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Showing 1 to 20 of 28 for “"Musical score"”.
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Poems from Guantanamo
Musical score for Poems from Guantanamo for two violas, narrator, and television
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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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Three States of the Mind's Eye
… of mind: the dream, paranoia, and courage. The musical score both tells its own story as well as enhances the visuals and poetry as they are presented. This document will discuss the ideas behind the work, how the composer went about creating each section and combining them, and will provide …
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Communicating Emotion Through Images and Music in Narrative Film
… which facilitates this process, augmented by the musical score when present. The feelings and emotion embedded into the film are in the form of vital energies which can be felt by the viewer. In narrative film it is the images and music that communicates the emotion to the audience.
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Graduate Recital, Flute
… once caged and preserved for exhibition by the musical score. Messiaen's Le Merle Noir, on the other hand, features an unruly specimen whose shrill utterances and suspended melodies suggest both volatility and ancient wisdom. Other works on the program explore birdsong differently: Michael …
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Beatty: Automatic Tempo Curve Synthesis for Expressive MIDI Track Playback
… transforming a MIDI file representation of the musical score into a series of one-hot note vectors, which encode the MIDI note pitches, velocities, and durations, and are augmented with additional harmonic tension information. The target output is a sequence of tempo labels, represented as …
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A Choreographic Exploration of Judeo-Christian Themes
… Bach’s “Magnificat in D Major” was chosen as the musical score for its central importance in portraying Judeo-Christian spirituality. The score was performed in the original German and Latin languages, to allow the music itself to inform the choreography. The resulting septet suite of …
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Tracing the Development of Willie Stark and Its Place in American Opera
… Carlisle Floyd (b. 1925), well known for his musical dramas Susannah (1955) and Of Mice and Men (1970), wrote Willie Stark (1981), commissioned by the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and later Houston Grand Opera. Floyd’s libretto and musical score was based upon Robert Penn Warren’s …
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Voices from the Killing Jar
This dissertation consists of the musical score for my work for voice and ensemble, "Voices from the Killing Jar," and an accompanying paper. "Voices from the Killing Jar" was written for the Wet Ink Ensemble in 2010-2011, and takes as its subject seven female characters from literature, history, …
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The Songs of David Amram: A representative analysis and review of published vocal music for accompanied and unaccompanied voice
… many genres including incidental music, film scores, symphonies, concertos, sonatas, instrumental trios, quartets, cantatas and operas as well as songs. One of Amram's earliest published songs, Pull My Daisy, is from his musical score for the experimental film of the same name. The song, text …
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Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Land of Confusion - a film by Jeremy Zerechak Music Composed by Joseph Miller
… Operation Iraqi Freedom. The creation of its musical score represents a major milestone in its composer's musical development. In combination with the postproduction remix, also by Joseph Miller, the original score took over four months to complete. The entire score encompasses 23 individual …
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Design of the integrator to work with HyTime
… that exploits a notation like that of a musical score. The IMMA produced by the Integrator is inherently parallel and includes elements required to define the asynchronous nature of applications, along with a standard set of multimedia objects. The timing and synchronization …
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Media Scores : A framework for composing the modern-day Gesamtkunstwerk
Media Scores provide a theoretical and technical means to orchestrate multiple modalities in the creation of expressive works of art and performance. New technologies afford numerous opportunities to tell stories and create expressive artworks through a variety of media. However, the tools of …
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In pursuit of sound
… pleasant spaces. Years later, Xenakis composes a musical score that informs the constructed surface of the Philips pavilion. Both pioneers of sonic architecture, and both pushing the technology of sound design. This thesis advances the theory of sound architecture by focusing on the smallest …
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Little dove : a new operetta for undergraduate singers
… appropriate for college-aged musicians. The score for Little Dove has been tailored to fit perceived needs of undergraduate opera singers and collegiate opera directors–it is thoroughly singable and pedagogically advisable for performance by underclassmen. It contains mostly female roles, …
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Music as Communication: A Rhetorical Perspective Based on Susanne Langer's Theory of Aesthetic Symbolism
… may communicate using both lyrical content and musical score, as well as how music can communicate without lyrical content. In addition, based on the data in this dissertation, this author confirms the ideas presented in the existing literature that music communicates for social movements. …
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Harmony, voice leading, and drama in three Sondheim musicals
… analytical approach to three works by American musical theater composer-lyricist Stephen Sondheim: Sunday in the Park with George, Into the Woods, and Assassins—each of which Sondheim developed largely at the Playwrights Horizons theater in New York. Using an eclectic, neo-Schenkerian approach …
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The Zombie Apocalypse Has Already Happened: Queering Subjectivity in Zombie Film
… (i.e. shot composition, editing, lighting, musical score) analyses of fourteen viral zombie films with theoretical arguments regarding the deterritorialization of the human subject and its relevance to psychology as a human science. The films were selected from the plethora of viral zombie …
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The Mill: Analysis of the Original Score and Film
… in Pittsburgh,Pennsylvania. </p><p> The musical score is composed of two elements: a live performance ensemble consisting of a clarinet in B flat, a flute and piano; and an electronic soundtrack that mostly supports the live instrumentation but also, at times, creates ambiguity between …
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The Whole Booke of Psalmes, Protestant Ideology, and Musical Literacy in Elizabethan England
… its identities as scriptural text and monophonic musical score, the WBP functioned as a music instructional book, intended by its publishers to improve popular music education in Elizabethan England. Motivated by Protestant ideology, the WBP promoted musical literacy for the common people. This …
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