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Showing 1 to 20 of 36 for “"Musical Compositions"”.
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Exquisite Score : a system for collaborative musical composition
… which allows users to collaborate on short musical compositions using the paradigm of the parlor game Exquisite Corpse. Through a MIDI-sequencer interface, composers each contribute a section to a piece of music, only seeing a brief fragment immediately preceding their section. Exquisite …
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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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Artistic Expression in Music and Poetry
… melodies, forms, etc., in four poetic and three musical compositions uniquely created by its author.
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Music and communication in Enlightenment Rome: doctrine, instruction, socialization, and style in the vocal works of the Collegio Nazareno (1704-1784)
… study of the main corpus of unpublished musical works currently preserved in the Archivio Generale Storico delle Scuole Pie (AGSP), in Rome. This corpus is primarily made up of forty-nine Italian-texted, religious cantatas, oratorios (or componimenti sacri), and pastorales, commissioned …
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Works for Caribbean Orchestra: Compositions Reflecting the Music of Grenada and the African Caribbean Diaspora
… Caribbean diaspora provided inspiration for compositions featuring a seventeen piece orchestra with an emphasis on form, structure, harmony, rhythm, melody and dynamics. This research includes four original musical compositions, tailored particularly, to characterize the music of the "Big …
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The Nightingale in Poetry and Music
… which feature the nightingale; examines the musical elements that symbolize, refer to, or imitate the nightingale; and compares these musical elements with transcriptions of the nightingale's song. The first chapter reviews the symbolic development of the nightingale and its role in poetry …
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Afro-Cuban and Latin Jazz Compositions
This thesis examines the challenges in musical compositions in Latin jazz styles. The challenges include writing music with different Afro-Cuban rhythms as well as the use of the clave as a backbeat to the melodic ideas. Also, it explores different harmonic and melodic approaches used in a …
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Congregational Singing in the German Lutheran Church, 1523--1780
… ecclesiastical visitations, hymnals, hymn-based musical compositions, tutorials and method books for teaching music (especially church music), sermons on music, theoretical and polemical works by pastors and church musicians addressing the issues of the day and, in the eighteenth century, journal …
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The revival and revitalization of musical bow practice in South Africa
This dissertation is a formal study of musical bow revivals in South Africa, based on an assessment of the instruments' historical and current usage, and functions. This study is also the inevitable result of my responses to certain musical experiences during the past three years, and which …
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The Autodidactic Process of Hugo Wolf and the Fourfold Learning Equation
… will be presented, discussed, and applied to the musical compositions of Hugo Wolf, who learned how to compose music mostly by self-study, and minimal formal conservatory level training. Standard methods of analysis of musical construct, harmony, and orchestration will be used to evaluate each …
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Schemata of Barbershop Tags
… explores the genre of barbershop tags, brief musical compositions in the barbershop style. After the introduction in Chapter 1, Chapter 2 describes the barbershop style and outlines a modified roman numeral system that reflects barbershop norms. Chapter 3 analyzes the 125 entries of the …
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SensorChimes : musical mapping for sensor networks toward augmented acoustic ecosystem
… provides an opportunity to explore data-driven musical composition based on large-scale environmental sensor networks. This thesis presents a framework that facilitates musical mappings for such sensor networks. A library of C-externals called ChainFlow for the graphical programming language …
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Creative Responses to Maltese Culture and Identity: Case Study and Portfolio of Compositions
… the relationship between place, identity and musical practice. The study is inspired by Malta’s history and culture. This work presents a portfolio of seven musical compositions with a written component that highlights the historical and socio-cultural issues that had a bearing on the works …
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Electroacoustic music composition: myth, symbol and image
This thesis presents the author's musical compositions through the elucidation of their source impulse. In order to facilitate the unveiling of the works presented in this thesis I have subdivided it into sections thus: Section 1 - Here I introduce the reader to the motivation behind my music …
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A Survey of the History of the Concertmaster Through the Baroque, Classical, and Romantic Eras
… In the Romantic era, significant changes in musical compositions and the structure of the orchestra led to the need for an autonomous conductor. As a result, the concertmaster was reduced from his previous role to become an assistant to the conductor and interpreter for the orchestra. His …
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An analysis of György Ligeti's Nonsense Madrigals
… result, one which is incomparable to most musical compositions past or present including works by Ligeti himself. Ligeti’s compositional style in these works include the parodying of compositional techniques from the 14th century as well as the rhythmic provocativeness of jazz. The use of …
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Terezin variations : codes, messages, and the summer of 1944
This thesis examines the final musical compositions of Pavel Haas, Hans Krása, Gideon Klein, and Viktor Ullmann through the lens of variations form. These four instrumental works were written in the Terezín concentration camp in the summer of 1944, when the Nazi propaganda campaign promoting …
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A La Música: The Musical Abstract Paintings Of Kazuya Sakai, 1964-1979
… abstraction, lacking specific attention to compositions the paintings are titled after. This thesis explores the relationship between Sakai’s paintings and music, and how musical references in Sakai’s work corresponded with an evolution in his style of painting. Sakai described music as a …
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