The Elements of Dreams

for Indoor Drumline

For an Independent Study Project my senior year of high school, I chose to write an indoor drumline show. I was primarily a percussionist and started writing music the previous year when I composed a song for the musical "Wicked", so I was wanted to continue learning composition and experimenting in a new style. As the name suggests, the theme of this show is about dreaming. I just wrote the beats, but if this show were to ever be produced live, there is plenty of room for a design team to work with narration, dreaming vs. nightmares, etc. This piece features arrangements I did of Barber's "Adagio for Strings" and Whitacre's "Sleep", as well as original compositions, entitled "Dreamscape", "Awakening", and "Lullaby".