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Zymancer is an approximately 13 minute work for what is essentially a chamber orchestra, but with just one player to a part. Though it is written and performed as a single movement, there are three main formal sections of the piece that...
Desist is a ten minute work for orchestra. The instrumentation of the work is for a fairly standard orchestra: two flutes, two oboes, two Bb clarinets, two bassoons, contrabassoon, four horns, three C trumpets, two tenor trombones, bass...
From the beginning, this was intended to be a work for chorus and orchestra with a text suitable to some current events, particularly the recent war and new age we live in since September 11, 2001. As a child of a Vietnam veteran...
Convergence for Orchestra is a symphonic work based upon the juxtaposition of two dissimilar musical ideas and their development in a series of complex formal sections. The word convergence can imply a combination of two or more elements...
A major difficulty in the study of fugue is the diversity found among fugues. Nineteenth-century formal structures do not apply adequately to fugue beyond a general three-part structure: exposition, departure from tonic, return to tonic....
Jasper is a work centering around a reenactment of a telephone conversation I took part in when I was an adolescent. The instrumentation is female voice (no text) percussion, violoncello, and sound file (compact disc playback). The third...
Theories of musical contour can be described as the study of the change in one musical parameter as a function of another. In my dissertation, contour theories proposed by Robert Morris, Michael Friedmann, Elizabeth Marvin, Paul Laprade, ...
About two thousand years ago, Jesus Christ came to earth. He had such great love for mankind, that He even loved those who crucified Him. Golgotha, meaning 'the place of the skull', is a hill outside of Jerusalem where Jesus died on the...
San Jo for Orchestra is a large orchestra work in three movements with a prologue, played without break, approximately twelve minutes in duration. The concept of this composition is the exploration of Korean folk music within the Western...
The concept of this requiem is to combine the original text setting of the Missa pro defunctis (the Ordinarium ) with appropriate excerpts of a dream and the last letters of Cato Bontjes van Beek, a young German woman executed by the...
Illusions: Three Songs for Baritone and Ensemble (2004) is a set of three songs based on the poetry of Walt Whitman and Ralph Waldo Emerson. The piece is scored for clarinet, violin, horn, baritone, piano, and two percussionists. Each...
Labyrinth is a continuous work for chamber ensemble that explores a variety of emotional states. The piece is divided into nine movements performed without interruption, and is sixteen minutes in length. The labyrinth suggested in the...
Carnival of Souls is a work in three movements with a brief prelude, played without break, approximately eighteen minutes in duration. It is scored for conventional wind band with added low strings, harps, and electronics. The three...
Shattered is a dramatic one-act opera based on an original libretto by the composer. It is a universal story about what hides behind the reality that people present to others. The opera involves only six characters, without a chorus, ...
The purpose of this study is to provide an analysis of works for Western instruments by the Chinese composer Chen Yi (b. 1953). In recent years, non-Western composers' practice of incorporating non-Western traditional musical concepts...
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