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Showing 1 to 20 of 39 for “"folk song"”.
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Fantasy on the Korean folk song “Arirang”
<p><em>Fantasy on the Korean Folk Song “Arirang”</em> is an original tone poem for orchestra of approximately nine minutes duration. It is based on the Korean folk song, Arirang. Arirang deals with the story of a woman who hopes for the return of her lover. The work divides into two sections, …
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Folk song in Cumbria : a distinctive regional repertoire
… England has been the lack of systematic study of folk song and its performance in discrete geographical areas. This thesis endeavours to address this gap in knowledge in a small way, through a study of Cumbrian folk song and its performance over the past two hundred years. Although primarily a …
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Harmony in Discord: An Analysis of Catalan Folk Song
Traditional folk song is a reflection of the society that creates it. In the Catalan case it reflects not only Catalan society but also those of Valencia and the Balearic Islands, for whom forms of the Catalan language are native. This present thesis investigates the corpus of folk song in Catalan …
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Song, Songwriting and the Songwriter in the English Folk Song Revival
This study focuses on Song. I intend to establish the aesthetic criteria by which song can be judged, to analyse the power of song to influence people's perceptions, and to examine and illustrate the compositional process.<br/><br/>I suggest that the context in which song is written and performed …
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A justification for the study of folk song settings, or the arrangement as a valid composition
… thesis explores arrangements of British Isles folk song melodies as set by major composers: Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809), Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827), Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958), and Benjamin Britten (1913-1976). These composers found vivid inspiration and a certain amount of …
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Global Conversation: A Meeting Between Taiwanese Folk Song and Jazz, on the Model of Nils Landgren’s Swedish Folk Modern
The album Swedish Folk Modern (ACT Music 1998) was a creation by Swedish jazz musician Nils Landgren (trombone) and Esbjörn Svensson (piano). This recording combined selected Swedish folk melodies with jazz improvisation and furthered the richness of the original melodies within a duo setting. The …
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Ballads, songs and snatches: The appropriation of and responses to folk song and popular music culture in the nineteenth century
Ballads, Songs and Snatches demonstrates how allusion to folk song and some aspects of popular musical culture were absorbed into the polyphony of discourses in the realist prose of the nineteenth century, and explores the implications of the various transformations that occurred during this …
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Folk Influences of Aaron Copland and Britten
… world expands in conjunction with technology. Folk music has always been a form of national pride and has been used as an exploit for the reasons listed above; therefore composers have maintained an interest in a national sound. During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, composers began to …
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Calming The Waves Double Wind Orchestra
… I used a melodic element of the Chinese folk song “Little Cow Herding” as a main theme of my work, because some of the lyrics of this folk song record hardships or pleasures of ancient Chinese heroes. The open-minded temperament of these heroes is consistent with the character of Su Shi's …
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“NATIVE AMERICAN FOLK SONG SUITE”: A STUDY OF TRADITIONAL NATIVE AMERICAN MELODIES, THE ROLE OF MUSIC IN NATIVE AMERICAN SOCIETY, AND ITS TRANSLATION TO THE MODERN WIND ENSEMBLE
… Donald Robb (1892-1989) have preserved these songs by sitting down with indigenous Native Americans and recording their music straight from the source. Through these recordings, these ethnomusicologists created a springboard for composers, including myself, to study the past and create new …
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The Songs and Song Cycles of Sergey Prokofiev (1930--1950)
In his Pushkin songs Op. 73, written on the occasion of the centennial of the legendary Russian poet, Prokofiev continued the romantic nationalist tradition started by Mikhail Glinka. In the folk-song arrangements Op. 104 and duets Op. 106 the imagery deals with the usual universal themes of …
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The Late Unaccompanied Choral works of Ralph Vaughan Williams: A Conductor's Analysis and Performance Guide
… including three motets, two chorales, five part songs, and eight folk song arrangements. Analytical charts mapping the form, phrase structure, and additional elements of each piece are included in the appendix. Additional information primarily concerned with Vaughan Williams's teachers and …
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Songs of Deviance and Defiance: Subjectivity, emotions and authenticity in Bhawaiya Folk Songs of North Bengal
Bhawaiya is one of the most popular folk song genres to Bengalis. While all Bangla folk songs express the emotions and the stories of the most marginal people, Bhawaiya is significant for expressing the female passion grounded in day to day material reality through the stories of the female subject …
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German Translations and Criticism of the Danish Medieval Ballad to 1853
… edition of the Danish ballads, Danmarks gamle Folkeviser, was published. For this investigation a Danish ballad was defined as one that appears in Danmarks gamle Folkeviser. We were interested in the kinds of translations produced, the types of ballads translated, and German criticism of the …
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Colores Mexicanos: The Mexican Art Song and Setting Mexican Texts to Music
… music tradition, we typically associate the art song genre with French, Italian, and German music traditions. However, since the rising of Miguel Ponce and his other, 20th-century contemporaries, the Mexican art song tradition has established its own, unique place and role within Western art …
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Jujube
… music language that combines Chinese Shanxi folk song singing style and jazz instrumental performing manner. The alto saxophone and trumpet blend jazz and Shanxi traditional music in melody; the trombone enriches with its deep tone; the piano offers intricate harmonies; the double bass …
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Sinhala folk music : its vocal traditions and stylistic nuances
… of vocal improvisation in Sinhala folk music, the music of Sri Lanka. This study examines the vocal nuances and expressions of Sinhala folk and identifies the idiosyncratic nature of vocal improvisation and how it is applied in Sinhala folk music. Considered a dying art form by …
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Sinhala folk music : its vocal traditions and stylistic nuances
… of vocal improvisation in Sinhala folk music, the music of Sri Lanka. This study examines the vocal nuances and expressions of Sinhala folk and identifies the idiosyncratic nature of vocal improvisation and how it is applied in Sinhala folk music. Considered a dying art form by …
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Qiuci fantasy for full orchestra
… includes a quotation from Xinjiang's Uyghur folk song Gulanmuhan. I utilize the unique timbres of various instruments by showing them in expressive, virtuosic and highly ornamented passages in both movements, in such instruments as harp, vibraphone, alto flute, and bassoon. Lots of pizzicatos …
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