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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, ...
Ms. Linto
(2014-09-30)
Ms. Linto is inspired by a famous Taiwan legend called Ms. Linto. This story happened in Tainan. Linto who is a widow and raises three kinds alone, was tricked out of her life saving by a smooth talking handsome man, ACSi ...
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 ...
Shadow of dew drops for piano trio
(2013)
Shadow of Dew Drops for violin, violoncello and piano was inspired by a poetry of the Song Dynasty (960-1279) "Xiao Chi - A little Pond" written by the famous poet Yang Wanli (1127-1206). This poetry depicts: the silent ...
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 ...
Shatter and spin again
(2013)
There are many reasons for accepting viewpoints that are naîve and
uncompromising. Maybe it's the only position to which we've been exposed. Maybe it's easier to accept instead of to question. But it is in the relief of ...
"Mood-Stuff" and "Metaphoric Utterance": Norman Corwin's radio art
(2013)
Norman Corwin (1910-2011) is widely acclaimed as the best radio writer in early
American radio art (from the early 1920s to 1950). Ample research has been done on him as a
radio dramatist, patriotic propagandist, and ...
Promoting parent-child secure attachment bonds in adoptive families through community-based family music groups: a heuristic grounded theory study
(2013)
The purpose of this heuristic grounded theory study was to discover how community-based family music groups could foster bonding development in adoptive families. The subjects were 11 adoptive families with a total of 41 ...
Charles Mingus Played Bass?: Rediscovering a Jazz Soloist Through Transcription
(2014-09-30)
Bassist and composer Charles Mingus (1922-1979) was one of jazz music's most
influential and prolific artists. Both his instrumental and compositional abilities were highly
regarded during his life, and remain so today. ...
Quaerere Sententias I
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2015-03-09)
Quaerere Sententias (“search for meaning”) is a collection of pieces composed
for soloists, digital audio, and video. The first set, Quaerere Sententias I, is comprised of
three pieces: Introit, for trumpet; Hiram, for ...
Narong Prangcharoen and Thai cross-cultural fusion in contemporary composition
(2014-07-30)
Narong Prangcharoen (b.1973) has become one of the leading Asian classical composers since he won a number of international awards and received numerous commissions from major orchestras and individual distinguished ...
Neurologic music therapy (NMT) theory & technique
(2012-06-05)
Piano concerto for piano and full orchestra
(2014-07-29)
The first movement of my Piano Concerto presents my unique methods of
developing motives. There are two main motives that are used to construct almost all
material in the piece. I also have two main methods of developing ...
Dawn of Spring for full orchestra
(2013)
The orchestral work Dawn of Spring was inspired by a poem with the same title, which
was written by MENG Haoran, one of the most famous ancient Chinese poets during the Tang
dynasty. The poet described a lively picture ...
The effects of projected films on singers' expressivity in choral performance
(2013)
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of projected film visuals on
singers' expressivity in choral performance. The study was divided into three phases. In
Phase One, university choir singers (N = 21) ...
Lapse of time, for flute, clarine, violin, cello, percussion and piano
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2014)
The inspiration for this piece came from some initial sounds in my mind. The music is combination of these sounds, which sometimes mix well and sometimes collide. In order to realize these sounds, I created three primary ...
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 ...
To the Forgotten : for orchestra
(2013)
To the forgotten is inspired by the process of observing nature and realizing the interrelationship between humanity and nature by the method of self-preservation. I discovered a similar approach toward nature in three ...
Rhythmic auditory-motor entrainment of gait patterns in adults with blindness or severe visual impairment
(2013)
The following study investigates the impact of a rhythmic cue on the observational
gait parameters of a population of adults with blindness or severe visual impairment. Forty-six
adults who had sight loss significant ...
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 ...