Sonata for violin and cello / Maurice Ravel -- Piano trio in C major, op.87 / Johannes Brahms. / text

Sonata for violin and cello / Maurice Ravel -- Piano trio in C major, op.87 / Johannes Brahms. / text

Der Nussbaum : from Myrten, op. 25, 3 ; Marienwurmchen : from Lieder-Album fur die Jugend, op. 79, 13 ; Weit, weit : from Myrten, op. 25, 20 ; Du bist wie eine Blume : from Myrten, op. 25, 24 ; Erstes Grun : from 12 Gedichte, op. 35, 4 / Robert Schumann - La Boheme. Act I. Chi e la? ; Si sente meglio? ; Che gelida manina ; Si, mi chiamo Mimi ; O soave fanciulla / Giacomo Puccini -- Piano trio in A minor / Maurice Ravel. / text

Partita in A minor, BWV 1013 / J. S. Bach -- Landscape / Tobjorn Lundquist -- Ludus for three tubas / Vaclav Nelhybel -- Aria of King Rene / P. I. Tchaikovsky -- Two songs / Robert Spillman. / text

Piano trio no.2 in C minor, op.66 / Felix Mendelssohn -- Piano quintet in E-flat major, op.44 / Robert Schumann. / text

D.M.A. final project--Department of Music, Stanford University, 2007. / Includes performance notes (leaves 5-6). Duration: 10:00.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, San Diego, 2005. / Includes 2 compositions: Puer natus est nobis (zu irgendeiner Zeit) for full orchestra, and Annicha, for flute, clarinet, and piano. Vita. Includes audio reel tape of compositions (analog, stereo., 7 1/2 ips : 7 in.).

abstract: This project includes a recording, composer biographies, performance guides, and composer questionnaires for seven original works commissioned for either the Rogue Trio or Lotus. The members of the Rogue Trio are violinist Kathleen Strahm, saxophonist Justin Rollefson, and pianist Mary Cota. Lotus’s members include Samuel Detweiler, Justin Rollefson, and Kristen Zelenak on saxophone. Both ensembles are based in Tempe, Arizona. All seven original compositions were recorded at Tempest Recording in February of 2018. The first piece, Four Impersonations (2016), was commissioned by the Rogue Trio and written by Theo Chandler (b.1992) for violin, soprano saxophone and piano. The second piece was written by Spencer Arias (b. 1990) titled He Said There Was No Sound (2015) for violin, alto saxophone, and piano. The final work is titled Cabinet Meeting (2017), composed by Zachary Green (b. 1993) for violin, alto and tenor saxophone, and piano. The first piece commissioned by Lotus and composed by Spencer Arias is titled As I escape, the water calms (2017) for soprano saxophone, alto saxophone, and tenor saxophone. The second piece was composed by Graham Cohen (b. 1999), titled Introduction and Toccata (2017), written for soprano, alto, and baritone saxophones. The third piece, titled Everything that rises, was written by David “Clay” Mettens (b. 1990) in 2014 for three soprano saxophones. Samuel Detweiler, Justin Rollefson and Tyler Flowers originally commissioned this piece. The final piece commissioned by Lotus was written by Matthew Kennedy (b. 1987) titled Triceratops: tasty grooves for saxophone trio (2017) for alto, tenor, and baritone saxophones. / Dissertation/Thesis / Four Impersonations, Movement I: An outwardly-confident adolescent demanding recognition - Theo Chandler / Four Impersonations, Movement II: A grumpy hermit ignoring the attention of a suitor - Theo Chandler / Four Impersonations, Movement III: A skinny, shy boy standing in the rain - Theo Chandler / Four Impersonations, Movement IV: Subordinates mocking an authority figure - Theo Chandler / He Said There Was No Sound - Spencer Arias / Cabinet Meeting, Movement I: Introduction - Zachary Green / Cabinet Meeting, Movement II: Jared Kushner, mysterious robot - Zachary Green / Cabinet Meeting, Movement III: Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, lonesome cowboy - Zachary Green / Cabinet Meeting, Movement IV: Anthony "The Mooch" Scaramucci, in candid conversation with the New Yorker - Zachary Green / Cabinet Meeting, Movement V: Betsy DeVos Secretary of Education - Zachary Green / Cabinet Meeting, Movement VI: Ben Carson Secretary of Housing and Urban Development - Zachary Green / Cabinet Meeting, Movement VII: Attorney General Jeff Sessions, responding to questions from the Senate Intelligence Committee - Zachary Green / As I escape, the water calms - Spencer Arias / Introduction and Toccata - Graham Cohen / Everything that rises - David “Clay” Mettens / Triceratops - Matthew Kennedy / Doctoral Dissertation Music 2018

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Both Camille Saint-Saens (1835-1921) and Maurice Ravel (1875-1837) were outstanding composers of the late nineteenth century and the early twentieth century who followed and transmitted the specifically French tradition. Ravel studied at the Paris Conservatoire with Gabriel Faure (1845-1924), who was a student of Saint-Satins. SaintSaens's Trio No. 1, Op. 18, was written in 1863, while he was teaching a the Ecole Niedermeyer. As one of the earliest works by the composer, it reveals his conservative style in the well-defined four-movement structure, particularly characterized by classical periodization and clarity of texture. Saint-Sadns's Trio No. 2, Op. 92, was written in 1892, when he was more mature and better known as both composer and performer. Written twenty-nine years after the first trio, the second trio is more ambitious and complicated than the first trio. The second trio exhibits elaborate harmonies and extensive sonata structure, including a fugue within an unusual five-movement framework.Ravel's trio was completed in 1914, shortly after the start of the First World War, at Saint-Jean-de-Luz in Basque country. I The trio displays new sonorities and expression achieved by brilliant string techniques and powerful, vertical piano writing, as well as the employment of various kinds of non-traditional scales. Within a four-movement structure, the second movement, entitled Pantown, a poetic form of Malayan origin, is most original, including the middle section in polymeter.The analyses of these three trios reveal significant similarities in stylistic and formal characteristics. All three trios preserve the outline framework of the traditional sonata concept. Saint-Sa&ns's second trio and Ravel's trio include passacaglia movements, based on the Baroque form. All three trios employ folk elements: the modal style of certain themes, and certain rhythms; e.g., the Basque dance rhythm, zoriko, appears in Saint-Saans's second trio and Ravel's trio. The use of quintuple time in both trios also shows the Basque influence. Among other common characteristics are rhythmic ostinato and thematic juxtaposition. All three trios represent trends in French music between the late nineteenth century and the early twentieth century: nationalism and neoclassicism. / School of Music