Academic Papers

Mode as Harmonic Function: Modal Chromaticism in “Salvator Mundi” from Howells’ Requiem

Contradictions and Symmetry: Surface and Foundational Structures in Elliott Carter’s Canon for 4 – Homage to William

Gesture as Compositional Technique: Similar Paths Among 20th-century Iconoclasts

L’homme arme as Linchpin: Compositional Process and the Renaissance’s Most Popular Tune

Stirrings in Early Compositional Style: Josquin, Ockeghem, and the Emergence of Motivicity

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    Couch Surfers!

    Ongoing – I am writing music for a very different kind of project: the webseries Couch Surfers! Kind of a little bit of everything (even a Wagnerian forest moment in one episode) but mostly a lot of punk rock surf with guitar help from my friend Carleton Ingram. www.couchsurferstv.com

    May 20-21, 2011

    Taffety Punk Theatre Company presented a new collaboration between myself and choreographer Micheline Heal featuring music for piano, cello, and live computer-generated sound. The new piece, Garden for Wayward Girls was on the finale concert for the Capitol Hill Arts Workshop’s three-week long modern dance event, “Dance Craze”.

    April 28, 2011

    Thursday, April 28, 7:30 PM at Oakdale Emory Church in Olney, MD: the very talented singers performed the new commission A Song for Peace as the first piece on their spring concert.