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Showing 1 to 20 of 87 for “"Polyphonic"”.
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Structured polyphonic patterns
… in musical data. The method supports the typical polyphonic patterns that one finds in music theory textbooks. Most current computational methods to musical patterns are restricted to monophony (one melody at a time). The Structured Polyphonic Patterns method (SPP) applies to the general case of …
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Edifice of polyphonic crescendo
… that allow for spontaneous, chaotic polyphonic crescendos between social, economic, and infrastructural relationships. Importantly, these relationships within the context of cities cannot exist in isolation (Low, 2003) and form a complex framework in which we as the inhabitant assume …
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Instrument Timbres and Pitch Estimation in Polyphonic Music
In the past decade, the availability of digitally encoded, downloadable music has increased dramatically, pushed mainly by the release of the now famous MP3 compression format (Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft, 1994). Online sales of music in the US doubled in 2005, according to a recent news article (*), …
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Characterization of the singing voice from polyphonic recordings
… In particular, true performances are generally polyphonic, making it much more difficult to analyze individual voices than if the voices can be studied in isolation. This thesis approaches the problem of polyphony head on, using a time-aligned electronic score to guide estimation of the vocal …
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Polyphonic Thinking: Music and Authority in Early China
What are the socio-political roles of music? Why do people write about music? These are the essential questions underpinning this dissertation. The study interrogates early Chinese thinkers’ engagement with music in political, philosophical, and military treatises of the Warring States (戰國, 453-221 …
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RNN-Based Generation of Polyphonic Music and Jazz Improvisation
… developed for algorithmic composition of both polyphonic music, and of simulated jazz improvisation, using multiple novel data sources and the character-based recurrent neural network architecture <em>char-rnn</em>. In addition, techniques and tooling are presented aimed at using the results of …
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The city of a hundred voices : Berlin's polyphonic urbanism
… the rest. This project brings to the forefront a polyphonic mechanism by which Berlin's diminishing other voices can recover and regain a prominent role in shaping its urban character. By redeveloping the principles of each voice into spatial operations, speculative interventions into the city …
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Georgian Polyphonic Imaginaries: The Politics of Representation in the Caucasus
This study examines the efficacy of new liberal policies designed to recognize cultural difference and improve integration of ethnic communities in Georgia, an emerging democracy in the Caucasus. Ethnographic fieldwork was conducted in the city of Tbilisi over nine months in 2009 to investigate …
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Multi-culturalism, race, intersectionality and the polyphonic self: structural and societal positions
… advocates that clinicians need to consider the polyphonic multilingual, cultural, racial and intergenerational aspects of the social self in their clinical work and when developing psychotherapy training models as an essential factor to intercultural and anti-racist practice. Theoretical …
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Methods for multiple pitch tracking and instrument separation from monaural polyphonic recordings
… in the world. Most of this content comes from polyphonic music as mixtures of audio sources. Recently there has been much interest in the analysis of polyphonic music. Analysis results can be in the form of source tracking, where instrument pitch tracks and their weights are estimated from a …
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Tonal Movement in the Polyphonic Ballades, Rondeaux, and Virelais of Guillaume De Machaut
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-05T21:10:33Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 0016440.pdf: 15104047 bytes, checksum: da4ab3722dc927c5b620a7999189163c (MD5) Previous issue date: 1956
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Reinventing Poetry: Popular Audiences And Polyphonic Space During The Song-Jin-Yuan Transition (1050–1300)
This dissertation studies poetry as a linguistic topos that traveled across cultural and class boundaries during the Song-Jin-Yuan transition (1050–1300). Literary scholars often examine poetry in light of leading literati’s cultural practices and political experience. Moving away from canonical …
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Chord Conundrum: Examining the Performance Practice of Polyphonic Figures in J.S. Bach's Solo Violin Works
<p>Interpreting and expressing the musical intentions of a composer in an informed manner requires great dedication and study on the part of a performer. This holds particularly true in the case of music written well before the present age, where direct connections to the thoughts of the composer …
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The Polyphonic Qurʾān: Ethical Antinomy, Narrative Ambiguity, and the Construction of the Qurʾān’s Moral Universe
… coalesce and contribute to the construction of a polyphonic, nuanced, and complex Qurʾānic moral space. It begins with two theoretical chapters on antinomy and ambiguity, and goes on to analyse, by recourse to the tafsīr tradition, a series of apparently problematic and highly ambiguous narrative …
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Developing a flexible and expressive realtime polyphonic wave terrain synthesis instrument based on a visual and multidimensional methodology
The Jitter extended library for Max/MSP is distributed with a gamut of tools for the generation, processing, storage, and visual display of multidimensional data structures. With additional support for a wide range of media types, and the interaction between these mediums, the environment presents …
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Music transcription using instrument model
… our research focuses on the transcription of polyphonic music.We introduce a method to transcribe music with the help of an instrument model. The instrument model provides the harmonic structure of instruments, which is very helpful to polyphonic pitch estimation in the situations such as …
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Rowan Williams and Mikhail Bakhtin: The Appeal of Polyphony
… This thesis traces the presence of the polyphonic approach in Williams’ work to three main issues: the debate around the nature and future of the Anglican Communion, the debate around the place of Christianity in the increasingly secular modern West and the debate around the nature of …
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Towards a poly-phon-ic environment
… an architectural/landscape environment where polyphonic metaphors are the means for exploration and investigation. Polyphonic, as described in musical definitions/ terms, is the style of composition in which two or more distinctly independent but organically related parts sound against one …
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"A comparative analysis of 18 settings of Petrarch's ""Tutto'l dipiango; e poi la notte, quando"""
… Anthology and the Bottegari Lutebook, thirteen polyphonic settings by two anonymous composers, Girolamo Scotto, Cipriano de Rore, Vincenzo Ruffo, Sperindio Bertholdo, Francesco della Viola, Dominico Magiello, Orlando di Lasso, Francesco Portinaro, Filippo di Monte, and Luca Marenzio, and three …
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