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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Microtonality"”.
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Practice-Led Research into Music: a Synergetic Trifecta of Glissandi, Microtonality, and Isorhythms
… techniques derived from synergy of glissandi, microtonality, and isorhythm. The techniques are performed on specially constructed guitars in 18, 24, 30, and 36 tet (tone equal temperament). Guitar based musical artefacts demonstrating some possible techniques are arranged on two compact discs: …
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Towards a Perceptually–grounded Theory of Microtonality: issues in sonority, scale construction and auditory perception and cognition
… perceptually and cognitively–informed theory of microtonality, which is then consolidated by a series of theory–based chapters which investigate the phenomenon from the perspective of current theories within the field of psychology. The theories which are thus advanced are further informed by a …
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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
… The composition's pitch material 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 …
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Between consonance and dissonance
… 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 canon while the …
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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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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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Audio-scores, a resource for composition and computer-aided performance
… computeraided performance, earpiece, microtonality, music, notation, performance, screen-score, server, voice.
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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
… the invention of new in-struments, adoption of microtonality, adoption of oral methodology or dilution of the traditional composer-performer frontier, placing itself at the epicenter of the most relevant avant-garde initiatives for experimental music produced in Bahia. The practical musical part …
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Striking a Balance: finding equilibrium between science and poetics in composition
… an increasing interest in spectrally influenced microtonality. Ultimately, I show that these opposing harmonic systems can successfully coexist within my music through juxtaposition, and in limited cases, superimposition. However, I acknowledge that the bass register, whether approached in a …
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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
… particularly in respect of treatments of microtonality; new breathing and fingering techniques; • the technique is transferable by teaching and demonstration to other performers and of potential use for contemporary composers writing for the instrument; • these new techniques were enhanced …
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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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Becoming Persian Music: A Poststructuralist Approach to Composition
This research embarks upon an innovative exploration of poststructuralist compositional methodologies grounded in Persian musical and linguistic traditions. It undertakes this inquiry within the encompassing ambit of an interdisciplinary framework, intertwining (ethno)musicology, conceptual …
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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 …