Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Rochester. / Reproduced from typescript. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 463-471). Digitized version available online via the Sibley Music Library, Eastman School of Music http://hdl.handle.net/1802/8422

Treatise (D.M.A.)--University of Texas at Austin, 2006. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references.

Oneness within the Diversity of Music is a four-movement suite with world music and jazz influences. The suite includes world music elements from Asian folk sources, as well as Hungarian gypsy, Hindustani, Brazilian and Argentine music. The underlying concept -- the goal of this suite, is to combine jazz language with world music elements. The musical arrangement of Oneness within the Diversity of Music integrates Asian and jazz styles. Two main styles characterize the musical arrangements throughout the suite: the Asian-influenced style, which incorporates non-harmonized linear melodic lines and multiple counter-lines in unison simultaneously, and the jazz style, with chamber strings, wind section, and piano harmonized using jazz language. / text

This treatise, A musical analysis of The abyss suite, examines the musical underpinnings of an original three-movement work for jazz orchestra. Each movement musically represents a certain period of time occurring over the course of an emotional ordeal in my life. Through the incorporation and manipulation of certain musical elements--form, melody, harmony, and other compositional devices--this piece serves as a wordless narrative of that ordeal. The analysis will address each of these elements in turn. / text

Explorations is a three-movement experimental work for eighteen-piece jazz ensemble consisting of the following instruments: soprano saxophone, alto saxophone, two tenor saxophones, baritone saxophone, two trumpets, two flugelhorns, three trombones, bass trombone, electric guitar, vibraphone, contrabass, drums and piano. The duration of the work will approximate twelve minutes. The first movement features geometric configurations of spatially notated sound which emphasize percussive qualities of the ensemble (i.e. key clicks, tongue slaps, mouthpiece pops, etc.). Tone clusters of various pitch, texture and dynamics derived from blues scales provide the source material for the second movement. A slowly developing dynamic counterpoint creates the sound mass texture and delineates the form. Movement Three features a contrapuntal poly-metric collage of variations on a four-note theme. The collage provides the background fabric for an exchange of periodic and aperiodic events.

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Thesis (M.S.)--Rochester Institute of Technology, 1992. / Includes bibliographical references.

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Cette recherche, en lien avec mes activités de pianiste, compositrice et chef d’orchestre, porte sur l’élaboration de l’œuvre de jazz symphonique. Le jazz symphonique a représenté un hybride musical et un terrain de recherche autour de l’espace sonore de l'orchestre. Il a été à bien des égards un précurseur dans l’exploration des possibilités pour créer une musique dans laquelle les approches et les préoccupations jazz et savantes entraient dans une dialectique productive. Le geste d’écriture qu'il a privilégié intègre alors la palette instrumentale comme un révélateur fondamental des structures musicales. Le compositeur élabore un processus musical qui permet au matériau de s’exprimer, de déployer ses potentialités expressives et perceptives par l’appréhension de l’espace orchestral. Identifier et comprendre les stratégies d’écoute que le compositeur destine à l’auditeur et la manière dont il potentialise la signification des éléments constitutifs de l’œuvre représentent un des principaux enjeux de la recherche. / This research relates to my pursuits as a pianist, composer and conductor, and concerns the development of the art of symphonic jazz. Symphonic jazz has represented a musical hybrid and a field of research around the soundscape of the orchestra. In many ways, it has been a forerunner in exploring the possibilities for creating music in which jazz and scholarly approaches and inquiries had entered into a productive dialectic. Hence the favoured approach to writing now integrates a variety of instruments as a fundamental revealer of musical structures. The composer creates a musical process that allows the material to express itself and spread its expressive and perceptive potential through comprehension of the orchestral space. Identifying and understanding the composer’s listening strategies for the listener, as well as the way he increases the meaning of the elements constituting the work is one of the main subjects of research.

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