Program notes and recording of choruses, sung by Kansas State University Chamber Choir; Deanna Freitag, piano; the author, conductor. / Digitized by Kansas Correctional Industries

Three Scenes in Dreamland is a 17-minute piece for mixed choir and instrumental ensemble. It consists of three movements: "Crystal Sky," "The Chanting Light" and "The Field Where I Was Born, Where I Died." Each movement uses a particular combination of the available instruments. The work is inspired by various aspects of Chinese culture and Buddhism, and certain possibilities of combining Western and non-Western musical elements are explored over the course of the three movements.

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Choruses, sung by the Kansas State University Chamber Choir; Jess Wade, piano; the author, conductor; with historical and critical analysis of the works. / Digitized by Kansas Correctional Industries

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The purpose of this thesis is to analyze my piece for orchestra and chorus, Apokalypsis, which was written in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Music in Composition. An attempt will be made to present a complete analysis of the pitch and rhythmic structures, as well as important orchestration procedures, and to formulate a method of analyzing music that integrates elements of both "Function" and "non-functional" tonality.

En una Noche Oscura, Canticle II, is a musical composition scored for a capella chorus in eight parts, with occasional solo passages in some voices. The piece takes its title from St. John-of-the-Cross, and is in one sense a musical response to the spiritual journey undertaken by the pilgrim of St. John's text, of Job, of David, and of countless other mystics, Christian and otherwise. / I have divided the accompanying analysis of the work into two parts: first, an introductory discussion of the technical ideas behind the composition of Canticle II, and second, a more thorough, section-by-section analysis of the composition itself. The introduction outlines the formal, rhythmic, and harmonic approaches taken in the composition of this piece, while the close analysis shows more specifically how these ideas are reflected in the actual score.

Thesis (M.M.)--Conservatory of Music. University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2006. / For chorus and wind ensemble. "A thesis in music composition." Madeleine L'Engle, poet ; Paul Rudy, advisor Typescript. Vita. Title from "catalog record" of the print edition Description based on contents viewed Nov. 12, 2007. Online version of the print edition.