Composition Portfolio: Tales from a Fantastical Time

• Author(s) / Creator(s)

  • Tayler, Diana

• Tales from a Fantastical Time consists of six original works I created throughout the course of my Master of Music in Composition. Northern Sky at Dawn and Midnight Fables are multi movement pieces written for flute, saxophone, cello and piano. Transformations is an electronic work created using spectral techniques. And we howled to the sun is an a capella choral work, and Drifting is for choir and harp. Through the Enchanted Forest is an acousmatic piece written for a level of Super Paulino, a video game developed by the University of Alberta’s Sound Studies Institute Audio Games Lab. While these pieces are varied in genre and instrumentation, they share the common theme of using sound to tell a story. The “fantastical time” in the title of this portfolio is a reference to the surreal experience of completing a graduate degree in music composition during a pandemic.

• Date created

  2023-04-30

• Subjects / Keywords

  • Composition
  • Choral
  • New music
  • Proportional notation
  • Alberta composer
  • Harp
  • Spectral music
  • Score
  • Chamber music
  • Fairytale
  • Fable
  • Electronic music
  • Electroacoustic
  • Video game music
  • Extended techniques

• Type of Item

  Research Material

• DOI

  https://doi.org/10.7939/r3-n28k-7459

• License

  Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International