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Partita For 8 Voices & Wind Ensemble: A Transcription Process, Kaitlin May Bove
Partita For 8 Voices & Wind Ensemble: A Transcription Process, Kaitlin May Bove
Theses and Dissertations--Music
Partita for 8 Voices (2012) is a groundbreaking a cappella work that earned its composer, Caroline Shaw, the record of youngest recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 2013. While the work continues to receive performances from its premiere ensemble, Roomful of Teeth, no transcription of the piece to any other ensemble type existed at the beginning of this DMA project. The author sought to transcribe a piece by a living female composer with no work for band into the wind band medium. The resulting transcription, Partita for 8 Voices & Wind Ensemble, adds a new work to …