GWBrown

• The Choral Journal (December 2010)
  Politics and Folk-Song Arrangement in the Works of Fernando Lopes-Graça

  Article on Portuguese composer Fernando Lopes-Graça.

• The Choral Scholar (Spring 2010)
  Firm Footing in the Heavens and Faltering Steps on Earth: Harmonic Language as Word-Painting in Brahms's "Gesang der Parzen"

  Revised version of earlier paper (see below).

Here is a partial listing of papers and editions that I have made available for viewing. All papers are typeset using LaTeX and all scores are typeset in Finale.

• original compositions

  A partial listing of my original scores.

• The Canções Regionais Portuguesas of Fernando Lopes-Graça (1906 – 1994): Methods and significance of the adaptation of folk materials into the choral medium

  My DMA document on the choral arrangements of Portuguese composer Fernando Lopes-Graça. Windows users may have some display issues with some of the graphics. (Mac users are not affected.)

• Firm Footing in the Heavens and Faltering Steps on Earth: Harmonic Language as Word-Painting in Brahms's Gesang der Parzen

  Final paper written for a late-romantic theory course focusing on neo-Schenkerian and neo-Riemannian aspects of Brahms's Gesang der Parzen. Presented at the UGA Music Research Symposium 2006 and at the ACDA National Convention in Miami as part of a poster session. Later revised and published in The Choral Scholar (see above).

• "Symphony" and Simfonizm in Shostakovich's Thirteenth Symphony: Unusual Genesis as Key to Shostokovich's Concept of Symphony

  A short paper written for Shostakovich seminar and revised for presentation in the 2005 MGSA research symposium

Booklet I prepared for my dma recital.

• selections from The Harmony of Maine (Supply Belcher)

  music of early American composer Supply Belcher

• The Variation of Tourmaline Chemistry with Metamorphic Grade in Southwest Maine

  a co-authored undergraduate paper summarizing and synthesizing research in pegmatites along the Maine/NH border. (it dates from my brief stint as a geology major at Amherst College)