This essay will explore the salient performance characteristics of three selected works for solo trombone by major composers of popular media. The works selected for this study are Colloquy for Solo Trombone and Symphonic Band by William Goldstein, Concerto for Trombone in C Major by Nino Rota, and Arrows of Time by Richard Peaslee. These composers have written extensively for television, motion pictures, theater, and dance. In addition to their significant popular media repertoire, these three composers have made a significant contribution to the solo trombonist's repertoire. Although these works have been performed, recorded, produced, and reviewed, they have not been studied together as a group, nor have they been established in the general repertoire for solo trombone.

vii, 34 p. A print copy of this thesis is available through the UO Libraries. Search the library catalog for the location and call number. / We study the Bousfield localization functors known as [Special characters omitted], as described in [MahS]. In particular we would like to understand how they interact with suspension and how they stabilize. We prove that suitably connected [Special characters omitted]-acyclic spaces have suspensions which are built out of a particular type n space, which is an unstable analog of the fact that [Special characters omitted]-acyclic spectra are built out of a particular type n spectrum. This theorem follows Dror-Farjoun's proof in the case n = 1 with suitable alterations. We also show that [Special characters omitted] applied to a space stabilizes in a suitable way to [Special characters omitted] applied to the corresponding suspension spectrum. / Committee in charge: Hal Sadofsky, Chairperson, Mathematics; Arkady Berenstein, Member, Mathematics; Daniel Dugger, Member, Mathematics; Dev Sinha, Member, Mathematics; William Rossi, Outside Member, English