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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"Lute"”.
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The Lute In Seventeenth-Century Dutch Brothels: A Study of Selected Genre Paintings
… the works just cited--not only incorporate the lute as an important aspect of the sex trade in the Low Countries, but also provide clues about speelhuizen, the underground "music halls where whores plied openly."</p> <p>The significance of these representations has not been well understood. …
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Structuring lute tablature and MIDI data: Machine learning models for voice separation in symbolic music representations
… in two forms of symbolic music representations: lute tablature and MIDI data. Three modelling approaches are described: MA1, a note-level classification approach using a neural network, MA2, a chord-level regression approach using a neural network, and MA3, a chord-level probabilistic approach …
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Selected Lute Music from Paris, Rés. Vmd. Ms. 27 from the Bibliothèque Nationale: Reconstruction, Edition, and Commentary
… is one of the earliest extant sources of lute music, containing twenty-four solos and eighty-six accompaniments for vocal compositions. The manuscript was copied in Italian lute tablature lacking rhythm signs, which makes it inaccessible for modern performance. Each selection contains a …
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A comparative study of the guitar and the Chinese lute-pipa : an overview of their origins, construction, and techniques
This dissertation is a comparative study of the classical guitar and the Pipa. One of the most popular plucked string instruments in the Western Hemisphere is the guitar and in the East, the Chinese pipa. The guitar and the pipa are the distant relatives and both share many commonalities in their …
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Mus. Ms. 1511b: A Historical Review of a Lute Manuscript in the Herwarth Collection at the Bavarian Library, Munich
… the social and pedagogical ramifications of lute repertoire from the mid-sixteenth-century. Because of the amateurish nature of the compositions, the conclusion of this study is that a member of the Herwarth family probably used the manuscript for learning purposes. Dance, grounds and other …
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Doctoral thesis recital (guitar)
Aquarelle / Sergio Assad -- Lute suite in E minor / Bach -- Tonadilla on the name Andres Segovia / Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco -- Cordoba / Isaac Albeniz -- La calme / Fernando Sor
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Acoustic function of sound hole design in musical instruments
… instruments, including those from the violin, lute and oud families have evolved complex sound-hole geometries through centuries of trail and error. However, due to the inability of current theories to analyze complex sound-holes, the design knowledge in such sound-holes accumulated by time is …
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Witches, Masques and Lutes: Scoring the Magical Within Masques and Plays
… in ensembles that performed in masques was the lute. This thesis focuses on how composers used the lute to underscore scenes within masques and other theatrical works that contained stories about witches and other affiliated supernatural creatures. This research also examines the solo lute music …
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A critical investigation and re-assessment of the composition history of J.S. Bach's 5th suite for unaccompanied violoncello, BWV 1011
… source by Bach of this work transcribed for lute (BWV 995), bringing extra information about Bach's intentions.<br></br><br></br> After an introduction to the sources of the Cello Suites and of related works for violin and lute, this thesis describes in detail all of the differences between …
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Painted Faces & Printed Music: Women and Music in the Paintings of Bartolomeo Veneto and Sebastiano Florigerio
… within Bartolomeo Veneto’s <em>Lady Playing a Lute</em> and Sebastiano Florigerio’s <em>Music Lesson</em>, this research explores the representation of gender through music in Italian paintings of the sixteenth century.</p>
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EARLY INSTRUMENTS IN 21ST CENTURY COMPOSITION AND AN ORIGINAL COMPOSITION FOR SAXOPHONES AND VIOLS
… like the viola da gamba, harpsichord, lute, and recorder in their compositions.</p> <p>The document also contains interview transcripts from eight composers and performers, including Nico Muhly, Liam Byrne, Martha Bishop, David Loeb, Yukimi Kambe, Sarah Mead, Heather Spence, and Lisa …
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Graduate Recital, Voice
… German heritage, with the added touch of English Lute Songs, performed with harpsichord. Such Composers this recital indulges in are none other than G.F. Handel, J.S Bach, Maurice Ravel, Gaetano Donizetti, Vincenzo Bellini, Johannes Brahms, Franz Schubert, John Dowland as well as Stephen Sondheim. …
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Alban Berg's Lulu
… and role doubling, and Variations on Wedekind's lute rrelcdy, from Acts II/2 and III. Each chapter contains synopses of dramatic events 1n relation to the opera's formal design, to describe the context in which the analysed excerpts appear.
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Alban Berg's Lulu
… and role doubling, and Variations on Wedekind's lute rrelcdy, from Acts II/2 and III. Each chapter contains synopses of dramatic events 1n relation to the opera's formal design, to describe the context in which the analysed excerpts appear.
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Envisioning Morality in Times of Dynastic Change
… ways: the late Yuan play Pipa ji τÉ╡τÉ╢Φ«░: The Lute) which primarily circulated during Ming and Qing Dynasties, and the early Qing play Taohua shan µíâΦè▒µëç: The Peach Blossom Fan) which deals with the late Ming period. In this thesis, I primarily treat these two plays as texts, and I try to …
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Singing foreign songs in the Lord’s House: an examination of the worship music sung in Songhai/Zarma protestant churches of the West African Sahel with special reference to Niger
… interviews and lessons on the three-stringed lute, the thesis presents a comprehensive synopsis of Songhai traditional music, including ideas about music, genres/occasions for music, musical instruments, musicians, and dance. With this information as a basis for comparison, the thesis proceeds …
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Properties of Desire: Performing Women on the Early Modern Transvestite Stage
… Killed with Kindness, where the journey of a lute foregrounds the damage done to women by male constructions of female erotic desire. Chapter 2 imagines a trial performance of Arden of Faversham in order to introduce a play whose title page condemns Alice for her crimes but whose props offer …
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Workers' Councils In Portugal 1974-1975
… (July 75 - November 75) the Setubal Comite de Lute (October 75 - November 75) In choosing the examples the following criteria were selected: a) the democratic nature of the organisations b) the importance of the revolutionary left c) their potential role, as envisaged by the organisation, as an …
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