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Showing 1 to 20 of 178 for “"M Music"”.
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Hearing voices: electroacoustic composition portfolio and commentary
The concept of voice is a fundamental thread that underpins my PhD portfolio, with the human voice being present in all but one of the compositions. The drive to make what I think of as 'voice works' has, to a large extent, been influenced by various theatrical vocal practices that are in some way …
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Ashitaka: an audiovisual instrument
… at how sound and visuals may be linked in a musical instrument, with a view to creating such an instrument. Though it appears to be an area of significant interest, at the time of writing there is very little existing - written, or theoretical - research available in this domain. Therefore, …
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Our ancient national airs: Scottish song collecting c.1760-1888
This thesis explores the musical dimension of Scottish song-collecting between the years c.1760 and 1888. The collections under investigation reflect the general cultural influences that bear on their compilers, starting with those associated with what we now call the Scottish Enlightenment, and …
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Portfolio of compositions
The music in the portfolio is a result of a gradual change in methodology and aesthetic concerns. My previous music displayed an overriding concern with the inherent technical ‘coherence’ of the finished result. The masters material employs a more improvisatory or intuitive methodology, and the …
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Composition research folio
This folio contains 2 works for contrasting chamber ensembles and supporting research papers. Scores appear in chronological order according to their completion date in order to highlight the development of ideas. Research papers explore aspects of aleatoricism, spectromorphological analysis, …
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Portfolio of compositions
The four works which make up the portfolio demonstrate pieces of varying lengths and complexity, written for a range of contrasting ensembles. The pieces are included in chronological order, based upon their completion; in this way I hope to demonstrate how I have been able to experiment with …
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Seventeenth-century musical fantasy : origins of freedom and irrationality
The essence of seventeenth-century musical fantasy lies in the contemporary notion of freedom. Contemporary fantasy genres and verbal descriptions of fantasy highlight freedom from given tonal, harmonic, and temporal frameworks. This freedom assumes the composer's ingenuity (freedom to command the …
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Frank Zappa's orchestral works : art music or "bogus pomp"?
… 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 criticism, stop short of …
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Forms of luminosity
Forms of Luminosity is an experimental music-based performance that brings private listening experiences into the public sphere for examination. My research focuses on the relationship between a person, his or her iPod, and the private listening experience thus created. This public-private …
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Representing children in opera
… and tantrums are discussed. Chapter 3 treats the musical representation of the notions of innocence and experience in children's roles. Chapter 4 offers the author's recent opera, I'm the King of the Castle. as a case study in its use of many of the notions explored in the preceding chapters.
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Towards a performance of Scriabin's Sonata No. 6, Op. 62: a practice-led exploration
… well as his evolving belief in the role that his music would play in the spiritual future of society – led to experimentation with octatonic, whole-tone and bi-tonal harmonic and melodic patterns, most clearly demonstrated in the formation of the mystic chord. The extra-musical significance of …
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A composer's imagining of musical tradition and the reinvention of heritage
As a Hong Kong-born concert-music composer operating in the historically Western-centric art form of concert music, with only Cantonese popular music qualified to be considered as my true musical tradition, I am awkwardly situated outside of two strong musical traditions, namely European art music …
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The realisation of recitative by the Cello in Handelian Opera
This thesis examines the author’s practice of the chordal realisation of recitative by the cello in Handel opera. The realisation of recitative has a long pedagogical history from 1774–1877; it is, however, rarely part of current practice. The decline of realisation in the nineteenth century and …
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Cardiorespiratory fitness in contemporary dance training and performance
This PhD thesis presents a thorough investigation of the relevance and importance of cardiorespiratory fitness in contemporary dance training and performance. Through an initial introduction and literature review, gaps in the current understanding of, and challenges presented by, dance training and …
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Imagery and the composition of music: an insight into an original compositional method inspired by mental imagery
This thesis presents a body of eight original musical compositions inspired by the phenomenology of mental imagery, together with a written commentary which describes in depth the compositional process undertaken whilst composing them, defines the concept 'mental imagery' as applied to this …
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(Il)legitimate performance: copying, authorship, and the canon
This project explores the practice of copying as a choreographic methodology raising the issue of illegitimacy despite the use of copying by choreographers for the creation of their works. Thus, my intention is to shed more light on various aspects regarding the practice of copying in order to …
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The Influence of Weimar Culture on Pop Music in the 1970s and ‘80s
… of Weimar Berlin’s culture on British popular music of the 1970 and 1980s. The two eras are studied historically and artistically though the constant and ever-changing backdrop of the city of Berlin. The retrospective significance in postmodern terms is examined through music of David Bowie, …
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Contemplating identity and genre in Greek popular song: The Theatrical Compositions of Manos Hadjidakis Between 1944 and 1966
… identity in general as well as Greek popular music of the mid-twentieth century in particular. My examination of the role of such works in the construction of Greek national and cultural identity focuses on the relationship of Hadjidakis with Greek literary modernism and its distinctive …
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Hip hop in South Tel Aviv: third space, convergent dispossession(s), and intercultural communication in urban borderlands
… limitations of crosscultural elements in current musical practices in Israel, specifically, in Hip Hop practices in the urban context of the diverse neighbourhoods of South Tel Aviv. This study explores locales on border-areas of the urban space, investigating precisely how Hip Hop practitioners …
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