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In Search of Hans Gál (1890-1987): Musical Style and Continuity in an Era of Radical Change
(2018)
Born in Vienna in 1890, Hans Gál enjoyed early successes as a composer, conductor, scholar, and teacher. In 1933, he was abruptly removed from his position as Director of the Mainz Conservatory due to his Jewish ethnicity ...
Songs of Revelation
(2017-05-12)
Songs from Revelation is an orchestral choral song cycle that depicts various scenes found in the book of Revelation from the Christian Bible. Each song explores a different facet of humanity’s response during the events ...
Rhetoric and Gesture in the Performance of Seventeenth-Century Vocal Music
(2016)
In this document I approach the performance of seventeenth-century vocal music via rhetorically-informed analytical procedures. I draw from primary sources such as Quintilian's Institutio Oratoria and several seventeenth ...
Symphony No. 4 "Immortal"
(2016-05)
My fourth symphony, Immortal, was conceived as I viewed the busts of Roman Emperors on display at the University of Oklahoma’s Fred Jones Museum of Art. All of the figures are representative of people who are remembered ...
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 ...
The Performer-Audience Connection: An Exploration of the Performative Power of Drag Queens in Oklahoma City
(2016-08)
This thesis explores the potential for empowerment that drag performance has on the lives of drag performers and their audience members. I have attended over one hundred drag performances in Oklahoma City from January 2015 ...
Metaschemata and Working Memory: The Effect of Musical Knowledge on the Acquisition of Aural Skills
(2017-05-12)
In the undergraduate music theory curriculum, aural skills are often regarded as more physical than cognitive, which I suspect is partially due to a lack of understanding as to which cognitive processes and tools are used ...
Symphony no. 1 in One Movement
(2019-05-10)
Symphony No. 1 In On Movement, a composition for symphony orchestra, is a symphony not in form, but in its overall arch and dramatic affect. The piece is scored for piccolo, 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, ...
Slowing Down and the Vertical/Horizontal Spectrum in Kaija Saariaho's Duft
(2018-05-11)
Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho moved to Paris in 1982 to work at IRCAM
(Institut de Recherche et de Coordination Acoustique/Musique) and GRM (Groupe de
Recherches Musicales). Her research involved slowing down tape ...