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Music Composition Portfolio, Daniel O'Neill

Masters by Practice

There are six pieces included in this M.Phil. These were completed over two years and are accompanied by a written text part. These pieces contain different instrumentations and range from solo to orchestral works. In this portfolio there is a set of two choir pieces, a trio for piano, clarinet and violin, an orchestral piece, a guitar quartet, three pieces for saxophone quartet and a solo piano piece. The written part of this portfolio examines in detail my compositions with reference to their inspiration, construction and overall shape. There is a detailed description of the six works along with musical …

A Metrical Analysis And Rebarring Of Paul Creston's Sonata For Alto Saxophone And Piano, Op. 19, Christopher Kyle Sweitzer

Glenn Korff School of Music: Dissertations, Theses, Student Creative Work, and Performances

The Sonata For Alto Saxophone and Piano Op. 19 is one of the most popular pieces in the saxophone literature, commonly played by professional saxophonists during their training. It features exciting rhythmic devices like irregular and mixed meter, the notation of which is the main focus of this paper. Although Creston often used irregular and mixed meter in his compositions, he rarely specifically notated them, choosing instead to use accents, beams, slurs, and other phenomenal cues at the musical surface to create the effect of these metric plans. Time signatures often remained constant throughout entire movements. Creston believed this would …

Beloved, Thou Hast Brought Me Many Flowers And Sifting Through The Ruins: An Analysis Of Two Chamber Song Cycles By Libby Larsen, Juline Erika Barol-Gilmore

UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones

American composer Libby Larsen is one of the most active, prolific composers living today. Although she is known for composing in many musical genres, her vocal works are among her most recognized compositions. When selecting song texts, Libby Larsen carefully chooses poems that speak to her personally, both in the rhythm of the language and in the text’s depth of meaning and spirit. In addition, a large number of her vocal works are based on texts by or about women.

In sum, authors and poets have profoundly influenced Larsen, specifically in her chamber song cycles Beloved, Thou Hast Brought Me …

Composing Music In Constrained Search Environments, Jeffrey Keene

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Composing music with computers in constrained search environments adds complexities and problems not present in the traditional problem domain of generative music. The traditional and well researched mechanisms of Markov chains, genetic algorithms and data driven rule based systems do not directly map to a problem domain in which pitch choice and rhythm choice are likely to be highly limited.

We therefore explore several possible solutions to generating rhythms in extremely constrained environments with the goal of generating music that adheres to user specified constraints and is aesthetically pleasing.

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 …

"Mountain Spirit Rising" For Solo Piano (Tucson, Az), Dominic Dousa

Selected Works Temporary Series

A performance of my original composition by Nayeli Lopez (piano, Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez).

Dmitry Shostakovich's Twenty-Four Preludes And Fugues Op. 87: An Analysis And Critical Evaluation Of The Printed Edition Based On The Composer's Recorded Performance, Denis V. Plutalov

Glenn Korff School of Music: Dissertations, Theses, Student Creative Work, and Performances

This particular research is a tribute to Dmitry Shostakovich, who was not only a great composer, but also a great pianist and interpreter of his own works. Shostakovich is famous for the most part as a great symphonic and chamber composer. His piano works did not gain as much popularity as his large scale works. In fact they attracted very little attention from the modern generation of pianists. Shostakovich's Twenty-Four Preludes and Fugues op. 87 stand out among his piano works as a unique cycle, equaling Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier in its concept.

Chapter One provides an introduction to the subject …

Brahms, Opus 32: The Forgotten Cycles, Patrick Russell

Undergraduate Research Conference

A song cycle may be loosely defined as a set of works for solo voice and piano intended for performance as a whole, and in a predetermined order. Established by such composers as Beethoven, Schubert and Schumann, cycles are typically characterized by a deliberate structure, the texts of which are almost without exception by the same author. So conventional is the practice of containing the settings of a single poet, it may be considered a prerequisite. Song cycles are also distinguished, therefore, by one or more unifying elements originating in the poetry, such as literary themes or narration. It is …

Music Compositions Student Presentations, School Of Music

John Wesley Powell Student Research Conference

No abstract provided.

Woodwind Extension Through The Systematic Use Of Microtonality And Electronic Manipulation Of The Instrument, Seán Mac Erlaine

Conference papers

This research questions how the expressive range of the saxophone / bass clarinet can be extended in new ways by employing both a systematic use of microtonality and electronic manipulation of the instrument.

The use of digital signal processing (DSP) is well advanced among certain music practitioners, most notably electric guitarists, extending that instrument’s expressive powers considerably. Woodwind instrumentalists have a huge unexplored potential to engage with new technologies, furthering the range, polyphonic voicings, loops, reverbs and general signal manipulation.

The marraige of these two disciplines with conventional woodwind practice greatly deepens the expressive range of the instrument while offering …

2009-2010 New Music Festival, Kenneth Frazelle, Lisa Leonard

New Music Festival

Fourth Annual New Music Festival

• Kenneth Frazelle, Composer-in-Residence
• Lisa Leonard, Director

Sunday, January 17, 2010 at 4:00 pm

• Defining Modernism: Faculty Favorites

Tuesday, January 19, 2010 at 7:30 pm

• Spotlight: Young Composers

Wednesday, January 20, 2010 at 7:30 pm

• Contemporary Music Forum

Thursday, January 21, 2010 at 7:30 pm

• Spotlight: Kenneth Frazelle

Commissioned Work

Gee's Bend Pieces for Trumpet, Percussion and Piano by Kenneth Frazelle. The full score is displayed in the Creative Works collection.

Drei, Dai, Dry, Bruno Ruviaro

Music

Viola, violoncello and percussion. [ca. 11’00]

Aspectos Estructurales Y Formales Comunes A La Creacion Poetica Y Musical En Mozart: Quinteto Para Clarinete Y Cuerdas En La Mayor De Jose Emilio Pacheco Y Reflejos De La Noche De Mario Lavista, Marianella P. Machado

Languages, Cultures, and Humanities Faculty and Staff Research

Si en algo han de ser comparables la musica y la poesia, es en cuanto a la creacion de la forma. En Mozart: Qunteto para clarinete y cuerda en La mayor de Jose Emilio Pacheco tanto com en Reflejos de la noche de Mario Lavista, el proceso creativo que ambos creadores utilizan nos lleva a definir los aspectos de composicion que dichas artes comparten.

Caledonian's Air-Ttbb | 10-96275, James Q. Mulholland

Music Faculty Scores

Caledonian's Air, from "Three Scottish Songs"

Part Number:
10-96275

Price:
$1.75

Voicing:
TTBB

Lyrics By:
Robert Burns

Arranged By:
James Q. Mulholland (Traditional Scottish Folk Song)

Also Available:
Loch Lomond; Wi' A Hundred Pipers

Dedicated lovingly to the memory of my dearest Yellow Rose, Glenda Casey

Self-Banished, The | 20-95950, Steven Rickards

Music Faculty Scores

The Self-Banished

Part Number:
20-95950

Price:
$1.85

Voicing:
SA

Music By:
John Blow (1649-1708)

Lyrics By:
Edmund Waller (1606-1687)

Arranged By:
Steven Rickards

with Soloist

Caldenoian's Air-Ssaa | 10-96200, James Q. Mulholland

Music Faculty Scores

Caledonian's Air, from "Three Scottish Songs"

Part Number:
10-96200

Price:
$1.75

Voicing:
SSAA

Lyrics By:
Robert Burns

Arranged By:
James Q. Mulholland (Traditional Scottish Folk Song)

Also Available:
Loch Lomond; Wi' A Hundred Pipers

Dedicated lovingly to the memory of my dearest Yellow Rose, Glenda Casey

And Dreams Unknown | 10-96180, James Q. Mulholland

Music Faculty Scores

And Dreams Unknown for SATB Voices with Piano Accompaniment

Part Number:
10-96180

Price:
$1.80

Voicing:
SATB

Lyrics By:
Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)

Arranged By:
James Q. Mulholland

Commissioned by the 2010 Tennessee All State Choir
James Q. Mulholland, conductor

America The Beautiful | 10-96220, James Q. Mulholland

Music Faculty Scores

America The Beautiful, for T.T.B.B. Voices with Piano (or Organ) Accompaniment and Optional Small Brass Ensemble or Full Concert Band.

Part Number:
10-96220

Price:
$1.85

Voicing:
TTBB

Arranged By:
James Q. Mulholland

with Brass, Band, or Orchestra

Gloria | 20-95960, William Chin, Javier Mendoza, Henry Leck

Music Faculty Scores

Gloria
From "Gloria in D"

Part Number:
20-95960

Price:
$1.90

Voicing:
SSAA

Music By:
Antonio Vivaldi

Arranged By:
William Chin & Javier Mendoza

Edited By:
Henry Leck

Kyrie | 21-20113, Imant Raminsh

Music Faculty Scores

Kyrie
From "Missa Brevis in C Minor"

Part Number:
21-20113

Price:
$1.90

Voicing:
SATB

Music By:
Imant Raminsh