Browsing by Subject "Musical composition"
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Lilacs: Digital Songs and Poems for Voice, Clarinet, Percussion, Electric Guitar, and Electronics, and Ethical Considerations for the Design and Documentation of Wearable Technologies, Responsive Textiles, and Haptic Sound Art
(2020)This dissertation contains two parts: an original album for voice, clarinet, electric guitar, hand percussion, and electronics; and an article analyzing ethical use of responsive technologies in art, music, and design.Lilacs: ... -
Lumpy Gravy by Frank Zappa—A Comparative Analysis
(2020)This dissertation is in two parts: a composition for mixed chamber ensemble and electronics and an article on Frank Zappa’s album, Lumpy Gravy. The composition, Everything, is in three movements (Ether, Ecstatic, and Deviant) ... -
Lü for String Quartet; Extrication for Clarinet, Percussion, Violin and Cello; and Qigang Chen’s Approach to Pentatonicism in Reflet D’un Temps Disparu and Luan Tan
(2020)This dissertation is comprised of two parts: two compositions titled Lü and Extrication, and an article discussing Qigang Chen’s Reflet d’un temps disparu and Luan Tan.Lü is a twenty-five minute string quartet that consists ... -
Of My Own for Woodwind Quintet and String Quartet; Constructing a Compositional Language through Musical Borrowing: Joan Tower’s Homage to Beethoven, Steps, and Made in America
(2021)This dissertation consists of two distinct parts. The first is an original music composition. The second is an analytical article about Joan Tower’s musical language through the lens of musical borrowing in three works.Chapter ... -
Pareidolia for Clarinet / Tenor Saxophone, Percussion / Drum Set, Piano / Synthesizers, String Quartet, and Electronics; Implied Reharmonizations in Postbop Improvisations over the Twelve-Bar Blues
(2020)This dissertation consists of two parts: a composition for ensemble and electronics, and an analytical article on jazz improvisers’ modern approaches to the Twelve-Bar Blues form.Chapter 1, Pareidolia, for clarinet/tenor ... -
Red Wind for Soprano, Narrator, and Chamber Ensemble; Bass Cathedral for Clarinet and Wind Ensemble; Red Wind (Desert Remix) for Generative Software; Form and Exhaustion in Pascal Dusapin’s Quad - In Memoriam Gilles Deleuze
(2018)My dissertation comprises three original musical compositions informed by the literary works of Nathaniel Mackey and an analytical article on the music of French composer Pascal Dusapin. As a whole, the collection seeks ... -
The Pit and the Pendulum, Dramatic Cantata for Baritone, Chamber Ensemble, Male Choir and Electronics; Formal Plan and Constructive Principles of the Heterophonic Textures in Berio’s Coro.
(2021)This dissertation consists of two parts: the artistic part is a dramatic cantata for Baritone, Chamber Ensemble, Male Choir and Electronics. The scholarly part is an article which inquires into compositional aspects of Luciano ... -
Through the Mangrove Tunnels, for String Quartet, Piano, and Drum Set, and “Musical Signification in Thomas Adès’s The Tempest”
(2018)This dissertation consists of two parts: a composition for chamber ensemble and an article discussing musical signification in Thomas Adès’s opera, The Tempest.Through the Mangrove Tunnels is a forty-five minute composition ... -
To Pernambuco with Love for Wind Symphony; String Quartet No. 1; Maco Light for Bass Clarinet and Prerecorded Electronics; and Educating for Composition Creativity
(2019)The structure of this dissertation comprises an introduction and four chapters, which contain three original musical compositions and one article. The first composition is a piece for wind symphony, the second one works ...
