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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"hypermeter"”.
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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
… 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 sources.</p> <p>Examples from …
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Franz Joseph Haydn’s Sturm und Drang Symphonic Minuets: Convention and Deformation in Form, Cadence, and Meter
… and melody. My study also discusses aspects of hypermeter and metrical dissonance through metrical groupings, melodic fragments and dynamics to demonstrate a variety of techniques employed by Haydn to subvert metrical expectations in this dance form through models offered by David W. Beach, Ryan …
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Metrical Dissonance and Phrase Grouping in Selected Dances from Edvard Grieg’s Slåtter, op. 72
… low level, the metrical, and interpretive (hypermeter). Simultaneously, Grieg uses harmony and register to create higher-level structural organization from the many motivic repetitions heard in each dance. He develops this material by constructing a harmonic narrative between the tonic and …
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"I've a Voice, I've a Voice": Determining Stephen Sondheim's Compositional Style Through a Music-theoretic Analysis of His Theater Works
… dramatic effect, sometimes disrupting meter and hypermeter. He also writes melodies that are shared between actors in scored dialogue. These musical elements all play a part in the identification of Sondheim's style.
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Unpopular Meters: Irregular Grooves and Drumbeats in the Songs of Tori Amos, Radiohead, and Tool
… explore connections between drumbeat, meter, hypermeter, and form; and present numerous examples of unique or idiosyncratic drumming practices. While explaining metric trends broadly within a historically situated genre, my research also highlights the metric idiolects of Tori Amos, Radiohead, …
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Analysis and expressive performance : four selected works by Chopin
<p>In this dissertation, I examine four works by Chopin and address issues of expressive performance derived from principles of the nineteenth-century Swiss theorist, Mathis Lussy (1828-1910). Lussy’s systematic approach into the understanding and organization of the individual phrase in relation …