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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"chromaticism"”.
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The Significance of Kenny Wheeler in the Evolution of Jazz Compozition from Diatonic Chromatic Background
… light on the relationship of diatonicism and chromaticism, but not in a surface way. In the action of moving through this paper it is hoped that a more subtle background idea of chromaticism can be seen that is still within the realm of perceived tonality. It is an improvisers process, yet a …
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Polyfocal structures in Franz Schubert's Lieder
… specifically, proleptic allusion will refer to chromaticism that anticipates a tonic, and analeptic allusion to chromaticism that recalls a tonic. Many composers have written polyfocal compositions, but the first to write a significant number of them is Franz Schubert. Polyfocal tonality is …
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"Aspects of Renaissance Influence in Selected Movements of Morten Lauridsen's ""Madrigali: Six 'Fire Songs' on Italian Renaissance Poems"" and ""Lux Aeterna"""
… he incorporates obvious musical devices such as chromaticism, cross-relations, canon, paired duets, cantus firmus, chant-like melodic writing, Augenmusik, abruptio, and imitation that are historical techniques generally associated with the aforementioned composers. Although he does not attempt to …
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Last Snow: An Analysis of an Original Electronic Music Suite
… incorporate some concepts regarding synthetic chromaticism that the composer was considering during a month while he was convalescing in a hospital after a near fatal heart attack that was endured during the summer of 2009.
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Beyond the Human Voice: Francis Poulenc's Psychological Drama La Voix humaine (1958)
… in a language that shifts between octatonicism, chromaticism, harmonic and melodic whole tone passages, and diatonicism. This late work recontextualizes elements in Poulenc's Dialogues des Carmélites (1953-56), and the end of the opera provides a theme for his Sonate pour Clarinet et Piano(1962), …
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Concerto for Solo Violin and Chamber Orchestra
… between B minor and B major (with significant chromaticism) and harmonies that never fully resolve until the end of the piece. The second section begins in a brisk compound meter, reminiscent of a dance, and is suggestive of D major. The development of this section culminates in a driving …
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A Conductor’s Analysis of Almeida Prado’s Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ According to Saint Mark
… based on non-functional harmony and incorporates chromaticism, clusters, modality, and experiments with both texture and tone color as found in the works of Messiaen, Debussy, and Schoenberg. Many European techniques were being recognized and incorporated into works of Brazilian composers that …
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Applications of Béla Bartók's techniques of pitch organisation to jazz improvisation
… compression and diatonic extension’, ‘polymodal chromaticism’, and ‘inversional symmetry’. These four techniques inform a reflexive practice-led research project developing a collection of practice methods aimed at internalising and executing the techniques in improvised performance. The …
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Pedal Points: Harmony and the Double-Action Pedal System in Modern Harp Music
… While the evolution of tonality and rise in chromaticism incentivized the invention of the double-action pedal harp, the unique restraints and extensions of this technological system influence harmony and pitch collections in chromatic harp music. This thesis explores the pedal harp and the …
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Graduate Recital, Cello
… the recital program without the differences in chromaticism respective to the themes of each of the previous pieces. The Capriccio piece by Lukas Foss (1922 - 2009), a recently deceased American composer, will lighten the recital's mood with its exciting rhythmic momentum and major mode, while …
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An Examination of Toccata Line Movements in Prokofiev's Piano Music
… the harmonic language of these works, such as chromaticism and dissonance treatment. Chapter 5 summarizes the findings and explores possible explanations for Prokofiev's statement that the toccata line works are his "least important." </p>
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Structural processes in Gabriel Fauré's nocturnes for piano
… his complex integration of advanced chromaticism and extended modal procedures. The latter, which include the use of modes of non-diatonic scales and modes on altered degrees, have received hardly any scholarly attention, despite constituting a highly significant contribution to …
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Partimenti and schemata: seventeenth-century educational tools applied to modern music theory education
… sentences, tonicizations, modulations, and using chromaticism. Sample assignments are provided in the Appendix.
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Sidewinder syndrome : improvisational vocabulary and construction of Richard "Blue" Mitchell and Lee Morgan
… included bebop scale, 3-b9 movement, linear chromaticism, and tri-tone substitution / altered dominant. Vocal inflections derived from gospel music and urban blues were the half-valve, grace note, alternate fingerings, note bending, and fall. Bebop influenced articulation included …
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Claude Debussy: Harmonic Innovations in Historical and Musical Context
… and the Second Viennese School expanded chromaticism to a completely atonal application in the creation of the twelve-tone method, other composers forged toward alternatives by creatively reshaping tonality. Claude Debussy (1862-1918) developed a new treatment of tonality that would …
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The influence of romanticism on the evolution of the transcendental etudes of Franz Liszt
… Thalberg and Chopin, as well as the advanced chromaticism characteristics of the latter's music. Crucial to the realisation of the intermediate version with its almost superhuman technical demands is also the influence of Paganini. The final version entitled etudes d'execution trancendente …
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Ombra music in the eighteenth century : context, style and signification
… in the minor), angular melodic lines, chromaticism and dissonance, dotted rhythms and syncopation, pauses, tremolando effects, sudden dynamic contrasts, unexpected harmonic progressions and unusual instrumentation, especially involving trombones. Parallels can be drawn between these …
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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
… harmonic cohesion through the use of chromaticism and pedal points. Background cohesion comes by remaining in a single key, despite the monotonal excursions he takes that bring the characters and the music to places perceived as far away from where they started. The final approach of …
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The solo songs of Edward MacDowell : an examination of style and literary influence
… a synthesis of the first two periods. The chromaticism and active piano parts of the lieder are combined with the new lyricism of the second-period songs.Songwriting spans MacDowell's entire career and is evidence of the seriousness with which he viewed the medium. A thorough study of the …
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