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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Atonality"”.
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Tonality And Atonality In Alban Berg's Four Songs, Op2 (austria)
… In Berg's Four Songs questions of tonality and atonality appear to be central: the first three of these songs are usually held to be still (barely) tonal, while the last song is often termed Berg's first atonal composition.;In the present thesis the author examines issues of tonality and …
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The Representation of Disability in the Music of Alfred Hitchcock Films
… several techniques: bitonality, dissonance, atonality, cell-based melodic structures, ostinati, and the use of the minor-major seventh chord. The extensive use of these techniques in Hitchcock’s films distinguishes Herrmann from other contemporary Hollywood composers.
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The cognitive organisation of musical pitch
… western scale forms. tonality and (briefly) atonality are outlined.
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Portfolio of Compositions and Technical Commentary
… Birtwistle’s layerings and Ligeti’s ‘consonant atonality’. These techniques were explored intuitively, reinterpreted and juxtaposed in different sections of the first three compositions present in the portfolio which are: Um Pequeno Ensaio (for piano, clarinet in Bb, violin and cello), …
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Discovering forgotten flute music : an analysis and performance guide of selected compositions for flute by Pavol Simai
… also revealed that Šimai used tonal centrality, atonality, classical forms, and free form in the specific compositions for flute. Šimai’s sense for long, phrased melodies, large intervallic leaps, complex rhythms, and varying tonality were determined to be the most prominent aspects of the three …
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An introduction to the life and the songs of composer Chris DeBlasio, with special emphasis on his cycle All the Way Through Evening
… elements of the New York music scene rewarded atonality and musical experimentation, DeBlasio pursued a lyrically tonal, theatrically-informed style in the company of composers such as Jake Heggie and Ricky Ian Gordon. Unfortunately, his death in 1993 at age thirty-four limited the growing …
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Time, Unfolding
… work and to maintain control over the degree of atonality
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Constructing Landscapes: Towards a Hybrid Tonality
… and dissonance, multi-tonality, and free atonality. The appendix to the thesis contains my Harmonic Method on Scales of Increasing Intervals, a set of synthetic scales that can be used to create a set of thirteen four-note chords, as well as several earlier works which give context to the …
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“Hallo, Hallo! Achtung! Achtung!...” : a performer's guide to the Theresienstadt compositions of Viktor Ullmann for the mezzo-soprano
… of motivic material, a balance of tonality and atonality, the importance of the natural-harmonic-series, careful prosody settings, the use of dynamics to increase tension, overlapping phrase structure, the use of polyphonic texture including imitation and canonic techniques, and equality between …
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An intellectual history of the School for Designing a Society
This dissertation traces the roots of an experimental art school for social change called the School for Designing a Society. It focuses on the history of a group of intellectuals, and their ideas, during the latter half of the twentieth century. The composer Herbert Brün (1918-2000) formulated …