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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Vocalist."”.
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The Art of Accompanying the Jazz Vocalist - A Survey of Piano Styles and Techniques
… examines the process of accompanying the jazz vocalist and explains the performance subtleties inherent in the art form from the pianist’s perspective. Through interviews of eight pianists, the study specifies differences between instrumental and vocal accompanying and explains how pianists …
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Clockwork Plums
… of three sections scored for 5 voices (lead male vocalist and SATB), flute (doubling tenor saxophone), Bb clarinet (doubling baritone saxophone), violin, cello, piano, electronic keyboard, electric guitar, electric bass, drum set, and percussion.
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Homage to Eleanora: A Musical Journey through the Billie Holiday Songbook
<p>Billie Holiday was a singer, songwriter, vocalist, bandleader and composer in the fields of music, black culture and more specifically the genre of jazz. The primary focus of this study is Billie Holiday’s discography, music, and compositions as treated in relation to the black culture of …
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Graduate Recital, Voice
… expressivity. For instance, in the Baroque the vocalist was expected to provide ornamentation such as trills and appoggiaturas, while in Spanish music organic melismas are used to express the emotions of the piece. To display this adaptability in the recital, selections were chosen from various …
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Trans*Vocal: Documenting Gender Subjectivity Through Changing Vocality
Through my subjectivity as a non-binary, trans* vocalist, I am acutely aware of the sounds I have been enculturated to produce. Drawing on theories of vocality (Eidsheim 2019; Azul 2015), transition (Constansis 2013; Constansis and Foteinou 2017), and improvisation (Caines 2021), I analyze the …
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"Everything is a toxic competition" : how social interactions contribute to self-efficacy beliefs and resulting behavior in vocal divisions.
… their ability as superior or inferior as a vocalist. Implications based on this research are for music educators to increase awareness of social-interaction's impact on students' wellness and initiatives to improve persuasive structures.
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The jazz vocal art of Kurt Elling : lessons for South African singers
The dissertation researches the contemporary jazz vocalist Kurt Elling. His background, performing career and successes are explored before his artistry as a performer and pedagogue are examined in detail. A personal Skype lesson and a personal interview form part of the research material. Elling’s …
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Text-music relationships in Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco's Vogelweide
… (guitarist) and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (vocalist) though no performance of the work was given by them. The score went unpublished, and largely unknown, until 1987. This is the first in-depth study of Castelnuovo-Tedesco’s Vogelweide. Chapter 1 contains historical background for the …
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Sounding Elsewhere, Sounding Everywhere: Listening to the Background from Motown and Beyond
… Indexed across race and gender the background vocalist as (re)productive phonic technology makes links to wider debates relating to race and sonic technologies, invisibility, and the acousmatic voice. Through reconfiguring the relationship between background and foreground it considers how the …
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Graduate Recital, Vocal Performance
… the growth and development I have displayed as a vocalist, artist, and performer the past two years. Overall, the completion of the recital required the utmost sensitivity to the artistic needs of the music and the utilization of my full vocal development in order to do justice to the spirit of …
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Points on my Curve to Find: A Journey around the Self to Find the World
… lyrics, song-writing, musical performance as a vocalist, work in film-making and visual documentation and work as a visual artist. In a life that has so far spanned living for substantial periods in different countries and cultures, my creative practice has been strongly influenced by that …
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Aspects of national identity in the art songs of Ralph Vaughan Williams before the Great War
… between 1901 and 1903 and published in The Vocalist. The chapter argues that these songs, in pitting the rural against the urban as seen in salient aspects of their music, epitomize Vaughan Williams’s engagement with the contemporary “Back-to-the-Land” movement. Chapter Three examines the …
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Bringing Hands Together Through Music: Dick and Georgia Bassett and the Association for Music in International Schools
… an accomplished clarinetist, and Mrs. Bassett, a vocalist and violinist, met at Oberlin Conservatory, where they were studying to become music educators. The Bassetts’ participation in honor ensembles in their formative years and in the “Oberlin in Salzburg” program - a year-long study abroad …
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Black Cats, Berlin, Broadway And Beyond: The Genre Of Cabaret
… arranger, vocal director, collaborator, vocalist, pianist, actor, and writer. The show is intended as a kind of "Cabaret 101," in that the intended audience is treated to a night of variety entertainment with some historical background on the genre of cabaret. The audience is not expected …