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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Qiuci fantasy for full orchestra
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2012)
Qiuci Fantasy is a two-movement work for full orchestra. Its inspiration
comes from the Quici people, who lived about 1,400 years ago in the Kuche region of
northwest China's Xinjiang Autonomous Region. The Quici people ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The waters
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2012-06-12)
'The Waters' is a piece inspired by nature and the ways water manifests itself in nature.
Water can exist in such varied ways, from a flowing river to destructive hail to delicate
morning dew. These multiple existences ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Things unseen
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2012-06-01)
This piece began as my reaction to a series of personal losses during my final year
of graduate school. The most intense of these losses was a rapid decline in my father's
health, which brought many changes to my family. ...
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 ...
(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. ...
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, ...