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Showing 1 to 20 of 40 for “"contrapuntal"”.
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A contrapuntal examination of selected works by Roger Vailland and Ousmane Sembène, 1950-1960
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The influence of J.S. Bach's contrapuntal style in the 'Well-tempered clavier' on selected piano fugues by Romantic composers
… study of the relationships between the contrapuntal language of J.S. Bach, as evinced in the Well-Tempered Clavier, and fugues for the piano by selected Romantic composers. The research involves a preliminary investigation into the decline of Bach's music in the Classical era and the …
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Virtual voices and contrapuntal melodies: exploring the liminal experiences of part-time, adult learners as they embark on undergraduate, online study
Using liminal spaces as a heuristic tool, this study explores the experiences of fifteen adult learners as they complete the first academic module of their part-time, online degree. Online undergraduate programmes enable adult learners to make decisions of how their aspirations are best met. The …
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COMPREHENSIVE ANALYSIS OF MOVEMENT ONE OF JENNIFER HIGDON’S VIOLIN CONCERTO
… Concerto, addressing concerns of linear and contrapuntal development, along with the harmonic language employed in this movement, to prove that these traits are at the heart of Higdon's compositional voice and are what make her works accessible, yet engaging. The thesis will then provide a …
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Coming to Terms with Abusive Childhood Sexual Experiences: A Listening Guide Study of Women's Stories
… for plot, identity ("I" voice), and two contrapuntal voices. The four listenings allowed for a multilayered approach to understanding how the women have come to terms. A multiplicity of voices emerged both within and across participants, with voices of guilt, innocence, betrayal, …
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Polymodality, counterpoint, and heptatonic synthetic scales in jazz composition; and its application in an original piece "Polymodal Jazz Suite for Quartet”
… explores the application of polymodality through contrapuntal and homophonic means, combined with heptatonic synthetic scales in jazz composition. The research concentrates on three main areas: polymodality, as developed by Western art composers of the first half of the twentieth century; jazz …
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Penthesilea
… in the death of both. Penthesilea features contrapuntal writing, elaborate harmonic language and Leitmotif technique. The performance time is approximately 40 minutes.
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Triadic Music in Twentieth-Century Russia
… studies dealing with the treatment of triads in contrapuntal, functionally harmonic, and atonal contexts respectively, drawing on untranslated (or in one case, poorly translated) writings from twentieth-century Russian music theory.</p> <p>The first study describes Sergey Taneyev’s system of …
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The Application of Tapping Techniques in Compositions for the Solo Electric Bass
… of particular musical material, including; contrapuntal forms, large range discrepancies, high velocity monophonic lines, and many others. The intent of this paper is to provide a resource in which knowledge regarding the limitations and possibilities of the technique can be obtained and …
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An Analysis of Nobuo Uematsu’s Linear Structures: The Score of Final Fantasy VI’s Opera
… a linear analysis of the music, borrowing from contrapuntal techniques of important theorists such as Heinrich Schenker and Paul Hindemith. The analysis will explain how some linear progressions play guiding roles within the music while others although heard, may not be as important. …
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The Magnificat settings of Giacomo Antonio Perti (1661-1756): a modern edition and commentary
… While Perti’s music is firmly rooted in the contrapuntal tradition, the stylistic changes in his music over the course of his life are interesting reflections of the development of pre-classical style in northern Italy.
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Mahlerian Tonality: Challenges to Classical Foreground Structures in the Music of Gustav Mahler
… (tonic intrusion, Phrygian 2, and contrapuntal bass). In a study of common-tone techniques, this dissertation proposes a new system for identifying common-tone harmonies based on their voice-leading distance from a local reference harmony (“applied displacement”). The study then …
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Sensory flows of spice: a multisensory ethnography exploring how spice influences home cooks’ sense of belonging in Cape Town
… the Cape. I draw on the works of Edward Said’s contrapuntal reading and offer a reading-back of Cape Cuisine to search for the complexities of social lives and lived experiences.
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Utilizing Relational Dialectics Theory to Identify Dominant and Marginalized Discourses in Women's Miscarriage Podcast Stories
… Dialectic Theory (RDT). The process of contrapuntal analysis identified the discourse of silence as the dominant miscarriage discourse in which the marginalized miscarriage discourse of silence as the dominant miscarriage discourse in which the marginalized miscarriage discourses of open …
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Konohana
… of the blooming flowers. From the clarinet, contrapuntal lines emerge and progressively densify the instrumental texture like rhizomes. This densification is interrupted by the presence of « inserts », ephemeral blocs of material radically different and interconnected to each other. The …
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Style characteristics of selected American hymn arrangements for piano, published 1963-2003
… evangelistic (Rudy Atwood and Marilynn Ham), contrapuntal (Tedd Smith), chromatic (Fred Bock), virtuosic (Dino Kartsonakis), classical quotation (Gail Smith), twentieth century (several arrangers), country (Elmo Mercer), and New Age, pop, and jazz (Mark Hayes). While no biographical …
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Poland for Poles: Nationalist Imaginaries and the Reproduction of Sexual and Racialized Otherness
… and Edward W. Said's (1993) method(ology) of contrapuntal reading, Reiner Keller's (1993) sociology of knowledge approach to discourse (SKAD) with Teun A. van Dijk's (1993) critical discourse analysis (CDA) while engaging in-depth interviewing and participant observation. In doing so, it shows …
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Haydn's Creation as a Musical Response to the Enlightenment
… orthodoxy is The Creation's departure from the contrapuntal textures of Baroque oratorio--associated by James Webster and Hermann Danuser with the element of the musical "sublime"--to a pluralistic musical palette including elements from secular genres such as opera and symphony. These parallel …
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A New Place at the Table: Ancient Cadential Patterns for Modern Improvision and Aural Skills Training
… cadences concisely synthesize and demonstrate contrapuntal interplay and voice leading between bass and treble voices, basic syncopation and rhythmic division, and the concept of dissonance/consonance within linear parameters as an integral aspect of musical form. A series of beginner to …
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A Phenomenological Approach to Comparison: The Non-Metaphorical Poetics of Paul Celan and Wang Wei
… their non-metaphorical poetics, resulting in contrapuntal dialogues between different ideas and expressions that are grounded in their respective cultural background. Developing from Husserl's "transcendental inter-subjectivity", my approach in particular applies Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology …
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