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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Just Intonation"”.
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Tonal Modulation With Just Intonation; Corporeality and Musical Gesture: In the Music of Harry Partch
*This dissertation is a compound document (contains both a paper copy and a CD as part of the dissertation). The CD requires the following system requirements: Windows MediaPlayer or RealPlayer.
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13-Limit Extended Just Intonation in Ben Johnston's String Quartet #7 and Toby Twining's "Chrysalid Requiem", "Gradual /Tract"
… explains the nature of 13-limit extended just intonation, expounds Ben Johnston's pioneering work in this area, and presents an analysis of his String Quartet #7 as well as the Gradual/Tract from Toby Twining's Chrysalid Requiem, both of which utilize this unique tuning and compositional …
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Exploring microtonal tunings: A kaleidoscope of extended just tunings and their compositional applications. (Volumes I and II)
Extended just intonation is a field with infinite tonal resources, from pure major scales to Asian music to complex tunings; the resources for performing extended just intonation range from flexibly-pitched traditional instruments to specially-built acoustic instruments to computer programs. This …
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Statistical Spectral Parameter Estimation of Acoustic Signals with Applications to Byzantine Music
… experiments were used to determine the aural just noticeable difference (jnd) in pitch and deduce patterns utilized to customize acceptable performable pitch deviation to the application at hand. These customizations [Acceptable Performance Difference (a new measure of frequency differential …
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The choral music of Lou Harrison. (Volumes I and II)
… writing for percussion ensemble, experiments in just intonation, melding of Eastern and Western influences, instrument building, and music for gamelan are especially significant. While much of his work has received attention, performance, and praise, his music for chorus is not well-known, much …
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The margin and the mainstream : positioning Harry Partch's theories within the broader discourse of musical aesthetics
… of Johnston's utilisation of Partch's theory of just intonation the dissertation attempts to arrive at a more inclusive compositional theory, one which continues to address those aspects of Partch's theories that serve as a valid and constructive critique of traditional musical values. Taking …
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All This the World Well Knows: a symphonic cantata in Sonnets and Proverbs for mixed chorus, four solo voices, and orchestra
… includes microtonality that arises from the just intonation of sonorities derived from the harmonic series. In passages in which the solo voices express this microtonality, they are amplified in order to allow precise, non vibrato intonation. The modest size of the orchestra, which includes …
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Between consonance and dissonance
… Cage - developed as a result of my interest in just intonation and microtonality and through the influences of James Tenney, Alvin Lucier, La Monte Young, and painters Jackson Pollock and Gerhard Richter. The first section provides background and places my work within the compositional/artistic …
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Towards a Perceptually–grounded Theory of Microtonality: issues in sonority, scale construction and auditory perception and cognition
… scales to the generation of intervals in just–intonation– based schemes, including systems derived directly from the structure of the harmonic series. It contains an analytical survey of case studies relating to twentieth–century microtonal approaches, focussing on the conceptual and …
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Listening with Two Ears: Conflicting Perceptions of Space in Tonal Music
… different conceptions of interval, including just-intonation ratios, diatonic scalar intervals, and pitch-class intervals, result in different Tonnetz geometries, representing different, and sometimes conflicting, modes of musical perception, and argues for treating conflicts between these …
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A Thousand Bells: Acoustical implementation of bell spectra using the finite element method and its compositional realization
… profiles of optimal bell tone colors based upon just tuning ratios. In this chapter, I discuss how the concepts of consonance and Just Noticeable Difference in psychoacoustics are applied to use the 96 tone equal temperament tuning system for bell harmonic profiles. The third chapter includes the …