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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 …
Concertante For Sho And Jazz Orchestra, Susumu Watanabe
Concertante For Sho And Jazz Orchestra, Susumu Watanabe
Glenn Korff School of Music: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Creative Work, and Performance
“Concertante for Sho and Jazz Orchestra” is a multi-movement concert piece designed to exhibit both the virtuosity of sho and its orchestral color and dynamism. There are three independent movements, each of which has multiple sections which are subdivided by the alternation of tempo, mood and musical context. The title “Concertante” simply implies a style of composition reflecting a brilliant and virtuosic display of instrumental dexterity and musicality for the solo sho part, and also the various individual instruments and instrumental sections in the 16-piece jazz orchestra.
Sho is a wind instrument which is almost exclusively used for Gagaku, Japanese …
We Met At The Edge, Eric M. Howell
We Met At The Edge, Eric M. Howell
Glenn Korff School of Music: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Creative Work, and Performance
‘We Met at the Edge’ is a collaboration between composer Eric Howell and visual artist Marcela Rodriguez based on a reimagining of the Major Arcana of the Tarot cards. Each card is presented with all new modern interpretations of the original art as well as approximately one minute of music that reflects its unique meanings. Additionally, each card is capable of being looped on itself to create the illusion of being a seamless moment in time, while simultaneously being able to elide into the next card in the sequence. ‘We Met at the Edge’ is meant to be listened to …