Hinger, Lesley Raine2015-04-242015-04-2420142014https://hdl.handle.net/2144/11014Thesis (D.M.A.)--Boston UniversityThis dissertation for the Doctor of Music Arts degree in Composition consists of an eight minute, single-movement work for string quartet titled desolation sound, that was written between 2013-2014. This piece was first read by the Arditti String Quartet on March 24, 2014 at Boston University, and premiered in Cambridge, Massachusetts on April 18, 2014 by Micah Ringham (violin), Lilit Hartunian (violin), Ashleigh Gordon (viola) and Rachel Barringer (violoncello).en-USThesis/Dissertation