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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Berberian"”.
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Not Just a Pretty Voice: Cathy Berberian as Collaborator, Composer and Creator
<p>During her relatively brief career, Cathy Berberian: 1925-83) became arguably the best-known singer of avant-garde vocal music in Europe and the United States. After 1950, when she married Italian composer Luciano Berio, Berberian premiered almost thirty new works by seventeen different …
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The Singing Self: An Exploration of Vocality and Selfhood in Contemporary Vocal Practice
… examination of singer and composer Cathy Berberian, whose collaborations with avant garde composers and use of expanded vocal techniques brought about new models for the relationships between composer and singer, singer and self. The final section of this work envisions new practices that …
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The Music of Language
… Schwitters, Milton Babbitt, Luciano Berio, Cathy Berberian, Stuart Saunders Smith, Adriano Celentano, and Eduard Khil. Unlike previous research of language-inspired music that has focused on individual composers and their works, this document aims to create connections between twentieth-century …
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An analysis of word generation by the left and right cerebral hemispheres : the effects of imposed speed-stress instructions
A left hemisphere advantage in response accuracy was obtained for an adjective gener a tion task independent of fluctuations in subjects' speed-accuracy criteria. This effect resulted despite the fact that stimuli were not repeated over trials and despite the controls taken to minimize eye movement …
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Análise de placas circulares sobre base elástica
The subgrade reaction method and that of the rigidity modulus were applied in order to calculate the model foundation plate, built in acrilic and supported on a sandy foundation very carefully mounted. Comparing the theoretical resulta with the ones experimentally reached, we can define, in this …
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An Extreme Ear to the World: Noise in Contemporary European Cinema
… Trier’s Antichrist (2009) and Peter Strickland’s Berberian Sound Studio (2012) to show how a non-coincidence between body and sound figures cinema as a place of resonance, animated by the scattered structure of dynamic relations between things that Foley brings about. Yet the chapter also casts …
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Development of an in-line putter for handicap friendly tabletop golf games
The market for handicapped tabletop games is severely untapped. The students of the Red Team in the course 2.009 (Product Engineering Processes, a capstone design project course in the Mechanical Engineering Department) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology attempted to produce a tabletop …
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Luciano Berio's Sequenza III: The Use of Vocal Gesture and the Genre of the Mad Scene
Sequenza III was written in the mid -1960s and is widely available for study and performance, but how can this work be defined? Is it a series of sounds, or phonemes, or the anxious mutterings of a woman? Is it performance art or an operatic mad scene? Sequenza III could be all of these or …
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Three case studies in twentieth-century performance practice
Since the middle of the twentieth century, the study of performance practice has increasingly drawn the interest of musicologists; however, despite the extensive documentation pertaining to matters of performance, the twentieth century has largely been neglected. Twentieth-century composers often …