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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Voicings"”.
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Casa Caracol: A Novella and Stories
… and her far-away homeland. The stories, Migrant Voicings, are language driven cuentos that attempt to render what is happening in a migrant-influenced mind. The voicings aim to challenge how a story is told and disrupt the expectations of what the immigrant story is supposed to be. There are …
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Compositional elements in the music of Ken Schaphorst: A detailed analysis of four works for jazz ensemble
… groove changes that aid development, unique voicings and instrument pairing choices, and other innovative musical devices. This research aims to prove informative and useful for both the aspiring and seasoned composer and arranger.
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The Art of Accompanying the Jazz Vocalist - A Survey of Piano Styles and Techniques
… a duo setting, the use of musical texture, chord voicings, avoiding harmonic conflicts with the melody, the improvised solo, transposition and the effect of lyrics and ornamentation of the vocal line. The project examines how an accompanist arranges for and adapts to the each vocalist. …
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The Artist as Troubadour: Exploring Creative Encounter through Song, Travel and Story
… visual and textual languages in a polyphony of voicings that allows room for interpretation between methods of working. <br/><br/>Underpinning this research is my experience as an artist-in-residence with the Sambaa K’e Dene, a traditionally nomadic community of First Nations Canadians located …
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Voicing imperial subjects in British literature : a corpus analysis of literary dialect, 1768-1929
… in the voicing of speakers and how those voicings change over time. This modeling demonstrates, for example, an increase in the frequency of phonological features for African diasporic dialogue and a countervailing decrease in the frequency and complexity of coded features generally for …
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Perspectives on teaching jazz piano "comping" in the college music program with sample instructional units
… Units I through VI focus on individual voicings, organized into cycles of descending fifths. Units VII through XII focus on the II-V-I cadence and tritone substitution. Units XIII through XVIII focus on short chord successions. Units XIX through XXIV serves as a "summing up" of material …
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Jazz Recordings by Ed Bickert and Problems of Stylistic Analysis
… approach involves the use of unusual chord voicings, implying chords with a small number of notes, a flexible approach to chord type, chromatic “planing” and 2/3 note punctuation chords. Paraphrasing and motive/motivic development are important melodic aspects of Bickert’s style, though both …
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Expressing South African musical sensibilities In Jazz: the cultural relevance of John Coltrane and the musical impact of Mccoy Tyner
… distinct minor, quartal and suspended harmonic voicings, Jones's extensive use of cross rhythms and dynamic intensity, Garrison's rhythmic drive and Coltrane's unique timbre on the tenor and soprano saxophone. Afrika Mkhize and Nduduzo Makhathini are contemporary local pianists who have …
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Exploration of unorthodox tunings and muscle memory practice for the electric guitar
… or being able to draw upon a range of chord voicings with ease. My research will demonstrate that by changing the tuning, not the muscle memory information, the player can in fact retain existing muscle memory while at the same time completely changing the harmonic, melodic and timbral …
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"The Neumeister collection of chorale preludes of the Bach circle": an examination of the chorale preludes of J. S. Bach and their usage as service music and pedagogical works
… harmonies. Also, many adapt easily to different voicings, giving the organ student additional training in the independence of hands and feet. A table of the rules of playing polyphonic music and scores presenting the original and edited settings of two chorale preludes are included.
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Johnny Fourie: Once upon a time, an artistic life
… of a collection of melodic lines and chord voicings drawn from the transcriptions to create a lexicon of the artist's musical vocabulary. The author acknowledges that the study is limited to the selected works. The primary intention is to generate a conceptual understanding of Fourie's …
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Morphological, ethological and genomic discrimination of functional stocks of spotted grunter, an estuarine-dependent fish
… was hypothesised that the acoustic properties of voicings or vocalisations of spotted grunter from turbid environments would differ from those in less turbid environments. The findings from the field experiment confirmed this hypothesis, albeit in a manner opposite to expectations. Individuals …