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Showing 1 to 20 of 78 for “"compositional process"”.
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Collaboration as Compositional Process; a Transdisciplinary Perspective.
The aim of this research is to investigate the process of creating four non-vocal and two operatic works. In order to meet this aim, collaboration and transdisciplinarity were identified as common features in each of the works. Collaboration occurred with musicians and artists from other …
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Creative Performer Agency in the Collaborative Compositional Process
… nature of the performer’s creative impact on the compositional process remains under-explored. This thesis is centred on a qualitative artistic research project, designed to identify and critically evaluate the prospective extent and scope of creative performer agency; it aims to ascertain how a …
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The composer as technologist : an investigation into compositional process
This work presents an investigation into compositional process. This is undertaken where a study of musical gesture, certain areas of cognitive musicology, computer vision technologies and object-orientated programming, provide the basis for a composer (author) to assume the role of a technologist …
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Compositional process of Rene Clausen as demonstrated in selected choral works
The purpose of this study was to document the compositional process of the American composer, Rene Clausen (b. 1953). The writer conducted three days of interviews with Dr. Clausen to discuss his compositional process in selected choral works. The discussion included Clausen's "creative impetus," …
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Zack Browning and the compositional process in blockhouse, double shot, and sole injection
… profile, as well as an overview of Browning’s compositional career. Chapters Two, Three, and Four present and in-depth analysis of the three compositions by Browning that feature the violin: Blockhouse (2006) for violin, cello, and piano (Chapter Two); Double Shot (2000) for violin and piano …
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Tracing the Compositional Process. Sound art that rewrites its own past: formation, praxis and a computer framework
… which is often neglected or ill-defined: the process of composing itself and its embedding in time. Previous research mostly focused on instrumental composition or, when electronic music was included, the computer was treated as a tool which would eventually be subtracted from the equation. …
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"""The ineffable moments will be harder won"": the genesis, compositional process, and early performance history of Michael Tippett's The Heart's Assurance"
… Library Sketches, revealing that Tippett’s compositional process was text-driven and melodically-inspired. Further discussion contrasts and compares these sketches with the later Aldeburgh Drafts and Sketches and the autograph MS. Analysis of these manuscripts presents a micro-view of …
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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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Song, Songwriting and the Songwriter in the English Folk Song Revival
… perceptions, and to examine and illustrate the compositional process.<br/><br/>I suggest that the context in which song is written and performed is vital to establishing the aesthetic criteria, and therefore I will analyse the phenomenon of the English folk song revival. Incorporated in this …
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Compositional strategies in electroacoustic music
… pieces of the portfolio and aims to discuss compositional strategies. The pieces were designed with the intention of exploring ways of creating relationships between musical materials of differing natures. Structuring methods are outlined using examples from two acousmatic and three mixed …
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Composition research folio
… spectromorphological analysis, methodology and compositional process, and concepts of space in Varese's Ionisation and in these compositions.
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Music in Site: Integrating elements of site-specificity into composition
… offer unique musical material for the compositional process. Acoustic and physical design features of unorthodox performance spaces can become part of works and their performances. This thesis examines ways to integrate acoustic characteristics of an architectural space into the …
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The Composer Isn't There: A personal exploration of place in fixed media composition
… played a significant role throughout both the compositional process and in the reflection of each composition. This research explores how place is ‘heard and felt’ (Feld, 2005) in a composition and how recollected memory impacts on the compositional process. Artistic decisions made with regard …
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An investigation into the creative balance between pre-compositional and musical decisions
… into the creative balance between pre-compositional and musical decisions. The title represents my workings as a composer, and how the influence of others have effected my decisions to use their musical language and in the same way de-construct the workings of those significant …
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Portfolio of compositions containing Symphony No. 104, From The Eumenides, Lost Words, String Quartet No. 2, String Quartet No. 3, 12 Miniatures, Non-Stable Equilibrium and a commentary on the compositions
… and the music intuitively written. In the compositional process, particular attention was paid to clarity of form and musical expression. It is the composer’s desire that each section or movement be perceived as a coherent unit with an individual musical identity. The commentary for the …
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Phonographies: Practical and Theoretical Explorations into Composing with Disembodied Sound
… philosophical issues that have arisen during the compositional process and the perfannance of the works. It charts out discourse surrounding the different genres of electroacoustic music that the works relate to as well as examining models of work in the respective genres (i. e. sonic art, text.. …
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General Process in the Creation of Estruendos and Principal Structural Elements of the Composition
… orchestra, guitar and computer-generated and processed sounds on CD. The work lasts 23 minutes and 45 seconds. My dissertation is composed of two parts: Part One comprises the analysis and Part Two comprises the score. Part One gives a brief background of my compositional dialect and …
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Composing with flexible phrases: the impact of a newly designed digital musical instrument upon composing Western popular music for commercials and movie trailers.
… project is an original investigation into the process of producing five compositions employing a self-designed digital musical instrument (DMI) called the ‘Flexible Phrase System’ (FPS). This research consists of two interconnected design processes: one is the production of a portfolio of …
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Modern Folk Music Composition: A Self-reflexive Exploration
… and how modern recording has become part of the compositional process. The thesis also considers my personal creative experience in writing and recording in a modern studio and live performance context.
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Trick Rider
… strategies of chance operations, to explore the compositional process in relation to time, how time is experienced during the writing process and is communicated through the text as an object and through the process of reading. The polyphonic speaker of <em>Trick Rider</em> is a stunt double and …
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