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Showing 1 to 20 of 51 for “"The Musicians"”.
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The formalization of New Orleans jazz musicians: a case study of organizational change
This study involves the social structures and processes contained in the organization of New Orleans jazz musicians. The literature concerning the sociology of musicians as well as general sociology suggests some initial hypotheses. These hypotheses involve sociological concepts such as …
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The documentary mind: In the subject of a practitioner’s perspective on changes in documentary concept and production
This autoethnographic study examines the influences of recent digital technology upon the practice and philosophy of documentary filmmaking. To assess the impact of new digital methodology on the film production process, The Musicians, a wholly-digital, 55-minute documentary film, was produced as …
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Anglo-Irish Music in Cork 1750-1800
Music in Dublin in the eighteenth century has been a rather well researched topic and the subject of a number of books and articles. However, it is only when one tries to discover what life was like for the musicians who chose to live in the country that one realises how little research has been …
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The structures, playing techniques and teaching methods of four community brass bands in the Cape Peninsula
The objectives of this study are to investigate the teaching methods embedded in the oral transmission of music knowledge, the musicians’ playing technique, the cultural and social benefits of music in the communities of the four bands, as well as to look at the advantages and disadvantages of …
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Measuring musical interaction: analysing communication in embodied musical behaviour
This thesis addresses the ubiquity and necessity of embodied interaction to musical activity, using video analysis to observe communication in musical events. Through the specific study of classical North Indian instrumental duo performance, the thesis examines how processes of social interaction …
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How professional, popular musicians understand their musicking in relation to mental health: an interpretative phenomenological analysis
Interest surrounding musicians and mental health has burgeoned in both the popular media and academia. Although research has predominantly focused on classical musicians, there has been a slow move towards the phenomenological understanding of popular musicians in the context of their working …
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Liderazgo bien temperado: Mecanismos de influencia entre director invitado y músicos en la orquesta sinfónica
The aim of this doctoral thesis is to analyze the leadership of guest conductors in their work with musicians in symphony orchestras. To address this issue, the research starts from the observation of a double gap: on the one hand, the scarcity of musicological studies that analyze conducting …
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The Maestro myth : exploring the impact of conducting gestures on the musician's body and the sounding result
… fraud? Opinions differ widely when it comes to the profession of the conductor. The powerful person in front of an orchestra or a choir attracts both hate and admiration, but which influence do a conductor's actions actually have on the musician's body and the sounding result? Unlike any other …
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Surrounded by Sound. Experienced Orchestral Harpists’ Professional Knowledge and Learning
… European classical music. Previous research in the field of orchestral musicians’ learning and knowledge has mainly focused on students’ learning orchestral playing. Working conditions and work-related problems were also emphasized in previous studies. This thesis, however, focuses on …
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The real deal: professional klezmer musicians on a London world music scene
The Real Deal is a term often used by musicians to describe people they perceive to be more authentic than them. Over the past seven or eight years, I have performed music from Eastern Europe, the Balkans, Turkey and beyond under the umbrella of World Music in one of the most cosmopolitan cities in …
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Six Reflections Through Music and Poetry
<p>Since beginning school at the University of Arkansas in 2008 I have learned many lessons both in and outside the classroom. To date, the most challenging lessons have been those that I have learned about myself. The manifestation of the person that I am today has been an adventure with many …
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South African Jazz Big Band: Methodological approaches from selected composers, arrangers and directors
The purpose of this creative research project is to document the processes of directing a jazz big band for successful performance within a South African context. The initial research conducted proved fruitful from an international perspective in that several interviews were held and texts were …
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Feet don't fail me now: brass bands in post-Katrina New Orleans
The purpose of this interdisciplinary study is to examine brass bands in post-Katrina New Orleans. Told primarily in the words of the musicians themselves, this study analyzes the intersection of the city's recovery efforts and the complex web of formal and informal sociocultural relationships that …
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Revisiting the early format of the big band: So you want to be a band leader?
The aims of this research are to set up a large contemporary ensemble that plays varied repertoire in different performance contexts and may generate at the same time, a vehicle for my composition and arranging. Involved within the research are strategies to increase the musical and performance …
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Rage From Within the Machine: Protest Music, Social Justice, and Educational Reform, a Collective Case Study
School reform initiatives in the United States have been occurring since the launching of Sputnik by the U.S.S.R. in 1957. These efforts have largely been internal, within school reforms, with little consideration given to external variables such as poverty that affect student achievement. Given …
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Folk music of Sri Lanka : ten piano pieces
The purpose of the present research was to provide ideas for positive stress management in the orchestra world to help achieve high-level performances. The author developed the Orchestral Performance and Stress Survey and distributed it to 230 musicians of three orchestras that comprised full-time …
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Automatic Page-Turner for Pianists With Wearable Motion Detector
… be challenging when both hands are engaged in other tasks. In case that a pianist sight-read, using one hand for turning the music sheets can cause distraction or short delay in their performance. Previous studies predominantly utilized audio or video processing techniques for following the …
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The effect of musical training on verbal and tonal working memory
<p>This dissertation explored the translation from print to sound of the tonal language Mandarin versus English versus musical notation in healthy volunteers. The performance of musicians and non-musicians was compared across a variety of reading tasks in an attempt to examine whether musical …
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Advanced Music Training and Executive Function: A Neurocognitive Study
The objective of this study was to assess the relationship between advanced music training and neurocognitive functioning, with specific focus on executive function, working memory, and tactile interhemispheric transfer. Twenty professional musicians and a comparison group of 19 individuals with no …
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The Well Tempered Building; A Music Conservatory
To Bach, the Circle of Fifths was the language of the universe. Similar to the constellations used to understand the sky, the Circle of Fifths is a visualization device to understand the fundamental concepts of key signatures, which are the foundation for music. The Circle of Fifths is a guide for …
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