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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"modern music"”.
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MODERN MUSIC AND VERSATILITY: POST WWII WORKS FOR OBOE & ENGLISH HORN DOUBLING
… are many situations in the professional world of music where players are expected to perform on both oboe and English horn, but the skill of doubling is often overlooked at the collegiate level. Also, due to the vast quantity and familiarity of “standard” pieces, music of our time is sometimes …
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Partimenti and schemata: seventeenth-century educational tools applied to modern music theory education
… Italian partimenti and schemata theory in the modern music theory classroom. Partimenti and schemata aid students in making abstract theory concepts concrete. The structure of a partimento was learned in short segments, or schemas, that a student would organize into the process of music making. …
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The new in music
<p>The selection of the subject, “The New in Music,” was prompted by an interest in the frequent appearance of new aspects in the art music. The following critique is the result of an attempt to uncover forces which work toward forming the new, to evaluate essential factors of newness, and to …
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The Secret Art of Science: An Aural-Based Analysis of Jonty Harrison's Acousmatic Work "Pair/Impair"
… meaningful analysis of form and structure in modern music, specifically electronic music. The premise of this research is to present methods, tools and practice for analyzing music whose visual interpretation, if any, do not represent the aural result of the composition. The means for …
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Graduate Recital, Saxophone
… saxophone has not been covered by those historic music eras before its birth. Based on its popularity, thousands of pieces have already been written for it. While the history of the saxophone is short, the stylistic freedom of modern music allows composers the opportunity to exploit the potential …
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The Significance of Dmitri Shostakovich's Piano Sonata Op.12
… Op.12. This sonata is a hybrid of the German musical tradition, Russian Modernism, and Liszt's thematic transformation technique. It demonstrates Shostakovich's highly intellectual compositional skills influenced by the education that he received at St. Petersburg Conservatory as well as the …
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Maria Schneider's "Hang Gliding": Dual Analyses for a Hybrid Musical Style
… to the globalization of communication. As such, musicians are influenced by different styles of music from all around the world due to their own travels and the availability of music recordings. This thesis deals with the challenges of analyzing modern music that has been influenced by different …
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New Resources in Twentieth-Century Piano Music and Richard Wilson's Eclogue (1974)
… 1960's into the spotlight to highlight their new musical and pianistic ideas. These composers, including Debussy, Schoenberg, Webern, Bartók, Cowell and others, brought new creative forces into piano music, generating many distinctive features of modern music. The discussion of new resources in …
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This is All It Is for Treble Voice and Fixed Media
… mission to combine her most admired genres of music. All five songs feature homages toward both pop music and electroacoustic traditions, however, the odd-numbered movements more closely reflect modern contemporary classical art music, while the even-numbered works explore popular music sounds …
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Romantic Ideals in Contemporary Folk Music
<p>This thesis examines contemporary folk music from no earlier than 2006, specifically music of the bands The Decemberists, Fleet Foxes, and Bon Iver. Providing a close reading of select songs, I prove that modern music is seeing a revival in the Romantic Era and Transcendentalist ideals and …
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Exploring the adaptability of indigenous African marriage song to piano for classroom and the university level education
… of indigenous African marriage songs to piano. Music education has always been biased towards Western music content to the exclusion of local musical traditions. A vast amount of musical repertoire within indigenous African societies exists. Formal music education, however, seems oblivious of …
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12 Degrees of Alienation: A Socio-Political Exploration of Hanns Eisler's Use of the Twelve-Tone Method during Exile (1938-1948)
… century. However, Eisler’s contribution to modern music in both Germany and North America has been, until recently, overshadowed by political controversy. It is especially the period of Eisler’s American exile (1938-1948) that provides an area of research ripe for investigation with a fresh …
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Princeton Theory's Problematics
… informing a thread of post-World War II American music theory, begun at Princeton University under Milton Babbitt (1916-2011) and his students. I historicize and demonstrate the logics behind, without attempting to explain away, problematic notions from experimentalism to experience, solipsism to …
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A Case for Music as Therapy: “Healing and Purgation,” and the Expressiveness of Music from Antiquity through the Eighteenth Century
<p>This document provides evidence that music as therapy affects both the mind and physical body of the listener or music-maker. This document does not propose any evidence of modern-day clinical music therapy practice in the pages of history, but does support the belief that discussions of music, …
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Improvising Otherwise: Sound, Nature, and Coloniality in Early Modern England
… we can listen to alternative stories of early modern English music history, situating my musical research within histories of the body, sounds of nature, Anglo-Ottoman relations, and the coloniality of the travelogue. Through reading theological texts, travelogues, literature about the natural …
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Violin music in mid-18th-century Madrid: Contexts, genres, style
… that took place around the 1750s, and some modern music editions exist. Nevertheless, neither the style of this music nor the process that led to its composition and consumption have been studied in depth. In addition, this repertoire is virtually invisible in the international literature. …
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We Didn't Get Famous: the Story of the Southern Music Underground, 1978-1990
… examines the emergence of the Southern indie music scene in the 1980s as both a rejection of the broader punk scene that had swept America and the UK in the 1970s and the blues and country inflected Southern Rock that preceded it in the 1970s. I first had the idea of doing a project on this …
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The Theatrical Saxophone: Visual and Narrative Elements in Contemporary Saxophone Music
Many examples of contemporary saxophone music incorporate visual and narrative elements that can be deemed “theatrical”: choreographed movements or gestures, the elocution of text, specific staging and lighting indications, the inclusion of props, and costuming. Distinctly different from the …
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‘Io fui, et sono, et sarò Margarita’: Margherita Costa as Virtuosa on the Literary Stage of the Seicento
… onto the society and culture of a travelling musician and woman writer with a striking ability to succeed in an environment increasingly hostile to female public engagement.