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TRIO FOR CLARINET, BASSOON AND PIANO

BY

LINDSAY BIRMINGHAM

A Thesis submitted to the School of Music in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Music

Degree Awarded: Spring Semester, 2003 The members of the Committee approve the Thesis of Lindsay Birmingham, defended on April 7th, 2003.

Ladislav Kubik Professor Directing Thesis

Evan Jones Committee Member

Mark Wingate Committee Member

The Office of Graduate Studies has verified and approved the above named committee members.

ii For Sonja & Brent

iii TABLE OF CONTENTS

ABSTRACT ...... v

1. Schnell ...... 1

2. Langsam ...... 20

3. Schneller ...... 25

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH ...... 38

iv ABSTRACT

Trio for Clarinet, Bassoon and Piano is a three movement piece which utilizes aspects of sonata form. As a woodwind player myself, I took special care to write idiomatically for the clarinet and bassoon. The role of the piano is much more than that of accompanying—it’s been carefully integrated with the other instruments. The third movement reprises material from the first and second movements in its coda to bring a sense of cyclicality to the work.

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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH

Lindsay Birmingham, born in Salem, Oregon (1978), was a graduate student at

Florida State University under Ladislav Kubik at the time of this thesis submission. Before pursuing her master’s degree, she studied with Scott

Robbins and David Berry at the Petrie School of Music where she received her

Bachelor of Music in Composition as well as a Bachelor of Arts in German from

Converse College in Spartanburg, South Carolina. During the summers of 2000 and 2001, she attended Brevard Music Center in North Carolina, where she studied with composers Claude Baker and Don Freund. Following graduation from Florida State University, she will relocate to Los Angeles, California as well as be a participant in the Edgar Stanton Audio Recording Institute at the

Aspen Music Festival during the summer of 2003.

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