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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"compositional method"”.
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William Styron: three studies of compositional method
… (1967). These documents supply clues to Styron's compositional method and therefore add to our understanding of the author, his fictions, and his reading public.
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Imagery and the composition of music: an insight into an original compositional method inspired by mental imagery
… written commentary which describes in depth the compositional process undertaken whilst composing them, defines the concept 'mental imagery' as applied to this process. and sets the concept within a broad theoretical framework which addresses cognitive sciences, the philosophy of meaning and …
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Mozart's Late Liturgical Compositional Method: The Mass in C minor, K. 427 and the Mass Movement Fragments, 1779-1791
… and the autograph scores - attests to a compositional method that included distinct notational phases and meticulous revision. Examination of these sources has also led to some changes in our understanding of the chronology of Mozart’s music. With the exception of the unfinished Mass in C …
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Pop/Rock Compositions Lyrically Targeting an "At-risk" Constituency
… artists are discussed in tandem with my compositional method (i.e., lyrics, writing techniques, studio production techniques).
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The Chirurgeon
… of poems created via "chirurgy," a new compositional method developed for this volume. Chirurgy employs various procedural and creative writing techniques to produce entirely new poems from source texts. In stage one of the process, source poems are reduced to their sequences of nouns. …
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Defining Recomposition Through the Works of Gregson, Richter, and Peck: Creating a Dialogue with Vivaldi and Bach to Compose New Music.
<p> Recomposition has been a commonly utilized compositional method for hundreds of years, yet there is no universally accepted definition in the musical community. The existing literature on the subject is limited, so this project will examine various sources to define this term more accurately. …
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Movement and Shape in the Choral Music of Roger Sessions
… literary and teaching contributions, and general compositional style, the essay presented Session's aesthetic views and his belief in an organic compositional method. Because Sessions only valued analyses which did not purport to determine the composer's "intentions", the selection of an …
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Data Sonification in Creative Practice
… finding increasing acceptance as a scientific method, particularly where a visual representation of data is inadequate, it is still often derided as a ‘gimmick’. Composers have also shown growing interest in sonification as a compositional method. Both in science and in music, the criticism …
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Compositional Techniques in Hodie by Ralph Vaughan Williams
… used not only complicated and innovative compositional techniques but also the largest instrumentation among his choral-orchestral compositions. It gives a challenging opportunity for composers who wish to learn innovative compositional techniques for vocal or choral-orchestral music. This …
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Multichannel audiovisual composition using audiovisual sampling, synchronous granular synthesis andpseudorandom number generator algorithms
… research project describes and implements a new method for creating multichannel audio visual compositions based on audio visual sampling, synchronous granular synthesis techniques and pseudorandom number generator algorithms. The project begins by introducing and analysing the concept of audio …
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The Music Of Peter Maxwell Davies Based On The Writings Of George Mackay Brown
… differences are a matter of style, rather than compositional method. The thesis then develops the argument that because of the variety of styles employed by Maxwell Davies, conventional analysis has failed to deal adequately with all aspects of his music, most notably when texts are involved. …
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Behind the curtain: composing acousmatic sounds and 3D CGI
This commentary details the methods and ideas involved in creating a portfolio of audiovisual works that form a practice-based PhD completed at De Montfort University. The overall aim of this research project is to explore possible ways of combining acousmatic sounds with three-dimensional …
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Compositions, logratios and geostatistics: An application to iron ore
Common implementations of geostatistical methods, kriging and simulation, ignore the fact that geochemical data are usually reported in weight percent, sum to a constant, and are thus compositional in nature. The constant sum implies that rescaling has occurred and this can be shown to produce …