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In Time Gone By: Song Cycle For Baritone And Six Players, Bryan Grosbach May 2020

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 …


Gloria, Abigail L. Kempson Jan 2012

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.


Se Tu Mi Lassi (If You Leave Me) For Choir, Katherine Spencer Jan 2009

Se Tu Mi Lassi (If You Leave Me) For Choir, Katherine Spencer

Compositions

No abstract provided.


Imbal-Imbalan, Bill Alves Jun 2001

Imbal-Imbalan, Bill Alves

All HMC Faculty Publications and Research

A composition in Western musical notation for Javanese gamelan instruments.