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Love at Second sight is a twenty-five-minute chamber opera in two scenes for soprano, tenor, baritone, and piano. The libretto was written by theorist Dr. Robert Hatten and is loosely based on a short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald called "Love in the Night." Composing an opera poses many significant challenges, including the crafting of the right music to support the drama, writing idiomatically for the voice, and composing in a number of styles. The first chapter of this treatise discusses my reasons for writing an opera, the creation of the libretto, challenges inherent in the medium, and some influential works that helped shape the work. The second chapter is a complete scene-by-scene analysis along with some information on the major motives and harmonic language used throughout the work. / text

Lied et scherzo : op. 54 (1910) / Florent Schmitt -- Octandre : (1923) / Edgar Varese -- Petite symphonie : (1885) / Charles Gounod. / text

Brandenburg concerto no. 3 in G major, BWV 1048 / J.S. Bach -- Antiche arie e danze / Ottorino Respighi -- Prelude, fugue and riffs : for solo clarinet and jazz ensemble / Leonard Bernstein. / text

Summer music / Samuel Barber -- Duo for oboe and bassoon / Heitor Villa-Lobos -- Quintet for oboe and strings / Arthur Bliss. / text

Thesis (D.M.A)--Boston University

Wesendonck Lieder / Richard Wagner -- Love after 1950 / Libby Larsen -- Sonata for flute and piano (Undine), op. 167 / Carl Reinecke -- "Un di, se ben rammentomi" from Rigoletto / Giuseppi Verdi. / text

Nuts and bolts -- Wind among the reeds -- Past clouds -- Hearing voices. / text

The art of fugue, BWV 1080 / Johann Sebastian Bach -- String quartet no. 64 in D major, op. 76, no. 5 / Franz Joseph Haydn -- String quartet no. 10 in E flat major, op. 51 "Slavonic" / Antonin Dvorak -- Pannonia boundless / Aleksandra Vrebalov. / text

Eta Carinae -- Aspects of nothingness: a posteriori for the burden of truth -- L'etoile flamboyante -- UnPhiltered. / text