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Showing 1 to 20 of 39 for “"Musical Practice"”.
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Breadboarding as a Musical Practice
… make them worthy of exploration as legitimate musical instruments. Furthermore, the practice of breadboarding can be seen as an act of musical composition or performance. This thesis sets out to define and defend a domain that I will refer to as breadboard music. I will also present an …
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Content-dependent behavior in musical practice
Individual practice is the primary context in which musicians develop their musical and technical skills and learn new repertoire. The pedagogical literature (including books, websites, articles, and treatises) has treated the subject extensively, offering advice on how musicians should practice to …
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Making Music and Making Place: Mapping Musical Practice in Irish Small Towns
… in the south-east of Ireland. It argues that musical practice creates meaningful experiences, memories and emotional responses that gather and weave into places. It also finds that all music- and place-making are influenced by the rhythms of everyday life and the social, cultural and political …
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The Link Between Meditation and Effective Practice: Increasing the Pace of the Acquisition of Skill in Musical Practice
… thesis seeks to explore the idea of effective practice as being meditative in nature. Effective practice and meditation are both viewed independently, and elements of both are discussed. Meditation, in the literature, is viewed in different lights and is defined in many ways. This makes it …
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Exploring ethnography and digital visualisation: a study of musical practice through the contextualisation of music related projects from the Seán Ó Riada Collection
This thesis explores how cultural data of musical practice is contextualised during the process of digital visualisation and ethnographic research. The investigation utilises a two-pronged approach to examine music related projects from an archive, the Seán Ó Riada Collection, and focuses on how …
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User serviceable parts: Practice, technology, sociality and method in live electronic musicking
In live electronic musical research there is a need to confront the interrelationships between the social and the technological in order to understand our music as practice. These interrelationships form a complex and dynamic ecosystem that not only forms the context to, but is constitutive of …
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Machini Kubwa. Group Dancing, Politics, and Modernity in Umatengo, Tanzania
… is to present a historical view of Matengo musical practices with the goal of understanding how these musical practices influenced, reflected, and interacted with broader social trends. A further goal is to present an ethnographic view of contemporary and historical musical practice. …
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Township refusals (for containment): engaging the cultural production of Sepitori s Amapiano through a Black (Sonic) Studies curatorial lens
Amapiano is one of South Africa's most popular musical exports. As a musical practice, Amapiano falls under the “genre” of Electronic Dance Music (EDM), more specifically, House music. Amapiano's global acclaim and exponential growth is aided by how popular culture is consumed in the 21st century: …
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Confusion in the Karnatic Capital: Fusion in Chennai, India
This dissertation examines how a contested musical practice makes the problems of modernity in India audible. In particular, I look at the relationship between South Indian "fusion" musicians and India's recent economic and cultural growth attributed to the economic reforms of 1991. Fusion is the …
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Social dimensions of Hollywood movie music
… shown to challenge and redefine dominant film musical practice in different ways. In the former case, the coexistence of live performance and reproduced motion pictures during the silent era, and the echoes of live musical reception sensed when attention-demanding background music or commercial …
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Sensing String Displacement as a Control Modality: Sensor Design and Implementation
While stringed instruments are a major part of musical practice across cultures, DMIs in which strings are the primary control interface remain rare. In an effort to support the creation of new stringed DMIs we describe an approach to instrument design in which the static 2-dimensional displacement …
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Tabletop Tangible Interfaces for Music Performance: Design and Evaluation
… interfaces (TTIs) for music performance or musical tabletops. Musical tabletops are designed for professional musical performance, as well as for casual interaction in public settings. These systems support co-located collaboration, offered by a shared interface. However, we still know …
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Música e aprendizagem: a linguagem musical como otimizadora do aprender
… in aphasic people, and suggests that the musical practice can be an enabler of learning especially in the initial series of pre-school. All this tailored to the psychological education look, working with the expected changes and ensuring the planning and execution of these changes, …
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Mindfulness and the musician: case studies of an 8-week meditation class for university music students
… to what extent they applied the information or practices from the meditation class into their musical practice and performance. There is little extant research on the role of meditation and music, most of it focusing on the role of practices such as meditation and yoga in ameliorating …
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Topologies for network music
… the field of network music. Network music is a musical practice in which conceptual, technological, ideological and/or philosophical concepts of the network are included in the design, composition, production, and/or performance process. The thesis contains analysis of three historical examples …
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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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The grain of the digital audio workstation
This thesis explores the material conditions and practices of the digital audio workstation (DAW), treating them as a subject of musical composition. The DAW is a software application currently ubiquitous in facilitating the creation of recorded and electronic music. Despite its prominence, few …
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Somnatela: perspectivas etnomusicológicas sobre música e tecnologia
… and tablets), taking as a reference the musical practice with children from the 4th year of elementary school, in a municipal public school in Salvador. Using participatory ethnography and engaged ethnomusicology (LÜHNING and TUGNY, 2016), feminist and anti-racist (ROSA, HORA and SILVA, …
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Towards a Generative Theory of Emotion, Meaning, and Expression in Musical Performance
… end, I will investigate evidence from actual musical practice and from actual music practitioners. The thesis will consider current research on expression, meaning, and emotion in music, propose a new model that derives from performance itself, and assess old and new models alike through …
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Musicology and Mediation: an examination of the cultural materialisms of Raymond Williams and Pierre Bourdieu in relation to the fields of contemporary music and musicology, with a case study of Arvo Part and ECM
… of Contemporary Music (ECM). Using data from musical scores, CDs, reviews, critical essays, magazine articles, interviews, and so on, Part's emergent field position in the late 1970s and early 1980s is reconstructed and ECM's function as both institution and artistic formation is argued. These …
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