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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Topic theory"”.
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Hearing the Sublime: Signification of the Sublime in Solo Piano Literature of the Nineteenth Century
… familiar to musicians or native to music theory. Within this dissertation I have conducted a survey of the philosophy of the sublime as understood by Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797), Immanuel Kant (1724 – 1804), Friedrich Schiller (1759 – 1805), and Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 – 1860), with …
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A polyphony of the mind: intertextuality in the music of Salvatore Sciarrino
… generally- 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 …
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Mashing through the Conventions: Convergence of Popular and Classical Music in the Works of The Piano Guys
… in classical/popular mashups.</p> <p>Applying Topic Theory established by Robert Hatten (1985) and Kofi Agawu (1992) and concepts of intertexuality developed by Serge Lacasse (2000, 2018) to the works of The Piano Guys and other musical works of the same style, the second chapter presents a …
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Towards the realisation of a fully integrated InteractiveComputer Music System (ICMS), adoptingTransformative Expressive Dimensions
… the implementation of Markovian generative and topic-theory-inspired transformative algorithms to provide new ways of breaking routine in collaborative improvisation and generating new musical ideas in composition, as well as providing new dimensions of expressivity. The intention being that the …
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The Varieties of Tone Presence: On the Meanings of Musical Tone in Twentieth-Century Music
… notions of “pitch structure” in post-tonal theory and offer an alternative that focuses on the question of what it is to be a musical interval for experience, drawing on a wide range of research from social theory, semiotics, theories of emotion, African American studies, literary theory, …
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The Analysis of Multimedia through the Lens of Music Theory: A Model for Analyzing the Interaction of Auditory, Visual, and Narrative Stimuli in Multimediatic Artforms
… work within the existing scholarship on musical topics and schemas to suggest expanding their purviews to include multimedia works. After a review of this literature, I present a method of analysis and define a variety of plunge sub-types with examples from filmic, staged, and ludic media. A …
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LISZT’S SONATA IN B MINOR: ANALYTICAL AND HERMENEUTIC INQUIRIES
… James Hepokoski’s and Waren Darcy’s sonata theory (2006), Leonard Meyer’s “secondary parameters” (1989), and Peter Smith’s “dimensional counterpoint” (2005), which will be discussed in Chapter 2. Hepokoski’s and Darcy’s sonata theory reveals the conventions of eighteenth- and …