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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"Compositional Practice"”.
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Acts of making and receiving: A compositional practice
This is a commentary on seven pieces I have created to explore the idea of music as the social activity of performance – including the rituals around it – instead of as abstract works. The pieces explore the relationship between performers and audience and the effects performance space has on that …
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The Art of the Commonplace: Found Sounds in Compositional Practice
… of found sounds or everyday noises as a compositional strategy in Western art music through the first half of the 20th century. Pioneering works are examined to determine the motives and aesthetic goals that first led composers to bring noise to the musical surface, including the …
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The Postnational Soundtrack: Defining the Canadian Documentary Film Score Through Identity, Space, and Compositional Practice
… critical reflections on current scoring practices in Canada, and the development of a suggestive practical model for future ethical Canadian documentary score creation and production. The discussions contained within this research provide a platform for meaningful dialogue amongst those …
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Towards a Perceptually–grounded Theory of Microtonality: issues in sonority, scale construction and auditory perception and cognition
… a discussion of relevant music theories and compositional practice alongside the investigation of theoretical perspectives drawn from psychology. Its aim is to advance a theory of microtonal music which is informed by current models of auditory perception and music cognition. In doing so, it …
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Portfolio of compositions
… The portfolio explores a fresh approach towards compositional practice for the medium, with a view to re-establish a connection with contemporary audiences. It reconsiders this appeal by questioning the fundamental language band music employs, exploring cross-disciplinary collaboration amongst …
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Manuel M. Ponce: A critical study of his Concierto Romántico for piano and orchestra.
… is one of Manuel M. Ponce's outstanding compositional accomplishments from his Romantic period, reflecting both the state of Mexican music at the turn of the 20th century, and his early nationalist tendencies. However, it remains the only concerto in Ponce's output in need of a more …
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Imagery and the composition of music: an insight into an original compositional method inspired by mental imagery
… written commentary which describes in depth the compositional process undertaken whilst composing them, defines the concept 'mental imagery' as applied to this process. and sets the concept within a broad theoretical framework which addresses cognitive sciences, the philosophy of meaning and …
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Cantus Firmus Procedures in the Eton Choirbook
… regarding late fifteenth-century English compositional practice which until now has received little close attention. This study explores aspects of compositional practice through analysis of cantus firmus procedures within the Choirbook. The use of a cantus firmus in the Eton Choirbook is …
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Cantus Firmus Procedures in the Eton Choirbook
… regarding late fifteenth-century English compositional practice which until now has received little close attention. This study explores aspects of compositional practice through analysis of cantus firmus procedures within the Choirbook. The use of a cantus firmus in the Eton Choirbook is …
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Materials, meaning and metaphor: Unveiling spatiotemporal pertinences in acousmatic music
… listeners’ responses in order to apply them to compositional practice. This process prompted the conception of a new, integrated reception behaviour framework for electroacoustic music that comprises four listening strategies: sonic properties, structural attributes, self-orientation, and …
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Materials, meaning and metaphor: Unveiling spatio-temporal pertinences in acousmatic music
… listeners’ responses in order to apply them to compositional practice. This process prompted the conception of a new, integrated reception behaviour framework for electroacoustic music that comprises four listening strategies: sonic properties, structural attributes, self-orientation, and …
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The Composer Isn't There: A personal exploration of place in fixed media composition
This practice-based research is concerned with a collection of fixed media compositions written between 2005 and 2012 with accompanying contextual writing. The primary focus of this research was to produce sound works, but the concept of place has played a significant role throughout both the …
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The grain of the digital audio workstation
This thesis explores the material conditions and practices of the digital audio workstation (DAW), treating them as a subject of musical composition. The DAW is a software application currently ubiquitous in facilitating the creation of recorded and electronic music. Despite its prominence, few …
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Mansion: Inner Cosmologies, Thresholds, and Contacts
… of poetic and aesthetic concerns in my compositional practice, as well as an analysis of my composition Mansion, for two alto flutes, percussion, and pre-recorded electronics. Broadly describing the work as an "inner journey", I discuss the relationship of mythological themes to my music …
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A practical investigation of expectation in acousmatic music
… aesthetic implications. Because of this, the compositional management of expectation in acousmatic music presents many challenges beyond those found in Western tonal music where familiar musical grammar assists the listener in comprehending the tensions and implications that contribute to …
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Space, motion and metaphor in electroacoustic music
This submission discusses the development of a compositional language which is expressive of 'lived' experience with relation to the works on the enclosed compact discs, Fal/out, Nesting Stones, Invisible Crowds, Bath, Hidden Lives and Scan. The main features of this language are a musical …
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Automatic identification of musical schemata
… theory (GMST), an example–based learning and compositional practice that peaked in popularity around the early 18th century in Europe, suggesting a culturally–defined classification of polyphonic patterns. Under the premises of the GMST and by relating notions from psychology towards a …
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Multi-form Visualisation: An approach to acousmatic composition
This practice-based doctoral research addresses a critical issue in acousmatic composition: the journey from the immaterial world of sonic imagination to the realisation of musical sound. This was an exploratory journey, where my personal sensibility for visual arts practice met my curiosity and …
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Conducting Elgar's Wand of Youth suites : programming possibilities and perspectives on performance
… scholarly writings on Elgar’s biography, compositional practice, and recordings, as well as from sources discussing issues of conducting analysis, gesture, and concert programming. As common techniques in formal and harmonic analysis are a standard component of performance guides, this …
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Timbral Transformations
… experiences of sound. As this thesis positions compositional practice as a form of research, its outputs range from the conceptual to the creative and the computational. In addition to the music at its core, the project interfaces with gender studies in its original exposition on timbre and …
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