Browsing Composition, Music Theory and Musicology Electronic Theses and Dissertations (UMKC) by Thesis Semester "2016 Spring"
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an Aid in the Process
(2016)an Aid in the Process is a work featuring an unusual orchestral configuration, making use of two distinct groups, each with their own conductor. Programmatically, the work addresses aid in-dying legislation and contemporary ... -
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 ... -
Characters in Theatre for Orchestra
(2016)Beijing Opera is a form of traditional Chinese theater that combines singing, reciting, performing, acrobatics acting, and instrumental accompanying, along with rich face make-up, costume and stage setting. I applied ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Heartbeat for Orchestra
(2016)Heartbeat is a work for orchestra inspired by our heart, which starts from the day we are born. My work is concerned with both the abstract representation of the heartbeat in graph form, and also the emotional expressions ... -
Influence, Innovation, and Structure: Modernist Evaluative Criteria in the Reception Histories of Charles Ives and Jean Sibelius
(2016)In 1987, Maynard Solomon published an article titled “Charles Ives: Some Questions of Veracity,” which challenged the priority and probity of Charles Ives’s technical innovations and ignited a scholarly firestorm. ... -
Melodic Conventions through Improvisation
(2016)The study of the common melodic units in western music — motives and phrase and period models — begins with a solid understanding of the fundamentals of music. At the same time, a solid understanding of the fundamentals ... -
Mock Trial!
(2016)Mock Trial is a work for wind ensemble. It is inspired by proceedings common to debates and courtroom sessions, where multiple arguments are presented, examined and cross-examined. As a parody, the work pokes fun at the ... -
Nicodemus! The Beds are Burning Again: The Ascension of Gorgomath
(2016)Nicodemus! The Beds are Burning Again: The Ascension of Gorgomath is a 22-minute concerto for piano and chamber orchestra that explores the use of narrative as a means of unifying disparate musical languages into a ... -
Settings of the Sabbath
(2016)Settings of the Sabbath is a piece written for large ensemble and SATB choir. The Sabbath is a sacred time for Jews that starts sundown Friday night and ends at sundown Saturday night. It is a time for reflection, ... -
Till Coffee Do Us Part
(2016)Till Coffee Do Us Part is a chamber opera scored for two violins, cello, electronics, soprano, and tenor. The opera was written as a part of Black House Collective’s and the Kansas City Electronic Music and Arts Alli ...