Brandt, Anthony2022-09-232022-09-232022-052022-04-22May 2022Berko, Alex L. ""Be" for orchestra." (2022) Master’s Thesis, Rice University. <a href="https://hdl.handle.net/1911/113328">https://hdl.handle.net/1911/113328</a>.https://hdl.handle.net/1911/113328“Be” is a work that explores the evolution and interaction of two main motific ideas. Programmatically, those two motives loosely represent two emotional components: thinking and feeling. Throughout the work, these ideas are presented both separately and together, propelling the piece forward. The work is organized into three large sections: The first is a slow, intimate soundscape characterized by heterophonic and soloistic textures. The second is a contrasting, driving, and bombastic section that continues to build and transform as it grows. The final section takes on a static character with sustained, lightly pulsed harmonics in the strings, hushed winds, and flickers of harp. The work has a cyclical form in that it begins and ends with a similar character in a similar register.application/pdfengCopyright is held by the author, unless otherwise indicated. Permission to reuse, publish, or reproduce the work beyond the bounds of fair use or other exemptions to copyright law must be obtained from the copyright holder.orchestraThesis2022-09-23