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Showing 1 to 20 of 132 for “"Counterpoint"”.
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Accentual counterpoint and metrical narrative in the music of Brahms
… metrical style, and the concept of accentual counterpoint is suggested as an alternative that gives fuller power to the explication of Brahms’s metrical complexity, but without reducing that complexity. The complexity of metrical states that Brahms employs, in turn, is explored. Brahms’s path …
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Counterpoint and linearity as manifested in the music of George Gershwin
… The unifying element in Gershwin's music is counterpoint and an ever-present sense of linearity, duality, and opposition. Harmonic sequences are often not generated by conventional, pre-determined progressions, but rather by the linear motion of each individual note, as though it were its own …
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Harmony and Counterpoint: An Adaptive Reuse of Frank Lloyd Wright's A.D. German Warehouse
Constructed in his self-acknowledge hometown of Richland Center, Wisconsin, Frank Lloyd Wright was to work on the A.D. German Warehouse twice during his lifetime. Initially constructed between 1917 and 1921, financial woes on the part of the owner led to a shuttered building. In 1934 Wright worked …
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The Third Story: An Exploration of Intergrating Ironic Counterpoint into the Multimodal Text-image Relationship of Children's Picturebooks
… emphasis on the implementation of "ironic counterpoint" as a narrative device. Recognizing the complexity inherent in multimodal narratives, this study aims to clarify how the interplay of verbal and visual modes not only creates meaning but also fosters reader engagement. Building on the …
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Polymodality, counterpoint, and heptatonic synthetic scales in jazz composition; and its application in an original piece "Polymodal Jazz Suite for Quartet”
… of the first half of the twentieth century; jazz counterpoint; and heptatonic synthetic scales. The last chapter of the dissertation shows the use of these techniques in the composition of an original jazz suite in four movements for quartet. The appendix contains the complete scores for the …
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Voice Leading in Fugue
… separation of fugal technique from the study of counterpoint in the abstract, I distinguish between thematic counterpoint––the layout, combination, and manipulation of thematic materials in several parts––and voice-leading counterpoint––the polyphonic organization of voices in the underlying …
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Doctoral thesis recital (clarinet)
… op. 128 / Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco -- New York counterpoint / Steve Reich -- Il convegno / Amilcare Ponchielli -- [unidentified work]
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A syllabus for a course in analytical projective geometry
… interplay of a kind of conceptual and logical counterpoint, - an enchanted realm where thought is double and flows throughout in parallel stream.
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In Autumn Rhythm
… in this piece as a web of dense, improvisatory counterpoint that emphasizes aggregate texture over clear linear designs. The form is delineated by a metric palindrome extrapolated from the symmetrical rhythmic design of the opening section.</p>
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Reconstituting a World: Constructing a Cube
… acts against these forces as threshold and counterpoint. It is the reconstitution of a world, a settlement, a center in a perceived infinity.
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...In the Realms of Art: A Conceptual Inquiry of the Genesis of the Work of Art
… which act as either an additional butress or as counterpoint to the arguments I present or criticize. Lastly there are some ""interpretive devices"" planted through the text that are meant to exemplify and draw from the reader the kinds of critical responses I theorize about."
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Refuge in Belen Valley
… intentions, inhabiting possibilities and counterpoint, the arrangement of differences through dialogue.
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George Russell's Jazz Workshop: The Composer's Style and Original Methods of 1956
… jazz at that time, such as suite form, dissonant counterpoint, pantonality, and the modal (scalar) approach to composition and improvisation his own theory had informed. This study concludes that with the music of his 1956 Jazz Workshop period, Russell was able to integrate his pursuits of music …
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Bindweed And Fire
… between a father and son. Providing a counterpoint to the first, the second voice seeks to qualify, correct, and comment on the private symbolism. The third voice tries to give a wider view of the everyday lives of parent and child, their habits, their history, and the tensions at play …
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An Analytical Survey of The Organ Music of Maurice Duruflé (1902-1986)
… With the standard categories of form, harmony, counterpoint, rhythm and melody as a general frame of reference, each composition will be examined in its own terms. In this way it is hoped to form a general impression of the composer's style and method. Each analysis will be preceded by a brief …
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How to Apply the Schenkerian Method to the Performance and Teaching of Chopin's and Mozart's Piano Music
… This study concentrates on Chopin’s mastery of counterpoint and voice leading which leads me into the relationship of analysis and performance, typically by using the Schenkerian method. My examples will include a variety of pieces by both Chopin and Mozart, to show in what ways the Schenkerian …
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Concerto for Prepared Piano and Ensemble
… piano. The piece is structured as an elaborate counterpoint, in which each contrapuntal line is subjected to the continually stretching and compression of event durations over a continuously modulating tempo.
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Cross media promotion: entertainment industries and the trailer
… industries other than film and serves as a counterpoint to the cinema centric imbalance within the study of the trailer. Using a corpus of audiovisual texts identified as trailers through UK press websites, this thesis draws from the popular understanding of the trailer in order to explore …
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(Re)membering history: performative disinterment in post-TRC South African theatre-making
… to give language to and articulate memory as counterpoint to history. I employ theatre and performance as an analytical tool through which to deconstruct the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission looking specifically at the relationship between memory and the representation thereof …
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