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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"780 Music"”.
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Situating the citole, c.1200-1400
The citole, one of the foremost plucked musical instruments of the High Middle Ages, has been largely overlooked by modern scholars. This is due, in part, to disagreement as to which instrument type should be identified by that term. This work verifies and refines the definition of citole by …
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The dramaturgy of music: its impact on my composition
… dissertation) defines my personal approach to musical composition using music dramaturgy as its main source of inspiration and expression, contextualising the compositions within other pieces in the field and also within my own production. The pieces were selected following recommendations and …
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Pitch resources for new music: an integrated approach to instrument development and composition
… intervals and sliding pitch, in new music. It presents a newly designed microtonal percussion instrument (the conic bellophone), a portfolio of inextricably associated compositions, in score and recordings, and a video recording illustrating the technique of the instrument. The …
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Exposing the London piano industry workforce (c. 1765-1914)
Research into the London piano industry workforce has focused to date on high profile makers such as Backers, Beyer, Brinsmead, Broadwood, Challen, Clementi and Collard, and, more recently, lesser-known practitioners such as Southwell, Geib, Plenius, Vietor and Neubauer. Although the study of …
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The manufacture of tuned percussion instruments in Indonesia and Africa: a selective study
… Ghana use xylophones as their main means of musical expression. The xylophones are used for recreation, but more significantly, they provide the music for a number of cults and events, the most important of which is the funeral ceremony. Within recent years the Sisaala xylophone tradition has …
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Clarinet toneholes: a study of undercutting and its effects
… lower and upper register closer to 3: 1 (i. e. a musical twelfth). Also, asymmetric upstream undercutting is shown to be an effective method of achieving this change. The artificial mouth has also been used to explore the inadequacies of fork fingerings in the chalumeau region of the `Classical' …
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The effects of design on the tone and response of clarinet mouthpieces
PC-based sound analysis was used to measure timbral changes brought about by small incremental modifications to the internal and external dimensions of clarinet mouthpieces. Methods were developed for use with the software data acquisition and analysis programmes to cope with the non-linear …
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The baroque bassoon: form, construction, acoustics and playing qualities
… invented in the 1670s-1680s as one of several musical innovations that emerged from Paris, and spread rapidly across Europe. The essential elements of its structure - four wooden parts plus a brass crook, with three or four keys - remained stable for the next seventy years, but within those …
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The harp in early nineteenth-century Britain : innovation, business, and making in Jacob Erat’s manufactory
… of performance and the publication of printed music. The form and decoration of the harp are considered in relation to architecture, furniture, and pictorial representation of costume, thereby identifying it as the most costly, ornate, and fashionable instrument of the era. A product of …
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Automatic recognition of Persian musical modes in audio musical signals
… for computational identification of Persian musical modes. This involves constructing a database of audio musical files and developing computer algorithms to perform a musical analysis of the samples. Essential features, the spectral average, chroma, and pitch histograms, and the use of …
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The Viennese guitar and its influence in North America : form, use, stringing, and social associations
This thesis evaluates the technological developments of the nineteenth-century guitar that provided the basis for the emergence of the steel-strung instrument. It investigates changing use, cultural significance, and shifts in social association during this period. It maps and characterises Georg …
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Inclusive participatory design of bespoke music instruments and auxiliary access equipment, as emancipatory arts interventions advocating for equality and wellbeing
… aims to increase participation in community music making, by exploring the production and use of bespoke instruments and associated access equipment designed to meet the personal needs and preferences of disabled people, who participate as co-designers and players. Grounded in the tradition …
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Listening to the mind at play: sonified biofeedback as generative art practice and theory
… sonified biofeedback, the disruption of habitual musical expectations and increased immersed listening became paramount aspects of the practice. Conversely, the insight emerging from the participative sessions was that explorative playing with a complex system can allow for a more intuitive …
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The English wing spinet of the 17th and 18th centuries: with special reference to the extant Haward spinets indtroducing newly discovered evidence for Samuel Pepys' Haward spinet and Queen Anne's Haward spinet
The wing spinet, evidently introduced to England in 1663 by its acknowledged inventor, Gerolamo Zenti, displaced the virginal in the 1680s and was, in turn, displaced by the square piano a century later. A breakdown of the instrument’s form into four chronological groups is proposed. Prior …