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(University of Oregon, 2018-09-06)This orchestral suite is based on an original narrative by the composer and each movement is written as though it were for use in a video game featuring this narrative. Taking place in an other-planetary city, Seraphyn ...
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(University of Oregon, 2010-06)Suite of Roads is an orchestral suite comprising of two contrasting movements. This work explores and develops my original musical ideas in regard to the nature of roads and their role in connecting individuals and ...
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Sunfall (University of Oregon, 2019-09-18)Sunfall is a musical work for wind ensemble based on six short stories in a collection of the same name by author C.J. Cherryh. Each story takes place in a different major city on Earth, millions of years in the future, ...
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(University of Oregon, 2011-12)The implementation of an informed cross-relationship between two independent art forms has often been a source of inspiration for artists throughout the millennia. However, in the late 19th century, both Russian and French ...
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(University of Oregon, 2010-12)Throughout history, wondrous discoveries of science, like great pieces of music, have often come about through extraordinary feats of creativity, informed by deep rational thought yet not limited by it. Like science, music ...
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(University of Oregon, 2008-12)Symphony No.2, "Crime in the House of Names," is a forty-minute work for large orchestra in four movements. The final movement features a mezzo-soprano soloist who sings a setting of the poem "Herbsttag" ("Autumn Day") ...
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(University of Oregon, 2011-09)The purpose of this study was to investigate the frequency and the time that middle and high school orchestra directors engaged in seven specific teaching behaviors in a rehearsal setting. Of particular interest was the ...
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(University of Oregon, 2015-08-18)The music of Benjamin Britten is both inspiring and intriguing: inspiring, because his music can move the listener; intriguing, because his use of triadic harmonies and rhythmic settings seems at once free, flexible, and ...
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(University of Oregon, 2012)The Lieder of Fanny Hensel have received very little attention from modern music scholars, and her music has mostly been looked at as only a sidebar to the music of her much more famous brother, Felix Mendelssohn. Adding ...
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(University of Oregon, 2015-08-18)Ensembles have become iconic of the eighteenth-century opera buffa. Previous studies have focused their efforts on form, analyzing ensembles with instrumental structures. However, these forms do not provide information as ...
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(University of Oregon, 2017-09-06)This opera is the composer’s fanciful speculation on the origin of the banshee, a character out of Irish legend whose keening is a herald of death. In three scenes, the opera tells the story of a witch whose quest for power ...
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(University of Oregon, 2024-01-09)The Bride with White Hair is a three-movement chamber piece composed for flute and string quartet. The music is a homage to the famous Chinese martial arts novel The Bride with White Hair by Liang YuSheng. The protagonist ...
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(University of Oregon, 2024-01-10)In Western music of the early twentieth century, pentatonic elements are particularly prominent when composers emulate Chinese music. Claude Debussy, for instance, drew upon Eastern musical styles in works such as “Pagodes” ...
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(University of Oregon, 2015-08-18)This study explores a model for the creative process to facilitate an honest, individualistic, empowering human experience for the dancers and choreographer in the Higher Ed dance studio. I investigated the role of ...
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(University of Oregon, 2021-04-27)The Devil is in These Hills is a song cycle for soprano and tenor soloists, supported by chamber orchestra. The work is scored for single winds and a small string section; the title is taken from a historical work by James ...
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(University of Oregon, 2021-09-13)This work is a four-movement piece written for wind ensemble, in which each movement attempts to musically depict one of the four elements. The first movement, “Benevolent Water,” uses ocean drums and a wave-like pattern ...
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The Everlasting Voices: A Cantata for Solo Mezzo-Soprano, Chamber Chorus, and Large Chamber Ensemble (University of Oregon, 2015-08-18)This four movement cantata is scored for solo mezzo-soprano, chamber chorus, and large chamber ensemble. The text that is set in this piece is an amalgamation of adaptations of three poems by Walt Whitman (Proud Music of ...
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(University of Oregon, 2015-08-18)Metric dissonance in Brahms’s music is not an unfamiliar topic. Hemiola, offbeat accents, and syncopations are Brahms’s common metric strategies. These metric manipulations often facilitate a displacement between the audible ...
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(University of Oregon, 2015-08-18)In the 1930s, Oregon State University received an impressive oversized manuscript, now known as "The Gradual," as part of a large donation of books. Not much was known about this manuscript. It does not have documentation ...
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