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Andy Teirstein (b. 1957 in New York, NY) is a composer, performer, and producer who is passionate about the characteristics of folk music found at the root of different cultures around the world. Intrigued by the compositional style and...
This dissertation explores the interaction between structure and narrative in Schumann's 1842 chamber music for strings and piano. This repertoire, while somewhat neglected in the current scholarly analytical literature, reveals Schumann...
Performance opportunities for saxophonists in military bands, university bands, and community bands are widespread and ever-expanding. Studying saxophone excerpts from wind band repertoire can be a beneficial supplement to the...
With few exceptions, there is a distinct paucity of modern analytical studies regarding the association of music and drama in Baroque opera seria. Few authors even mention the works, and those who do tend to make comments about them only...
San Jo for Orchestra is a large orchestra work in three movements with a prologue, played without break, approximately twelve minutes in duration. The concept of this composition is the exploration of Korean folk music within the Western...
The concept of this requiem is to combine the original text setting of the Missa pro defunctis (the Ordinarium ) with appropriate excerpts of a dream and the last letters of Cato Bontjes van Beek, a young German woman executed by the...
Carnival of Souls is a work in three movements with a brief prelude, played without break, approximately eighteen minutes in duration. It is scored for conventional wind band with added low strings, harps, and electronics. The three...
The Road for Orchestra is a tone poem based on the poem, The Road by Korean poet, Yun Dongju (1917~1945). Yun Dongju was persecuted during the final days of Japanese Imperialism in Korea. The images in his poem symbolize his oppression...
This dissertation proposes an interdisciplinary approach that aims to broaden the music-theoretical strategies employed to analyze film music by borrowing analytical models from the disciplines of semiotics and pragmatics. The...
Road to Damascus for Piano and Orchestra is based on the story of the Apostle Paul's repentance and conversion to Christianity. This dramatic event is one of the most inspirational in the New Testament. Also, through this momentous story...
This study explores the pitch and rhythmic content of the melodies of Frank Zappa. It also describes the relationship between Zappa's melodies and their harmonic climates. Three pieces are analyzed in detail. The analysis of the guitar...
The Concerto for Piano and Orchestra was inspired by the works of Sergey Prokofiev, Bela Bartok, and Maurice Ravel, and explores some of the compositional devices of twentieth century music, including serialism, modality, polytonality, ...
Two Movements for Orchestra is scored for a medium-sized orchestra and consists of two contrasting movements that are played without pause. The first movement is marked Largo. It opens with an idea in the strings that is developed...
Shattered is a dramatic one-act opera based on an original libretto by the composer. It is a universal story about what hides behind the reality that people present to others. The opera involves only six characters, without a chorus, ...
The Return of Odysseus is based upon Homer's epic poem The Odyssey. Following the style of the poem, the story begins in medias res – that is, in the middle of the tale. The first act takes place on Odysseus' home island of Ithaca, where...
My dissertation, DahnGoon for orchestra, is for a relatively small-size orchestra with a harp and a quite extended percussion group. The title of the piece is adopted from well-known Korean traditional myth, DahnGoon. This myth tells us...
This dissertation explores the role of musical process in four postminimalist works composed by Michael Torke. Close readings of "The Blue Pages, Rapture, Four Proverbs, and Book of Proverbs show a variety of ways in which process can...
In the musicological discourse, closure can refer to a variety of musical phenomena, but the language describing closure usually involves at least one of two common metaphors: closure is the completion of a musical process, or closure...
This dissertation explores the applicability of musical narrative models to the genre of theme and variations focusing on large-scale structural transformations in nineteenth- and twentieth-century theme-and-variation sets. Narrative...
Edmund von Borck (1906-1944) was admired in Germany during the 1930s as one of the leading young composers of his generation. During World War II, he was inducted into the military and eventually killed on the Italian front. The complex...
Jasper is a work centering around a reenactment of a telephone conversation I took part in when I was an adolescent. The instrumentation is female voice (no text) percussion, violoncello, and sound file (compact disc playback). The third...
Songs of Mortality (2008-2009) is a song cycle composed using the poetry of American poet, Edgar Allen Poe (1809-1849). Evening Star is a work a mood apart from the rest of Poe's poetry. The harmonies of this piece are meant to evoke...
Symphony No. 1 was inspired by the works of Dmitri Shostakovich, Bela Bartok, and Igor Stravinsky. It is a programmatic work that reflects the confrontation between positive and negative energies which dominate human existence. Although...
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