Forgotten Names is a fifteen-minute programmatic work for wind ensemble and electronics. The piece represents my aim to express conceptually the memories of human lives being lost with the passage of time. The two salient vehicles used to convey the concept are melodic motivic development and pre-recorded electronic audio accompanying the ensemble. The prerecorded electronics work in tandem with the ensemble and provide the audience with inferable aural symbolism. These audio samples are to be triggered by a percussionist by using the free, downloadable program, Pure Data along with a performance file provided by the composer. Forgotten Names also draws its influence from similar works by well-known American composers. The pitch material used in this work is derived from On the Transmigration of Souls by John Adams while the formal structure is influenced by Charles Ives’s The Unanswered Question.

Thesis (D.M.A.)--Conservatory of Music and Dance. University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2008. / "A dissertation in music composition." Advisor: James Mobberley. Typescript. Vita. Title from "catalog record" of the print edition Description based on contents viewed Nov. 25, 2009. Online version of the print edition.

Thesis (D.M.A.)--University of Texas at Austin, 2000. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 94-98). Discography leaves 92-93. Available also in a digital version from Dissertation Abstracts.

Scaramouche / Darius Milhaud -- Lied et scherzo / Florent Schmitt -- Histoire du soldat / Igor Stravinsky. / text

Siegfried-Idyll / Richard Wagner -- Septet for wind instruments / Paul Hindemith -- La creation du monde, op. 81a / Darius Milhaud. / text

Serenade for winds in E-flat, op. 7 / Richard Strauss -- Symphonies of wind instruments / Igor Stravinsky. / text

Edgard Varese's Integrales: a conductor's performance analysis. / text

"Five songs after texts by Friedrich Ruckert: A transcription for wind ensemble." / text

"The red violin chaconne: a transcription for wind ensemble." -- The red violin (film) / John Corigliano -- The red violin (transcription) / John Corigliano. / text

The tender land suite / Aaron Copland -- Dionysiaques, op.62 / Florent Schmitt. / text