Jalbert, Pierre2012-09-062012-09-062012-09-062012-09-062012-052012-09-05May 2012Savitski, Aleks. "Musical Momennts." (2012) Master’s Thesis, Rice University. <a href="https://hdl.handle.net/1911/64715">https://hdl.handle.net/1911/64715</a>.https://hdl.handle.net/1911/64715Musical Moments abstract The inspiration for this piece came largely from my encounters with Miles Davis’s composition “Flamenco Sketches” from his album “Kind of Blue”. Initially, I wanted to write a piece that would have a highly dramatic emotional content with some influences drawn from flamenco music. The only thing that I drew from flamenco is a progression of chords that loosely hint at Phrygian mode (often used in flamenco). Other elements of the music and the development of musical material are not related to flamenco or to Davis’s “Flamenco Sketches”. “Musical Moments” presents four different moods: calm but anxious, joyous and assertive, indecisive and contemplative, restless and explosive. Each of these moods creates a separate section of the piece which when combined shape a single movement work.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.FlamencoChamber orchestraCompositionThesis2012-09-06123456789/ETD-2012-05-195