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Showing 1 to 20 of 43 for “"consonance"”.
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Between consonance and dissonance
This document and accompanying portfolio trace the philosophical and technical evolution of my work in composition from 2012 to 2015. It shows how my work - originally influenced largely by Morton Feldman and John Cage - developed as a result of my interest in just intonation and microtonality and …
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Consonance, Tertian Structures and Tonal Coherence in Wladimir Vogel's Dodecaphonic World
Wladimir Vogel's (1896-1984) interest in twelve-tone composition began to develop in 1936 after hearing a series of lectures by Willi Reich, a music critic and supporter of the new music of the Second Viennese School. The transition for Vogel from a large-scale orchestral “classical” style, …
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The Vocational Imperative: Kazuo Ishiguro's Fictions and the Discourse of Denial
… thesis introduces the concepts of 'interpretive consonance' and 'vocational imperative' as a means of understanding Ishiguro's writing as a fictional embodiment and exploration of these ideas.<br/><br/>Following a general introduction, the first chapter establishes frames for a reading of …
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Tuning and temperament in southern Germany to the end of the seventeenth century
… as a comprehensive, interdependent theory of consonance and harmony is attempted must have been a source of bewilderment and embarrassment,to Renaissance and Baroque theorists and musicians. Composite instruments such as human voices in concert have no difficulty in making pitch adjustments …
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holiness and other hauntings
… towards music; internal rhyme, assonance and consonance, alliteration, and long strings of rhymed vowels that sit like pearls in the mouth. Her poems beg forgiveness in shouts; she writes as remembrance, as prayer, as missive, as an engine for hope.
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Breaking Through: A Composition for Symphony Orchestra
… levels. The local dichotomies contrast consonance with dissonance and ambiguity with clarity (in respect to texture and rhythm). The dichotomy of two-part form versus three-part form and the dichotomy of simplicity versus complexity operate on the large scale. The unity lended by the …
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<i>Event Horizon</i>
… sections of tension and repose, chromatic consonance, and directional lines that move toward prepared pitches. Such techniques make it possible to maintain a relatively tonal language while not relying heavily on traditional harmonic progression. <em>Event Horizon</em> is written for full …
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"Now, Then, Then:" An Original Composition and Examination of the Influence of Blues, Bluegrass, and Rock in Western Concert Music
… <em>Raphael</em> by Bryce Dessner, <em>Cognitive Consonance II: Westering</em> by Christopher Trapani, <em>Bog Bodies and other Macabre Miniatures</em> by Nicolas Lell Benavides, and “Three Dots and a Dash” by Punch Brothers. Each of these works uses distinct instrumentations, but every ensemble …
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Systems analysis, design, and testing for an agricultural soil compaction sensing device
… gas emissions (GHGs), achieving this increase in consonance with climate change reduction goals presents a formidable challenge. In the past, large yield improvements have been realized from genetically modified seeds, synthetic fertilizers and pesticides, increased mechanization, and improved …
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Light Suite
… space, line breaks, line length, assonance and consonance to create works that are as close to my speaking voice as possible.
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Theories of Rhythm and Meter and Their Pedagogical Implications For Non-Pitched Percussion Music With An Analysis of William Kraft's French Suite
… metrical hierarchy, phrase expansion, metrical consonance and dissonance, hypermeter, asymmetrical meter, metric modulation, and durational rhythm. Past and present scholarship will be used for generating these definitions, while some of the terminology will be taken directly from these …
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Getting Out the Gates: Underrepresented Minority Students' Search for Success in Introductory Chemistry Courses to Continue on the STEM Path
… to the students' experiences. There was far more consonance between the different perspectives than was originally anticipated while the research study was being conceived. It became apparent that very particular definitions existed regarding what STEM was, who the STEM participant was as well as …
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An analysis of the perceptions of institutional goal priorities of college-wide and campus administrators among the five multi-campus community colleges of the Virginia Community College System
… of the data analysis, it was concluded that goal consonance existed between and among college and campus administrative groups (college-wide/central office and campus administrators) of the five Virginia multi-campus community colleges.
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Mesoscopic dynamics of pitch processing in human auditory cortex.
… presents a strong correlation with the perceived consonance: dissonant dyads generate later PORs than consonant dyads. Our theory of pitch processing describes consonance (dissonance) as a direct effect of harmonic collaboration (competition) during the cortical integration process: the cortical …
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Ways of integrating musical systems: a portfolio of compositions
… new ways of defining and even quantifying consonance and dissonance are developed. This is followed by the extension of the technique to structural organisation. Explanation of approaches to timbre and texture are also given, and finally a wide range of influences, from throughout the canon …
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A Techno-Functional Analysis of Early Archaic Lithic Production Debris: Assessing Technological Practice and Settlement in the Middle Savannah River Valley of South Carolina
… The results of this analysis offer broad consonance with current understandings of settlement and technological organization during the Early Archaic in the Middle Savannah River Valley.</p>
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Peer support trumps drug cocktails: cultural views of treatment options for persons with bipolar and depressive disorders
… referred to in the literature as "cultural consonance"- as well as the actual strategies which participants employed in addition to, or in some cases, instead of, their medications. Marijuana use and religion/spirituality were also sometimes mentioned as factors which contributed to helping …
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Neural correlates of pitch and roughness : toward the neural code for melody and harmony
… tuning systems and the use of dissonance and consonance to create harmonic tension and resolution, suggests that their perception may have fundamental neurophysiological bases. Thus, music provides a natural set of stimuli and associated percepts with which the auditory system can be studied. …
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A New Place at the Table: Ancient Cadential Patterns for Modern Improvision and Aural Skills Training
… rhythmic division, and the concept of dissonance/consonance within linear parameters as an integral aspect of musical form. A series of beginner to intermediate exercises for use in vocal and instrumental training are presented. The dissertation recommends that intervallic suspensions be given a …
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The devil's poor and the invisible city charity, order and agency in early modern England
… of governmentality were premised on this consonance of self-interested individual activity and the maintenance of social order.
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