Thesis (Ph. D.--Music)--University of California, San Diego, 1998. / Vita. Includes a "critical review" of approx. 200 scores of violin and viola duos, with bibliographical information. Includes analyses of the following works: Divertimento op. 37 no. 2 by Ernst Toch; Three madrigals by Bohuslav Martinu; Variations op. 57 by Wallingford Riegger; Ideas and transformations no. 1 by Kenneth Gaburo; Duetto (1986) by Goffredo Petrassi; Little canonic suite (1970) by Ingolf Dahl; and Duo concertante by Paul Chihara. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 360-370). Discography: leaves 181-212.

D.M.A. final project--Department of Music, Stanford University, 2003. / Pref. includes abstract and performance instructions. "Weave, for string trio, is formed of three solo pieces: Weft for violin solo, Shuttle for viola solo, and Warp for cello solo, each composed using a common structural and metrical grid, so that they may be performed simultaneously"--Leaf iv.

The sensation and perception of musical qualities, properties, and phenomena have long posed challenges for musical analysis. Unconventional musical materials adopted by recent composers and creators of contemporary music, in particular, raise specific questions about the temporal segmentation and musical classification of spectromorphological form-building units. Recent musical scholarship has demonstrated a growing interest in answering such essential questions from a variety of interdisciplinary perspectives. This study considers the music of Pierluigi Billone and Georges Aperghis, two composers who have forged artistic practices unlike any of their contemporaries, but who share a common interest in developing the emergence of certain musical qualities of intense fascination within their works. Determining how these phenomena emerge, and under what musical contexts and boundary conditions, is a topic of major concern. A psychoanalytic approach to Billone’s ITI. KE. MI (1995) for solo viola was found to yield a descriptive interpretation of the piece’s musical discourse given its raw materials, while a data-driven audio analysis, relating certain features of a recorded performance to compositional methods encoded in synthesis and notated score, were found to best describe the musical necessities of Aperghis’ 2004 opera Avis de tempête. While each composer retains a unique approach to building formal schemes out of their chosen emergent properties, the inclusive pages show that both qualitative and quantitative analytical frameworks can be utilized to describe musical statements created through differing means towards similar ends.

Die-bleibende Stadt : Quintet für fünf Bläser Nr. 1, op. 27 -- La nuit et l'extra-terrestre : Deuxième Poéme Symphonique pour Orchestra à vents, op. 28 -- Requiem no. 1 for solo soprano, mezzo-soprano, alto, tenor, bass, off-stage instruments, organ, double mixed chorus and orchestra, op. 30 -- 3 duets of strings, "Information Engineering", op. 31. / Lam, Wang Kong. / Durations: 8 min.; 8 min.; 70 min.; 8 min. / Thesis (M.Mus.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2009. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves ). / Lyrics of 3rd work in Latin; abstract also in Chinese. / Abstract --- p.ii / Acknowledgements --- p.iii / Die bleibende Stadt: Quintet fur funf Blaser Nr. 1，Op.27 --- p.1 / Programme notes --- p.2 / Score --- p.3 / "La nuit et I'extra-terrestre : Deuxieme Poeme Symphonique pour Orchestre a vents, Op.28" --- p.9 / Programme notes --- p.10 / Score --- p.11 / "Requiem no. 1 for solo soprano, mezzo-soprano, alto, tenor, bass, off-stage instruments, organ, double mixed chorus and orchestra, Op.30" --- p.39 / Programme notes --- p.40 / Score: / Chapter I. --- Introit --- p.44 / Chapter II. --- Offertorio --- p.72 / Chapter III. --- Sanctus --- p.102 / Chapter IV. --- Pie Jesu --- p.121 / Chapter V. --- Agnus Dei --- p.126 / Chapter VI. --- Lux aetema --- p.137 / Chapter VII. --- Libera me --- p.141 / Chapter VIII. --- In paradisum --- p.171 / "3 Duets for strings, ""Information Engineering´ح, Op.31" --- p.184 / Programme notes --- p.185 / Score: / Chapter I. --- Fourier Transform --- p.186 / Chapter II. --- Cryptography --- p.188 / Chapter III. --- Information Theory --- p.190