Cindy McTee, Regents Professor of Composition in the College of Music at the University of North Texas, is one of America's leading composers. Her music is an eclectic blend of the "American" sound that is created by the use of a multiplicity of techniques. This document uses three of McTee's most recent (to date) works for wind band: Timepiece, Ballet for Band and Finish Line, to identify the primary stylistic characteristic's of the composer's music, which include: jazz influence; use of ostinati, pseudo-ostinati and machine-like rhythmic patterns and figures; creation of extended and angular melodic lines; progressive "walking" bass lines; and the use of octatonic and chromatic collections. Through the identification of stylistic characteristics, concise stylistic analysis of the works, interview transcript, list of composer's works to date, and selected discography, this document will add to the limited body of scholarly writing on the composer.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:unt.edu/info:ark/67531/metadc28375 |
| Date | 05 1900 |
| Creators | Williams, Nicholas, 1974- |
| Contributors | Corporon, Eugene, Ramsey, Darhyl S. (Darhyl Sterling), Fisher, Dennis W. |
| Publisher | University of North Texas |
| Source Sets | University of North Texas |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | Text |
| Rights | Public, Copyright, Williams, Nicholas, 1974-, Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights reserved. |
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