Functions of Quotations in Steven Stucky's Oratorio August 4, 1964 and Their Placements within the Context of a Quotation Continuum: Cultural, Commentary, Remembrance, and Unity Page: 48
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lines of text such as "I want to dedicate my life to the most devastating social disease,
discrimination."81
In example 13, the addition of the melody that corresponds to the original text "I do
believe," not found in example 12, could further reveal Michael Schwerner's deep conviction
that he is doing the right thing by joining CORE and fighting for an "integrated society" and by
extension perhaps further implicates doubt into Johnson's less emphatic statement from example
12, "deep in my heart."82 This quotation in example 13, a more literal rendition than example
12, exists closer to the left side of the continuum, thus lending a stronger cultural connection to
"We Shall Overcome" as well. As the half-step root movement from C to B served as a
metaphorical comma, separating the following quotation (example 11) from the previous section
in example 10, so does the tonal quotation in example 13 aurally stand apart from its surrounding
harmonic and melodic material, which in general, consists of non-functional sonorities created
from tertian stackings with voicings of the sustained sonorities highlighting the open intervals of
perfect 5ths, shown below in example 13a. In example 13a, the strings sustain a sonority
consisting of a predominantly open fifth voicing with quicker moving melodic lines added by the
chorus (and the trumpet, doubling the soprano), consisting of thirds and fifths. Many of the
thirds fill in the gap between the open fifths in the string harmony. A reduction of mm. 29 -30
from example 13a appears below, in example 13b.
In example 13b, the first measure shows the sustained string sonority from mm. 29-30 in
example 13a with the mostly open fifth sonority as whole notes (in the bass clef the E up to
middle C is the odd interval out) and the second measure of the example showing a reduction of
the choral parts, which fills in thirds between open fifth sonorities in the strings.
81 Mm. 65-75, movement 4.
82 In mm. 85-86 in movement 4. Schwerner, through the chorus, states: "The vocation for the rest of my
life is and will be to work for an integrated society."48
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Davenport, Jennifer Tish. Functions of Quotations in Steven Stucky's Oratorio August 4, 1964 and Their Placements within the Context of a Quotation Continuum: Cultural, Commentary, Remembrance, and Unity, thesis, May 2011; Denton, Texas. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc67973/m1/67/: accessed April 30, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; .