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Out, for Mixed Chorus

Music and lyrics by Stephan Carlson "Out" (2020) is a piece for mixed chorus, and one of the first vocal works I'd written for some time. I wrote the poetry as well, had written it perhaps a year before in a coffee shop in Iowa City. It was my first semester working on my Ph.D., I was feeling... deeply overwhelmed. The act of writing the poetry was one of both personal catharsis, and one of prayer-- a request for intervention. The music was written in late 2020. I'd kept the poem hoping I'd find some space to put it to music at some point. I found an opportunity that fall semester: a final project for a special topics theory course focusing on developments on Neo-Schoenbergian theory. I took it as an opportunity to challenge both the harmonic as well as the formal procedures I've used in my vocal music. This was the result. One of the significant musical features in this piece is the musical "meaning" of the note E-flat. For much of the piece it functions as something of a tonic or center; but after pivotal moment of climax, it is alienated and serves as an agent of harmonic disruption. I suppose it's a kind of... musical symbol, of some of the themes in the poem.