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Presence

Cook, Conner W.
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1618254896083649

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2021, Master of Music (MM), Ohio University, Music Composition (Fine Arts).
Presence is a work for Pierrot Ensemble scored for flute, bass clarinet, violin, cello, piano, and percussion consisting of drum set and marimba. The title represents an unknown entity that is slowly consuming the fictional country of Amicea. The piece fits into a set of pieces using the Pierrot Ensemble and its subsets to tell parts of a multimedia story; other mediums include literature and visual art. This work opens and closes with a reprise of sorts like in musical theater. The main section is a slow build of a harmonic progression that becomes serial. As this is happening, each instrument tries to voice their own unique melodies, while being interrupting by others. These melodies are pentachords transposed depending on the given chord in the harmonic progression. The violin tries to bring them all together, but everything dissolves into chaos by the end.
Robert McClure (Advisor)
Mark Phillips (Committee Member)
Jennifer Smith (Committee Member)
26 p.
Composition; Fine Arts; Music
New music; Composition; Pierrot ensemble; Chamber music; Sextet; World building; Post-modern; New Weird

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  • Cook, C. W. (2021). Presence [Master's thesis, Ohio University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1618254896083649

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Cook, Conner. Presence. 2021. Ohio University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1618254896083649.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Cook, Conner. "Presence." Master's thesis, Ohio University, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1618254896083649

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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