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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Musical gestures"”.
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Musical sound information : musical gestures and embedding synthesis
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Program in Media Arts & Sciences, 1997.
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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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Systematic Composition and Intuition in a Concerto for Organ and Orchestra
… they used, composers ultimately rely on their musical sensitivity to inform the compositional decision-making. Discuses the rotational aspects of decimals that are created from certain prime-number denominators, and focuses on the prime number 17. Shows how these decimals can be transformed by …
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Selected students of Leopold Auer: a study in violin performance-practice
… on their students with regards to Hungarian musical gestures and Gypsy performance styles, in an era where violin playing was more uniform and the style hongrois gradually disappearing from Western music altogether. A clearer picture of Auer, his influence and the achievements of his …
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Gestural musical interfaces using real time machine learning
… in the computer. Since the invention of MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface), devices and interfaces to interact with sound modules like keyboards, drum machines, joysticks, mixing and mastering systems have been flooding the music industry. Research in the past decade gone one step …
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Music, action, and narrative in film : an energetic and gestural approach to film score analysis
… not always apparent. Many traditional means of musical analysis are not equipped to account for these extramusical associations. Film music analysis may benefit from considering musical gestures a way for understanding these connections to filmic and narrative imagery. Music theorists and …
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Korean dance suite for piano by Young Jo Lee : an analysis
… music is the combination of Korean traditional musical gestures with Western compositional elements. The Korean Dance Suite, one of Young Jo Lee’s most important piano works, reveals Lee’s uniqueness as a national Korean composer. The study examines the Korean Dance Suite (“Heaven Dance,” …
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Three Portraits of Pipa – for pipa and orchestra
… of the pipa gives the instrument unlimited musical possibilities. Each movement of the work demonstrates one of the many timbral characteristics of the pipa. The first movement, “Sparkling Crystal,” features the crystal like timbre of natural harmonics on the instrument. Together with …
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Gestural Ekphrasis: Toward a Phenomenology of the Moving Body in Joyce and Woolf
… in Joyce and Woolf. Its five chapters address musical gestures, ritual gestures, language-gestures, adaptation/process gestures, and archival gestures. In order to emphasize the intermedial capacity of gesture, I consider gesture within the framework of gestural ekphrasis:<em> the rendering of …
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Recognizing expressive movement in arm gestures using Hidden Markov Models
… we have an intuitive understanding of our gestures, it is hard to explain their quality. One would describe the human gestures as a collection of various actions for performing different tasks. True, but it does not explain how the tasks are performed, which is essential for having a more …
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Arabaribiti, for SATB Voices Divisi
… in tonal inflection, while also engaging Western musical traditions and compositional techniques. Hence, the texts are carefully set to music with consideration to the melodic contour that mirrors the meaning of the texts in the Yorùbá language, with the melody largely adhering to the natural and …
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Franz Liszt's "Dante Sonata": The origins, the criticism, a selective musical analysis, and commentary
… instrument incorporating the variety of sounds, gestures, and harmonies he considered evocative of religious sentiment. The Dante Sonata is such a composition. Except for a brief, early moment in the Dante Sonata, the score is void of scales and arpeggios--very basic pianistic musical gestures. …
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Methods and Technologies for the Analysis and Interactive Use of Body Movements in Instrumental Music Performance
… through body movement. From this perspective, musical instruments can be seen as technological objects coupled with a repertoire of performance gestures. This repertoire is part of an ecological knowledge shared by musicians and listeners alike. It is part of the engine that guides musical …
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MASS FOR A TIME OF WAR: A REQUIEM HONORING THE VICTIMS OF THE IRAQI CONFLICT
… while transcending the boundaries of the various musical gestures and resources. These influences include: Schoenberg's signature hexachord pair (012569) (013478), the tone row from Webern's Op. 21 Symphony (1928), Charles Ives's The Unanswered Question (1906), Stravinsky's Requiem Canticles …
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The complete works of Peter Louis van Dijk : a short biography, annotated catalogue and discussion regarding gestures derived from ideology associated with the San people of the Southern Kalahari in three of his major works
This study undertakes a detailed look at the compositional output of the South African composer, Peter Louis van Dijk. The first course of action was to research and discuss a particular aspect of his work, a close examination of his views and thoughts regarding the San people of the Southern …