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Showing 1 to 20 of 30 for “"cadences"”.
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Heliocentric architecture : materializing solar cadences
There is a long tradition of architecture creating atmospheric, awe-inspiring experiences by shaping and making visible natural light. Another similarly long-established approach to daylighting optimizes lighting conditions through the use of computational tools which provide precise numerical and …
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Metabolic Cost of Aerobic Dance Bench Stepping at Varying Cadences
… bench stepping at 6 and 8 inch bench heights at cadences of 125 and 130 beats min -1. Subjects were 30 moderately fit females, ages 19-47 years, with a minimum of 2 months aerobic dance bench stepping experience. VO2 max was determined using the Balke-Ware treadmill protocol. Subjects performed 4 …
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Analysis and optimization of passive knee prosthetic design parameters over varying cadences
The need for effective prostheses is prevalent worldwide, and is especially dire in developing countries and low-resource settings. The MIT GEAR Lab is addressing this gap through the ATKnee, a low-cost, passive prosthetic knee that employs the use of spring and damper components to replicate the …
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Cadences of Choreomusicality: Investigating the Relationship Between Sound and Movement in Staged Performances of Popping and Animation in the United Kingdom
This practice-led doctoral research explores the relationship between staged performances of popping, closely related movement practices such as animation (in dance) and music in the United Kingdom. Through an experiential, choreographic and critical methodology, I consider the ways that popping …
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The Segmentation Process and its Influence on Structure in the Malheur Me Bat Masses of Obrecht and Josquin
… mass. Although musical aspects such as cadences and mode have varying degrees of influence on the structure of these two masses, the primary influence is the establishment of proportional relationships that occur as a result of the segmentation process. Sources of previous music research …
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Mahlerian Tonality: Challenges to Classical Foreground Structures in the Music of Gustav Mahler
… The results are grouped into three domains: cadences, common-tone techniques, and the Mahlerian imaginary continuo. An investigation of Mahler’s cadences reveals an underlying simplicity in the diverse tonal progressions that Mahler uses to execute the tonal close of a phrase. Cadences are …
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A New Place at the Table: Ancient Cadential Patterns for Modern Improvision and Aural Skills Training
… can be found in the three introductory cadences used in the Neapolitan conservatory partimento tradition (It. Cadenza Semplice, Cadenza Composta, Cadenza Doppia) of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Referencing music cognition research, music theory sources and improvisation …
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"""The Form Must Be Ripped Endlessly Open"": Narrative and Gesture in the Late Music of Stefan Wolpe"
… a moment of repose; however, unlike traditional cadences this does not result in a feeling of resolution or closure.
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Becoming Jerome Kern: The Early Songs and Shows, 1903--1915
… harmonic and melodic sequences, modulations, and cadences. Finally I examine Kern's work as a musical dramatist within the context of his first full score, The Red Petticoat (1912). Although this score has been largely forgotten, I argue that it represents an important template for the integration …
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Assessment of joint kinetics in elite sprint cyclists
… of sprint performance at optimal cadence, and cadences 30% lower and 30% higher, in both seated and standing positions. Study three compared joint kinetics of sprint cycling performance with commonly-applied resistance-training exercises in an elite cycling cohort, in order to better understand …
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Franz Joseph Haydn’s Sturm und Drang Symphonic Minuets: Convention and Deformation in Form, Cadence, and Meter
… formal functions to approach issues of form and cadences, the thesis explores formal and cadential deviations from the Classical norm in aspects of the minuets’ intra-thematic structures, coda/codetta treatment, motivic homogeneity, harmony, and melody. My study also discusses aspects of …
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Vivaria
… variation. What remains are the gestures, cadences, and phrase structures—devoid of the nuance and fidelity of the original ecosystem. The processed electronics spawn new gestures, reflecting a dystopian vision of a synthetic world overtaking the natural world. This mirrors the Deus ex …
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Partimenti and schemata: seventeenth-century educational tools applied to modern music theory education
… learning and application for students in cadences, periods, sentences, tonicizations, modulations, and using chromaticism. Sample assignments are provided in the Appendix.
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Effets d'une arthroplastie de la hanche sur la marche de sujets âgés de 60 à 76 ans
… Les sujets marchent en ligne droite selon trois cadences de marche: naturelle, rapide et accélérée. Un système d'acquisition cinématique OPTOTRAK est utilisé afin d'enregistrer la position tridimensionnelle de douze marqueurs infrarouges apposés bilatéralement sur des repères anatomiques. Les …
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Determining What's Next: A Slow Movement for Chamber Orchestra
… is established the tonality becomes blurred and cadences are delayed. The first violin and flute seem to be behind a couple measures even though they are considered of the fastest instruments in the orchestra. Eventually the orchestra collides and unites again to build strength, but it is of no …
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"I've a Voice, I've a Voice": Determining Stephen Sondheim's Compositional Style Through a Music-theoretic Analysis of His Theater Works
… His use of motivic stops and melodic cadences often contains large intervals or outlines of large intervals not common in other composers. Prosody and drama affect his melodic writing, in that he writes short, motivic units that are often repeated for a dramatic effect, sometimes …
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Perspectives on teaching jazz piano "comping" in the college music program with sample instructional units
… and alterations, upper-structure triads, II-V-I cadences, tritone substitution, chord successions, and typical chord progressions. Rhythmic materials include typical jazz rhythms. Each instructional unit is comprised of (A) presentation of a theoretical concept, (B) exercises for learning the …
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A comparison of human walking using a conventional gait laboratory and the Motek Medical Computer Assisted Rehabilitation Environment (CAREN)
… the negative effect of optic flow echoed similar cadences and stride lengths from the treadmill walking environment to the treadmill walking with optic flow (grass pathway only) environment, due to the participants' similar sensations during the two walks. The knee kinematics measured showed that …
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An exploration of the nature of teacher/peer feedback interactions on pre-sessional English for academic purposes (EAP) courses in UK higher education.
… writing conferences; particularly the cadences of role construction and negotiation of viewpoints between peers in student-student writing conferences, within the context of English for Academic Purposes (EAP) programmes‘ pre-sessional writing courses in a UK university. The author …
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Techniques and Technologies for Earth-twin Discoveries
… and to compare the results with typical survey cadences. I found that an intense survey reliably and regularly finds a variety of planets, including the Earth-twins, and out-performs the typical survey cadence. The major new technology I have developed is an experiment to measure the geometric …
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