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The Accompaniment of Gregorian Chant
Although Gregorian Chant is sacred monody that dates from an age in which instrumental accompaniment was not employed for liturgical music, today, particularly in the services of the Roman Catholic Church, the common practice is to use some type of organ accompaniment to the chant sung by the choir …
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Contemporary understanding of Gregorian chant - conceptualisation and practice
… the medieval repertoire known to us as Gregorian chant. This medieval repertoire (also known as Franco-Roman) is understood here to be abstract musical and non-musical information in medieval manuscripts. It differs from classical western music repertoires by a lack of adequate original …
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Anglican Chant and Chanting in England and America, 1660-1811
The history of Anglican chanting practices is continuous from musical and liturgical antecedents in the pre-Reformation Latin rite to the persent, except for the brief mid-seventeenth century Interregnum. When the Latin Offices and Mass were consolidated and translated into English, the imprecision …
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Alignement du chant par rapport à une référence audio en temps réel
… de karaoké qui modifie une interprétation chantée à capella en temps réel, il est nécessaire de pouvoir localiser l'interprète par rapport à une référence afin de pouvoir déterminer quelle serait la cible d'un algorithme de modification de la voix. Pour qu'un tel système fonctionne bien, il …
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The effect of the "20 Word Chant" on student sight word recall
… was done to examine the effect of the 20 Word Chant on student's ability to recall sight words. The participants were from various backgrounds, ability levels, disabilities. The students were exposed to two presentation formats. The 20 Word Chant was added to the daily routine as well as the …
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Le chant comme support à l’acquisition du langage : Effets de l’expertise musicale ou linguistique
Le chant, omniprésent dans notre vie, constitue également un matériel écologique et multidimensionnel qui allie les dimensions musicale et linguistique. Il offre ainsi un outil privilégié pour observer les relations entre la musique et le langage. Afin d’examiner la spécificité du traitement des …
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The Byzantine Chant Heritage in Sicily. Dynamics of oral transmission, musical heterogeneity, techniques of safeguarding
… ethnomusicological study on the liturgical chant tradition of the Arbëreshe communities in Sicily on the basis of oral and written sources. The musical repertoire has been cultivated by priests and faithful adhering to the Byzantine rite since the time of the Albanian diaspora in Italy in …
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Chant circulation as an ecology of mind : considering neo-Gregorian super-regional diffusion as a communication system
While studies of chant transmission have historically focused on the variants as carrier of information, this project considers variants to be information in and of themselves. In addition to being the examination of how medieval plainchant traveled and transformed across Western Europe, the study …
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Speaking in Tones: Plainchant, Monody, and the Evocation of Antiquity in Early Modern Italy
… de’ Cavalieri, and Claudio Monteverdi used plainchant formulas in their compositions for solo voice: Peri used psalm tones in <i>Euridice</i>; Caccini used Tenebrae chant melisma in <i>Le nuove musiche</i>; Cavalieri quoted the Lamentations chant in his <i>Lamentationes</i>; Monteverdi evoked …
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Graduate Recital, Flute
… for Jolivet's music. Jolivet's composition, Chant De Linos, was composed during his mid-life stage (2nd stage) for the Paris Conservatory as a competition piece for the Morceau de Concours. Chant de Linos is a literal translation "Linos' Song" and depicts a chant during an ancient Greek …
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"Emergence": A Piece for Wind Symphony Inspired by the Chant of the Rio Xinane, the Origins of Music, and the Geometry of Harmony
In June of 2014, the Rio Xinane (a formerly isolated tribe) emerged from the jungles of Peru onto Brazilian land to meet with Brazils National Indian Foundation (FUNAI). Their dramatic style of communication includes breaking into song with a reciting tone, as well as body slaps and stylized …
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Etude comparative du chant imitatif de deux espèces du genre Acrocephalus : le phragmite des joncs (A. schoenobaenus) et la rousserolle effarvatte (A. scirpaceus).
Nous avons réalisé, à partir d'échantillons de chants enregistrés sur le terrain, une étude comparative des capacités imitatives du phragmite des joncs et de la rousserolle effarvatte. Ces deux espèces occupant un habitat très similaire et vivant donc dans un environnement sonore comparable, nous …
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André Mocquereau's Theory of Rhythm
… conceived as a method for performing Gregorian chant and has been the source for numerous publications and recordings since the beginning of the twentieth century. This dissertation places Mocquereau’s theory in the context of both the evolving performance practice of medieval monophony and the …
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Creating Clausulae at Notre-Dame-de-Paris: A Study of Compositional Processes and Techniques
… medieval singers who fashioned portions of plainchant into rhythmically measured polyphony. Divided into two parts, this study investigates tenor and duplum voices of clausulae in turn, examining their compositional features to illuminate the precise ways that musical materials have been devised, …
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The choral music of Maurice Durufle (1902-1986)
… ""Cum Jubilo""), make extensive use of Gregorian chant as a foundation for the structure of the composition. The fourth, Notre Pere, is a brief setting of the Lord's Prayer and does not incorporate chant. The recent popularity of these works is evidenced by their frequent inclusion on concert …
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Ethics in Kakadu (1988): Finding Djilile’s “True Tracks”
… by the contours and rhythms of Aboriginal chant.” Sculthorpe attributed this melodic material to the Arnem Land chant, <em>Djilile</em>. Consequently, Sculthorpe has been criticized for extracting <em>Djilile</em> from its authentic context as an act of musical appropriation. The published …
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Formative
… HEART SUTRA. The speaker navigates this sutra chant by writing about having it tattooed on his back, and explores breaking cycles of violence, abuse and depression. The work draws on the speakers personal experience as a practicing Buddhist, martial artist, transgender and queer person of …
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Constancy and Changes in Petr Eben's Sacred Choral Works: An Overview
… each chapter is devoted to the influence of plainchant if the selected work is chant-derived. The conclusion evaluates the constancy and changes of Eben's compositional practices and assesses the degree to which his style changed over time.
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