| Summary: | Seven compositions, five for live instruments and two for
electroacoustics, comprise this thesis. The works for live instruments vary in
genre, and include pieces for chamber ensemble, choir, and solo instrument.
"Music for Solo Violin" employs thematic material modelled after Eastern
European folk music and intervallic structures, as does "Bagatelle for String
Quartet." "Lux aeterna" expands a small, core idea into an entire composition
whose salient features are an added-tone harmonic structure and a time-varying
polyphonic texture, "non-art," "The Sacrifice of Infinity," and the electroacoustic
works "Chroma" and "Purity" reflect an interest in compositional syntax modelled
after timbre, avoidance of a post-World War II concept of gesture, and
psychoacoustics.
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