Browsing Composition, Music Theory and Musicology Electronic Theses and Dissertations (UMKC) by Thesis Department "Music (UMKC)"
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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 art songs of Jaime León: a textual and musical analysis
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2011-08-26)The thirty-six art songs of Colombian composer Jaime León (b. 1921) represent an important addition to the art song repertory. Chapter 1 introduces the topic and the literature on Jaime León and Latin American art song. ... -
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 ... -
The Big Top, Concerto for Solo Percussion and Orchestra
(University of Missouri--Kansas City., 2010)"The Big Top" is a piece in three movements for symphony orchestra and solo percussionist who is required to play nine different percussion instruments. In the first movement the soloist alternates playing on marimba and ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
The Interaction of Linear and Vertical Time in Minimalist and Postminimalist Piano Music
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2011-01-20)Minimalist compositions thwart most attempts at analysis given their remarkable simplicity. Moreover, minimalist works are deliberately non-manipulative in order to allow the listener freedom in constructing his or her ... -
Jazz elements in select Finnish and Swedish choral music
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2011-05-09)Jazz was born in the United States around the turn of the twentieth-century and arrived in the Nordic lands in the 1920s and '30s. After this initial encounter, jazz spread throughout Finland and Sweden, the two countries ... -
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 ... -
MIGUEL MATEO DALLO Y LANA, MEXICAN BAROQUE COMPOSER: A FORGOTTEN TREASURE OF PUEBLA
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2015-03-09)As research into the Mexican Baroque continues to expand, forgotten composers and their works are garnering deserved attention. Miguel Mateo Dallo y Lana (c. 1650-1705), who served as maestro de capilla [chapel master] at ... -
"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 ... -
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 ... -
Naya Jeevan, concerto for double bass and wind ensemble
(2014-07-17)Naya Jeevan, meaning new life in Hindi, is a twenty-four minute, two-movement concerto for double bass and wind ensemble. While the two movements vary drastically in mood, texture, and tone, they both explore intensity ... -
Nidra for chamber orchestra
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2012-06-01)I believe in music as spiritual conveyor. My musical goal is to enhance this function. The current thesis is an attempt, of which the principle is to reach the spiritual through the corporeal, to resonate the mutual ... -
Pathétique: a tale of two rabbys
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2012-05-29)My thesis incorporates a variety of contrasting styles and musical material in an attempt to unify them under the same work while maintaining a unique sound. Since I began composing, I've heard this collaboration in my ... -
Pictures of strangers
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2011-10-25)Pictures of Strangers is primarily concerned with the differences between perception and reality. These differences are approached both conceptually and musically through a variety of means. The movement titles are drawn ...