Browsing University of Missouri-Kansas City by Thesis Department "Music Composition (UMKC)"
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Clear Sound for Clarinet and Orchestra
(2016)Clear Sound is the opening movement of a larger three movement concerto for solo clarinet and orchestra being written for clarinetist and conductor Luis Viquez Cordoba. I set out to compose a traditionally structured ... -
Compromise (Fusion) for suona and orchestra
(2021)Compromise (Fusion) (for suona and orchestra) is a work that delves into the chemistry between the suona and a Western approach to orchestration. The suona has not yet been fully “discovered” by composers. Traditionally, ... -
Concerto for Tenor Saxophone and Wind Ensemble
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2017)I wrote CONCERTO FOR TENOR SAXOPHONE AND WIND ENSEMBLE in the tradition of the grand concerti of the nineteenth century, but incorporating a modern sense of harmony and rhythm. The spirit of the piece is very in the ... -
Concerto for Two Horns and Orchestra
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2018)This concerto for two horns and orchestra is a 25-minute work for two virtuoso horn players and full-size orchestra. The work draws on images of the Rocky Mountains and Western United States. Three movements depict a ... -
Crossroads of the Earth
(2024)Crossroads of The Earth is a single-movement mixed quartet in five sections, set for flute/piccolo, alto saxophone, violoncello, and piano. My inspiration for this composition stemmed from the environmental awareness film ... -
Cryptogram (2011) for wind ensemble
(2015)Cryptogram is a nine-minute, one-movement composition for wind ensemble that explores the use of embedded musical quotations to generate basic melodic, harmonic, and formal structures. In contrast to traditional quotation, ... -
Darwin's Thought
(2015-07-28)It is difficult to describe accurately the bond between humans and society. Our current society is morphing at such a gradual pace that no one seems to notice many changes. Those changes, however, accumulate and in fact ... -
Daughter of Bird and Earth
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2019)The single movement symphonic poem Daughter of Bird and Earth draws its inspiration from my own long poem in modern Chinese, The Resurrection of Poems, which narrates an imaginary woman’s life journey, both internally and ... -
Dispatches
(2023)Dispatches is an eight-movement work that focuses on the very human emotions of love and desire, including the darker side of these, as well as the effects of separation on the heart and mind. Using a small chamber ensemble ... -
Ember for orchestra
(2019)Ember is a single-movement piece for orchestra which combines my years of compositional experience, the exploration of musical aesthetics, an experiment of adapting electronic music technique in acoustic writing, and a ... -
Escape from the Evil Empire
(2015-07-28)A dirge for soprano, women’s chorus, and orchestra, ‘Escape from the Evil Empire’ was created with the idea of composing original music for an epic, major motion picture. The original text speaks of unwanted souls in a ... -
Excursus: Three Art Songs for Soprano and Flexible Media
(2015-07-28)Commissioned by coloratura soprano Mikaela Sullivan for performance in April 2014, Excursus explores the methods in which modern television broadcasting attempts to provide different facets of human desire, thus propagating ... -
Fantasia Nirvana
(2022)“To see a world in a wild flower, to see yourself like a bodhi in a leaf”, this philosophical reflection springs from writings within the Vimalakirti Sutra. It claims that all phenomena have no root or result, without its ... -
Fit to Live, a flexible form concerto for wind ensemble
(2014-08-28)This work is a flexible form concerto for trumpet and wind ensemble. It consists of several fixed sections, or modules, that can be put together in several specific pre-determined ways to create various versions of the ... -
Five Ekmousikés for Solo Piano
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2016)“Five Ekmousikés” is a multi-movement work composed for solo piano, dedicated to and to be premiered by my grandmother, Dr. Janet Bass Smith. Each movement in this work is programmatically tied to a piece of extra-musical ... -
Flashbacks : for percussion trio
(2021)Flashbacks is a five-movement piece for percussion trio. This work aims to explore the unique sounds and effects of various combinations of percussion instruments. Each movement emphasizes a distinct theme: motif and ... -
Flourishes (2012.13) for chamber orchestra
(2014)flourishes (2012.13) for chamber orchestra was composed for the Summer Music Institute at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa, Ontario. The title serves as a description for the active woodwind parts and large scale ... -
The Footsteps Die Out For Ever (2016) for narrator, drum set, and orchestra
(2016)A Tale of Two Cities, serialized in weekly and monthly installments and finally published as a single volume in November 1859, is one of Charles Dickens’s best-loved and most-analyzed novels. In The Footsteps Die Out ... -
For whom the bell tolls for flute (piccolo), soprano saxophone (alto saxophone), percussion, and piano
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2018)This piece is inspired by "Meditation XVII”, a poem written by John Donne in 1624. It appears in Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions and Seuerall Steps in my Sicknes. The opening line is: "PERCHANCE he for whom this ... -
forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2018)This quartet features a transparent structure in which a dense, static ensemble motif gradually and smoothly transforms into a highly active and agitated counter-motif. This process repeats twice: with each iteration, ...