Mannone, Maria2017-07-182017-07-182017-05http://hdl.handle.net/11299/188931University of Minnesota Ph.D. dissertation. May 2017. Major: Music. Advisor: Alex Lubet. 1 computer file (PDF); iii, 87 pages.Musical gestures connect symbolic scores to physical sounds, and they can be mathematically investigated. Mathematics can also be used to transform images into music and vice versa. The two approaches work together if we consider a visual shape as the result of a drawing gesture. We present here a piece for orchestra, soprano, and piano as a creative application of the mathematical research on musical gestures and music/visual arts.enAcousticsCategory TheoryGesturesOrchestraVisual ArtsThesis or Dissertation