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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"music semiotics"”.
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"Cerulean Skies" by Maria Schneider: A Formal and Semiotic Analysis
… and expressive dimensions of Schneider’s music by combining aspects of formal analysis with concepts from music semiotics. The centerpiece is an analysis of “Cerulean Skies” (2006), the longest work to date in Schneider’s oeuvre with a duration of approximately twenty-two minutes. …
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Purely Sonorous: The Rhetoric of Sound in Twentieth-Century Music
… of twentieth-century and contemporary music: that of legitimating particular repertoires as exceptionally sound-oriented or sound-based—in contrast with other, usually older music, which is figured as subordinating sound to musical language. In this thesis, I call this tendency …
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Toward a Semiotic Approach to Analyzing the Trombonist's Repertoire
This study seeks to develop a theory of musical gesture that incorporates idiomatic aspects of playing the trombone. Researchers of musical gesture have interrogated idiomatic physical aspects of performing music for voice, piano, and strings, but have mostly overlooked those qualities in brass …
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Sacred Freedom: Sustaining Afrocentric Spiritual Jazz in 21St Century Chicago
… headwaters of a certain form of Great Black Music that I call Afrocentric spiritual jazz in Chicago. However, that label is quickly expended as the work begins by examining the resistance of these Black musicians to any label. I theorize that this resistance is due to the experiences of Black …