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Showing 1 to 20 of 35 for “"Music notation"”.
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A Computer-Based Music Notation Instruction program for Chinese students
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The Development of a Computer Program to Arrange and Print Traditional Music Notation
… to explore the problems involved in converting musical compositions and arrangements from concepts to functional scores with electronic data processing. The investigation describes design and development of the MUSCOR III system: a computer program and subprograms to process digital data into …
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Music Notation-to-Color Synesthesia and Early Stages of Music Education: A Grounded Theory Study
… This research contemplates the specific form of music notation-to-color synesthesia and its impact on early stages of music education. Synesthetes with this mode of the condition tend to involuntarily yet consistently associate music-notational concepts with colors, thus rendering their …
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The Effect Of Colored Accent Marks In Music Notation During The Sight-Reading Process For High School And College Wind Instrumentalists
… ways of improving the sight-reading process in music. This experimental study has been split into two identical studies completed in different settings. The first study utilized 56 volunteer wind instrumentalists from a high school band as subjects, while the second study utilized 30 volunteer …
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Study of Figura in Gradual, MS Perkins 4 at Denison Library, Scripps College
… Master of Morgan 85. MS Perkins 4 contains the music and text for the proper Roman Catholic mass during the liturgical calendar from Maundy Thursday to the Fifth Sunday after the Easter Vigil of Pentecost. The manuscript is distinguished by a large number of illuminated initials with rich …
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A system for interactive music composition through computer graphics
… graphics has been extensive in the computer music field. Compositional systems employ different techniques in supporting the global strategies of composers, and they require alphanumeric input. Programs in computer graphics have been concerned primarily with the representation of common music …
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Automatic identification of musical schemata
This study was stimulated by the Galant musical schemata theory (GMST), an example–based learning and compositional practice that peaked in popularity around the early 18th century in Europe, suggesting a culturally–defined classification of polyphonic patterns. Under the premises of the GMST and …
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The Chromatic Guitar Method
… help beginning guitar students better understand music theory and music notation. In my 17 years of experience teaching guitar I have found common pitfalls associated with the standard guitar method books used in most institutions. There is a need for a new pedagogical method for guitar as the …
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THE SCREAM NOTATION SYSTEM: A NOTATIONAL SYSTEM FOR SCREAMED VOCALS
<p>In Western music notation, there is no specified system of notation for screamed vocals, a style of singing that has become increasingly popular since the late 1970s with the advent of metal music and seen increased interest in screams in other genres since. Screams are a unique and diverse …
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The development and trial of a beginning band method for teaching wind and percussion instruments based on a notation system different from the traditional notation
… band method based on a number-system approach to musical notation and to describe its effect on beginning wind and percussion students after fifteen weeks of instruction. The problem addressed in this study was the need for finding a better way to help the beginning band instrumentalist to cope …
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The composition of concert music within the Digital Audio Workstation environment.
… interface for the composition of concert music, intended for live performance. The portfolio of compositions consists of the music notation and audio recordings of five works, composed by the researcher within the context of the research project: Variances for jazz guitar, piano, …
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Music transcription using instrument model
Music transcription can be defined as the act of listening to a piece of music and writing down the music notation for the notes that constitute the piece, either manually by humans or automatically by machines. Automated music transcription has many applications and is indispensable in music …
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Hierarchical music structure analysis, modeling and resynthesis : a dynamical systems and signal processing approach
The problem of creating generative music systems has been approached in different ways, each guided by different goals, aesthetics, beliefs and biases. These generative systems can be divided into two categories: the first is an ad hoc definition of the generative algorithms, the second is based on …
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Ritmoplastia By Cacilda Borges Barbosa: A Performing Edition
… Clara Semeles, Barbosa developed a style of notation that combines music notation and plastias, symbols that represent bodily gestures. This performing edition draws on manuscripts, typed educational booklets, and compositions by Barbosa and others, with Ritmoplastia notation added. This …
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Jazz and Visual Abstraction: The Artworks of Mongezi Ncaphayi
… aims to theorize the intersections between jazz music and abstraction in the visual arts. Its focus is to analyse phenomenological aspects in the selected works of South African contemporary visual artist and jazz saxophonist Mongezi Ncaphayi (b.1983), as a means to understand the nature of the …
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Programmable MIDI Instrument Controller Design: The No Strings Attached Hammer Dulcimer
Real-time digital music system design often involves the translation of formal music notation or human gestures by some input device to Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI) commands which are then transmitted to an electronic music synthesizer. This thesis describes the design and …
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The Development of Music Writing and Reading Skills Through Singing with Elementary Students
… five could develop a systematic approach to music reading and writing skills through singing. Procedure. The set of "Hands On Music Writing and Reading" books were developed by the author to: 1) aid all children in the development of their innate musical abilities, 2) make the language of …
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From ‘Nothing’ to ‘Something’: a compositional evolution through time, media and space
… and solo performers), using both conventional music notation and graphic scores to enhance this process. Other aspects of my work included rethinking the concepts of rhythm and pitch, as well as the observation of one note evolving over time. Animation, the use of photography, video and …
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A portfolio of compositions developing notational and compositional techniques in neo-liturgical music including handpan
… of this portfolio is to develop a system of notation and compose neo-liturgical music featuring the handpan. Until this point, no means of written communication has been in place to express advanced handpan techniques in printed sheet music. My process in researching and creating this …
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The effective use of manipulatives and color coding in the achievement and application of music reading skills of third grade recorder students
… of 100 third grade recorder students reading music notation when color-coding was applied to notes and manipulatives were used in note value instruction.</p> <p>The problem was to compare effects on the learning and application of music reading skills between color-coded notes and …
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