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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Music composers"”.
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Jamaican Composers in the Classical Tradition: Three Vocal Works by Dexter, Ashbourne, and Marshall
Classical music has been present in the Jamaica since the 18 century. The country conquered by Britain in 1655, still bears its European influence in its current culture. With a history of many cultures sharing common ground on the island, Jamaicans have adopted a love for hybridization - the …
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Mass for eight voices in D major by Jose de Nebra Blasco : a critical edition
Guatemala is home to a rich cultural heritage of music. Composers whose works are present in the Archivo Historico Arquidiocesano de Guatemala (AHAG) include, Tomás Luis de Victoria, Philippe Verdelot, Baldassare Galuppi, Adolf Hasse, Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, and Ignacio Jerusalem. Among this …
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Composing electroacoustic music relating to traditional Japanese music
Throughout the history of Japanese contemporary music composers have been exploring ways to merge Western-style art music and their original, traditional Japanese music. Although in the past compositions which applied expressions of traditional Japanese music to Western-style music were partly …
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Sonic landscapes: The environmental choral music of R. Murray Schafer and John Luther Adams
… trend to address social concerns through choral music. Composers have taken on such topics as civil rights, suicide prevention, LGBTQ rights, women’s issues, as well as other current affairs. One of the sub-genres of this socially conscious repertoire is choral music that focuses on the ecology …
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Predominant-Dominant Chains in Japanese Video Game Music
<p>The short looping forms in Japanese video game music feature rapid modulations based on common chord progressions that necessitate contextual readings of harmonies in various keys to isolate how they manipulate tonal space. One such progression used by Japanese game music composers utilizes …
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The Growth of Third Stream Music In the Wind Band Repertory: A Study of Jazz Influences In Three Selected Compositions
… Association have played key roles in encouraging composers to write for the wind band. At the same time jazz, America's unique art form, also began to grow and has developed into a widely popular style of music. Composers in the Western art music tradition began to incorporate elements of jazz …
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Concatenative Synthesis for Novel Timbral Creation
<p>Modern day musicians rely on a variety of instruments for musical expression. Tones produced from electronic instruments have become almost as commonplace as those produced by traditional ones as evidenced by the plethora of artists who can be found composing and performing with nothing more …
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THE INFLUENCE OF JAZZ AND ITS PREDECESSORS ON PIANO CHAMBER MUSIC AFTER 1920
In the early 20th Century, jazz music and its predecessors, such as blues, ragtime, and stride piano, began to gain widespread popularity among audiences. Their defining characteristics including syncopated rhythms, improvisation, call and response, polyphony, distinctive harmony, and unique …
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Composing visual music: human traces, from an animator’s perspective
… between phenomenological experiences and visual music. Composers of visual music have long sought to create a new artform in which the visible and audible are utterly synthesised. Our different perceptions of the visual and the audible, combined with the lack of a ubiquitous, uniform …
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A study of English-language sacred solo literature by selected twentieth-century composers
… providing a survey of English and American composers who have made significant contributions to the sacred solo repertoire. This work also serves as a reference tool for singers and voice students in selecting sacred literature for vocal study, recital programming, or church use. Sacred solo …
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The Hungarian Cimbalom: History and Evolution
… in both the canon of certain Western Art Music composers, and the performance practices of contemporary Classical cimbalists. The implicitly stated thesis of my dissertation is this very idea of a Western Art Music instrument being intrinsically linked to a folk music tradition. The …
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Die Zauberflöte: A European Singspiel
… identity can be seen particularly in music. Composers, artists, and performers alike frequently seek to incorporate separate elements of style in their own identity. One of the earliest examples of this tradition is the German Singspiel. Through the synthesis of foreign and native …
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Form and orchestration in the music of Béla Bartók
Thesis (M.M.)--Boston University
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Playing the crisis: video games and the mobilization of anxiety and desire
… and Nobuo Uematsu are amongst the most beautiful music composers, and that Hideo Kojima and Soraya Saga are amongst the greatest storytellers. And yet, as beautiful, inspiring, and moving as gaming can be, there is much that is horrific, revolting, and terrible about the industry as well. We …
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Haitian classical music, vodou and cultural identity : an examination of the classical flute compositions of Haitian composer Werner A. Jaegerhuber
… State University. Department of Music, 2005
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Contemporary Egyptian art music for the viola through the ethnographic biographies and compositions of Yusif Gris, Gamal ‘Abd al-Rahim, ‘Atiyya Sharara, and Sherif Mohi al-Din for Western programs
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2025-10-19 without embargo terms
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Sonata for Piano (1963) by Sergei Michailovich Slonimsky: Musical Analysis and Discussion on Interpretation and Performance
… begins with the overview of Russian-Soviet piano music from the second half of the 19th century to the end of the 20th century. Then, biographical information about Sergei Slonimsky and an overview of his major compositions is provided. The majority of the paper focuses on Slonimsky's Sonata for …
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Gone with the Wind: What Composers Learn from Creating Music for Young Musicians
Contemporary Canadian music is rarely performed and studied in school music programs (Bartel, Dolloff, & Shand, 1999; Shand & Bartel, 1998; Varahidis, 2012) and post-secondary institutions (Andrews & Carruthers, 2004; Carruthers, 2000). This is primarily because the music of modern professional …
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Violin and voice as partners in three early twentieth-century English works for voice and violin.
… unusual combination of violin and voice. Chamber music for violin and keyboard and violin and other instruments has been extant since the Baroque period. However, three English composers found a unique chamber grouping in the first decades of the twentieth century: Gustav Holst (1874-1934), …