Browsing Composition, Music Theory and Musicology (UMKC) by Thesis Semester "2013 Spring"
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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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
"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 ... -
RetroRhapsody for two pianos, two basses and percussion
(2013)RetroRhapsody takes its inspiration from the culturally fascinating early-to-middle portion of twentieth-century American popular culture. Two of the biggest musical developments were, of course, jazz and rock 'n roll, ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Symphony No. 2 (“Brasiliana”) by Walter Burle Marx: an edition and commentary
(2013)This research on the Brazilian composer Walter Burle Marx (b São Paulo, 1902; d Akron, Ohio, 1990) is part of an ambitious project, which aims at publishing a performing edition of all four of Burle Marx's symphonies. ...