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Showing 1 to 20 of 209 for “"Musicology"”.
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Statistics in Historical Musicology
… predominantly qualitative approach to historical musicology; and some practical and theoretical issues associated with applying statistical techniques to musical datasets. Quantitative methods have much to offer historical musicology, revealing new insights, quantifying and contextualising …
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Stir it up: interdisciplinary popular musicology and creative industries
… historic directions in interdisciplinary Popular Musicology, and to interdisciplinarity itself, via a series of definitions and conceptions found in academic writing, personal experiences, and the ways in which interdisciplinarity is understood and assessed as part of the periodic Research …
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Engineering systematic musicology : methods and services for computational and empirical music research
One of the main research questions of *systematic musicology* is concerned with how people make sense of their musical environment. It is concerned with signification and meaning-formation and relates musical structures to effects of music. These fundamental aspects can be approached from many …
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Disharmony of empire: Race and the making of modern musicology in colonial North Africa
… of Empire: Race and the Making of Modern Musicology in Colonial North Africa” focuses on the early to mid-20th-century colonial history of Morocco, Tunisia, and Algeria, with a particular emphasis on Morocco during the French Protectorate period of 1912-1956. I examine the initiatives by …
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Musicology and Mediation: an examination of the cultural materialisms of Raymond Williams and Pierre Bourdieu in relation to the fields of contemporary music and musicology, with a case study of Arvo Part and ECM
… for discussions of material mediation in musicology. In part I, I focus on Bourdieu's discussions of cultural production as set out in The Rules of Art and "The Field of Cultural Production", and reconstruct the terms of Williams's late theoretical project. In establishing the terms of …
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From prop to producer: the appropriation of radio technology in opera during the Weimar Republic.
… often been examined separately in the fields of musicology and media history. This research adopts a case study approach and combines the disciplines of musicology and media history, in order to create a narrative of the use of radio as a compositional tool in Weimar opera. The journey begins …
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Re-Composing Feminism: Australian women composers in the new millennium
… practising Australian women composers. Feminist musicology has had a large impact on the Australian musicological scene, with theorists such as McClary and Macarthur bringing the subject of women in music to the fore in the 1990s, aiding efforts to advocate for reform on behalf of women …
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Promoting Creativity: How the Use of Music Analysis Affects Value Judgments in Copyright Litigation
… litigation and demonstrates that forensic musicology is a subjective and problematic discipline. Part of this subjectivity is due to misunderstood terms and definitions. Additionally, forensic musicology is an interpretive act, rather than a falsifiable statement of facts. For this reason, …
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Dancing about Architecture in a Performative Space: Discourse, Ethics and the Practice of Music Education
… I do so because recent critical discourses in musicology and music education suggest talk about music is an inherent part of music, such that if we talk about music at all we must additionally talk about talk about music. But in talking about talk about music we are called upon to talk about …
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Crossover: boundaries, hybridity, and the problem of opposing cultures
… cultural criticism and contemporary<br/>musicology are combined to offer insights into ways in which we can control music,<br/>and ways in which music can control us, with particular emphasis on the field of<br/>classical crossover. Case studies reflecting issues of aesthetic …
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Investigating the cognitive foundations of collaborative musical free improvisation: Experimental case studies using a novel application of the subsumption architecture
… agent. The research connects ecological musicology and subsumption robotics, and builds upon insights from empirical psychology pertaining to the attribution of intentionality. A distinguishing characteristic of free improvisation is that no over-arching framework of formal musical …
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A gendered musicological study of the work of four leading female singer-songwriters: Laura Nyro, Joni Mitchell, Kate Bush, and Tori Amos
… entities. Building a theoretical bridge between musicology and feminist theory, the relationship between the text and the body is examined. The discursive perspective of this research allows pieces of popular music to be considered not only as ideologically signifying cultural commodities but …
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Franz Liszt's sonata narratives: large-scale forms at the Weimar Court
… endorsing the multi-variate methodologies of musicology alongside the literary models of narratology and transtextuality.<br/><br/>Following a conceptual introduction to narrative theory and detailed review of narrative’s adoption in musicology, the thesis builds a theoretical model for the …
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Poetry Into Song: Word-Music Relations in Settings of Goethe's Faust by Wagner and his Contemporaries (1832–1840)
… literature, Goethe remains misunderstood in musicology and the extent of his influence on the formation of the German Lied remains largely uncharted. This is true of Faust I where research into musical settings of Goethe's Faust has traditionally centred around canonical musical realisations …
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A polyphony of the mind: intertextuality in the music of Salvatore Sciarrino
… acknowledged definitions of literary theory and musicology), as well as the influence of poststructural semiotics on the so-called ""New Musicology."" The third chapter acts as a broad and thorough introduction to Sciarrino’s general aesthetic principles and approach to musical material. The …
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Figures in air : multiplicity and aurality as social architecture
… body, sound art, learning, everythingism, form, musicology, philosophy, poetry, philosophy of science These texts can also be understood in relation to productions documented on the Internet's World Wide Web and accessible via a browser/ compiler at: http://www.nophones.org
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'n Musikale model van koherensieverhoudings getoets aan die hand van J.S. Bach se Schübler-koraalvoorspele : 'n loodsstudie (Afrikaans)
… can probably be of great importance in current musicology, especially as the problem concerning musical meaning, is still an ongoing debate. The design of a musical model of coherence relations is a new field of study and can not be connected to present day language models, therefore a new model …
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Scoring for the Specter: Dualities in the Music of the Ghost Scene in Four Film Adaptations of Hamlet
… of each other. This work will contribute to musicology, film research, Shakespeare studies, and English scholarship.
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