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Showing 1 to 20 of 135 for “"melodies"”.
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Musical expression in automated composition of melodies
Music composed by computers has always been lacking in "musical" qualities: mood, emotional expression and a sense of purposefulness or goal. A musical expert system, called EMOTER, is the first attempt to address these important musical aspects. EMOTER receives as input a list of moods (e.g., …
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High Schoolers' Approaches to Learning Melodies by Ear
… how high schoolers aurally learn unfamiliar melodies and identify trends that contribute to efficient learning.Twenty-nine high-school participants in individual sessions learned three different melodies by ear. As participants learned each melody, I used a modified, digital playback …
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Traditional rhythms and melodies in music for clarinet by three Colombian composers
This lecture-recital analyzes 12 Colombian compositions by three different Colombian composers. Each work belongs to one of the five natural regions in which Colombia is geographically divided. This analysis conveys the influence of Colombian rhythms, dances, and modern harmonies on these …
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Polymeric Melodies: Polyetherimide Modification-Based Acoustic Membranes and Sonochemical Degradation of Polystyrene
The compatibilization of polymers for nanomaterials and the degradation of commodity plastics are two major areas in polymer chemistry. To achieve composite materials that meet the demands of modern technologies, polymers are modified using a vast array of chemistries, enabling the practical and …
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Drinking straws and shaman melodies: a historical and analytical study of the taepyeongso
… on mode and melody. I then focus on gyeong-tori melodies, demonstrating through transcription and analysis of commercial recordings four characteristic approaches to variation and improvisation. In addition to musical analysis, I provide short biographies of important performers, a catalogue of …
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The Musical Realism of Leoš Janáček : From Speech Melodies to a Theory of Composition
… linguistics, and the so-called speech melodies. The study also considers the connection between the composer's musical theories and his compositional development. For this purpose an overview of the problems of style and identity is made in the first part of the dissertation, which …
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Traditions of song: Considering Moore’s Irish Melodies in relation to the songs of Robert Burns
… offering a context for the Thomas Moore’s Irish Melodies and Robert Burns’songs. It also explores points of intersection and divergence in both content and methodology between the two songwriters and the national music traditions of which their songs form a part. The introduction sets out …
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Nikolai Medtner's Forgotten Melodies Op. 39: Exploring The Narrative Mosaic Of The Cycle
… as the Fairy Tales and sonatas, his Forgotten Melodies Op. 39, have been overlooked in both performance and scholarly circles. This essay explores Op. 39 as a meticulously structured cycle with a narrative arc, examining its movements' intrinsic and extrinsic meanings and their collective …
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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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"Los motz e.l so": words melody, and their interaction in the songs of Folquet de Marseille
… they tried to create interactions between the melodies and the words, the melodies and the interactions between the poems and melodies in the complete songs have been examined much less intensively. In this dissertation I delve into the songs of the late twelfth-century troubadour Folquet de …
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Digital Approaches to Troubadour Song
… contain only the texts. A fraction of the melodies that accompanied these poems were written down; fewer than 350 melodies survive for a lyric corpus of over 2,600 songs which appear over 13,000 times in all extant sources. This dissertation is part of a larger project whose aim is twofold: …
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Adult Amateur Musicians and Melodic Error Detection
… task. Each participant listened to three melodies and performed three melodies, noting any perceived melodic errors they may have heard. After providing each participant a 10-second time period to examine the melodic notation, the investigator asked each participant to identify any errors …
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Between Occitania and Al-Andalus: Reconsidering the Emergence of Troubadour Melody Through Algorithmic Analysis
… corpus of extant and complete troubadour melodies, (2) a sample of 158 melodies from contemporary unwritten Andalusi music of Morocco, and (3) 380 melodies from the sacred repertoires of Saint Martial of Limoges. I have used two of the most popular algorithms in bioinformatics – the …
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Deep freeze : the social and musical impact of the I{u00F0}unn Society on the Icelandic r{u00ED}mur tradition
… performed by one person using her, or his, own melodies. The melodies were orally transmitted and would change according to the prosody. The audience were the inhabitants of the Icelandic farmhouse, while they sat working (knitting, spinning, etc.) in the evening. These evening sessions were …
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Deep freeze : the social and musical impact of the I{u00F0}unn Society on the Icelandic r{u00ED}mur tradition
… performed by one person using her, or his, own melodies. The melodies were orally transmitted and would change according to the prosody. The audience were the inhabitants of the Icelandic farmhouse, while they sat working (knitting, spinning, etc.) in the evening. These evening sessions were …
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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
… thematic development to timeless Native American melodies and captures the spirit of their esteemed culture. A formal analysis of the musical themes and melodies used in creating “Native American Folk Song Suite” accompany this score, as well as a discussion on various Native American musical …
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The Creation of Parisian Organum Purum: Office Organa Dupla in the MLO Sources
… In this study, detailed analysis of the purum melodies recorded for the extant repertory of thirty-six organa dupla on chants for the office collected in W1 (Wolfenbüttel, Herzog August Bibliothek, Guelf. 628 Helmst.), F (Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Pluteus 29.1) and W2 …
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A justification for the study of folk song settings, or the arrangement as a valid composition
… 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 success by …
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TELLING STORIES: AN ANALYSIS OF SPEECH-MELODY COMPOSITIONS AND AN ORIGINAL SPEECH-MELODY COMPOSITION FOR WIND ENSEMBLE
… recent works (2005-2014) that have sourced their melodies from the spoken word and in turn creates an original composition for wind ensemble consisting of melodies sourced from recordings of members of United States military forces speaking about their lived experiences. In conjunction with the …
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