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Sinfonietta for wind ensemble augmented with string quartet
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2011-05-09)
A small consort of strings joins a full-sized wind ensemble in Sinfonietta. Although it is
not a concerto, Sinfonietta flips the classical notion of an orchestra on its head. Whereas the
Classical orchestra represented ...
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 ...
Queen of Heaven for piano and electronics
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2011-11-04)
Queen of Heaven is a large-scale composition for piano and electronics, cast as five
meditations on the Virgin Mary. Each of the five movements is set in musical materials that both
subjectively and symbolically express ...
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 ...
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 ...
Songs from behind the curtain, an opera in three acts
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2012-01-25)
Songs from Behind the Curtain is the story of Pascal Baur, a damaged composer
in 1980's Hartford, who, as the musical director of the Hartford Opera Company, is
encoding Soviet messages into his operas. Within the operas ...
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 ...
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 ...
(Re)constructing Johann Sebastian Bach: reception history and performance practice in New York City during the Great War
(2013)
The perception of Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) in New York City during the time
of the Great War can be illuminated through two threads: 1) reception history and reputation, and
2) contemporary performance practices. ...
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 ...
Reconsidering George Gershwin and an American in Paris as an extension of the romantic tradition
(2014-07-28)
George Gershwin's legacy as an American composer is fraught with contradictions. He is classified primarily as a composer of popular music by many despite his relatively successful attempts to enter the classical world. ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
Pray for the lights to go out: the portrayal of Blacks in Kansas City published sheet music
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2011-05-20)
This study examines sixteen pieces of sheet music published in Kansas City,
Missouri, dating from the 1880s through the 1930s. The pieces are located in the LaBudde
Special Collections at the University of Missouri-Kansas ...
War sirens: how the sheet music industry sold World War I
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2011-08-26)
During World War I the U.S. Committee on Public Information (CPI) sponsored a
national culture of war in posters, speeches, and films. Against this war-soaked cultural
backdrop, the sheet music industry echoed the pervasive ...
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. ...
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 ...