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

• Other Authors: Thompson, Timothy Dean.
• Format: Others
• Language: English
• Subjects: Music
• Online Access: http://purl.flvc.org/fsu/lib/digcoll/etd/3088898

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.