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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Microtonal"”.
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Creating an Accessible Microtonal System
… has been significant research in the field of microtonality and octave division, the field is extremely widespread and therefore difficult to unify, and subsequently difficult to transfer knowledge intuitively. This is in large part due to the fact that the theory and notation behind this …
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The Tradition of Microtonal Guitar on the American West Coast
<p>Microtonal music in the United States has a significant connection with the American West Coast. Influential microtonal musicians and theorists originated on the West Coast or passed through California, subsequently inspiring future generations of composers to work outside of twelve-tone equal …
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Exploring microtonal tunings: A kaleidoscope of extended just tunings and their compositional applications. (Volumes I and II)
… This work describes ways to begin working in microtonal music, theory of just intonation, finding and making appropriate tools for hearing tunings and creating compositions, and theoretical ideas from Arabic, Indian and Indonesian music as sources of tuning ideas. It also examines the problem …
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Towards a Perceptually–grounded Theory of Microtonality: issues in sonority, scale construction and auditory perception and cognition
This thesis engages with the topic of microtonal music through a discussion of relevant music theories and compositional practice alongside the investigation of theoretical perspectives drawn from psychology. Its aim is to advance a theory of microtonal music which is informed by current models of …
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O VIOLÃO MICROTONAL SMETAKIANO E SEU PAPEL SOCIAL SIMBÓLICO JUNTO AO CAMPO DE CRIAÇÃO DE VANGUARDA NA ESCOLA DE MÚSICA DA UFBA DA DÉCADA DE 1970
… presented here investigates the Smetakian Microtonal Guitar in its symbolic social role in the relationship with the field of avant-garde creation at the UFBA School of Music in the 1970s. Conceived by the Swiss instrumentalist, composer, writer and instrument creator Walter Smetak , and …
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13-Limit Extended Just Intonation in Ben Johnston's String Quartet #7 and Toby Twining's "Chrysalid Requiem", "Gradual /Tract"
… over a thousand discrete pitches. Johnston's microtonal techniques, from the smallest bits of melody and harmony to the largest aspects of design, were never so well on display as in this movement. Coupled with the microtonal innovations of the other two movements, the analysis of Johnston's …
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The margin and the mainstream : positioning Harry Partch's theories within the broader discourse of musical aesthetics
… examines the broader musical value of microtonal composer Harry Partch's musical theories by locating his critique of abstract music within mainstream compositional theory and aesthetics. This contextualisation aims to deconstruct Partch's iconoclastic image so as to understand his …
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Electronic String Quartet #1
… polytonality, Lydian and Phrygian church modes, microtonal pitch sweeps, and percussive effects. The electronic effects used in the composition were reverb, delay with tempo control, tube-amplifier distortion, and flanger or filter sweep generator. It is intended to be played by five performers …
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Compromise (Fusion) for suona and orchestra
… These traditional techniques often involve microtonal fluctuations and they produce a special colour in the timbre. The title of this piece, ’Compromise (Fusion)’, comes from the way this traditional Chinese idiom is fused with the western symphonic style – the soloist plays chromatic …
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Pitch resources for new music: an integrated approach to instrument development and composition
This book explores microtonality, specifically the use of microdiscrete intervals and sliding pitch, in new music. It presents a newly designed microtonal percussion instrument (the conic bellophone), a portfolio of inextricably associated compositions, in score and recordings, and a video …
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On the analysis of musical performance by computer
… the foundation of a PML representation. The Microtonalism project investigated the issues surrounding the performance of microtonal music on conventional (i.e. non microtonal specific) instruments, namely voice. This included the automatic analysis of vocal performances to extract information …
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The composition of concert music within the Digital Audio Workstation environment.
… and indeterminate ensemble; Rapprochement for microtonal ensemble; Transits for bass flute, eight voices and electronics; Shutterspeed for clarinet and soundtrack; and Fossils for piano and live electronics. For each of the works, a distinct DAW-based concept and compositional approach has been …
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A Computational Model of the Cognition of Tonality
… participants’ ratings of the fits of tones in microtonal melodies, and the fits of all twelve chromatic pitches to an established key centre (Krumhansl’s probe tone data). The techniques can also be generalized to predict the tonics of any arbitrarily chosen scale—even scales with unfamiliar …
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From popular music to the film score: innovation, interrogation, corporeality
… means, from beehive string swarms and menacing microtonal tunings to portentous percussive heartbeats, and from inventive sound design praxes to galaxy-bending hyperorchestrated sonorities. Shared among the cited examples of film music and sound in films like Interstellar (Christopher Nolan, …
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Harry Partch: A Catalyst for Queer Compositionism
… precarious home-studios, audio equipment, microtonal systems, published writings, records, sleeve notes, etc. I champion this hybridised personhood as a queer expression of his epistemology of the closet (Sedgwick, 2008), asking whether this notion applies to what I have coined a queer …
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Audio-scores, a resource for composition and computer-aided performance
… facilitated the precise realisation of microtonal material. Audio-scores also proved particularly useful in sitespecific ‘immersive’ concerts/installations. In these settings, audio-scores mitigate challenges associated with placing musicians at an unusual distances from one another, …
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A Portfolio of original compositions (Barry O'Halpin)
… of: mimetic and non-mimetic materials; microtonality and equal temperament; systems and spontaneity. Vargvarde chorally resynthesises wolf and frog choruses, colliding with one other and with contrasting pitch materials. Hox, for bass flute and drums, sets a transcribed wasp song amongst …
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Bird song as a basis for new techniques and improvisational practice with the baroque flute
… in varying degrees of tonal, atonal and microtonal systems. The research paralleled these treatments of pitch and harmony. It also addressed issues of structure, dynamics, timbre, rhythm and the physical aspects of delivery with the intention of devising a new `method' for the generation …
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A Thousand Bells: Acoustical implementation of bell spectra using the finite element method and its compositional realization
This dissertation focuses primarily on the analysis of acoustical models of bell sounds and the modelling of virtual bell shapes and their spectra using the Finite Element Method (FEM) technique. The first chapter provides a brief introduction of pre and post-spectral music that is inspired by or …