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The three Americas
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)
This instrumental piece is the result of my attempt to mix principles of modern fine art composition techniques with melodies, rhythms, and harmonies, originated from the popular music of the three Americas. From South ...
The Raven : an opera in one act
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)
In a dim room, with only a weak fire keeping out the cold December wind, a poor student sits alone, slowly, painfully working himself into a frenzy of grief over the loss of his young wife, Lenore. This is the image in my ...
Concerto for four horns and wind ensemble
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)
While a reasonable amount of concert literature exists for French Horn Quartet, the standard repertoire is notably lacking literature that allows the ensemble to express itself within its most common, modern venue: the ...
Post-common practice era music theory pedagogy
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
The purpose of my research is to improve the experience of students who are taking the Twentieth-Century Compositional Techniques course at the University of Missouri-Columbia, and similar courses at other institutions. ...
Development and validation of a rating scale for wind jazz improvisation performance
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
The purpose of this study was to construct and validate a rating scale for collegiate wind jazz improvisation performance. The 14-item Wind Jazz Improvisation Evaluation Scale (WJIES) was constructed and refined through a ...
Criteria identified by selected Missouri high school choral directors for placement of concert repertoire in concert order
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
This descriptive study was designed to investigate the criteria used by selected Missouri high school choral music educators for sequencing repertoire on concert programs. The purposes were to (a) examine choral music ...
Row construction and accompaniment in Luigi Dallapiccola's Il Prigioniero
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
Italian composer Luigi Dallapiccola (1904-75) invested his art with personal responses to dire social injustices. Because of the dangers surrounding any attempt to protest the repression of individual freedom, hate crimes, ...
Mario Bauza: swing era novelty and Afro-Cuban authenticity
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
Introduced to jazz in his native Cuba, Mario Bauzá (1911-1993) immigrated to New York City in 1930 to take part in its active scene as an instrumentalist, and, by enhancing pre-existing musical practices with his arranging ...
The little match girl
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
A tone poem composed for orchestra based upon Hans Christian Andersen's short story of the same title.
Three songs for unaccompanied choir
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
Using Maurice Ravel's Trois Chansons as a point of departure, this composition explores the possibilities of motivic, harmonic, and rhythmic development from a shared opening phrase. As a result of this free exploration, ...
Mass for chorus, chamber orchestra, and soloists
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
My primary objective in composing this piece of music was to create a modern musical work based heavily on music of the Renaissance. Representative pieces of music on which I have modeled my work include Byrd's Mass for ...
The late choral works of Igor Stravinsky: a reception history
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
Despite his preeminence in twentieth-century music, the late works of Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971) remain in relative obscurity: seldom performed, inadequately recorded, poorly understood, and frequently disparaged. The ...
The legend of the dried persimmon for symphony orchestra and computer generated sounds
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] The composition is based on a Korean folk tale. The dried persimmon legend's original name is 'The Tiger and the Dried Persimmon'. The composition ...
Motive and reflection
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
Motive and Reflection was originally commissioned by the Sinquefield Charitable Foundation as part of the Sinquefield Prize in composition, which I won in 2009. The resultant work was a one-movement piece for full orchestra. ...
Farewell to shadowlands : for wind ensemble
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
Original composition, "Farewell to Shadowlands."
Amy Beach : the Victorian woman, the autism spectrum, and compositional style
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
Celebrated American composer and pianist Amy Marcy Cheney Beach (1867-1944) became the subject of the dedicated interest of a number of scholars during the last decades of the twentieth century, but her idiosyncratic ...
Bela Bartok and the Pro-Musica Society: a chronicle of piano recitals in eleven American cities during his 1927-1928 tour
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
An important component of Béla Bartók's 1927-28 transcontinental tour of the United States was a series of eleven lecture-recitals sponsored by the Pro-Musica Society—an international organization founded in 1920 as the ...
Garden music
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
This piece was written as a thesis for the completion of an M.M. in composition. To write it I conjured several images to help characterize various elements of a garden. The first movement came about as a visualization of ...
Shostakovich in the United States of America : timelines, commentaries, and photographs for his three visits
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] During the Cold War Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975), the emblematic Soviet composer of the twentieth century, made three visits to his country's avowed ...
Sifting through ashes
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
A varied and elaborated form of a simple theme serves as basis for the refrain material in a seven-part rondo. Via additive process, the initial motive is revealed, recognizable yet harmonically distant. While purely melodic ...