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Showing 1 to 20 of 78 for “"Musical Analysis"”.
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The art songs of Jaime León: a textual and musical analysis
… Juilliard School, his affiliations with Broadway musicals, the American Ballet Theatre, and the Orquesta Filarmónica de Bogotá, and his evolution as a song composer. To date this chapter represents the most comprehensive biography of Jaime León to appear in either Spanish or English. Biographical …
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A musical analysis of Sergei Rachmaninoff's Sonata for cello and piano, op. 19
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Franz Liszt's "Dante Sonata": The origins, the criticism, a selective musical analysis, and commentary
… of scales and arpeggios--very basic pianistic musical gestures. The score instead comprises innovative harmonies, creative use of octaves, chords, and original concepts of notation and rhythm. However, scales arpeggios, and indeed the gamut of 19th century pianism, are used by Liszt in other …
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Li Zi-Li and His Viola Concerto: Musical Analysis and a Study of Performance Interpretation
… Concerto No. 1 by Li Zi-Li in depth and offers musical analysis as well as interpretations and suggestions for how to perform this work. Compared to Western viola repertoire, Chinese viola repertoire is much less studied and performed by violists. Currently, Chinese-born composers who write …
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Piano sonata no. 4 in C minor, op. 27, by Nikolay Yakovlevich Myaskovsky : a musical analysis
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Sonata for Piano (1963) by Sergei Michailovich Slonimsky: Musical Analysis and Discussion on Interpretation and Performance
… compositional history is followed by the formal analysis of the overall structure of the work. Slonimsky's original principle of organization of the music is emphasized: the system of constant interrelation of the main thematic material combined with elements of the sonata-allegro form. In the …
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Volume I: Aspects of a Systems Approach to Musical Analysis. Volume Ii: Tryonym for Orchestra. (Original Composition)
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A Poetic and Musical Analysis of Fiancailles Pour Rire By Francis Poulenc with Poems by Louise De Vilmorin
… The author will provide an in-depth poetic and musical analysis of Poulenc’s set <em>Fiancailles pour rire</em>. This study of <em>Fiancailles pour rire</em> may be used as a performance guide.</p>
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Analysis of Summa by Arvo Pärt
This study presents a musical analysis using a process of pitch mapping. Pitch rows are presented graphically to demonstrate the visual design of the music. Description of the process is preceded by a discussion of some of the historical, and philosophical factors that are relevant to the …
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Criterion for tune: identifying "New Englandy" traits of Alice Parker's choral settings of Emily Dickinson poetry
… disjunction, repetition, syntax, and speech. Musical analysis in the document maps Parker’s New Englandly characteristics through those five linguistic elements. Because the composer’s approach to composition focuses on melody rather than harmony, a new method of musical analysis was needed, …
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Markov Chains as Tools for Jazz Improvisation Analysis
… an exploratory application of a statistical analysis and modeling technique (Markov chains) for the modeling of jazz improvisation with the intended subobjective of providing increased insight into an improviser's style and creativity through the postulation of quantitative measures of style …
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Nostalgia, landscape, and social criticism in Brooklyn Babylon: a contemporary theatrical work by jazz composer Darcy James Argue and media artist Danijel Žeželj
… Argue and visual artist Danijel Žeželj, for musical elements related to contemporary expressions of nostalgia, landscape, and social criticism. Brooklyn Babylon is a silent animated film with a soundtrack performed by Argue’s Secret Society Big Band. The story is of an old immigrant craftsman …
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Lee Hoiby's I Have a Dream
… of this document is to provide performers and musical scholars with an analysis of Lee Hoiby’s musical composition I Have A Dream. The opening of this document will be biographical, including facts regarding family lineage, education, positions held, general aspects of his personality and …
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The Fourth Movement of György Ligeti's Piano Concerto: Investigating the Musical-Mathematical Connection
<p>This interdisciplinary study explores musical-mathematical analogies in the fourth movement of Ligeti’s <em>Piano Concerto.</em> Its aim is to connect musical analysis with the piece’s mathematical inspiration. For this purpose, the dissertation is divided into two sections. Part I (Chapters …
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A performer's analysis of Hans Werner Henze's "Royal Winter Music", Sonata I
… is comprised of nine movements, each movement a musical portrait of a character from Shakespeare's plays. My discussion focuses on the first sonata, comparing a detailed examination of the Shakespearean characters, and any applicable dialogue, with Henze's musical portraits. The musical analysis …
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Jazz Recordings by Ed Bickert and Problems of Stylistic Analysis
… music. After a lengthy review of stylistic and musical analysis concepts, the categories in Jan LaRue’s Guidelines for Style Analysis provided an heuristic framework that enabled an exploratory examination of Bickert’s style. The problems of stylistic and musical analysis are many and varied. …
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A Performance Guide to Fancis Poulenc's 15 Improvisations in B Minor and C Major; Franz Schuert's Piano Sonata in a Minor OP 42, D845; Claude Dubussy's L'Isle Joyeuse
… three composers’ lives, historical background, musical analysis, and their personal relationships with the pieces of music. It also demonstrates their influences on one another as musicians. Complete musical examples are provided for each of the pieces performed.</p>
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Lennie Tristano (1919--1978): His Life, Music, and Teaching
… combine oral history, archival research, and musical analysis. The main source of oral history comprises interviews conducted by the author with over 80 individuals, including Tristano's family members, associates, and students. A meticulous search through various bibliographic sources, …
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A Character Study of Two Trouser Roles For Mezzo-Soprano In Opera: "Cherubino" From W. A. Mozart's Le Nozze Di Figaro and "Octavian" From R. Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier
… from R. Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier. The study analysis of these two roles incorporates the history of the characters as reflected through the development of librettos in which they appear, a character study focusing on acting and technical problems for the performer, and musical analysis …
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Taarab Texts, Gender, and Islam in an Urban East African Context: Social Transformations Among the Waswahili of Mombasa, Kenya
… cultural themes but also the benefit of using musical analysis to discern and understand complex socio-cultural changes. By combining an analysis of musical performance, gendered practices, and song text to understand social and cultural practices and meanings, this study draws upon a …
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