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Showing 1 to 20 of 438 for “"Performer"”.
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Theorizing Pianistic Experience: Tradition, Instrument, Performer
… conditions of sound production. It takes a performer's perspective, focusing on the personal experience of sound, as it is being created in performance. The sound of a piano performance is continually evolving, contingent on the acoustic environment, the characteristics of an instrument, and …
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Creative Performer Agency in the Collaborative Compositional Process
… come into contact with it—first and foremost the performer. Yet, the nature of the performer’s creative impact on the compositional process remains under-explored. This thesis is centred on a qualitative artistic research project, designed to identify and critically evaluate the prospective extent …
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Gnarly Buttons: Composer-Performer Collaboration in Contemporary Accordion Music
Collaboration between composers and performers is a common practice in contemporary classical music, a genre in which the accordion is becoming increasingly popular. Collaboration between accordionists and composers is particularly significant because of relative novelty of the instrument; …
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Of Space and Time: Film and the Female Performer
The practice-based thesis investigates the question of representing a female space-time through a visualevocation of interiority and female subjectivity by creating a form of haptic ‘cinema’. My practice draws on the concept of haptic visuality in order to explore an embodied immersive filmmaking. …
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Mnemodrama : Alessandro Fersen's parashamanic training technique for the occidental performer.
… first full-length study of the experiments in performer training undertaken by Alessandro Fersen in his studio laboratory in Rome between 1957 and 1983 and practiced since then in the codified technique which he calls Mizemodrama ( literally, "a drama of memory"). The purpose of my research is …
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Composer and performer roles in contemporary music: an autoethnographic study
… the art form. However, the input of the performer into the preparation of new works is not one which has been clearly documented. This project is a practice-led approach that articulates the contribution of the contemporary music performer in more detail. As an entry point into an …
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How can the solo female performer be rendered present through absence?
Through both practical and textual research, this thesis explores whether it is possible to be both present and a presence in performance time and space through absence. Within it, I offer a discussion of the concepts of presence and absence, and what they mean in a theatre/performance context, …
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An exploration of vibrato and performer perception in vocal jazz singing
… of vibrato on vocal jazz singing, as well as performer perception, in order to provide vocal jazz musicians a better understanding of the nuances and processes of producing and manipulating vibrato. The guiding research questions were: (1) Is there a difference between the vibrato rate, …
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Vox aestheticæ : Creating a Method of Aesthetic Analysis for the Voice Performer
… music, to be used from the perspective of the performer. The beginning chapters of this document discuss the realm of aesthetic research in which this dissertation takes place. The musical aesthetic analysis map is intended to be used with vocal music from the Classical and Romantic eras. …
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Clowndance: Convergences in contemporary dance and theatrical clowning for pleasure-led performer training
… an innovative pleasure-led approach to physical performer training located at the convergence of theatrical clowning and contemporary dance. Clowndance has been explored and delivered through a series of workshops and intensives, which are documented on the accompanying research website, …
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The Performer as Analyst in the Piano Sonata Opus 12 by Jean Sibelius
… models the process of analysis as a means for performers, particularly pianists, to engage with the large-scale organizational features of musical works, using the Piano Sonata, Opus 12 by Jean Sibelius as a case study. The unique character and structure of each of the three movements suggests …
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_derivations and the performer-developer : co-evolving digital artefacts and human-machine performance practices
… 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, culminating in the development of the _derivations interactive performance system and related …
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Images of Jenny Lind and the Construction of Identity for the Nineteenth-Century Female Performer
… their position within the public sphere, female performers were thought to be sexually available and often had the reputation of prostitute. Lind achieved a level of success that made her one of the most famous women of the mid-nineteenth-century. She was known not only for her talent as a …
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"Between the Staves" - Adaptations of Debussy's Six épigraphes antiques and Creative Tasks of the Performer
The Six épigraphes antiques represent a cross-section of Debussy's creative output that traces the composer's germ-seed from his original setting of the work in 1901 as incidental music to accompany the recitation of several poems, to the four-hand piano version of 1914, and its consequent …
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Composing the instrument: An alternative approach to musical relationships between composer, instrument, performer and audience.
… the relationship between the audience, the performer, and the composer. Music need not be bound by the constraints of traditional instruments and performances can be interactive as opposed to didactic. These notions are investigated through the lens of a series of composed instruments, …
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Life, Work and the Individual Classical Performer: Maria Yudina's Artistic Practice and Imagination, 1947–70
The detailed study of individual classical performers has traditionally been restricted to the genre of music biography, one which is rich in contextualisation but light on direct engagement with the performer’s abilities as captured in recordings. More recent approaches to performance use …
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A Reassessment of the Aesthetics of Audience Response and Audience-Performer Interaction in the Theatrical Event: The Transpersonal Paradigm
… thought regarding the audience and audience-performer interaction in the theatrical performance. There also is an impasse in research into these matters today. No empirical study of audience-actor interaction during the performance has been able to demonstrate significant effects of such …
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The reinvention of tradition: Transformation of Chinese water sleeve dance and Tai Ji in contemporary performer training and performance making
… and Tai Ji, in contemporary performance and performer training. The central concept behind this research was the commonly held perception in China that “tradition is a river” (P. Huang, 1990) in the context of the Chinese dance community. The overarching research methodology of this …
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Menopause and the female singer : a survey of physical and psychological changes, and of the available treatments and how these effect the vocal performer
… how these treatments may affect the singer as a performer. Various singers were interviewed to establish how their careers as professional singers were affected by the stages of menopause, the treatment they received, and how this treatment affected their careers. Professionals in the fields of …
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