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"Natural Disasters"

"Natural Disasters" is a cycle of five extractable movements for septet, conductor and computer. Each movement in the cycle is inspired by the ways that humans are affected by and respond to five different classes or categories of natural disasters: meteorological, such as hurricanes, tornados, and haboobs; geological, like earthquakes and landslides; hydrological, including flooding and sea level rise; wildfires; and extra-planetary disasters such as meteors and solar flares. The disaster types are used as overarching themes and also as sources for the organization of the movements and their surface details. This paper presents an overview of the conception and organization of cycle, the themes addressed in each movement and the compositional techniques used. The history of composers using weather or disaster-related themes in prior music is reviewed, and a survey of contemporary disaster-related compositions is presented.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:unt.edu/info:ark/67531/metadc1538761
Date08 1900
CreatorsDavidson, Clayton Simmons
ContributorsKokoras, Panayiotis, 1974-, Broberg, Kirsten, Heetderks, David, Klein, Joseph, 1962-
PublisherUniversity of North Texas
Source SetsUniversity of North Texas
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeThesis or Dissertation
Formatvii, 164 pages : illustrations, music, Text
RightsPublic, Davidson, Clayton Simmons, Copyright, Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights reserved.

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