This piece is built around the interval of a tritone followed by a major third and is mostly a through-composed work. Through most of this piece, the percussion plays a polyrhythm that operates as a foreground and sometimes ...

From Shadow is a nine minute orchestral work which has three main sections. The fast first section is based around a repeated eighth note figure. This figure is first heard in the pizzicato string section at measure 2. ...

This work attempts to integrate both tonal and non-tonal musical elements into a cohesive, intelligible unit. It Utilizes a number of highly gestural melodic and harmonic entities which are juxtaposed with one another ...

Mozart's opera Così fan tutte encapsulates various theories of Enlightenment sexual expression and presents a didactic program aiming at appropriate male comportment in a love situation. Through various musical devices, ...

A composition for orchestra of approximately seven minutes duration, The Jebediah Jones Mystery Montrose Tour, 1999 consists of five main sections flanked by an introduction and a conclusion. Two melodies are presented in ...

Breath is based on a story written by R. Lawrence Reed II, M.D., when he chaired the Trauma Surgery Department at the University of Texas Medical School in 1989. Breath is a setting of two hospital scenes. "Emergency Room" ...

Louis Vierne, one of the most important figures in the rich French organ literature of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, made a substantial contribution in the cultivation and the promulgation of an organ ...