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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"Musical Performances"”.
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Painted Faces & Printed Music: Women and Music in the Paintings of Bartolomeo Veneto and Sebastiano Florigerio
<p>The cultural views surrounding musical performances by women rapidly changed during the sixteenth century. The ideal of the preceding century advised ladies of the court to avoid displaying the frivolous and sinful ways of music-making, but the new notion of the female courtier praised women for …
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Singing knowledge: aesthetics, authority and gender in Skyrian music (Greece)
… examines the gendered tensions at the heart of performances of Skyrian vocal music. A small Aegean island with approximately 3,000 inhabitants, Skyros prides itself on a distinctive expressive culture that prominently features the masquerading and satirical performances of the pre-Lenten …
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Joe Chambers: musical style and concept, 1964 — 1973
… and educator Joe Chambers. The analysis of his musical style and concept will focus on the period between his 1964 recording debut with Freddie Hubbard and his first album as a bandleader in 1973. This period represents a seminal chapter in Chambers’ lengthy career, during which he developed and …
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Audience segmentation and lineup influence at Iceland Airwaves
Music festivals are public celebrations of musical performances that preserve and evolve our culture and artistic expression. They are both a great platform for socialization and a strong contributor to tourism development and economic growth. Iceland Airwaves is Iceland's longest-established music …
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An investigation of the musical characteristics of two brass quintets from the 1990s by Robert Suderburg and an assessment of their validity for inclusion in musical performance
Robert Suderburg is an American-born musical composer who briefly gained popularity with his two trumpet solo works written for the International Trumpet Guild in the 1980s. He was commissioned by the New Mexico and Florida State Brass Quintets to compose three separate original works throughout …
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Out Of This World: Hearing Indigenous And Immigrant Music In The American South
… ignorance of both American Indian and immigrant musical forms from the documentation and study dedicated to the region's important performative traditions. Specifically, the continued neglect of the fiddle tradition of the Choctaw Indians, an ongoing musical custom which this southeastern …
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MirrorFugue : communicating presence in musical collaboration across space and time
… by this view. I apply this philosophy to musical performances, giving a historical perspective and presenting projects in musical collaboration and pedagogy. Next, I describe two iterations of MirrorFugue interfaces. The first introduce three spatial metaphors inspired by remote …
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An American spectacle: college mascots and the performance of tradition
… individual aspects of the spectacle: bands and musical performances, newspaper writers and narratives of athletics, artistic production and commercial athletic identity, student publications and University identity, and the rituals of performance. In each instance the fundamental exploration is …
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Agential realism and the “female harpist”: The relational ontology of genderharp in Georges Aperghis’ Fidélité (1982)
… bodies during the processes of configuring musical performances. In response, I use the theatrical setting of Aperghis’ work Fidélité as a case study for demonstrating genderharp. The secondary purpose of this dissertation answers the questions of “Is application of agential realism to the …
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A study in clarity : Josef Suk's Asrael re-envisioned via Schoenberg
… the second season of the Society for Private Musical Performances (1918-1922), known in Austria as the ‘Verein für musikalische Privataufführungen’, the members began to transcribe orchestral music for their chamber ensemble (Meibach, 1984). Previously, the Society had programmed, although not …
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For a ‘Dramaturgy of the Piano Recital’ – an investigation of interdisciplinary strategies for live classical piano performances
… strategies for live classical piano performances. The questions which initiated this research emerged from my practice as a classical pianist, and they are concerned, in particular, with the space of the performance, the formalities of the concert etiquette, and the format of the …
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Extending our senses: music, nostalgia, space, artefact and the Mediterranean imaginary among the Greek- and Turkish-speaking Cypriot diaspora in Birmingham (UK)
… on Greek- and Turkish-speaking Cypriots, their musical performances and Mediterranean transbordering tropes, and their diaspora to Birmingham (UK). It introduces a new spatial construction in diaspora which I term "The Mediterranean Imaginary"—an informed, playful, and re-structured space in the …
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Sacred sounds and natural grounds: designing acoustic communities within Prairie Style and Organic architectural spaces
… the meaning of architectural space. By examining musical influences upon this group of architects and the musical communities that have used their spaces, this work tracks an evolving discourse of the sacralization of space and the naturalization of sound. This work shows that architects fostered …
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The Shape of Music. Computational Specification of Hand Gestures in Piano Playing.
… controlled study to capture gesture variation in performances of the same music, with six proficient piano players participating in the recordings. I developed technical workflows and processes to record multimodal performance data, including video, audio, MIDI and 3D motion capture, and prepared …
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The Worlds of Samuel Felsted: Music and Society in Late Eighteenth-Century Kingston, Jamaica
… overlooked. This thesis writes Felsted’s musical activities into a broader version of Jamaican music history by exploring the place of music in the lives of Kingston’s inhabitants whether of European, African or mixed-racial descent. To that end, it aims both to centre and de-centre …
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Saudades de Arcoverde: nostalgia and the performance of origin
… within the Brazilian nation. It chronicles how musical performances of cultural roots are framed as cultural survivals—remnants of earlier days that have endured intact into the present. To detail the consequences of this framing, it outlines the trajectories of two musical groups in …
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Celebratory Insurgency. The Art of Peripheral City-Making
… like the one displayed by Santa Cecilia resemble musical performances that bring together a great variety of participants from around the world who feel compelled to collaborate in cultural experiences that enrich peripheral urban life. I argue that these aesthetically driven city-making …
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A school for dance
… experience. Opera, previously the main draw for musical performances, has, in recent years, become increasingly expensive to produce. As a result it has become unavailable to many. This has resulted in a rise in the popularity of dance. The decision to design a school for dance was inspired …
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Balancing Sight + Sound: A study of acoustics and architecture
… and understand the speaker. In the case of musical performances, the acoustical considerations of a design can completely alter the way sound travels from the performers to the audience. For example, a rock concert in a small room finished in marble would be unbearable, while a high school …
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A Pedagogical Guide to Extended Piano Techniques
… to integrate various techniques into a unified musical context. Prepared piano techniques are excluded because they do not require the acquisition of performance skills, which form the essence of this monograph. Chapter 6 provides a suggested course schedule to organize the pianist's study and …
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