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Showing 1 to 20 of 90 for “"Folk music"”.
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Romantic Ideals in Contemporary Folk Music
<p>This thesis examines contemporary folk music from no earlier than 2006, specifically music of the bands The Decemberists, Fleet Foxes, and Bon Iver. Providing a close reading of select songs, I prove that modern music is seeing a revival in the Romantic Era and Transcendentalist ideals and …
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Cultural identity and Galician folk music
This study is concerned with the roles Galician folk music has played and plays in the promotion of national/cultural identity in the two revivals, the first of which (Rexurdimento) arose towards the end of the nineteenth century and the second (Recuperación) in the mid nineteen-seventies. Events …
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English folk music movement 1898-1914
The folk music movement was an important influence on English cultural life in the years immediately before the First World War. From remote origins in the 1830s and 1840s and small beginnings in the 1880s and 1890s, it suddenly caught the public mood between 1904 and 1914 and for a brief moment it …
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Some aspects of the Bulgarian folk music
Thesis (M.A.)--Boston University, 1937. This item was digitized by the Internet Archive.
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The Underlying Folk Music in Wang Lisan's Music
… many significant works to the Chinese piano music repertoire. The monograph is a subjective analysis of Wang's selective works and their origins based on the author's own understanding.
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Folk music of Sri Lanka : ten piano pieces
… and Stress Survey and distributed it to 230 musicians of three orchestras that comprised full-time and part-time professional as well as community orchestra musicians. The survey sought to identify stress-causing and performance-enhancing factors in the orchestra environment. Questions on the …
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Modern Folk Music Composition: A Self-reflexive Exploration
… which includes an autobiographical survey of my musical influences and an analysis of the compositions. The compositions are all instrumental, written in a modern folk/bluegrass style. This paper discusses my influences and how they affect my writing. In the analysis section, I discuss how each …
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Sinhala folk music : its vocal traditions and stylistic nuances
… of vocal improvisation in Sinhala folk music, the music of Sri Lanka. This study examines the vocal nuances and expressions of Sinhala folk and identifies the idiosyncratic nature of vocal improvisation and how it is applied in Sinhala folk music. Considered a dying art form by …
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Sinhala folk music : its vocal traditions and stylistic nuances
… of vocal improvisation in Sinhala folk music, the music of Sri Lanka. This study examines the vocal nuances and expressions of Sinhala folk and identifies the idiosyncratic nature of vocal improvisation and how it is applied in Sinhala folk music. Considered a dying art form by …
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TATAR FOLK MUSIC AND ITS INFLUENCE ON THE FIRST NATIONAL BALLET
… of this monograph is to introduce Tatar national music to the Western world by focusing on the influence of Tatar folklore on the first national ballet, quite possibly the most beloved and popular musical work of Tatars to this day. The monograph will include a brief discussion of the history of …
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Folk Music As A Cultural Signifier In the Contemporary American South
<p>Given the continued success of a Southern folk music tradition that makes it a priority to maintain its distinctive regional and historical markings in the postmodern world, the music itself presents interesting possibilities for the evolving conceptions of Southern identity, particularly in in …
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Performance practice in Hungarian folk music and its relationship to the Style Hongrois
… practice within the oral traditions of Hungarian folk music, and explores intersections with the nineteenth-century idiom style hongrois. Interviews, lessons, and workshops were undertaken as part of a practice-based immersive research experience, and comparisons with the style hongrois made via …
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Folk Music of Atlantis: An Exploration of Water as a Sound Source in Music
<p>Folk Music of Atlantis is a programmatic composition for water instruments and orchestra depicting the mythical city of Atlantis. I have researched water’s musical properties: its pitch bending, its ability to create sound through motion, and its percussive effects on various materials. Drawing …
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Exploring Intimacy and Authenticity in Greek Folk Music Documentaries: A Hybrid Form of Ethnographic Filmmaking
This research investigates how Greek folk music documentaries can embody intimacy and authenticity through a hybrid ethnographic filmmaking approach. Based on a body of 34 documentary films aired on Greek Television between 2017 and 2020, the study explores the intersection of autoethnography, …
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The making of folk identity : politics, consumption, tradition, and rebellion in the folk music revival movement
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Michigan State University. American Studies, 2010
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Music as a birthright: Chicago's Old Town School of Folk Music and participatory music making in the twenty-first century
The Old Town School of Folk Music (OTSFM), founded in 1957 on Chicago’s North Side, has over the course of its history developed pedagogies and social practices to transform its urban, cosmopolitan students from music consumers to music participants. By the 2000s, it had become the largest …
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Graduate Recital, Clarinet
… composers have utilized traditional folk-music as inspiration for their works. The programing focuses on several techniques used as a means for synthesizing folk-songs and art-music, ranging from setting preexisting melodies to accompaniment, to manipulating the idiomatic musical and …
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Musical Change in Trentino: Style and Transmission in the Oral and Choral Traditions of the Region (Italy)
… several areas of Central Europe, in Trentino art music, popular music, and folk music have continuously influenced each other. In this province one point of contact between oral and literate environment is a pervasive choral tradition which feeds on folk music to a large degree. This tradition …
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Mongolian Folklore Expressed through Music Technology Original Multimedia Soundtrack on Horseback
I returned to my hometown and recorded Mongolian folk music- Mongolian Long Song and Mongolian Throat Singing. I wanted to combine technology and traditional folk music and write an electronic piece based on Mongolian vocal materials. I used what I've sampled, manipulated the sounds, composed the …
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