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

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 compositi...

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Other Authors: Thompson, Timothy Dean., Florida State University
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: 1996
Subjects:
Music
Lansing
North Atlantic
Online Access:https://diginole.lib.fsu.edu/islandora/object/fsu%3A77697/datastream/TN/view/Of%20Canyons%20and%20Inlets%3A%20Three%20poems%20of%20Gerrit%20Lansing.%20%28Original%20composition%29.jpg
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Summary: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.

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