Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: The Ballad of the Wheel is a piece for voice, percussion, and electronics that examines the cyclical nature of humanity. It draws texts from existential literature that spans almost all of recorded history, from antiquity to present day. In this work, a single narrator poses the same concerns about the nature of existence in different texts, revealing that questions about the meaning of life transcend boundaries of time and space. The prevalence of the theme of reincarnation also suggests that each movement of the piece presents a different manifestation of a single being. The Ballad of the Wheel implies a narrative in which one soul wrestles with their own existence across multiple lifetimes as they progress from panic and despair to a place of clarity and optimism.Advisor: Greg Simon
Source: Lincoln (University of Nebraska)
Author: Kosch, John
Institution: University of Nebraska–Lincoln
Language: English
Subfield: Music
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7017580517
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