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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"early music"”.
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Early Music Reimagined For Clarinet Consorts
Early music for instrumental consorts dates back to the 16th century. Clarinet choirs have existed only since the last decade of the 19th century. About three hundred years worth of consort music remains untouched by clarinetists. As a result, these arrangements are severely underrepresented in the …
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The Early Music Ensemble in 21st Century America
The early music ensemble has evolved from a counterculture to a mainstream musical genre. Because of this early music is having to learn arts management. Once a unique force it now competes with other arts organizations for funding and audience. Unlike other arts groups, early music has little help …
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A Critical Analysis Of Actions Taken Upon Historic Musical Instruments Through The Period Of The Early Music Revival From The Beginning Of The 20th Century To The 1990s
… analysis of craft internvention upon historic musical instruments. It is centred upon the tension between use and preservation that arose with the conflicting demands of the early music revival for working musical instruments,and of the conservation discipline for the preservation of these …
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EARLY INSTRUMENTS IN 21ST CENTURY COMPOSITION AND AN ORIGINAL COMPOSITION FOR SAXOPHONES AND VIOLS
… and sonorities to bend to their will. The early music revival of the twentieth century has resurrected dozens of instruments that have gone unutilized in contemporary composition for centuries. The historically-informed-performance movement has now evolved to a point where early instruments …
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Advanced Music Training and Executive Function: A Neurocognitive Study
… was to assess the relationship between advanced music training and neurocognitive functioning, with specific focus on executive function, working memory, and tactile interhemispheric transfer. Twenty professional musicians and a comparison group of 19 individuals with no formal music training or …
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A Bird’s Eye View: Large-Scale Tonal Structures in Robert Schumann’s Four Song Cycles (op. 42, 24, 39, and 48)
… by performers and exciting vigorous debate among musicologists and theorists. Robert Schumann’s early music was almost entirely composed for the piano alone; it wasn’t until 1840 that he started to compose almost exclusively Lieder and song cycles inspired by his predecessors Beethoven and …
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The style of meditation: a conductor's analysis of selected motets by Rihards Dubra
… an introduction to the Latvian composer's music and a conductor's analysis of selected Latin motets. Works to be examined include: Salve Regina (1992) SSAATTBB Gloria patri (1992) SSAATTBB Oculus non vidit (1993) SSATTB Ave Maria (1994) SSAATTB Veni sancte Spiritus (1994) SATB Rorate caeli …
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Curriculum Changes in Worship Leader Training at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary from 1980 to 2019
The School of Church Music and Department of Biblical Worship at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary has been training ministers of music, worship pastors, and worship leaders since 1944. During this span, the School of Church Music (SCM), School of Church Music and Worship (SCMW), and …
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Musical Notation and Liturgical Books in Late Carolingian Nonantola
The musical notation of the northern Italian Benedictine abbey of St Sylvester in Nonantola has hitherto been neglected by most scholarship on early music scripts, mainly because of the paucity of surviving music manuscripts and their limited geographical diffusion. A new study was needed in order …
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Perspectives on straight-tone singing in Western Classical music
Straight-tone singing in Western Classical music is a highly controversial subject. The primary objective of this study was to determine whether singing with a straight-tone was considered healthy or not and whether it is encouraged or recommended in performances today for aesthetic reasons. A …
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Edino Krieger's solo piano works from the 1950s : a dialectical synthesis in Brazilian musical modernism
… in the aesthetic-historical context of Brazilian musical nationalism. By way of introduction, this work traces the origins of this cultural trend as it emerged from earlier examples of Romantic Nationalism, with reference to works by Brasílio Itiberê, Alexandre Levy and Alberto Nepomuceno, still …
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The Baroque flute as a modern voice : Extended techniques and their practical integration through performance and improvisation
… for performance, particularly within early music settings, and more recently has been welcomed into the area of contemporary music. This research continues to widen the boundaries of the modern baroque flute by building on its rich history in both technical aspects and practical …
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Huérfanos de Orfeo: poesía y música en la cultura de los Siglos de Oro
… interlace of connections between poetry and music. It focusses on the case of early modern Spain, and it studies a large corpus of poetry in Spanish from 1500 to 1700. The corpus includes Renaissance and Baroque poems of many genres and from many sources, both printed and manuscript, by …
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Georg Philipp Telemann and the Invention of 'the Polish Style': Musical Polishness in the Early Modern German Imagination
… and cultural significance of Polish-style music and dance across early modern German lands, focusing on the composer Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767), who was regarded by his contemporaries as a leading practitioner of ‘the Polish style’ of composition. Although references to ‘Polish’ …