Orcas is a two-movement work for chamber orchestra embodying traditional forms with twentieth-century timbres, textures and rhythms/ It is scored for twenty-two strings, six woodwinds, three brass and one percussionist. The purpose of this work is to make a contribution to the chamber orchestra literature which employs both traditional and contemporary elements, textures and styles.

PhiAC--987 : A Concerto for Alto Saxophone and Wind Ensemble is a two movement work approximately nineteen minutes in length, scored for a soloist of virtuosic ability and a large wind ensemble of thirty-five instrumentalists.

The Eumenides is a single-movement composition for orchestra, chorus, and prepared electronic tape. It is based on the Orestoian trilogy, The Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, and The Eumenides, by the classical Greek dramatist, Aeschylus. The text of the composition was formed by the extraction and amalgamation of certain ideas, key-words, and phrases from English translations of the plays made by Buckley, Hadas, Vellacott, and Lattimore, and also from the modern drama, Les Mouches, by the French writer-philospher, Jean-Paul Sartre. Three short passages of Gregorian Chant from the Liber Usualis are used in the coda section of the work.

Sinfonietta is a one-movement piece for full symphony orchestra. The work contains five themes, three of which are the more important. The remaining two are subordinate because they are shorter, and not as fully developed as the A themes. A diagram of the form of the piece is shown on the following page as Figure 1. The duration of the work is approximately 14 minutes.

The composition is in two movements played continuously, and requires approximately eleven minutes for performance. The two movements offer different treatment of similar thematic material. Unifying devices are used in each movement. Instrumentation includes the following: piccolo, two flutes, two oboes, two Bb clarinets, F English horn, Bb bass clarinet, two bassoons, two Eb alto saxophones, Bb tenor saxophone, Eb baritone saxophone, two bb trumpets, three F French horns, two trombones, euphonium, tuba, and three percussion.

Concerto for Trumpet and Chamber Ensemble is a three-movement work for solo trumpet and ten instruments, one player to a part, of approximately fourteen minutes in length. It is scored for flute, oboe, clarinet in B-flat, bassoon, piano, percussion, trumpet (solo) in C, violin, viola, cello, and double bass. The principal percussion instrument is xylophone with lesser parts for suspended cymbal and triangle.

Thesis (M.A.)--Boston University / The purpose of the thesis is to consider the concepts of the Fall and Hero in Hegel's thought. Hegel's concept of the Fall is important because the Fall represents the condition of man's rise to self-consciousness. Hegel's concept of the Hero is important because the Hero represents man as self-conscious in history. Consequently, a consideration of the relationship between the Fall and the Hero should throw light on the meaning and function of self-consciousness as the central theme of human history for Hegel. An analysis of the Fall and the Hero may therefore illuminate the dialectical basis and systematic structure of Hegel's thought. In so doing, the analysis may lead to a clearer understanding of Hegel's view of the meaning and function of philosophy. Chapter I discusses Hegel's interpretation of the Fall. He describes the Fall as the "eternal Mythus of Man-in fact the very transition by which he becomes man."1 The condition of man which is dramatized in the Fall is dialectical--the process of a self becoming self-conscious. Initially, Adam is seen as an object for God. Through the movements of the Fall, he becomes an object for himself. In pure consciousness, or immediacy, man's otherness is in being an object-in-itself. In the development of self-consciousness man is an object-for-an-other--i.e. for man. This is the discovery Adam made for himself in the Fall. [TRUNCATED]

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Constellations is a single movement work that explores the color between acoustic instruments and computer generated sounds. It is scored for four flutes (two doubling on piccolos), two oboes, two bassoons, eight B-flat clarinets, two bass B-flat clarinets; two alto saxophones, tenor saxophone, baritone saxophone; four trumpets in B-flat, four horns in F; three trombones, bass trombone; two tubas;piano; six percussionists; and contrabass. The duration of the work is nine minutes and twenty-eight seconds. Mapping of stellar constellations provide the primary material for all pitch and harmonic progressions throughout the work. Software synthesis and digital sampling techniques coalesce to produce the computer music on tape.