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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Electric Guitar"”.
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High school engineering project : the modified electric guitar
Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Education
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Exploration of unorthodox tunings and muscle memory practice for the electric guitar
… tunings and muscle memory practice for the electric guitar. An over-reliance on existing muscle memory is commonplace among guitarists and this is often seen as a catalyst by the player to seek out new material using different fretboard patterns and shapes . While this can be effective, it …
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Metamorphosis: An Original Jazz Guitar Concerto Exploring Improvisation and Polystylistic Strategies in the Modern Concerto
<p>The electric guitar is underutilized in large ensemble art music. Some composers have sought to alleviate this deficiency by expanding the literature through the electric guitar concerto. Few electric guitar concerti are written for improvised jazz guitar, therefore presenting a need for this …
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perennial: for winds, strings, guitar, and drums
… flute, alto flute, clarinet, bass clarinet, electric guitar, and drum set. This genre-elusive piece centers around perpetual cycles of growth and decay and explores verdant textures, wandering harmonies, and continuous pulse, all of which lead to inevitable disintegration. The work is divided …
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Tele: Using Vernacular Performance Practices in an Eight-Channel Environment
Examines the use of vernacular, country guitar styles in an electro-acoustic environment. Special attention is given to performance practices and explanation of techniques. Electro-acoustic techniques-including sound design and spatialization-are given with sonogram analyses and excerpts from the …
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Clockwork Plums
… violin, cello, piano, electronic keyboard, electric guitar, electric bass, drum set, and percussion.
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"Now, Then, Then:" An Original Composition and Examination of the Influence of Blues, Bluegrass, and Rock in Western Concert Music
… instrumentations, but every ensemble includes guitar in some fashion. This examination informs the original composition entitled <em>Now, Then, Then</em>, scored for violin, cello, electric guitar, and marimba. In this original composition, Klock uses devices found within these four pieces, …
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A Portfolio of original compositions (Barry O'Halpin)
… experimental rock and electronica. Two solo electric guitar works with microtonal scordatura enable post-spectral exploration in an idiomatic composer-performer mode: Grave Goods pursues microtonally-inflected melodicism and maximal resonance, and Stridula is a concentrated investigation of …
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Electroacoustic music composition: myth, symbol and image
… and tape; Chapter 10, Urbis #3 'Alter ego' for electric guitar, live electronics and tape; Chapter 11, Urbis #4 for tape. In this section I address the use of modern urban culture symbols in order to create a contemporary mythological canon. Section 4 - A conclusion to this thesis.
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Música Tejana and the Transition from Traditional to Modern: Manuel “Cowboy” Donley and the Austin Music Scene
… Contemporary Texas-Mexican artists rely on electric instruments. Previous to the integration of amplification, Música Tejana, or Texas-Mexican music rooted in la canción mexicana, used acoustic instruments. The first Música Tejana ensembles to “go electric” originated a new music scene and …
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The Accelerationist International
… with the addition of a pop consort consisting of electric guitar, electric keyboard, electric bass, and drum kit, as well as a narrator and fixed media. The story unfolds in two acts, and it takes place in an alternate timeline in the 1990s, where the Soviet Union never collapsed, and Ronald …
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California As Music to American Ears: Migration, Technology, and Rock and Roll in the Golden State, 1946–2000
… and further refinement of solid bodied electric guitars and basses in Southern California permanently changed how music would be made. The transformation of West Coast music would produce differing reactions nationally, while foreign developments would impact California, challenging its …