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In Time Gone By: Song Cycle For Baritone And Six Players, Bryan Grosbach
In Time Gone By: Song Cycle For Baritone And Six Players, Bryan Grosbach
Glenn Korff School of Music: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Creative Work, and Performance
In Time Gone By is a song cycle for Baritone vocalist and Pierrot Ensemble + percussion that explores the value of life being a byproduct of its finitude. Only during the most vulnerable and difficult events of that life can self-realization occur. These topics are wrapped into a “love-story” narrative crafted from select poems from Chamber Music by James Joyce and select quotes from the prose Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions by John Donne. Using intervallic focus as a tool for development, the piece transitions from sparse quintal harmony to lush tertian harmony as a musical metaphor for the self-realization of …