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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"contemporary classical music"”.
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A La Música: The Musical Abstract Paintings Of Kazuya Sakai, 1964-1979
… paintings after works of jazz, rock, and contemporary classical music. Despite this, most historical scholarship on Sakai considered his work stylistically within the context of Mexican geometric abstraction, lacking specific attention to compositions the paintings are titled after. This …
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Tarnavazan
… through a hybrid approach, blending Persian classical music and Western contemporary classical music. The Persian material is derived from the dastgāh Shur and dastgāh Nava (two Persian modes), while the Western material is based on a mode called the Partials mode, which is derived from the …
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Composer and performer roles in contemporary music: an autoethnographic study
In 20th and 21st century contemporary classical music the instrumentalist has played a vital role in developing the art form. However, the input of the performer into the preparation of new works is not one which has been clearly documented. This project is a practice-led approach that articulates …
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SOUNDING STRATEGY: COMPOSERS’ USES OF SOCIAL JUSTICE AND POLITICAL THEMES IN CONTEMPORARY CLASSICAL CONCERT MUSIC
Contemporary classical concert music could be part of the solution to build a just and sustainable future. My research demonstrates that such music, despite its niche, elitist positioning in contemporary American society, can contribute to social movements and change the world in meaningful, …
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Contemporary music in Canada: Alexina Louie.
… (1949-) is one of Canada's foremost composers of contemporary classical music. She was named "Composer of the Year 1986" by the Canada Music Council in the International Year of Canadian music. Her compositions have been commissioned and performed by Canada's major orchestras, ensembles, and …
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Directive, interactive and collaborative compositional methodologies and the consolidation of musical style: PhD portfolio of compositions and written commentary
… approach that best serves to consolidate my musical style. This model is applied in two final scores.<br/><br/>It is intended that the research presented will be of interest to composers and performers who are working in the field of contemporary classical music, providing a case study that …
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Routine investigations: expanding the language of improvisation through interdisciplinary interaction
… an exploration into textures found largely in contemporary classical music scores and recordings, and more specifically selected contemporary classical piano compositions. By extracting the principles of their construction in an intuitive manner, I have developed a number of models and …
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Gnarly Buttons: Composer-Performer Collaboration in Contemporary Accordion Music
… composers and performers is a common practice in contemporary classical music, a genre in which the accordion is becoming increasingly popular. Collaboration between accordionists and composers is particularly significant because of relative novelty of the instrument; composers often lack general …
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Visions of Water in Lower Murray Country
… performance and colonial ballads through to contemporary classical music and sound art; and to nearly two centuries of evolution in the sonic character of Lower Murray Country’s waters—ranging from disfiguring deforestation and damming through to rising salinity and irrigation. As such, this …
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The Resistant Body In Sound: Cripping Music Creation Through Technology, Embodiment, And Disability Philosophy
We are currently in a period where many music organisations are beginning to engage with disabled artists as a part of their diversity agenda. However, practice seems limited to questions of physical access to spaces and asks little around the philosophies of disability and how that might change …
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A polyphony of the mind: intertextuality in the music of Salvatore Sciarrino
… this by showing how three different kinds of music that the composer writes, problematize such analysis, concluding that a poststructural alternative that is both semiotically-inflected and intertextual, is necessary. The second chapter explores how such an analysis might be constructed. It …