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Abstract
This document is a comparative study of homages to Claude Debussy, Richard Strauss and Bla Bartk with the Premire Rhapsodie by Debussy, Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche by Strauss, and Contrasts by Bartk. The homages were composed by Hungarian clarinetist Bla Kovcs and published in 1994 as a book of etudes for clarinet study entitled Hommages. They are frequently performed in auditions, competitions, and recitals by clarinetists around the world. The book contains homages to Bach, Paganini, Weber, Debussy, de Falla, Strauss, Bartk, Kodly, Khatschaturian. The homages selected for this study, Debussy, Strauss, and Bartk, offer an excellent look into the musical borrowings of Kovcs. This paper explores those borrowings through theoretical analysis of three of these homages alongside a piece by the composer whose style is being imitated.