Of Canyons and Inlets: Three poems of Gerrit Lansing. (Original composition);

• Main Author: Thompson, Timothy Dean
• Language: unknown
• Published: Florida State University Libraries
• Subjects: Music; Lansing; North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://digitool.fcla.edu:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=120260&LOCAL_BASE=GEN01-FSU01

The dissertation is a musical composition scored for tenor and and ten instruments in a double quintet setting. The first quintet consists of flute, clarinet (doubling bass clarinet), trumpet, violin and percussion. The second quintet includes horn, violin, violoncello, bass and piano. The composition is a setting of three poems selected from Gerrit Lansing's collection The Heavenly Tree Grows Downward (Berkeley, CA: North Atlantic Books, 1977). The movements of the composition are titled with the titles of the poems: "Enthymeme," "For An Unlikely Love," and "An Inlet Of Reality, Or Soul." The total performance time is approximately fifteen minutes. Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 57-04, Section: A, page: 1385. Major Professor: Ladislav Kubik. Thesis (D.M.)--The Florida State University, 1996. The dissertation is a musical composition scored for tenor and and ten instruments in a double quintet setting. The first quintet consists of flute, clarinet (doubling bass clarinet), trumpet, violin and percussion. The second quintet includes horn, violin, violoncello, bass and piano. The composition is a setting of three poems selected from Gerrit Lansing's collection The Heavenly Tree Grows Downward (Berkeley, CA: North Atlantic Books, 1977). The movements of the composition are titled with the titles of the poems: "Enthymeme," "For An Unlikely Love," and "An Inlet Of Reality, Or Soul." The total performance time is approximately fifteen minutes.