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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"compositional technique"”.
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Ignacy Jan Paderewski's Sonata in E-Flat Minor, Op. 21: Insights into his compositional technique and performance style.
… Sonata, composed in 1903 near the end of his compositional career, is a work of the highest caliber, deserving a permanent place in the concert pianist's repertoire. The purpose of this paper is to provide performance suggestions based on Paderewski's performance style which will produce a …
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How did Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart adjust his compositional technique when writing for a Mezzosoprano en travesti? A comparison between the roles of Cherubino and Sesto
Heroic male operatic roles were not always limited to what is today mainly known as male voices (tenor or baritone/bass). In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries prepubescent boys were often castrated in order to keep their voices within the treble range. Some of these boys were extremely …
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TELLING STORIES: AN ANALYSIS OF SPEECH-MELODY COMPOSITIONS AND AN ORIGINAL SPEECH-MELODY COMPOSITION FOR WIND ENSEMBLE
<p>This thesis explores the compositional technique of speech melody and provides a brief historical overview of speech in music. This thesis also examines recent works (2005-2014) that have sourced their melodies from the spoken word and in turn creates an original composition for wind ensemble …
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Marionettes for orchestra.
… across the work. This paper outlines the compositional framework of the work by focusing on compositional technique and motivic development. The discussion focuses how musical materials evolve across movements to support the overall structure. All figures and musical examples presented in …
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Ran, Shulamit: Concerto da Camera II, Analysis of Pitch and Formal Structure
… insight into the understanding of Ran's unique compositional technique and style.
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“STARLIGHT SUITE”: A COMPOSITIONAL EXPLORATION OF THE ARGO NAVIS CONSTELLATIONS IN THREE MOVEMENTS
<p>This thesis explores a compositional technique in which stellar constellations are arranged upon musical staves in a variety of iterations to create a basis from which to draw melodic, harmonic, and rhythmic material. These raw extrapolations of unaltered notes are then arranged and orchestrated …
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Roy Harris' American Symphony - 1938: A Perspective on Its Historical Significance and Autogenetic Elements With a Performance of a Reconstructed Modern Wind Ensemble Edition
… life and works, an in-depth discussion of the compositional technique that Harris called “autogenesis,” and a detailed analysis of the two surviving movements of the band piece. The piece is also discussed comparatively with other significant works in Harris' symphonic genre, most notably his …
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The Songs of Lori Laitman: An Analysis of Sunflowers and Early Snow
… composer, this paper takes a look at Laitman’s compositional technique as applied to the song cycles Sunflowers and Early Snow. An examination of these songs reveals Laitman’s various melodic and harmonic methods used both to enhance her music as well as bind it together. This exploration …
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A Performer's Guide to John Musto's Penelope: A Cycle of Seven Songs for Soprano and Piano
… standard contemporary repertory for singers. His compositional technique weaves influences of jazz, blues, ragtime, and popular music with classical technique to make music that is decidedly modern but accessible and well liked both by critics and audiences. Unfortunately, though he is still …
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Schumann and the Development of the Collaborative Relationship between Voice and Piano in Opus 48 Dichterliebe
… and led to him solidifying his instrumental compositional technique. The year of 1840 to 1841, brought an abrupt change in his attitude about song composition and he went on with what has been described as his Liederjahr, in which he composed over 150 songs and several cycles including …
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The Violin Sonata of Amy Beach
… the Violin Sonata, along with her phenomenal compositional technique. The purpose of this monograph is to provide an historical, analytical, and stylistic study of Beach’s Violin Sonata. Chapter 1 presents biographical information of Beach. Chapter 2 introduces Beach’s violin and piano music …
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At the Conflux
… short article explores the relationship between compositional technique and referentiality through two exemplary works, the String Quartet No. 2, Bucephalus (1984) and The Bucket Rider (1995) with a brief exploration of the aesthetic of Arte Povera, an avant-garde art movement of the 1960s and …
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Purely Sonorous: The Rhetoric of Sound in Twentieth-Century Music
… sonicism on the level both of discourse and of compositional technique. The analysis is comparative: modernist concert music, electroacoustic/electronic music, and sound art are considered. These repertoires, although apparently disparate in their aesthetic and technical premises, imply a common …
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Regionalism in selected musical works of Charles Faulkner Bryan (1911-1955)
… how Bryan incorporated these elements into his compositional technique and dramaturgy. This study codifies those elements and demonstrates their significance in light of Bryan's rural southern heritage. Chapter 1 surveys the existing literature and primary sources on Bryan. The methodology …
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Pitch organisation in the music of Witold Lutoslawski since 1979
… has been, and continues to be, the overriding compositional concern of Witold Lutoslaweki. Previous writings on the composer and his music have touched on the subject, in many cases merely superficially, in some cases in more depth; nevertheless, significant aspects of his musical language and …
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The Use of the Polish Folk Music Elements and the Fantasy Elements in the Polish Fantasy on Original Themes in G-sharp Minor for Piano and Orchestra, Opus 19 by Ignacy Jan Paderewski
… used by composers of earlier times with his own compositional technique style. Chapter 4 discusses performance issues including pedaling, tempo rubato, and composer's own fingering. Chapter 5 provides a summary and conclusion of the study.
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The temporal and rhythmic effect on musical composition and form when scoring dramatic moving picture
… composition, such as calculating timings and techniques of synchronization of music to film, however, I have found that there is very little information on the compositional technique of film scoring. For example, one of the common aspects of film composition is that very often a composer must …
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Job for Organ: Programmatic Implications Drawn From Petr Eben's Musical Language
… find connections between the program and Eben's compositional techniques. This study focuses upon three specific musical devices and how each device is used to portray a musical program: musical quotations, associative themes, and dramatic musical contrasts.I isolate the musical quotations …
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Frank Zappa's orchestral works : art music or "bogus pomp"?
… Music of Edgard Varese as guidance on Varese's technique, as well as the opinions of Varese himself as most famously exemplified in the "Liberation of Sound" lecture he gave in 1936. This will form a basis to which we can compare certain elements of Zappa's music to, and in turn ascertain the …
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Aaron Copland's In the Beginning: context and creative process
… this dissertation is to shed light on Copland’s compositional techniques and philosophical perspectives, and to facilitate more compelling performances of In the Beginning.