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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Frank Zappa"”.
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Frank Zappa and Mikhail Bakhtin: Rabelais's carnival made contemporary
… uses Bakhtin's theory of carnival to illuminate Zappa's sound and rhetoric. The author hopes that by using this theoretical lens allows audiences to understand Zappa's choices in subject matter. Those who can see his work as satire and understand the use of carnivalesque techniques in challenging …
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Frank Zappa and Mikhail Bakhtin: Rabelais's carnival made contemporary
… uses Bakhtin's theory of carnival to illuminate Zappa's sound and rhetoric. The author hopes that by using this theoretical lens allows audiences to understand Zappa's choices in subject matter. Those who can see his work as satire and understand the use of carnivalesque techniques in challenging …
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Frank Zappa and the Orchestra Question: Dissonant Clatter or Well-Crafted Design
… offers an insight into the orchestral music of Frank Zappa and his unique approach to composition. In Chapter 1, The Fieldwork So Far, I present an extensive annotated bibliography of selected Zappa research to illustrate the multiple forms of discourse generated by the composer’s work. While …
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Graduate Recital, Trumpet
… Paper (Elements of Musical Vision: The Music of Frank Zappa) by performing an original composition that aims to take influence from the works of Frank Zappa.
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Frank Zappa's orchestral works : art music or "bogus pomp"?
… Ben Watson and Kevin Courrier, who suggest that Frank Zappa's "art" music contains stylistic references to early 20th century composers as Igor Stravinsky, Eric Satie, Charles Ives, John Cage and Edgard Varese. On the whole such studies, though undoubtedly important contributions to Zappa …
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Performing texts; playing with jazz aesthetics
… with jazz brothers than literary fathers; Frank Zappa becomes one of the keepers of the jazz flame. Between these ostensibly conventional chapters lives a counter-melody, an "autobiography" at times parodic, satirical, self-reflexive and allusive that mimics, mocks, pays tribute to, …