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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Music philosophy"”.
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Rap music, philosophy, and the academy : redefining discourses in Medellin
Rap music as it exists in Medellin, Colombia is a complex and complete expression of life in the city and, consequently, has the scholarly potential to be incorporated into the university curriculum. As a musician from Medellin myself, I evaluate this music with consideration of the biases of the …
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Music as an educational tool for HIV/AIDS : a comparative study
… critical comparative study of the ways in which music is being used as an educational tool for HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa, Brazil, India, China, the U.S., and Canada. Music for education is an aspect of a number of academic disciplines. I introduce the principles of Entertainment-Education …
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Reflections on the History of Creativity
… in their respective fields of art,science, music, philosophy and literature.</p> <p>The next significant period in the story of creativity is the Enlightenment. There was a broad movement in Europe and America promoting the rights of individuals, the right to free thinking.</p> <p>During the …
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Music in Reality The relation of music, emotion and Pre-Socratic myth
… The earliest complete and developed account of musica mundana appears in Plato, but numerous fragmented references appear in the pre-Socratic sources. The notion that harmonia mundi originated as an idea of quantitative speeds and distances of the celestial bodies, is discredited. Rather, it is …
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Perfectionist Republicanism: Liberty, Flourishing, Excellence
… new interpretation of republicanism in political philosophy. The contention is that if we are going to be republicans rather than liberals, then we should be perfectionist republicans, rather than pursuing the neo-Roman brand of republicanism pioneered by Philip Pettit and Quentin Skinner. The …
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Experiencing rondo form by integrating elementary music methodologies and theories
Notable elementary music methodologies and theories are comprised of Kodály, Dalcroze, Orff, and Gordon. By implementing and integrating elements from these four influential methods, my lesson plan focuses on Kansas’ state standards of performing, creating, and responding to music while learning …
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Techniques of Sensual Perception: The Creation of Emotional Pathways
Some artists strive to create artwork that has aesthetic value. If a piece of artwork has the ability to capture the attention of an audience, it must contain strong sensual attributes. Thus, understanding how to design an art form to contain strong sensual attributes may increase the possibility …
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Search for the self: redefining the jazz language : a personal perspective.
The exegesis documents the musical application by the author of philosophical and aesthetic ideas practiced by three visual artists and one musician. In response to these ideas, the author devised exercises and strategies that served to enhance his own creative and personal expression. This …
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The roots of musical meaning with special reference to Leonard B. Meyer's theory
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Artistic Expression in Music and Poetry
… and contemporarily in the fraternal arts of music and poetry, with reference to sounds, silences, sequences, rhythms, rhymes, repetitions, retards, accelerations, tempos, harmonies, melodies, forms, etc., in four poetic and three musical compositions uniquely created by its author.
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"Roll over Beethoven" : the reaction of classical music recording divisions to the continuing emergence of a consumer culture in America between 1956 and 1982.
As the musical world looks at decreasing sales of classical music recorded on solid media, alarm bells sound. Why is there such a disparity between sales of classical recordings and those of popular music? This study seeks to understand if the situation in today's record market is a result of …
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Twelve-Tone Identity: Adorno Reading Schoenberg through Kant
… Kant’s concept of Enlightenment and his dualist philosophy, Adorno also critiques common misconceptions about Kant's work in bourgeois society. Similarly, in Schoenberg's oeuvre Adorno finds radical musical creation but also a reversion to formulaic composition in its reception by Richard Hill …
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Notes from a captive : on improvisation, ethical communication and being held hostage
… senior years. The research is driven by the philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas, which is echoed in existential theological and philosophical examinations of human ethical responsibility. Converse to western ethics that privilege the “I” and assume the other is a limitation on self-preservation, …
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"Modernity's hearing loss" : Beethoven, romantic critique, and the music of the literary
… moment in the genealogy of the modern notions of musical form and experience. The underlying thesis is that instrumental music was legitimized via a massive epistemic transfer of values from the domain of the literary. From its integration into the economy of the literary, instrumental music …
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The use of principles and techniques derived from meditation for the design and creation of co-participatory musical systems
… systems can be applied to "co-participatory" music systems in order to enhance their accessibility, interactivity, and experiential impact, In order to adequately address this subject, a number of investigative steps have been taken. First, a workable list of definitions for what meditation …