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Air, The Contents, Ian C. Mcnally
Air, The Contents, Ian C. Mcnally
Theses and Dissertations
Air, The Contents is an encapsulation of the environments of four different places in New York State. It is written for Pierrot Ensemble with a run time of around 8 minutes.
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 …
Pedagogy Of Video-Game Scoring For Collegiate Application And An Original Score For The Nintendo Switch Title, Renaine, Mason Lieberman
Pedagogy Of Video-Game Scoring For Collegiate Application And An Original Score For The Nintendo Switch Title, Renaine, Mason Lieberman
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Video-game scoring as an academic subject is quite new. There are limited opportunities for college-level students to study this field, and even fewer that are offered remotely via online sources. My goal for this thesis was to craft educational modules, courses, or other academically-based resources, that would develop a student’s musical skills, professional instincts, and educational groundings in the game audio world. These courses could then serve as an academic model for the development of other classes. After conducting research informed by my professional background as a composer in the video game industry (with a particular focus on my experiences …
Forward, Backward, Colin Cannon
Forward, Backward, Colin Cannon
Theses and Dissertations
The is a piece that explores compositional structure and form. The piece is divided into two movements, “Forward” and “Backward” and may be performed in either order. I like to think of it as a Rorschach inkblot – a reflection of an asymmetrical image creating a symmetrical image.
Core Curriculum For Orchestra, Andrew Thomas Aycoth
Core Curriculum For Orchestra, Andrew Thomas Aycoth
Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports
Core Curriculum draws inspiration from the idea of a sound collage that incorporates many specific pieces and techniques that I have encountered or studied during my time in music academia. Nearly everything is derived from something else, often being transformed or altered in some way. From my own private teaching of guitar lessons to analyses of 20th century art music, I tried to represent as much music as possible from these formative years. There are two main features that continue throughout the piece. The first is the repetitive rhythmic figure based on eighth notes that are out of phase, which …
Guitar Suite, Stephanie Boyer
Guitar Suite, Stephanie Boyer
Theses and Dissertations
Guitar Suite is a two movement piece composed for solo guitar. In addition to the guitar suite, an orchestral arrangement of its second movement, "Dance of the Fields," concludes this thesis, presenting the same melody in various textures.
The Far Green Country., Lincoln A. Sandham
The Far Green Country., Lincoln A. Sandham
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
This work was inspired by a beautiful image from J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings: “And then it seemed to him that as in his dream in the house of Bombadil, the grey rain-curtain turned all to silver glass and was rolled back, and he beheld white shores and beyond them a far green country under a swift sunrise.” ~The Return of The King, Book VI chapter 9. This imagery inspired the three movements of this work. The first, The Gray Raincurtain, depicts a violent end, the world crashing down around you. The musical material of this movement gradually …
Overgrown, Tori C. Ovel
Overgrown, Tori C. Ovel
Graduate Thesis Collection
OVERGROWN discusses the music elements found in the thesis composition of the same name.
OVERGROWN was written for soprano solo, flute, bass clarinet, soprano saxophone, baritone saxophone, trumpet, trombone, vibraphone, percussion, cello and double bass. The text was written by Matthew Raymond Smith.
Spirits' Dance: Sunrise Overture, Jeonghun Kim
Spirits' Dance: Sunrise Overture, Jeonghun Kim
Theses and Dissertations
The subtitle of Spirits’ Dance is Sunrise Overture. This overture is composed with five different themes of spirits’ dances: Light, Air, Water, Earth and Fire. The piece starts with the wind breeze in the darkness, mimicked by woodwinds and brass blowing their instruments without producing a tone. When the Sun rises the piece quietly begins. The beginning and ending express the sunrise and the sunset with the Light spirits’ dance. Air spirits softly introduce Water spirits. Mischievous Earth spirits pop up and carry a practical joke after the beautiful water sprits’ dance. Marching of Fire spirits brings dryness to the …
Airiños: For Orchestra And Two-Part Women's Choir, And A Biography Of The Poet Rosalía De Castro, Scott T. Stobbe
Airiños: For Orchestra And Two-Part Women's Choir, And A Biography Of The Poet Rosalía De Castro, Scott T. Stobbe
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
ABSTRACT
Spanish poet Rosalía de Castro was a central figure in the Galician
cultural and literary revival of the mid nineteenth-century. One of her most
significant books is Cantares Gallegos, a book of poems written in Galician that
serves as an homage to the language, culture, customs and countryside of
Galicia. The text for the musical portion of this document, a work for orchestra
with extended percussion and two-part women’s choir entitled Airiños, comes
from Castro’s poem Airiños, airiños, aires which was featured in Cantares
Gallegos. To gain a deeper understanding of the author’s importance and
influence in Galicia and …
A Comparative History And The Importance Of Chamber Music, Aaron M. Sacks
A Comparative History And The Importance Of Chamber Music, Aaron M. Sacks
Capstone Projects and Master's Theses
This capstone presentation focuses on the role of chamber music in both social and academic contexts. Using examples from the past five centuries and including local examples, parallels and divergences are drawn to points of most import. The spotlight is upon three areas: a) what the role of chamber music was in the past, compared to today; b) why it is an important genre, to both musicians, as well as non-musicians, and c) in what ways more exposure to the form can be built. Much of the focus is on composers and their influence, but the impact of and upon …
Days Will Come That Sap Our Vigor, Heather Josselyn-Cranson
Days Will Come That Sap Our Vigor, Heather Josselyn-Cranson
Northwestern Review
"Days Will Come that Sap our Vigor" speaks encouragement to individuals and congregations in the face of exhaustion (the first stanza), depression (the second stanza), and even death (the last stanza). In each case, God restores to us strength, hope, and life. The tune for this text, FALLS PARK, alludes to the fact that the author wrote the hymn text after visiting Falls Park in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
Gloria, Abigail L. Kempson
Gloria, Abigail L. Kempson
Student Publications
A four part (SATB) motet written with Renaissance counterpoint, specifically in the style of Palestrina. Set to the text of the Gloria. About 2 minutes and 15 seconds in length.
The Memory Of Persistence, Scott Pfitzinger
The Memory Of Persistence, Scott Pfitzinger
Graduate Thesis Collection
This composition for Wind Ensemble (like Concert Band but usually only one player on a part) was Scott Master's Thesis for completing a Master of Music degree in Composition at Butler University. Written in 2010, the piece is a combination of styles, philosophies, and techniques, all in balance with each other. Avant-garde and traditional techniques are used; tonality and atonality vie with each other, resulting in a combination of the two; specific musical directions are balanced by a degree of choice available to each participant.
“The Memory of Persistence” is about a journey. No specific personal story is presented, nor …
Se Tu Mi Lassi (If You Leave Me) For Choir, Katherine Spencer
Se Tu Mi Lassi (If You Leave Me) For Choir, Katherine Spencer
Compositions
No abstract provided.
Alakshaya, Doug Lofstrom
Alakshaya, Doug Lofstrom
Doug Lofstrom
Recorded score commissioned and premiered by Natya Dance Theatre in 2007.
Imbal-Imbalan, Bill Alves
Imbal-Imbalan, Bill Alves
All HMC Faculty Publications and Research
A composition in Western musical notation for Javanese gamelan instruments.
The Passion Of Doctor Voke, Luke W. Reese
The Passion Of Doctor Voke, Luke W. Reese
Graduate Thesis Collection
Score of tragic opera
Music Scores Of John Bull And William Byrde Arranged By Connie Bowie, Connie Bowie
Music Scores Of John Bull And William Byrde Arranged By Connie Bowie, Connie Bowie
Honors Theses
These are two arrangements for bells. First for "Courante Jewel" by John Bull, and the second for "The Carman's Whistle" by William Byrde.
Fugue For Three Flutes, Marilyn Rauch
Fugue For Three Flutes, Marilyn Rauch
Honors Theses
In addition to her composition, "Fugue for Three Flutes," Rauch has researched the history of fugues.