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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"Fiddle"”.
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Fiddle Songs and Banjo Songs: A Description Index
<p>English-language texts associated with fiddle and banjo in the southern United States are described and then indexed for comparative reference. The fiddle songs are typically humorous, very brief, highly variable and disunified. The same is true of many banjo songs associated with the banjo. …
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Mississippi Breakdown: a New Look at the Mississippi Old Time Fiddle Music Traditions
<p>This is a cultural study that focuses on the fiddle music of Mississippi. It includes both Anglo and African American roots. Also, the white blues fiddle traditions of Mississippi are examined and analyzed.</p>
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Coming Home, Staying Put, and Learning to Fiddle: Heroism and Place in Charles Frazier's <em>Cold Mountain</em>.
<p>In his novel Cold Mountain, Charles Frazier weaves an intricate web of human stories, all converging to make a memorable statement about love, war, life, and death. This study examines these stories and the mythological, literary, and folk models Frazier employs, and in some cases revises, to …
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‘Sîn liet erklang im schône…’: A Reassessment of the Role of the Fiddle and Harp in the Performance of Minnesang (c. 1170–c. 1340)
… a cappella or with minimal accompaniment of fiddle or harp—the issue has been effectively ignored in the equivalent German repertory, i.e. minnesang. The current thesis aims to address this lacuna. After briefly tracing the history and current position of scholarship on minnesang and …
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Fiddles - nedílná součást irského folklóru
Bakalářská práce s názvem Fiddles - nedílná součást irského folklóru se zabývá irskou tradiční hudbou a je zaměřena konkrétně na hudební nástroj fiddle, který je její neodmyslitelnou součástí. V první řadě představuje čtenáři samotnou irskou folklórní hudbu, její strukturu a hudební nástroje pro ni …
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Archaea
… into its language elements of traditional fiddle music; some of my earliest musical memories are of dancing around the house while my father played Irish fiddle tunes. This music is somehow strongly connected in my mind with the landscape I am imagining.
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At Casey’s Altar – exploring the life and music of Bobby Casey
… of Bobby Casey (1926-2000), an Irish traditional fiddle player born and raised in Annagh, a small townland in rural West Clare, who is regarded as one of the finest exponents of Irish traditional fiddle playing of the twentieth century. Utilising an comprehensive multi-method approach, employing …
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Metrical Dissonance and Phrase Grouping in Selected Dances from Edvard Grieg’s Slåtter, op. 72
… enchanting sound and character of the Hardanger fiddle dances in his arrangement of Knut Dahle’s slåtter (Norwegian folk dances) while incorporating harmonic progressions and formal structures so that the music shared commonalities with 19th-century European art music. He prioritized metrical …
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Visual Culture Of The Santals And Their Image: Myth, Morals And Materiality
… key artefacts that embody their philosophy – the fiddle (banam), palanquin (rahi) and scroll paintings (jadupata). The fiddle is an anthropomorphic articulation of the Santal universe and conceals a foundational tale of cannibalism, sororicide and mysticism. The palanquin, reflecting the great …
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Graduate Recital, Euphonium
… Canada, by the influential father of traditional fiddle music, Emile Benoit.
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Chinese instruments in a western contemporary idiom selected works of Chen Yi
… are made from the following selected pieces: Fiddle Suite, The Points, Ancient Dances, Ning, Song in Winter, Chinese Fables and Ancient Beauty, which all contain Chinese instruments. Technical issues of combining Chinese and Western instruments are discussed, as well as Chinese philosophy and …
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The Devil in the Belfry a rhapsody for viola and orchestra & Edgar Allan Poe, Claude Debussy, and "The Fall of the House of Usher"
… and cabbage. One day a devil, carrying a big fiddle, arrives in the town creating chaos in the people’s systematic lives. The devil goes into the belfry, attacks the bell ringer, and rings the bell thirteen times instead of twelve, thus horrifying the entire town. He stays in the belfry while …
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Alternative instrumentation : a study of selected instruments
… hammered dulcimer, cimbalom, hardanger fiddle, harmonica, highland bagpipes, Irish flute, tin whistle, koto, shakuhachi, sitar, thermin, and uillean pipes. Entries contain information about each instrument’s timbre, dynamics, physical description, history and origins and limitations. …
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The Rise and Fall of the Hillbilly Music Genre, A History, 1922-1939.
… of traditional music and how instrumental the fiddle and banjo were in that development. Chapter 2 looks closely into the careers of recording artists who recorded what would later be called hillbilly music. Chapter 3 examines the string band and the naming of the hillbilly genre. Chapters 4 …
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Out Of This World: Hearing Indigenous And Immigrant Music In The American South
… Specifically, the continued neglect of the fiddle tradition of the Choctaw Indians, an ongoing musical custom which this southeastern cultural group has maintained for at least two centuries, serves as a valuable reminder of the loss that occurs when traditions are overlooked because they …
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Light-form : reception/distribution of direct sun-energy
… of paramount concern and should not play second fiddle to advances in materials . Within the following pages is the development of a formal understanding of light. It is the laying of a foundation upon which to build that expresses an attitude about light by looking- seeing-thinking in terms of …
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An Investigation of Forced Migrant Fathers’ Experiences, and Interventions to Support their Maternity Journey in the UK
… Results: Barriers related to playing second fiddle, adapting to alien NHS maternity service, and living in the asylum system. Three prevailing barriers ranked in the NGT exercise: lack of community support centres to support migrant fathers’ UK maternity journey, fear of being charged and …
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Nostalgia, emotionality, and ethno-regionalsim in Pontic parakathi singing
… sung to riff-like tunes played by the Pontic fiddle, the lyra. This dissertation documents the poetics, aesthetics, rhetorics, and pragmatics of the intimate emotional socialization, nostalgic remembering, and participatory dialogical singing that characterize parakathi and illustrates how …
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Testing and Verification Strategies for Enhancing Trust in Third Party IPs
… and any manufacturer with a malicious intent can fiddle with the original design to make it work otherwise than expected in certain specific situations. In case such a backfire happens, the consequences can be disastrous especially for mission critical systems such as space-explorations, defense …
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An investigation into the use of digital media to promote indigeneous African Languages: the case of digital terrestrial television on SABC
… the broadcasting sector, where they play second fiddle to English language. The unequal status in South Africa has resulted in increased social isolation and discrimination of indigenous African languages, the erosion of heritage and local cultural identities. Speakers of indigenous African …
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