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Showing 1 to 20 of 95 for “"Musical elements"”.
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Musical Aptitude, Personality Traits, and Perception of Musical Elements
… to examine the relationships between measures of musical aptitude, general intelligence, the personality traits of psychoticism, extraversion, and neuroticism, and muscial achievement among elementary school children. Content analyses of Silver Burdett Music (1974), Discovering
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The solo string works of J. S. Bach: the relationship between dance and musical elements
… is to present the relationship between dance and musical elements in Bach’s solo string works. Before the chapters, I will briefly introduce a survey of dance in European music. King Louis XIV of France (1638-1715) was a great dancer. Under his regime, his noble dance style became the fashion …
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Mykola Lysenko's sonata in A minor, op.16: a discussion of musical elements and companion recording
… used Classical form to present Ukrainian folk elements in the Sonata in A minor, Op. 16 to create a distinct sound. The study is divided into three chapters. Chapter 1 introduces the study by outlining the historical context in which Lysenko wrote the Sonata in A minor, Op. 16, followed by a …
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Byung-Hee Oh's Cantata Light of the East: A Fusion of Western and Korean Musical Elements.
… works, orchestral works, chamber music, musicals, vocal music, and a large body of sacred and secular choral works. Light of the East is a large choral-orchestral work commissioned by the National Chorus of Korea for the celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Korean Independence …
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The Presentation and Adaptation of Xinjiang Musical Elements in Chinese Piano Composition: an Analysis of Three Xinjiang Style Piano Works
… tried to incorporate Xinjiang traditional music elements into piano music and have composed numerous piano works that showcase the ethnic style and spirit of the times. This document explores the influence of Xinjiang ethnic music on Chinese piano music, as well as how Chinese composers have …
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Heitor Villa-Lobos's Use of Indigenous Brazilian Musical Elements in the Sonata-Fantasia No. 2 for Violin and Piano
… country, Brazil. This study analyzes indigenous elements that make up major portions of his Sonata-Fantasia No. 2 for Violin and Piano (1914). The work was published early in his compositional career when he did not have much formal training. He relied on the musical influences from his travels …
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An analysis of the effectiveness of individual dramatic and musical elements in the 1956, 1973 and 1988 versions of Leonard Bernstein's Candide
… stage when they decided to make Candide into a musical stage drama. Bernstein and Hellman vied for control over whose vision would guide the creation of Candide. The result was a less than cohesive script, libretto, and score that premiered in 1956 to mixed reviews. Multiple efforts ensued over …
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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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Chou Wen-chung and his music: A musical and biographical profile of cultural synthesis
… Waterman's theory of syncretism is that, when musical elements in two cultures are compatible, a synthesis would most likely occur. According to this, the seemingly incompatible nature of Chinese and Western musical elements could have prevented a fusion. Since Chou Wen-Chung's musical fusion …
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A Different Drummer: A Chamber Opera
… The score is prefaced by a paper describing the musical strategies employed in setting the story as an opera. Three chapters describe the adaptation from short story to opera, the essential musical elements, and details of the application of the musical elements in each scene of the opera. The …
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Portfolio of compositions
… solution proposed is to avoid excessively fusing musical elements derived from different cultures but instead to seek the most appropriate response to each unique compositional situation, utilising a different palette of techniques in each case. The artistic aim is to create in each composition a …
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The alabados song
… major sections; the first, a discussion of the musical elements of which the work consists, including the planning and processes involved, and second, the full score of the composition
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Narong Prangcharoen and Thai cross-cultural fusion in contemporary composition
… most of which include distinct Thai musical elements and Thai cultural influences within the guise of Western art music, are emblematic of a trend in contemporary composition that embraces worldwide influences. This thesis is a first step toward the literature of this compositional …
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Aspects of Herbie Hancock’s pre-electric improvisational language and their application in contemporary jazz performance: a portfolio of recorded performances and exegesis.
… style that contains a unique combination of musical elements. This submission for the degree of Master of Philosophy in Music Performance investigates the ways in which Hancock’s improvisational language of this era can successfully be employed in performance by the modern jazz pianist. The …
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Works for trombone by composers of the twenty-first century
… background of the pieces, their composers, musical elements and aesthetics, and their place in the trombone solo repertoire.
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Selective Attention of Young Children to Unfamiliar Musical Stimuli
… of response of young children to unfamiliar musical stimuli. The specific problems were: (1) To what extent will the responses of the children contain evidence of selective attention to the musical elements of pitch, rhythm, and texture? (2) To what extent does repetition of stimuli affect …
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From analysis to gesture : a comprehensive approach to score preparation for the conductor
… approaches to score preparation and general musical analysis techniques, a Comprehensive Approach to Score Preparation (CASP) based upon three levels of deductive analysis was created. These levels are described as Level I--Basal Structure Analysis; Level II--Review of: Supplementary …
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The Cape Breton fiddling narrative : innovation, preservation, dancing
… follows from a perspective not only of the socio-musical elements that shaped the historical narrative, but also of the musical elements of this dance-oriented “old style.”
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Green Grass and Dirty Old Sidewalks: Evolving Images of the Rural and Urban in Honky-Tonk Country Music
… that aims to interpret and understand the non-musical and musical elements of each song as meaningfully interconnected. Counter to earlier academic explorations of country music that only investigated non-musical elements such as lyrics and audience demographics, I integrate musical analysis …
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Musical process and the structuring of riffs in Metallica.
… nature of Metallica's riffs and examines how musical processes help shape the formal structures of these riffs. Drawing upon Robert Hopkins's and Wallace Berry's ideas of progression, recession, and stasis as fundamental musical processes, this study explores how certain musical elements …
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