For a long time I wanted to compose a concerto for a single percussionist and ensemble. My main motivation was educational: I had not done it before and I wanted to explore the percussion world. I chose chamber orchestra for practical reasons in order to make it more flexible an…
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Sound cannot travel in a vacuum, physically or socially. The ways in which sound operates are a result of acoustic properties, and the ways by which it is considered to be music are a result of social constructions. Therefore, music is always political, regardless of its content…
This study employs a qualitative arts-based methodology that documents and describes the process of the researcher/performer's creation and production of an original one-woman work of performance art and discusses its place in the cultural context of this genre. The researcher c…
The Canticle of the Black Madonna is an original opera-oratorio in two acts, comprising 27 pieces for six operatic soloists, mixed chorus, and chamber orchestra. It is based on an original libretto by Tiziana DellaRovere and is approximately two hours in duration. The Canticle o…
There are two parts to this dissertation: the first is an analytical monograph, and the second a music composition, both of which are described below. Part One (Analytical Monograph): In his composition, Chichester Psalms for choir, solo treble, and orchestra, Leonard Bernstein …
Mubadele/[special characters omitted] is a fifty-minute cantata for large ensemble of 14 players, two singers and a narrator. The piece is based on real life stories of an Orthodox Christian and a Muslim woman who were subjected to forced migration with the enactment of the Trea…