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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"English Music"”.
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English music theory c.1590-c.1690 : the modal systems, changing concepts, and the development of new classification systems
… c.1590 to c.1690 with particular reference to English music theory. It consists of three parts the first of which considers the English writings on music, their readership, their sources, and the basic ideas for the understanding of the traditional Gamut, solmisation system and hexachordal …
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The anthems of Herbert Howells (1892-1983)
… primary contribution to the twentieth-century English music repertoire. According to Peter John Hodgson, Howells's most representative achievements are found among the numerous settings of the canticles for various ecclesiastical establishments, among a quantity of anthems and motets, and among …
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Interrogating Music-Historical Narratives Through Ralph Vaughan Williams's Five Mystical Songs
… alternative methods -- such as studies of the music's relationship to sociocultural movements, English music history, and history of genre -- for understanding his music, a greater comprehension of Vaughan Williams's work can be created. Such methods are applied to <em>Five Mystical Songs</em> …
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Music Speaks, We Listen: A Teacher's Guide for Using Music in the Adult ELL Classroom
… and anxiety when trying to learn English. They are further challenged because they may have come from a country where language teaching methods have not kept up with the times, so have an imbalance of skills—lacking speaking and listening skills. When students’ affective filters …
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The stirrings still of popular forms of entertainment in Samuel Beckett's first published play : examining the influences of the Music-Hall, Vaudeville, Circus and Early screen comedy on Waiting for Godot
… motifs and comic conventions culled from the English music-hall, American vaudeville, circus clowning and, finally, early screen comedy in order to present us with a vision of the human condition that is as universal as it is devastatingly comical or, for that matter, comically devastating. …
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OLD BECOMING NEW AGAIN: A FORM-FUNCTION AND NARRATIVE ANALYSIS OF RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS’ 'FANTASIA ON A THEME OF THOMAS TALLIS'
… movement to preserve traditional English music, composed <em>Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis</em> as a tribute to his love of Tudor music and English folksong. The piece is based on a psalm setting by Thomas Tallis, known as the Third Mode Melody, which features the Phrygian …
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Costume Design and Production for The Mystery of Edwin Drood by Rupert Holmes
… design and production process for Rupert Holmes’ musical The Mystery of Edwin Drood, as produced by the Department of Theatre and the School of Music at The Ohio State University and directed by A. Scott Parry, the School of Music’s Director of Lyric Theatre. The musical was presented in the …
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The Influence of Foreign-Born Oboists on English Musical Life, 1695-1737: Performers, Composers, and the Development of the Oboe Repertoire
… the oboe played a large role in London’s musical life. As the oboe was at this time a fairly new instrument, performers and composers alike were still questioning the instrument’s potential and exploring varying facets of its character. While previous studies have chronicled the arrival of …
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The Theory and Practice of Composition in the English Restoration Period
… century was a period of considerable upheaval in English music, not only because the political instability of the time altered the way musicians were employed, but also because the era saw fundamental changes in the construction and perception of music. The most important of these was a transition …
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Music copyists in late sixteenth-century England, with particular reference to the manuscripts of John Baldwin.
This dissertation examlnes scribal practice in English music manuscripts of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, with one scribe, John Baldwin (d.1615), as its point of reference and centre of interest. Baldwin is known to be the copyist of three manuscripts: British Library, …
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Cantus Firmus Procedures in the Eton Choirbook
The music in the Eton Choirbook presents a wealth of information 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 …
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Improvising Otherwise: Sound, Nature, and Coloniality in Early Modern England
… listen to alternative stories of early modern English music history, situating my musical research within histories of the body, sounds of nature, Anglo-Ottoman relations, and the coloniality of the travelogue. Through reading theological texts, travelogues, literature about the natural world, …
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Cantus Firmus Procedures in the Eton Choirbook
The music in the Eton Choirbook presents a we:tlth of information 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 …
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The Whole Booke of Psalmes, Protestant Ideology, and Musical Literacy in Elizabethan England
… first published in 1562, was not only the English Reformation’s primary hymnal, but also by far the most popular printed music book published in England in the sixteenth century. This dissertation argues that in addition to its identities as scriptural text and monophonic musical score, the …
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Ralph Vaughan Williams and the pastoral mode
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