Composition Portfolio: Tales from a Fantastical Time

• Author / Creator

  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.

• 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

• Graduation date

  Spring 2023

• Type of Item

  Thesis

• Degree

  Master of Music

• DOI

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

• License

  This thesis is made available by the University of Alberta Libraries with permission of the copyright owner solely for non-commercial purposes. This thesis, or any portion thereof, may not otherwise be copied or reproduced without the written consent of the copyright owner, except to the extent permitted by Canadian copyright law.