Fineberg, JoshuaRabello Mestre, Andre2018-07-272018-07-272018https://hdl.handle.net/2144/30073This dissertation for the Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Composition and Theory consists of a seventeen-minute work for two clarinetists and electronic media. A Negative of Knowledge is based on a secular song by the 15th-century Burgundian composer, Gilles Binchois. His song, titled Triste Plaisir, is at moments heavily abstracted but can be heard throughout the work in the pre-recorded, countertenor voice of Wee Kiat Chia. The piece was premiered by David Angelo and Shannon Leigh at Boston University’s Marsh Chapel on April 30, 2018.en-USAttribution 4.0 Internationalhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Musical compositionAestheticsElectronicsMax-MSPNoiseVoiceThesis/Dissertation2018-06-30