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A Video Chat With Howard Herring Of The New World Symphony, Raymond Elman, Lee Skye, Charity Johnson Nov 2017

A Video Chat With Howard Herring Of The New World Symphony, Raymond Elman, Lee Skye, Charity Johnson

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Video Chat: Tony Succar Musician, Composer, Arranger, Producer, Raymond Elman, Manuel Perez-Trujillo Oct 2017

Video Chat: Tony Succar Musician, Composer, Arranger, Producer, Raymond Elman, Manuel Perez-Trujillo

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The Impact Of Parker Thomson On The Miami Music Community, Jullian H. Kreeger Oct 2017

The Impact Of Parker Thomson On The Miami Music Community, Jullian H. Kreeger

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Video Chat: Nicole Henry Jazz Vocalist, Raymond Elman, Manuel Perez-Trujillo Oct 2017

Video Chat: Nicole Henry Jazz Vocalist, Raymond Elman, Manuel Perez-Trujillo

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Remembering The Buena Vista Social Club, Alec Wilkinson Oct 2017

Remembering The Buena Vista Social Club, Alec Wilkinson

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Brown Eyes, Black Magic, Marcus Duane Norris Jr Mar 2017

Brown Eyes, Black Magic, Marcus Duane Norris Jr

FIU Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This thesis consists of a large composition for chamber orchestra titled Brown Eyes, Black Magic and an accompanying analytical paper. The piece, approximately twelve minutes long, is a tribute to women of color in America. The title pays homage to the “Black Girl Magic” campaign that CaShawn Thompson founded in 2013 to empower women of color by highlighting their achievements in different fields (Wilson 2016). Although the piece is not programmatic, I tried to create a mysterious sound world, in which the listener focuses on the beauty of ever-shifting sonic colors. The composition explores musical texture and timbre, and is …


Voces - Drama In One Act, Juan F. Mansilla Mar 2017

Voces - Drama In One Act, Juan F. Mansilla

FIU Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This thesis consists of a chamber-staged composition for soprano, baritone, modified Pierrot ensemble (flute, clarinet, piano, violin, viola and cello), Colombian tiple, and fixed media, together with an analytical paper in which I discuss my compositional techniques and their historical antecedents. The composition is an interpretation of an acute schizophrenic episode of a young female patient that is committed to a mental health facility. It was inspired by the need to bring awareness about mental illness and the struggles that these patients experience every day. In this work, I explore the inclusion of a folkloric instrument, the Colombian tiple, within …