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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"accordion"”.
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Gnarly Buttons: Composer-Performer Collaboration in Contemporary Accordion Music
… classical music, a genre in which the accordion is becoming increasingly popular. Collaboration between accordionists and composers is particularly significant because of relative novelty of the instrument; composers often lack general knowledge about the accordion, with limited …
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Strangers at home: Guido Deiro and his accordion in the American vaudeville theater
… of vaudeville on the popularization of the accordion in America between the 1910s and 1920s. Scholarship on the accordion has tended to echo historical caricatures of the instrument as a consequence of folkloric, lowbrow, and even indecent class mores. In this paper, I explore the accordion …
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A formal and stylistic analysis of selected compositions for solo accordion, with accompanying ensembles by twentieth-century American composers, with implications of their impact upon the place of accordion in the world of serious music
The accordion, a little known instrument in the world of serious or art music, does possess enormous capacities for artistic expression of the highest order.In the twentieth-century, some accordionists began to realize the instrument's potential. These accordionists made transcriptions of the …
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Immigration, identity, and industry: Expanding U.S. accordion history through the careers of Santo Santucci and Nick Santucci
… the first half of the twentieth century, the accordion became one of the best-selling instruments in the United States. While various scholars have worked to broadly recount the accordion’s history and rise in popularity, there remain many figures, places, and moments that require further …
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Immigration, identity, and industry: Expanding U.S. accordion history through the careers of Santo Santucci and Nick Santucci
… the first half of the twentieth century, the accordion became one of the best-selling instruments in the United States. While various scholars have worked to broadly recount the accordion’s history and rise in popularity, there remain many figures, places, and moments that require further …
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Order in Désordre: Rhythmic and Melodic Structure in György Ligeti's Piano Etude No. 1
… is Velinikka, Concerto for Quarter-tone Accordion and Chamber Orchestra (2008). The composition was commissioned by Gaudeamus Music Week and is dedicated to Veli Kujala. Velinikka, 25-minute work, was premiered on September 1st, 2008 by Veli Kujala, quarter-tone accordion, and Insomnio …
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Routing tradeoffs in dynamic peer-to-peer networks
… This thesis presents a new DHT protocol, Accordion, that achieves this goal. Accordion bounds its overhead traffic according to a user specified bandwidth budget and chooses a routing table size that minimizes lookup latency, balancing the need for both low lookup hop-count and low timeout …
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Is psoas muscle area as determined by cross-sectional measurement an accurate predictor of peri-operative outcomes in adenocarcinoma of the upper gastrointestinal tract?
… with correlation to short-term complications (Accordion), length of stay and mortality. In addition, PMI and tumour staging was evaluated. Results One hundred and seventy-seven individuals (115 males, 62 females, mean age of 60.8 ± 0.9) were evaluated of which sixty-eight underwent surgery (56 …
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Playing from memory: Essays on music in life
… experience? Specific topics covered include the accordion, the carillon, a community marching band, a college radio station, and a traditional Siberian folk culture.
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Late Paleozoic Chronostratigraphy and Tectonostratigraphy of Pericratonic Terranes near Barkerville, British Columbia: Implications for the Lower Permian (Asselian) Sugar Limestone
… reinterpretation, which incorporates ‘accordion tectonics’ was used to explain differences between the Lower and Upper Paleozoic units within the pericratonic terranes near Barkerville.
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Alternative instrumentation : a study of selected instruments
… instruments included in this study are: accordion, carillon, didgeridoo, erhu, glass harmonica, hammered dulcimer, cimbalom, hardanger fiddle, harmonica, highland bagpipes, Irish flute, tin whistle, koto, shakuhachi, sitar, thermin, and uillean pipes. Entries contain information about …
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Kinematic and dynamic modeling of Nanostructured Origami
… modeling the dynamics of two classes of origami: accordion origamis and single-vertex origamis. The forward dynamics and equilibrium analysis of a useful bridge structure and the corner cube origami are simulated. The response of a model of an experimental actuation technique is well-behaved, and …
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Studies of Lung Micromechanics via Hyperpolarized 3He Diffusion NMR
… lungs increase in volume non-isotropically by accordion-like extension. The results further suggest that this change in alveolar duct volume is the primary mechanism of lung volume change in canine lungs but is secondary to alveolar recruitment/derecruitment in humans.
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Compositional Issues with Corigliano, Oliveros, and Kernis
… was asked what initially attracted her to the accordion and what is useful about the instrument from a compositional standpoint. She comments on how such an instrument plays a role in her improvisational approach to composition. Corigliano was asked if he had been influenced by Lutoslawski in …
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Twist error response of periodic lattices to strain energy distribution
… panels, the initial fold angle of the preformed accordion unit in the lattice and the angular wall error. A FEA simulation study quantified the Buckingham Pi results by varying the torsional stiffness ratio of the panels, the initial fold angle and the final lattice length after folding. The …
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Tailoring Artificial Muscles for the Design and Development of Soft Underwater Robots
… (TCPFL) actuators, which are confined in the FGM accordion shaped channels. The FGM multidirectional joint is characterized and is shown performing different functionalities silently such as crawling, rolling, and bending while a camera is mounted at the tip of the structure. Moreover, …
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Liver resection for hepatocellular and fibrolamellar carcinoma in a South African tertiary referral centre
… were classified according to the expanded Accordion severity grading system. Median overall survival (OS) and 95% confidence intervals (CI) were calculated. Forty-eight patients were included in the study, 25 with HCC in non-cirrhotic livers, 15 in cirrhotic livers and eight for FLC. …
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El Ritmo del Westside: Exploring the Musical Landscape of San Antonio’s Historic Westside
<p>The westside of San Antonio, Texas fostered a uniquely diverse musical landscape throughout the 1950’s and 1960’s, demonstrating the results of cross-cultural exchanges reflected in music. From Conjunto and Ranchera music, to R&B and Jazz, a wide range of music genres was celebrated in the …