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Showing 1 to 20 of 36 for “"Music Practice"”.
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The articulation of difference and identity in alternative popular music practice
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Videovoice Perspectives of Beginning Band Students at Home
<p>Research exploring the home music experience of beginning band students shows that a high level of support is critical during the first years of studying an instrument. However, school music programs continue to experience a significant dropout rate in the first few years of study. Much of the …
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Immersive visual music: how contemporary visual music practices have evolved and how immersive technologies can be employed to compose visual music works
This thesis explores contemporary visual music and its evolution. It addresses recent trends and explores audio-visual relationships, practices, and aesthetics. Visual music has a long tradition of negating representational elements in relation to sound, image, and space, to the degree that the …
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Electronic music instrument practice and the mechanisms of influence between technical design, performance practice and composition
This thesis examines the practices and techniques involved with particular electronic instruments and proposes an archaeological approach to reconsider the ways in which noise can communicate various details of instrument design and practice to the listener. I present two case studies concerning …
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Music as Embodied Action: Interfacing autonomous systems and rhythmical expression
… concerns a particular relationship between music practice, computer technology and the importance of rhythm as a vehicle of musical expression. The intention is to explore new technology to allow for computer-mediated improvisation of rhythmic forms that are derived from a consideration of …
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Recent experimental electronic music practices in Iran: an ethnographic and sound-based investigation
… identify and locate an experimental elec-tronic music ‘scene’ in Iran within a web of historical-social-political-religious-economic-technological agencies. Drawing from the growing traditions of digital ethnography and artistic research, this project doc-uments and analyses the processes, …
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Mellan klassrum och scen - en studie av ensembleundervisning på gymnasieskolans estetiska program
… undergone different changes, both in relation to musical practices at large, and with regard to repertoire, use of instruments, technical equipment and not least the philosophical and pedagogical ideas about music education. The aim of this thesis is to get a deeper knowledge about contemporary …
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'Lines of flight': digital musical instruments, inclusive music bands, meaningful engagement in music-making and learning
… I examine the development of three inclusive music bands in Cork city. Derived from Jellison’s research on inclusive music education, inclusive music bands involve students with disabilities coming together with typically developing peers to make and learn music that is meaningful (Jellison, …
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Mindfulness and the musician: case studies of an 8-week meditation class for university music students
I designed a qualitative study that focused on music students’ experiences of an 8-week meditation class. Through surveys and interviews, I assessed to what extent they applied the information or practices from the meditation class into their musical practice and performance. There is little extant …
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A contemporary voice for the female protagonist : an exploration of the collaborative creative process : the development and synthesis of vocal techniques in the realisation of premiere music performances
… to present performances of several new music works that focus on the experience of the female character and voice through the synthesis of contemporary vocal and folk music practice, as well as the embodiment of the female protagonist on stage.The core of the presented thesis consists of …
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Artful encounters with nature: Ecological and spiritual dimensions of music learning
… offers an in-depth analysis of how contemporary music practitioners/educators interpret, appropriate, and practice the tradition of spiritual music both inside and outside Japan, focusing on how they reframe and embody what I identify as indigenous cultural values in today’s educational settings. …
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Examining factors of student retention in a middle school band program
… researcher aimed at increasing student access to music programs. Through an empirical descriptive design using survey technique, the study population included band students at the school where the researcher was teaching at the time of the study. Results of data analysis indicate that students …
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Continental Organists and Catholic Church Music in Ireland, 1860-1960
… century, the Irish catholic church recruited musicians from the continent to fill positions of organist and choirmaster in the country’s cathedrals and churches. Although Ireland had a rich monastic liturgical tradition in the middle ages, a series of conflicts, invasions and persecutions …
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Noise practice in the digital age
… a particular medium to the ear. In the field of music all forms of sound must pass through some form of medium in order to be audible. In the analogue realm there is a relationship between the sound and the medium, such as vinyl records, magnetic tapes or microphones and amplifiers, as it is a …
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Content-dependent behavior in musical practice
Individual practice is the primary context in which musicians develop their musical and technical skills and learn new repertoire. The pedagogical literature (including books, websites, articles, and treatises) has treated the subject extensively, offering advice on how musicians should practice to …
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High school choral students' perceptions of their use of technology in their independent choral practice habits
… use of technology in their independent choral practice habits. All 45 choral students who provided signed consent forms were given a survey with open- ended questions. Data were analyzed using emergent thematic categories. The researcher asked students to reflect on background questions …
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Methods and Technologies for the Analysis and Interactive Use of Body Movements in Instrumental Music Performance
… interdisciplinary studies support the idea that music is a complex multimodal medium that is experienced not only by means of sounds but also through body movement. From this perspective, musical instruments can be seen as technological objects coupled with a repertoire of performance gestures. …
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Performance practice in Hungarian folk music and its relationship to the Style Hongrois
This study investigates style and performance practice within the oral traditions of Hungarian folk music, and explores intersections with the nineteenth-century idiom style hongrois. Interviews, lessons, and workshops were undertaken as part of a practice-based immersive research experience, and …
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The Link Between Meditation and Effective Practice: Increasing the Pace of the Acquisition of Skill in Musical Practice
… thesis seeks to explore the idea of effective practice as being meditative in nature. Effective practice and meditation are both viewed independently, and elements of both are discussed. Meditation, in the literature, is viewed in different lights and is defined in many ways. This makes it …
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