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Showing 1 to 20 of 143 for “"Classical music"”.
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Classical music on UK radio 1945-1995.
… narrative account of the history of classical music radio in the UK between 1945 and 1995, from before the launch of the Third Programme until after the launch of Classic FM. It describes and analyses the rich range of output across all relevant radio stations in this period, …
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Perspectives on straight-tone singing in Western Classical music
Straight-tone singing in Western Classical music is a highly controversial subject. The primary objective of this study was to determine whether singing with a straight-tone was considered healthy or not and whether it is encouraged or recommended in performances today for aesthetic reasons. A …
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Suggestions for transgender inclusion in classical music: a mini-cycle
3 audio files + 1 PDF file (vi, 153 pages)
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The Processes of Creation and Recreation in Persian Classical Music
… of creativity in the performance of Persian classical music. Using current literature, information from musicians, and detailed musical analyses, the thesis endeavours to reach an understanding of what creativity means in the Persian context, and to examine the ways in which creativity takes …
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Using dynamic time warping to improve the classical music production workflow
The current music production workflow, comprising recording, editing, mixing, and mastering music, requires a great deal of manual work for the sound engineer. This thesis aims to bring some recent advances in Music Information Retrieval (MIR) techniques to music production tools, with the goal of …
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Exploring deep learning based methods for information retrieval in Indian classical music
A vital aspect of Indian Classical Music (ICM) is Raga, which serves as a melodic framework for compositions and improvisations alike. Raga Recognition is an important music information retrieval task in ICM as it can aid numerous downstream applications ranging from music recommendations to …
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A komolyzene vállalati támogatásának útvesztői = Competing for corporate support: the classical music case
A komolyzenei élet és annak fennmaradása az utóbbi években veszélybe került, hiszen a kultúra területén eddig paternalista szemléletet követő állam egyre inkább ki kíván vonulni ebből a szerepből, mely jelentős forrás kieséseket jelent a komolyzenei szolgáltatók számára. Ezek hiányának pótlására az …
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The Virtual Guru and Beyond: the Changing Role of Teacher in North Indian Classical Music
… aspects, is an exploration of the North Indian classical music tradition as it is taught in twenty-first century California, and a de-exoticization of a musical style that most Americans are unacquainted with. A brief overview of the basic theory, history, and practice of North Indian classical …
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East Asian and “Extraordinary”: Intersecting Racial and Musical Identities in the Classical Music Solo Career
<p>A performer’s success within the classical music industry is reliant not only on musical merit but also on extramusical factors like race, gender, class, and culture, all of which influence a musician’s upbringing. For East Asian musicians, distinctions of merit can be accompanied by racialized …
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Applying Natural Language Processing and Deep Learning Techniques for Raga Recognition in Indian Classical Music
In Indian Classical Music (ICM), the Raga is a musical piece's melodic framework. It encompasses the characteristics of a scale, a mode, and a tune, with none of them fully describing it, rendering the Raga a unique concept in ICM. The Raga provides musicians with a melodic fabric, within which all …
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The effect of classical music on painting quality, attitude and behaviour for students with severe intellectual disabilities
… the effectiveness of a new Pictorial and Musical Visual Arts Program for students with severe intellectual disabilities. In particular, to learn whether the addition of classical music as background helped students improve the quality of their abstract paintings, attitudes and behaviour in …
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The High Art of Trip Hop: Extending the Bristol Sound by Incorporating Compositional Approaches from Classical Music
… techniques. The two-part thesis combines musicological and practice-led research. Part one analyses the Bristol sound, a style of popular music that developed in Bristol, England during the 1990s and is also known as ‘trip hop’. It offers an historical overview of the style’s evolution, …
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Mashing through the Conventions: Convergence of Popular and Classical Music in the Works of The Piano Guys
… to examining the symbiosis between popular music and Western classical music in classical/popular mashups––a new style within the classical crossover genre. The research features the works of The Piano Guys, a contemporary ensemble that combines classical crossover characteristics and the …
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Beyond sound: a descriptive study of fifth and sixth grade children's listening perceptions of rap and classical music
… children while they compared two examples of music: USA east coast rap versus European classical music. Their responses to 24 survey questions were the basis for exploring the idea that social-economic values reflected in bias are affecting their listening perceptions. Moreover, the purpose of …
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THE ARRANGING TECHNIQUES OF LEON “SMOOTH” EDWARDS AND THEIR APPLICATION TO CALYPSO-STYLED CLASSICAL MUSIC ARRANGEMENTS FOR STEEL ORCHESTRA
… now found across the globe and at all levels of music education, academic research regarding the music of the steelpan and its composers and arrangers is scarce. This paper examines six works for steelband by Leon “Smooth” Edwards, a prominent arranger of indigenous steelband music for the …
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Haitian classical music, vodou and cultural identity : an examination of the classical flute compositions of Haitian composer Werner A. Jaegerhuber
… State University. Department of Music, 2005
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TONES IN BLACK: A HISTORY OF AFRICAN AMERICAN BASS/BARITONES IN CLASSICAL MUSIC: IN THE ECHOES OF ANCESTORS, A PIONEER’S VOICE
… has three major foci: a) to trace the history of classically trained African American Bass/Baritone vocalists through performance, recordings, and narrative; b) to recognize the historical performances of African American Bass/Baritone vocal pioneers and the significant contributions they made to …
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Imagining new possibilities for classical music performance in the 21st-century: Drawing inspiration from the Berlin cabarets of the Weimar Republic
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2023-12-04 without embargo terms
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The prevalence of playing-related musculoskeletal disorders in selected Western classical music students at the South African College of Music, University of Cape Town
… musculoskeletal disorders (PRMDs) among Western classical instrumentalists at the South African College of Music. Seventy-two undergraduate string, woodwind and keyboard instrumental students were approached during classes or individually and asked to complete a specially designed questionnaire. …
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"Roll over Beethoven" : the reaction of classical music recording divisions to the continuing emergence of a consumer culture in America between 1956 and 1982.
As the musical world looks at decreasing sales of classical music recorded on solid media, alarm bells sound. Why is there such a disparity between sales of classical recordings and those of popular music? This study seeks to understand if the situation in today's record market is a result of …
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