Wagner, Jeremy Lucas2012-08-022012-08-022012-05https://hdl.handle.net/11299/130338University of Minnesota Ph.D. dissertation. May 2012. Major: Music. Advisor: James Dillon. 1 computer file (PDF); vi, 51 pages.Periphrasis is a work for large chamber orchestra that has been designed for easy adaptation to a full orchestral score. It is the first in a series of works exploring the structural connections between music and language and seeks a semiotic construction of musical narrative through a working metaphor to linguistics and related literary art forms. Periphrasis was composed for the Minneapolis-based CMW Ensemble supported in part by the American Composers Forum through the 2011 McKnight Composer Fellowship Program.en-USComplexityInstrumentsLinguisticsNarrativeNew MusicSmall EnsembleMusicThesis or Dissertation