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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"Musical identity"”.
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An investigation into the socio-musical identity of at risk adolescents involved in music therapy
The context of this study is the National Youth Development Outreach Project (YDO) situated in Eersterust, Pretoria. This study is conducted within a qualitative research paradigm. The data comprises of sentence completion exercises designed to elicit information regarding at risk adolescents’ …
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Bardic echoes: reconstructing ancient Celtic music, towards an ethnomusicology; or, an interdisciplinary study of Celtic musical identity
… An assertation is made of the characteristic of musical instruments with interpretations of their usage, and it is ultimately found that archaeomusicology can demonstrate aspects of shared cultural features with a parity of continuity in technologies and traditions indicating a common Celtic …
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The Impact of Shared Musical Identity, Shared Family Identity, and Accommodation on Satisfaction in Parent/Young Adult Relationships
… investigates the potential influence of shared musical identities of young adult children and their parents in relation to communicative and relational aspects of family, in order to determine whether musical tastes of individuals impact family relationships. In this research study, 196 college …
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Change in Early Cincinnati's Musical Identity: Shape-Note Tunebooks from Timothy Flint's Columbian Harmonist (1816) to Timothy and Lowell Mason's Sacred Harp (1834)
… and change in earlynineteenth-century American musical culture. As Cincinnati changed from frontier town to cultivated city, andsimultaneously became a center for the publishing of music, its music industry experienced the clash of musical tastes.The repertoire of folk tunes and compositions by …
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Performing with a Personal Musical Identity: An Examination of Musicians' Distinctive Personalities in Performances of Bach's Solo Violin Sonatas and Partitas
… to define proper performance practice of musical works, including fidelity to the notated score or to a historically informed recreation of Bach’s Sonatas and Partitas (S&Ps, hereafter). Modernist performance and pedagogy are not only established on a misleading premise that textually …
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Rripangu Yirdaki: Negotiating musical identities in a northeast Arnhem Land tourism business
… are important parts of the Gurruwiwis’ musical identity, which like all identities is composite and situationally-contingent, meaning that particular aspects of this musical identity are highlighted or become salient in particular situations. The tourist encounter is one such situation, …
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Musical identities and health over the youth-adult transition
This thesis concerns musical identities and how they affect health as young people make the transition to adulthood. The primary focus is on music listening, since this is widely reported to be a key feature of adolescents’ and young adults’ leisure time (Roe 1999; Tarrant, et al 2000). Previous …
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Lives and careers in music: a social identity perspective on brass music-making
… social psychology and music psychology (social identity theory (Tajfel, 1979) and musical identity (MacDonald, 2002)) enables the musician to be considered as a social category, and from this to develop a contemporary and novel investigation into musicians’ identities. Literature reviews and …
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Between two worlds : approaching Balkan oral music tradition through the use of technology as a compositional and performing medium
This text explores the problems of interpreting musical identity, meaning, and sociocultural value of a compositional work influenced by two traditions with different values: the modernist tradition based on Western European classical heritage, and the oral tradition of the Balkans. It also follows …
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Videovoice Perspectives of Beginning Band Students at Home
… in turn contributed to the development of their musical identity. The <em>videovoice </em>process combined the power of joy and social affirmation in an analytical setting. Music educators, in traditional classroom and remote learning settings alike, will find that the <em>videovoice …
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Requiem for wandering souls for orchestra
… German, and operatic styles to create a unique musical identity that transcended national boundaries. Requiem for Wandering Souls explores intercultural synthesis by merging traditional Korean ritual music with contemporary orchestral idioms. Inspired by Jongmyo Jeryeak and secular ritual …
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Portfolio of compositions containing Symphony No. 104, From The Eumenides, Lost Words, String Quartet No. 2, String Quartet No. 3, 12 Miniatures, Non-Stable Equilibrium and a commentary on the compositions
… latter two pieces were also conceived in brief musical sections. Each individual miniature or section is typified by focus on a single musical idea and their sequence was determined with the aim of contrasting and complementing different musical characters and styles. As a rule, the musical …
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Protest Movements of the 1960s - 1970s in Latin America and the United States
… analyzing how a quest to create a national musical identity contributes to political and cultural change.</p> <p>The study of how music influences behavior, creating new daily practices and rituals, is essential to an investigation of how it contributes to the construction of personal and …
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East Asian and “Extraordinary”: Intersecting Racial and Musical Identities in the Classical Music Solo Career
… classical music industry is reliant not only on musical merit but also on extramusical factors like race, gender, class, and culture, all of which influence a musician’s upbringing. For East Asian musicians, distinctions of merit can be accompanied by racialized and often paradoxical narratives …
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Cumbia Tejana: Synthesis Towards Unification in the Tejano Continuum
… and dance traditions of South Texas. Musically, Cumbia Tejana is not one interpretation of the Cumbia, but many. The Cumbia's dance and music traditions have deep ethnic roots that initially began as a genre from the Afro-Indigenous-Hispanic heritage of coastal Colombia (D'Amico 2013). …
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ASPECTS OF AMERICAN MUSICAL LIFE AS REFLECTED IN THE NEW MUSIC REVIEW AND CHURCH MUSIC REVIEW, 1901-1935
… time of growth and important change in American musical life. However, many aspects of our national musical culture during this period remain largely unexplored. Among these is The New Music Review and Church Music Review (NMR) which from 1901 to 1935 offered a detailed chronicle of American …
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The potential of music in the post COVID-19 pandemic realities of mothers in South Jersey
… the importance of temporality of participants’ musical identity in earlier, current and projected future life phases. Two categories emerged: The first category, Music as an Experience of Identities Now, encompassed five themes, and the second category, Music as a Bridge to and From Life Phases …
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Wonderbrass: Creating a Community Through Music
… personnel, leadership, committee-member, musical and artistic changes but continues to be strong until today. Drawing inspiration from such musical collectives as The Association for the Advancement of Creative Music (Chicago), The New York Composers’ Orchestra, Willem Breuker Collective …
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The Shores of Light
… an orchestral composition which seeks to explore musical processes of coherence and evolution at a deeper level. The piece charts the journey of a single musical identity across a shifting aural landscape. This thematic idea — a strongly modal melody reminiscent of both plainchant and folksong, …
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Sinhala folk music : its vocal traditions and stylistic nuances
… practiced yet holds the key to the nation's musical identity. This study investigates the philosophical and social influences on Sinhala folk music in a historical sense and observes its purposes and practices. The research presents an analysis of a traditional folk song Nelum Gee with …
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