Abstract
dc:description.abstractLast Snow is a suite of compositions in a genre that most closely approximates a contemporary jazz style with electronic elements and shifting meters. While there are clear examples of imitative synthesis within the work, many abstract examples of a more diffuse, impressionistic bent are also discernible. Much of the programming for these last mentioned tonal colors and synthesizer leads was accomplished by the composer. </p><p> The suite has as a unifying feature the tones of the natural scale beginning from various alternate root pitches. The compositions, therefore, operate for the composer as something of a study with several challenges unique to each of the four resulting scales. There is a desire to more fully incorporate some concepts regarding synthetic chromaticism that the composer was considering during a month while he was convalescing in a hospital after a near fatal heart attack that was endured during the summer of 2009.
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- MM
- Level thesis:degree_level
- Immediate Access
- Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
- Music Technology
- Year dc:date.available
- 2013
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
-
- Landis, Daniel Scott
- Contributors dc:contributor
-
- Lynn Purse
- William Purse
- Judith Bowman
- Edward Kocher
- Stephen Benham
Subjects
dc:subject × 3Rights
- Language dc:language
- English
Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Repository record dc:identifier
- https://dsc.duq.edu/etd/796
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:dsc.duq.edu:etd-1812