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Showing 1 to 20 of 34 for “"Chamber Ensemble"”.
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Biloba for chamber ensemble
Biloba is a chamber piece for eight instruments inspired by the Gingko biloba tree. In an abstract way, the piece attempts to capture the movements - to me, the structural details of a tree give the illusion of dancers frozen in time - and textures exhibited by the tree, as well as the environment …
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Spiritscapes: for Chamber Ensemble and Live Electronics
… is a four-movement work for an acoustic chamber ensemble of flute/bass flute, clarinet/bass clarinet, piano, voice, cello, and laptop, with additional live electronics processing and transforming the acoustic sound. The work was initiated though a generative process of collaborative …
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Musica universalis : an original composition for chamber ensemble
Musica Universalis is a four-movement chamber work for flute, clarinet, harp, piano, and viola. This twenty minute composition draws inspiration from concepts found in astrology and myths associated with stars found in zodiac signs. Each movement of the work is named after a different star, and has …
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The Light, for Two Narrators and Chamber Ensemble
… minute composition for two narrators and chamber orchestra. The two narrators perform the roles of the Apostle John and Moses. After an overview of the piece and a brief history of pieces incorporating narrators, the essay focuses on my compositional process, describing how orchestration, …
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A New Space (new) for Mixed Jazz Chamber Ensemble
A New Space (new) is scored for a mix of chamber orchestral instruments and jazz instruments, and unfolds in three movements. They progress from a celebration of intentionality and traditional composition in the first, to an exploration of a rigorous improvisation through conducted gestures in the …
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Der Struwwelpeter: a song cycle for soprano and chamber ensemble
Der Struwwelpeter: A Song Cycle for Soprano and Chamber Ensemble, sets seven of the stories from the iconic, mid-19th century children's story by Heinrich Hoffmann. The text set is from a widely published, anonymous English translation, dating contemporaneously to the original work. Chief among the …
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Prayers of Adoration, Confession, Thanksgiving and Supplication: A Composition for Soprano and Chamber Ensemble
This paper examines the relationship between text and music in Prayers of Adoration, Confession, Thanksgiving and Supplication - a four-movement composition, fourteen minutes in length, for soprano, clarinet, bassoon, trumpet, trombone, violin, double bass, and percussion. The text of the …
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<i>Missa Brevis</i>, a work for chamber choir, soloists, and chamber ensemble score and analysis
… displayed and discussed herein is composed for chamber choir, vocal soloists, and a chamber ensemble of nine instrumental performers. This setting of several sections of the Catholic Mass explores a narrative interpretation of that text, using a programmatic compositional approach, through which …
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Portfolio of Music Compositions
… instrumentations including solo instruments, chamber ensembles and orchestra. My main compositional concerns were the spectral harmony organisation, texture manipulation, melodic shaping, and timbre exploration. Regarding the harmony organisation, various mathematical models are usually used …
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Lectio divina.
… "Lectio Divina". The work is written for a chamber ensemble: flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano and percussion. Each instrument represents an individual that participates in this contemplative moment. There are three sections in the practice of Lectio Divina and thus three movements in …
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Xuanwumen Coup d'état
Xuanwumen Coup d'État is a large chamber ensemble work that draws inspiration from the pivotal historical event of the Xuanwumen coup d'état orchestrated by Li Shimin in 626 AD. This coup not only marked Li Shimin's triumph in the struggle for succession but also laid the monumental foundation for …
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A study in clarity : Josef Suk's Asrael re-envisioned via Schoenberg
… began to transcribe orchestral music for their chamber ensemble (Meibach, 1984). Previously, the Society had programmed, although not performed, a piano transcription of Symphony no. 2, Asrael, by Josef Suk (Berg, 1920). If the Verein had continued beyond its final concert in 1922, it is …
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Angel’s Tears – multimedia work project
… Tears” is a multimedia work for an eight-player chamber ensemble, musique concrète, and video, divided into eight chapters that explore the stages of alcohol intoxication, each corresponding to the levels of blood alcohol content (BAC). Inspired by the cocktail "Angel's Tears," the piece evokes …
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Dispatches
… separation on the heart and mind. Using a small chamber ensemble to help emphasize the intimate qualities of ourselves, and exploring both typical and extended techniques, Dispatches leads the listener through an epistolary melodrama of two lovers’ collective experience of separating and coming …
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Grey Areas: Songs of Memory, Imagination, Intellect, and Death for Baritone Voice and Mixed Instrumental Octet
… piece in four movements for baritone and chamber ensemble. The work is highly personal in both its subject matter and its musical execution; it also contains a unique movement order that changes depending on the age of the baritone. Along with the written portion of this document and full …
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Pathétique: a tale of two rabbys
… The instrumentation is an amalgamation of a chamber ensemble, operatic and popular song vocals, spoken word, and rock quartet. My approach to writing the music was to create a world in which all of these elements work together, without sounding as if a series of styles and genres were simply …
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Navigating neoliberalism: cultivating community in contemporary music
… the marketplace are most observable through ensemble branding, programming, and targeted marketing tactics; these realities are a byproduct of classical musicians’ adaptation to a mercurial neoliberal global climate that has come to define the economic landscape of the past thirty years. …
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Creative Responses to Maltese Culture and Identity: Case Study and Portfolio of Compositions
… pieces presented here comprise compositions for chamber ensemble, works for orchestra and two electroacoustic pieces. These works were part of projects translated into performances and artistic installations. All of them have been carried out over the past six years and the majority have been …
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Thomas Jefferson: Life lines
… in the free mind. The music is presented by a chamber ensemble of twenty-two performers: five woodwinds (flute, oboe, two B-flat clarinets, bassoon), five brass (two french horns in F, trumpet in C, trombone, tuba), two percussionists, piano, four vocalists (alto, two tenors, bass) and five …
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