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Showing 1 to 20 of 148 for “"Art/Music"”.
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Frank Zappa's orchestral works : art music or "bogus pomp"?
… Kevin Courrier, who suggest that Frank Zappa's "art" music contains stylistic references to early 20th century composers as Igor Stravinsky, Eric Satie, Charles Ives, John Cage and Edgard Varese. On the whole such studies, though undoubtedly important contributions to Zappa criticism, stop short …
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Christian Piano Art Music: Its Theological Significance and Categorized Repertoire
"Christian piano art music" is a small genre, each piece of which belongs seemingly to either Christian music or art music, but by definition to both of them. In spite of its merits this genre has been ignored both by the concert hall because of its religiosity and by the church because of its …
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Merging 20th Century Art Music and Pre-recorded Sound: 17 Pieces
… investigates the relationship between acousmatic music and instrumental music, using developments in 20th century western art music to define its context including the compositional practices of Arnold Schoenberg (d.1951), Claude Debussy (d.1918), Nikolai Roslavets (d.1944), Luigi Nono (d.1990), …
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Systematic approaches to the study of cognition in Western art music performance
… perspective on cognition and meta-cognition in music performance. The goal of the study is to identify and apply methods of inquiry that are phenomenologically resonant with instrumental practice. The first chapter, situating the study in the context of the writer’s musical training, examines …
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The traditional-contemporary dichotomy in Irish art music : a new compositional approach
The issue of Irish art music has been the subject of much discussion in this past decade and beyond. Since Sean O Riada's exploits into the usage of Irish traditional music in an art music medium, there is thought to have been a fundamental division in Irish art music. Between composers who work …
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A correlative study of the anti-literal in modern art, music, and literature
… a way to enjoyment of the anti-literal in modern art.<sup>1</sup> The work of art is regarded as the locus of various cultural factors--a live product of the vital energies of its age and itself a source as well as a reflection. The analysis of these cultural factors lays no claim to completeness. …
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African art music for flute: a study of selected works by African composers
… an increase in the number of Western classical music performers actively programming works employing multi-cultural musical idioms. Though there exist many compositions by African composers, African art music is not often programmed by Western performers because of the lack of exposure these …
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Modelling music: a theoretical approach to the classification of notated Western art music
The classification of notated Western art music is a perennial issue. This thesis analyses and models the knowledge organization of notated Western art music in order to elucidate a theoretical understanding of these classification issues and to offer new ways of viewing music classification in the …
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Lamenting Patrick Og MacCrimmon : a reconstruction of the ancient art music of the great Highland bagpipe
… and transmission of ancient classical Bagpipe music called Ceol Mor, Gaelic for “Big Music”, commonly known as Piobaireachd. The author engaged several leading members of the performer community in Scotland and Canada to produce this aural and visual record of the learning and performance of …
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A Portfolio of Compositions Expanding the Role of the Electric Bass Guitar in Contemporary Western Art Music
… the electric bass guitar in contemporary Western art music. More specifically, these works address three areas that were hitherto underexplored in existing repertoire: • Works for solo bass guitar and electronics. • Works for bass guitar and ensemble that incorporate the instrument as an equal and …
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Inventing Inca Music: Indigenist Discourses in Nationalist and Americanist Art Music in Peru, Ecuador and Argentina (1910-1930)
… national and continental identity. In the arts, and particularly in music, artists as a result began to move from using European techniques and depicting European themes, to produce an art that could be considered Latin American. This dissertation explores discourses surrounding the Inca in …
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An Analysis of an Interdisciplinary Experience in Art, Music, and Social Science with Fifth Grade Classes in Traditional School
… analysis of an interdisciplinary experience in art, music and social science with fifth grade classes in a traditional school. Procedure. Three classes of fifth grade children at Barlow Granger Elementary School in Des Moines, Iowa were the population samples of this study. The author was the …
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Jack Délano’s (1914-1997) Burundanga or Cantata Antillana: an art-music portrayal of Luis Palés Matos’s (1898-1959) black Caribbean
… stands at the foreground of Puerto Rican art-music in the twentieth century. With its neoclassical language and integration of Caribbean folkloric material, it emerges as a unique reflection of the highly complex geographical, social, cultural and musical reality of Puerto Rico and the …
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The Piano Works of Stefans Grové (1922-2014): A Study of Stylistic Influences, Technical Elements and Canon Formation in South African Art Music
… South Africa’s most distinguished composers of art music. He was one of the most prolific contributors to the country’s piano literature, having written large-scale cycles as well as several miniatures for the instrument. This thesis engages with his more widely-performed oeuvre, as well as …
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Selected solo piano works by contemporary Malaysian composers: An analysis
Although the influence of Western art music has been present in Malaysia for a little short of two centuries, much of the scholarly research, both locally and globally, has shown more interest in traditional music and popular music. As such, this study serves as an introduction to the art-music …
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"The things of peace": the Council for the Encouragement of Music and the Arts and the transformation of the British musical experience, 1939-1945
Examining developments in British musical life within the context of the Second World War, this thesis chronicles the emergence of the Council for the Encouragement of Music and the Arts (CEMA), the first body offering state-supported funding for art music activities in Great Britain. Focusing on …
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Contemporary Egyptian art music for the viola through the ethnographic biographies and compositions of Yusif Gris, Gamal ‘Abd al-Rahim, ‘Atiyya Sharara, and Sherif Mohi al-Din for Western programs
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2025-10-19 without embargo terms
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Colores Mexicanos: The Mexican Art Song and Setting Mexican Texts to Music
In the Western art music tradition, we typically associate the art song genre with French, Italian, and German music traditions. However, since the rising of Miguel Ponce and his other, 20th-century contemporaries, the Mexican art song tradition has established its own, unique place and role within …
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