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Showing 1 to 20 of 54 for “"improvising"”.
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Understanding the roles of technology in improvising
… there are three general uses of artifacts in improvising: tool (the use of an artifact to build an outcome), component (the use of an artifact as part of an outcome), and product (the use of an artifact as an outcome). Finally, these uses tend to involve two aspects of artifacts: practical …
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Yes, And... The Improvising Landscape of the Displaced
Immigration has continuously been an evident part of the human history. Throughout time, for one reason or another people have left the place they call home. Whether voluntarily seeking better opportunities in other cities/countries/continents, or forcefully being asked to leave due to political, …
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Improvising Otherwise: Sound, Nature, and Coloniality in Early Modern England
… reciprocal encounter. I consider depictions of improvising Ottoman subjects in the Levant, as well as reconceptualising the travelogue itself as a series of scripted improvisations enacted by the travellers. I suggest that these texts also became a means for readers back home to enact …
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Improvising Resistance: Jazz, Poetry, and the Black Arts Movement, 1960–1969
This thesis is an interdisciplinary analysis of jazz music and poetry produced by African-American artists, primarily in New York, over the course of the 1960s, set within the broad context of the civil-rights and black-nationalist movements of the same period. Its principal contention is that the …
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MR dampers in smart structures with nonlinear non-affine dynamics improvising intelligent control
The increasing complexity of high-rise buildings, cable-stayed long-span bridges, deep-sea offshore structures or suspension systems demands effective tools for control and health monitoring. These infrastructure systems are usually integrated with actuation, sensing, computation resources and …
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A Description Of The Musical Concepts Artist-Level Jazz Musicians Employ While Improvising
The purpose of this study is to analyze musical concepts employed by artist-level jazz performers (professional jazz musicians) playing an improvised solo. These concepts are then compared to the participant's pedagogical background in improvisation. Subjects were videorecorded performing an …
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Rock Becomes Jazz: Interpretations of Popular Music by Improvising Artists in the 1960s
The advent of rock and roll changed the jazz world’s relationship to itself and its musical public. The popularity of jazz, in decline since the rise of bebop in the mid-1940s, was further eroded by rock and roll’s rise to prominence in the mid-1950s. By the mid-1960s, the jazz world seemed to be …
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Improvising pianists : aspects of keyboard technique and musical structure in free jazz - 1955-1980
The jazz avant-garde of the 60s and 70s has often been depicted as a movement that signalled the end of jazz as we had come to know it, a movement of unbridled musical energy and passion without the essential restraining influences of formal guidelines and reverence for - traditions. With the …
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Imagining and improvising with theory and practice : a narrative inquiry with first grade students during reading workshop
This paper illuminates the possibilities of thinking with poststructural theory when storying an emerging process of engaging in research with young children. The purpose of this paper is to describe processes, tensions, and imaginings while infusing poststructural theories into conversations with …
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Material words for voicing dancers: a practice-led inquiry into the role of voice for the improvising dancer
The thesis stems from practice-led research that has investigated the role of voicing (both linguistic and non-linguistic sound) in improvisatory dance-based performance practices. The author's research is rooted in their training with three independent practitioners — Ruth Zaporah (US), Julyen …
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Improvising Goethe’s Faust Part One in two Berlin high school theatre classes for cross-cultural dialogue among Turkish-German students
By taking a prototypical German text i.e. Goethe’s Faust Part One to two high-school theatre-classes in Berlin, I explored how Turkish-German students engage performatively with the idea of German identity. Through an improvisational treatment of the play, students performed activities based on the …
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Towards interaction: Combining jazz techniques and idiomatic writing for Varied ensembles. A collection of musical works -and- An exegesis
… were composed for three ensembles each with an improvising soloist. These ensembles included a British style Brass Band, Brass Quintet and a double Saxophone quartet. The project built on the work of Andy Scott and Eddie Sauter, both of whom wrote for non-jazz ensembles and an improvising artist …
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Twig Dances: Improvisation Performance as Ecological Practice
… in China in 2006. Using the experiences of improvising, learning dance, seeing dance, performing dance, creating scores for dance, and teaching movement improvisation, I argue that ecological practice is defined by its ability to instill a sense of “response ability” and personal agency in …
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The Joy of Improvising Music Together – An Autoethnographic study into using simplicity and humour in music improvisation as a vehicle to elicit joy and build community
… to the ongoing conversation around the merits of improvising music in a group, which may be especially relevant in relation to pedagogy and community music.
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Playing It By Ear: Improvised Music Livestreaming During COVID-19
… practice, be those teachers and students improvising to accommodate online learning or individuals improvising safety tactics to avoid catching the virus. Within mere weeks of the pandemic rendering in-person concerts untenable, music communities adopted livestreaming on Twitch as an …
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Applications of Béla Bartók's techniques of pitch organisation to jazz improvisation
… suggesting a rich resource of inspiration for improvising musicians. The composer Pierre Boulez commented that “Whether it is in a brutal violence animating a sound material in fusion, or in a tranquil gentleness glowing in a halo of grating sounds and colours… Bartók is incomparable and …
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USING INTERACTIVE SOFTWARE AS A CONCEPTUAL TOOL: AN EXAMINATION OF COGNITION IN IMPROVISED MUSICAL PERFORMANCE
… processing, drawing upon anecdotal evidence from improvising musicians as linkage between theory and practice. Chapter 3 augments the study of the inner world of the improvising musician by encompassing the communicative functions of this activity. The boundary of this study does not embrace …
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Rhythmic Layering: The Baladi Project
… and the dancer then follows the drummer in improvising her dance to the rhythm. Thus, this thesis proposes that a drum rhythm could possibly be translated into physical measurements that could then order physical objects. By performing the same function as dance, architecture can embody the …
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The embellishment in Mozart's keyboard music with specific application to seven of his late piano concertos
… Mozart himself was well-known for his gift of improvising, which he put to good use when performing his concertos. Problem to be studied All Mozart's works published in his lifetime show a great attention to detail. He wrote out ornaments, cadenzas, and lead-ins, and embellished recurring …
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