also made to thirteen other songs by Svea Welander, composed beetween 1953-1958. Analysis was made of the material and a sample of theoretical concepts charachteristic of Welander's compositions were identified, such as sequence, major-minor tonality, melodic "twelve tone tonality", cromaticism and transformation. These have been used in the reconstruction of the song.Link to score: http://theses.lub.lu.se/archive/2008/01/09/1199881694-30659-613/notexempel.pdfLinkt to recording: http://theses.lub.lu.se/archive/2008/01/09/1199881694-30659-613/schioett.cda