Peña, MelissaKeller, Rebecca2023-07-102023-07-102023-06https://hdl.handle.net/1794/2850542 pagesAlyssa Morris is an award winning oboist and composer with two recent solo oboe works that highlight contrasting musical representations of different forms of perception. In the first piece, Collision Etudes, two movements utilize a musical translation of synesthetic perception based on the color wheel of Alexander Scriabin according to the color palettes by artists Joan Mitchell and Alma Thomas. For the second piece, Ruminations, Morris notated musical representations of her own perceptions of the strenuous emotions brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic. This work examines these two pieces closely, highlighting the uses of sensory and emotional perception through compositional similarities and differences in performing each work.enCreative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0-USAlyssa Morrissolo oboeThesis / Dissertation0009-0003-8170-7162