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Piano Concerto No. 1, "Concert of Sages"
(2018-12-14)
Concert of Sages comes out of the duality of my being a composer and a pianist, and my desire to express this duality. As the orchestra is a prime test of a composers’ mettle, a concerto is a prime test of a concert ...
Formal Delineation via Modes of Limited Transposition in Ida Gotkovsky's Sonata for Solo Clarinet
(2017)
French composer Ida Gotkovsky, Professor of Music Theory at the Paris
Conservatory, studied composition with both Nadia Boulanger and Olivier Messiaen. Her Sonata for Solo Clarinet, commissioned by the International ...
More Than a Key: An Analysis of Shostakovich's Symphony No. 8, Op. 65
(2016-05-13)
This thesis offers an analysis of the fifth movement Dmitri Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 8, Op. 65. Although the work has been discussed in relation to Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5, Op. 67, no thorough analysis of the work ...
Prima Donna Culture and the Tulsa Opera, 1954--1968
(2023-05-12)
This thesis explores the role of prima donnas in the Tulsa Opera in the mid-20th century and how women both onstage and offstage were essential to the development of the Tulsa Opera Company and American opera at large. I ...
Love, Loss, and Memory: An Analytic and Hermeneutic Discussion of Clara Schumann’s Drei Romanzen, Op. 21
(2023-05-12)
One of Clara Wieck-Schumann’s last compositions, Drei Romanzen, Op. 21 is a set of three romances composed in 1853. The analysis which follows discusses the three romances of Op. 21 through the lens of large-scale ternary ...
Night Song for tenor and orchestra
(2019-05-10)
Night Song for tenor and orchestra is a setting of the poem “Night Song” from Thus
Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche, translated into English by R.J. Hollingdale. The
piece is 24 minutes in length, and is ...
Symphony No. 1 for Band
(2018-05)
The impetus for this piece was twofold; to serve as a pedagogical tool for the student wind ensemble, as well as expanding the repertoire of large-scale band pieces. Each movement has a programmatic relationship to a town ...
Catching Up With Cabaret: Finding Deeper Meaning in a Never-Ending Adaptation
(2022-05-13)
Cabaret, a 1966 Broadway musical with book by Joe Masteroff and music and lyrics by John Kander and Fred Ebb, and the 1972 film of the same name, directed by Bob Fosse, have been subjects of considerable scholarly research ...
Symphony No. 1
(2020-05)
Symphony No. 1 is a symphony in four movements consisting of movement 1, which is an ABCAD allegro with an introduction; Movement 2, which is an ABA largo; movement 3, which is a Minuet & Trio; and Movement 4, a third rondo ...
Few in Number
(2018-05-11)
My first work that implements voice and live sound processing, Few in Number uses the numbers found in the book titled “Numbers” in the Old Testament. The numbers in the first chapter of the book define the sectional ...