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Showing 1 to 20 of 55 for “"music analysis"”.
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Music analysis: Erasure and beyond
This thesis considers the practice of music analysis as it pertains to various popular musics outside the classical canon. Starting with an analysis of Indian fusion rock song Kandisa, by Indian Ocean, the author demonstrates a methodology rooted in traditional transcription and analysis (in …
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Promoting Creativity: How the Use of Music Analysis Affects Value Judgments in Copyright Litigation
This dissertation investigates the role of music analysis in copyright litigation and demonstrates that forensic musicology is a subjective and problematic discipline. Part of this subjectivity is due to misunderstood terms and definitions. Additionally, forensic musicology is an interpretive act, …
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Problems, current methodologies, and an analytical case study in electro-acoustic music analysis: Lejaren Hiller's Vocalise from seven electronic studies for two-channel tape recorder (1963)
… is an investigation of electro-acoustic music analysis; it highlights the difficulties of analysis, explains some of the prevailing analysis methodologies, and demonstrates the use of a hybrid analysis methodology through an analytical case study. These difficulties and analysis …
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Tools for Understanding Electroacoustic Music
… an arguable lack of activity and interest in the analysis of electroacoustic music when compared to its composition and performance. The absence of a strong and active analytical community is very concerning, as it should be a fundamental part of any larger musical community that wishes for works …
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Music, action, and narrative in film : an energetic and gestural approach to film score analysis
<p>Film music often contains close relationships to filmic and narrative imagery, creating complex relationships that are not always apparent. Many traditional means of musical analysis are not equipped to account for these extramusical associations. Film music analysis may benefit from considering …
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Robert Schumann'S Grand Sonata No. 3, Op. 14 In F-Minor - "Concert Sans Orchestre": A Performance Analysis
… <em>Neue Zeitschrift für Musik</em>; a detailed analysis of the sonata with a special consideration to the elements of music analysis outlined by Schumann in his own sonata reviews.</p>
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Computer-Aided Music Therapy Evaluation: Investigating and Testing the Music Therapy Logbook Prototype 1 System
… the investigation and testing of a prototype music therapy practice evaluation system: Music Therapy Logbook, Prototype 1. Such a system is intended to be used by music therapists as an aid to their existing evaluation techniques. The investigation of user needs, the multi-disciplinary team …
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Rhetorical and musical synthesis and the strategies for inter-generational resonance in Queen's Bohemian rhapsody
… scope. Through the use of Close Textual Analysis (CTA), with an emphasis on metaphoric criticism, combined with Music Analysis of the score using popular song analysis tools, this study deconstructs the song and uncovered rhetorical strategies of the music and the lyrics as they function …
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Correlations Between Song Popularity and Their Audio Features Using Machine Learning
… into the practical challenges of large-scale music analysis and the relationship between technical audio characteristics and commercial success, while highlighting areas for future research with more comprehensive data access and enterprise-level deployment solutions. Stable link of the …
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Marvin Gaye's What's Going On and the Civil Rights Movement: A History and Analysis
… Going On is a timeless work in American popular music. This thesis illuminates many of the intricacies that went in to the creation of the album and discusses its relevance during the Civil Rights Movement. Chapter 1 provides a background in popular music analysis and the genre of Soul music. …
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A View from Within: Timbre as an Analytical Tool in Contemporary Viola Music
<p>Timbre is an elusive musical parameter that musicians, physicists, and cognitive scientists have been grappling with for centuries. While timbre can roughly be defined as an auditory attribute that distinguishes one tone color from another, this definition does not capture the complexities of …
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The Effect of Repeated Listening Experiences on Upper Elementary Students' Tolerance Toward Non-Western Music
… students' tolerance toward non-western music. Intact music classes were randomly assigned to control and experimental groups. During the pretest, students indicated their degree of liking for nonwestern musical excerpts. Following the pretest, experimental subjects (n=303) received …
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Statistics in Historical Musicology
… disciplines and are used extensively in music analysis, music perception, and performance studies. However, statisticians have largely ignored the many music catalogues, databases, dictionaries, encyclopedias, lists and other datasets compiled by institutions and individuals over the last …
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Modes of Resistance: Memory, Language and Identity in the Performance of Assyrian Liturgy in Iraq and Beyond
… the Assyrian Church of the East liturgy and music have been the guardian of the Assyrian Christian faith, language and culture for more than a millennium. With the Church’s core activities happening in Mesopotamia, its liturgical music provides additional insight into the history of musical …
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Hendrik Hofmeyr: the harmonic language of a theorist and composer theorist
… an aspect of Hendrik Hofmeyr's engagement with music through his theories of harmonic analysis and his use of expanded tonality in his compositions. The purpose of the discipline of music analysis is investigated, and analysis is compared with its sister disciplines to consolidate its vital role …
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Methods for multiple pitch tracking and instrument separation from monaural polyphonic recordings
… Most of this content comes from polyphonic music as mixtures of audio sources. Recently there has been much interest in the analysis of polyphonic music. Analysis results can be in the form of source tracking, where instrument pitch tracks and their weights are estimated from a sound mixture …
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Interactions between Text and Music in Three Pieces by Jon Deak, Frank Proto, and Tom Johnson
… This essay explores the interactions between music and verbal text. Three categories of text-music interaction are proposed: music as accompaniment to text, music in dialogue with text, and music in imitation of text. These categories demonstrate how text and music operate as individual …
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The Music Of Peter Maxwell Davies Based On The Writings Of George Mackay Brown
… the stylistic changes in Maxwell Davies's music which have resulted from his settings of Mackay Browqn texts. This has involved a comparison with some of the composer's earlier works, particularly those with literary associations, and includes a discussion of the problems encountered when …
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“All the Evil Music Has:” Musical Representations of the Vamp in Interwar American Popular Media
… deviance in film and American popular music of the 1910s and ‘20s. Abbreviated from vampire, “vamp” came to be used as a term for sexually voracious and predatory women in the early 20<sup>th</sup> century. Following the unprecedented success of the 1915 film <em>A Fool There Was</em>, …
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Discovering forgotten flute music : an analysis and performance guide of selected compositions for flute by Pavol Simai
This study presents a historical overview, analysis, and performance guide for three compositions for flute by Slovak composer Pavol Šimai, specifically his Sonatina for Flute and Piano, Duo for Flute and Violoncello, and Pezzo da Concerto for Flute and Guitar. Šimai is considered one of the most …
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