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Showing 1 to 20 of 87 for “"Musical performance."”.
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The third eye of musical performance
The study of Western Classical musical performance within institutions is focused on the pillars of technique and interpretation, overshadowing aspects that cannot be rationally proven. The metaphor of the third eye presupposes the transcendent in music and identifies subjective aspects that might …
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Performance Anxiety Coping Skills Seminar: Is It Effective in Reducing Musical Performance Anxiety and Enhancing Musical Performance Quality?
… University, using questionnaires to measure musical performance anxiety and musical performance quality. The study compared the effectiveness of two different treatments: 1) informal practice performance and 2) a coping skills seminar. Though the students attending the seminar averaged less …
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Building Mobile Instruments for Improvised Musical Performance
… explores an approach to building electronic musical instruments for use in improvised music that I have found to be particularly effective for developing flexible, dynamic, and versatile instruments well adapted to the improvised context, and a resultant set of suites of solo improvised …
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The Acousmatic Musical Performance: An Ontological Investigation
… ontological question: what is an acousmatic musical performance? Chapter 1 discusses acousmatic sound – a fundamental constituent of the acousmatic musical performance – and considers ways in which acousmatic sounds are determined in advance of, and during, a performance. Chapter 2 presents …
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On the analysis of musical performance by computer
Existing automatic methods of analysing musical performance can generally be described as music-oriented DSP analysis. However, this merely identifies attributes, or artefacts which can be found within the performance. This information, though invaluable, is not an analysis of the performance …
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Optical turntable as an interface for musical performance
… on the concept of a disk-jockey turntable as a performance instrument. A system is developed around this idea, enabling optical pickup of visual information from physical media as input to processes on the computer. Software architecture(s) are discussed and examples are implemented, …
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Transforming musical performance: activating the audience as digital collaborators
Digital technologies have transformed the performance practice, recording and distribution technologies, economy and sonic landscape of music in a process of change that began in the early 1980s. Recent technological developments have opened up the possibility of embodied interaction between …
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The effects of pedagogical variables on musical performance anxiety.
… affect the students' subjective experience of Musical Performance Anxiety (MPA) Forty-nine voice, piano and instrumental majors from Baylor University School of Music were given the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI) and the Performance Anxiety Inventory (PAI) and then participated in a …
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Towards a Generative Theory of Emotion, Meaning, and Expression in Musical Performance
… paid to how such theories apply in actual music performance. In other words, these theories tend to avoid explicating not only how music conveys such content in acts of performance, but also how performers, through such acts, imbue music with communicative content. I seek to address this …
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Live Sampling in Improvised Musical Performance: Three Approaches and a Discussion of Aesthetics
… nature of these works, there is no standard musical score. Instead the complete Max/MSP source code and a sound recording of performances making use of these programs in varied situations are included. A discussion of issues raised by these works includes aesthetics, ontology, performance, …
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Understanding the Process of Musical Cognition for Maximizing the Excellence of Individual Musical Performance
… bring to light relevant studies and research on musical cognition in classical music performance that can be fruitfully utilized by professional performers in order to help augment excellence in performance. Because the nature of music performance is multifaceted, it is necessary to look at the …
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Maintaining Using identity through musical performance; seblang and gandrung of Banyuwangi, East Java (Indonesia)
… of seblang and gandrung, two of the oldest rural performance traditions of the Banyuwangi region in East Java. When, as a result of the conquest of Blambangan (the last Hindu state on Java) by the Dutch, the local court culture ceased to exist and rural traditions gained in prominence, they …
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USING INTERACTIVE SOFTWARE AS A CONCEPTUAL TOOL: AN EXAMINATION OF COGNITION IN IMPROVISED MUSICAL PERFORMANCE
Viewing musical improvisation in the light of psychology and cognitive science, this thesis will explicate the rationale behind the development of a software based audiovisual interface for use in improvised solo instrumental performance. The evolution of the performance environment is presented …
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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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Is Ziggy Stardust Camp?: David Bowie As A Case Study In Music And Camp
David Bowie’s performance style and image during his “Stardust Years” (1972-1973) are widely considered as exemplifying a Camp aesthetic. With few exceptions (Buckley, 1993), all consider his image, the persona Ziggy Stardust, as being Camp and specific discussions of his music as Camp are lacking. …
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Acts of making and receiving: A compositional practice
… the idea of music as the social activity of performance – including the rituals around it – instead of as abstract works. The pieces explore the relationship between performers and audience and the effects performance space has on that relationship, by addressing the function of the fourth …
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_derivations and the performer-developer : co-evolving digital artefacts and human-machine performance practices
… concerns the development and use of interactive performance systems designed for improvised musical performance. Written from the perspective of a performer-developer, the research traces the development of personal approaches to designing for musical interactivity in human-machine performance, …
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Music as an interaction ritual: A post-cognitivist framework for understanding musical interaction within Jazz
Musical performance requires improvised interaction between performers. Though the degree of improvisation and the nature of interactions may vary between different types of music, it is clear that our ability for synchronized action and improvisation is integral to musical performance. Music is …
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The evolving loci of new music
This thesis argues that the nature of the performance of new music has evolved. Its arguments and evidence are taken from case-studies, presented by a performer, that reflect on recent and historical practices. The focus of the research is on the development of performance practices in contemporary …
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