Browsing Conservatory of Music and Dance (UMKC) by Thesis Advisor "Mobberley, James"
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And the TV Said...,
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2011-06-02)And the TV Said..., scored for actress, digital media, and sextet, is a music theater piece set to Jason Ludlow's script of the same name. The script is written for two characters: a woman and her television. The role ... -
Archistrategos
(2014-07-17)A few years ago I became interested in Christian Orthodoxy, a faith tradition as old as my own -- Roman Catholicism -- yet unfamiliar to most in the Western world. I was seduced by the mysticism and sensuality of Orthodoxy, ... -
The Battle of Westport: Along Union Lines A Chamber Work With Electronics and Narration in Eight Movements
(2016)The Battle of Westport: Along Union Lines is an eight-movement chamber piece for 12 instruments (3 woodwinds, 3 brass, 1 percussion, string quintet), electronics and narration. Live audio has been captured at eight of the ... -
Berri
(2014-07-17)Berri is a dramatic musical composition for large chamber ensemble (Piccolo, Flute, Bb Clarinet, Bass Clarinet, 2 Violins, Viola, Cello, Bass, Piano, and Percussion) and narrator. The text for the narrator is an original ... -
Between Glimpses of Blue for Wind Ensemble and Fixed Media
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2017)Between Glimpses of Blue is a work for wind ensemble and fixed media that uses the visual imagery of clouds as the inspiration for the piece, and as a direct influence for the form and orchestration. Cirrus, Stratus, ... -
Biloba for chamber ensemble
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2012-05-25)Biloba is a chamber piece for eight instruments inspired by the Gingko biloba tree. In an abstract way, the piece attempts to capture the movements - to me, the structural details of a tree give the illusion of dancers ... -
BITE: New Music Concert and Multimedia Installation Featuring Vocal Soloists from the KC VITAs Chamber Choir and Dancers from the UMKC Conservatory of Music and Dance
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2016)BITE is a multi-media installation that features all new music in an entirely immersive space. There is no complete, written score for the full performance. Instead, there is fixed media with semi-improvised, cellular vocal ... -
Chamber Symphony
(2015-08-04)“Chamber Symphony” is a symphony for chamber orchestra (flute/piccolo, oboe/english horn, clarinet, bassoon, two horns in F, piano, and strings) and soprano. It is in a nesting doll structure. That is, there are increasingly ... -
Child's Play:a Collection of Three Pieces for Instruments and Fixed Electronic Media
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2015-03-09)"Child's Play" is a collection of three pieces for instruments and fixed electronic media inspired by the sounds of my daughter's toys. The first piece, "With My Eyes Shut" is for clarinet and fixed electronic media, the ... -
Composition No. 1, quintet for two violins, viola, cello, and sampler
(2013)Composition No. 1 is a work for string quartet and interactive electronics. The work is around twenty minutes long and separated into five movements, all of them elided through the use of attaccas. The work's organizational ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Der Struwwelpeter: a song cycle for soprano and chamber ensemble
(2013)Der Struwwelpeter: A Song Cycle for Soprano and Chamber Ensemble, sets seven of the stories from the iconic, mid-19th century children's story by Heinrich Hoffmann. The text set is from a widely published, anonymous ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
John Dimond - the wizard of Marblehead a miniature opera in five vignettes
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2012-06-01)Throughout history, one trait of the Opera genre has been to bring to life and further illuminate fantastical subject matter. As part of this trend, composers often seek to highlight their own national heritage through ... -
Mantra: a chamber opera
(2013)Mantra: A Chamber Opera is as much an exercise in group-meditation as it is a piece of music. With a very slow, subtle unfolding of musical material and timbral shifts, the drama is distilled down to its essence. Instead ... -
Mathias and the Storm for Orchestra
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2017)There is a piece of folklore that is pervasive in my hometown of Dubuque, Iowa. It is an anecdote that many Dubuquers learn in grade school as it has passed from generation to generation. The story, which weaves ...