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Symphony No. 1 For Double Wind Orchestra, Amanda Mccullough
Symphony No. 1 For Double Wind Orchestra, Amanda Mccullough
Glenn Korff School of Music: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Creative Work, and Performance
This piece represents the splitting of the mind as well as the irrational and often violent thoughts that compete against each other in order to blur the line between the real and the imaginary. The piece culminates in the third movement into a sort of psychotic break and ends in the disquieting limbo between life and death represented by the solo piano.
This symphony also explores the sonic possibilities of creating a stereo effect by splitting the wind ensemble into two separate ensembles. This includes the resolution of dissonances on one side by the opposite side, the continuation of melodic …
Violin Concerto #1, Matthew J. Holman
Violin Concerto #1, Matthew J. Holman
Glenn Korff School of Music: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Creative Work, and Performance
This piece is a violin concerto modeled after, but not explicitly quoting melodic material of, several pieces of music by composers Bear McCreary, and Martin O’Donnell. The first and third movements of my piece were each modeled after two of Bear McCreary’s pieces from the soundtrack to Battlestar Galactica Season 2 – Allegro, and Prelude to War, respectively. The second movement of my piece was modeled after Martin O’Donnell’s piece Ashes, from the soundtrack to Halo: Reach.
Although I model my piece on the formal structures and, occasionally, the chord progressions of McCreary’s and O’Donnell’s pieces, …