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Showing 1 to 20 of 97 for “"musical composition"”.
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Exploring Musical Composition
… The intent of my project was to create original compositions, transfer them to a computer via Sibelius software, and edit the arrangements. It was my hope that the pieces could be introduced in the classroom and possibly performed and recorded. During the course of the school year I composed …
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Exploring Musical Composition
… The intent of my project was to create original compositions, transfer them to a computer via Sibelius software, and edit the arrangements. It was my hope that the pieces could be introduced in the classroom and possibly performed and recorded. During the course of the school year I composed …
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Musical composition graduate portfolio
1 PDF file (1 volume (unpaged))
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Algorithm and Decision in Musical Composition
… set out to research how computer-assisted composition (CAC) of music affects decision-making in my compositional practice. By reporting on the creative research journey, this doctorate is a contribution towards a better understanding of the implications of CAC by offering new insights into …
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Related explorations in architectural and musical composition
… share attributes of qualitative movement. A composition unfolds in phases of tension and repose, extension, and arrival. Explicit patterns of organization are defined by proportions, gradients of texture and intensity, and through the experience of space in time. RELATED EXPLORATIONS ... is …
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Exquisite Score : a system for collaborative musical composition
… which allows users to collaborate on short musical compositions using the paradigm of the parlor game Exquisite Corpse. Through a MIDI-sequencer interface, composers each contribute a section to a piece of music, only seeing a brief fragment immediately preceding their section. Exquisite …
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Developing an artificial colour-sound association for musical composition
Some great composers - Messiaen, Scriabin, Liszt in exemplum - have been found to have an internal colour world that responds to music and characterises the way they experience and express music. Many of these artists, it could be strongly argued, had the neurological trait synaesthesia. The …
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The role of musical composition in promoting church unity
… similarities that exist between the concepts of musical unity and unity as expressed and encouraged within scripture. It challenges the perceived acceptance of the norm that ’worship wars’ still happen in many churches and, from the viewpoint of a composer, offers practical solutions that may …
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Processes of musical composition facilitated by digital music equipment
… structures, and outcomes which emerge during musical composition. Since musical composition is a personal experience, the study also looked for the musical relationships developed between the individual participants and their music.
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MUSICAL COMPOSITION FOCUSING ON THE QUALITY OF PRESENCE IN PERFORMANCE
… quality of presence in performance explores a compositional approach that originates from the question of what might lead a person to seek musical or sounding utterance. It aims at opening the awareness-space towards a listening not only to the musical-acoustic event, but to the performer as a …
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Listening and Musical Composition: Spectromorphological Analysis of Enfilade: Lamento-Cambiata
… paper will present the analysis of the author's compositional work Enfilade: Lamento-Cambiata. The analysis consists of two levels. On the first level, formal outline, timbral discourse, pitch construction are examined in relation to the compositional and aesthetic motivations. The results of …
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Musical interfaces : design and construction of physical manipulatives for musical composition
Currently, musical composition is considered to be a high-level skill that is inaccessible to young children. There is a "high floor" for children who want to create a piece of music because they must learn a way of recording and remembering the notes, their sequence, etc, such as musical notation. …
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A practical study of the application of computer techniques in processes of musical composition
… analysis and archiving, sound synthesis and in musical composition. After initial doubts, many composers and commentators now recognise how important, and sometimes even indispensable, the computer can be in certain types of composition. A number of compositional projects in which the computer …
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The temporal and rhythmic effect on musical composition and form when scoring dramatic moving picture
… discuss many of the technical aspects of film composition, such as calculating timings and techniques of synchronization of music to film, however, I have found that there is very little information on the compositional technique of film scoring. For example, one of the common aspects of film …
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[A portfolio of compositions submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Musical Composition]
Commentary Scores: 1 After Haydn’s ‘Farewell’ 2 She Solus 3 Two Pieces for clarinet and piano 4 Wings … dreams 5 Piano Symphony
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Stravinsky's Instrumentation: A Study of His Orchestral Techniques (With Musical Composition) String Quartet No. 1
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-05T21:10:34Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 6100122.pdf: 10880619 bytes, checksum: 8a46a849dc6d21434928818f6919e39a (MD5) Previous issue date: 1960
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Site and sound: musical composition and site-specific performance – developing a creative practice through practical methodologies
… such as trains, bridges and rivers? How can musical composition integrate spaces, locations and physical objects to create unique site-specific performances? The documented work in this thesis offers a wide range of pieces addressing these questions across different media, scales and …
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Computer assisted application of stochastic structuring techniques in musical composition and control of digital sound synthesis systems
… useof computer sound synthesis techniques in musical composition, certain generative methods of forming and controlling data structures can be a powerful aid. This thesis proposes and develops such methods. Techniques of pattern formation are described which have been developed and used in the …
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Images of Remembered Earth
Images of Remembered Earth is a musical composition scored for full orchestra. The composition was inspired by Georgia O'Keeffe's painting, Light Coming on the Plains I (1917), which depicts a sunrise over a flat and empty landscape. In the painting, the expanse of the sun's rays is expressed …
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Composition: Music as inpiration and generator of space
… that is situated in both architectural and musical instruction, the correlation between the two has always provided a certain degree of fascination for me. Having understood the linear narrative running between the translation of music and architecture, I endeavoured to locate a more …
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