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Showing 1 to 20 of 42 for “"musical form"”.
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Musical form in non-narrative video
"Musical Form in Non- Narrative Video" explores musical structure as a model for visual form over time, specifically in the creation of artistic video. Video is a medium in which sound and image coexist at the source as electronic signals, offering new possibilities of abstract synesthesia. Forms …
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Paradigms for a Definition of Musical Form. 'Symphony No. 2'
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Creating Musical Structure through Performance: A Re-Interpretation of Brahms's Cello Sonatas
From the mid nineteenth century onwards, musical form has primarily been defined in terms of predetermined paradigms, which ostensibly provide a framework for hierarchically ordered materials. Despite its pervasive presence in theoretical literature, however, this Formenlehre tradition is not …
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Bob Dylan, Pete Seeger and the Movement Persona
… are all authors of the movement persona, and the musical form assists in allowing multiple authors of the movement persona.
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Composing the body: narrative in the age of improvisation, 1770-1867
… bodily sentiment, scientific theory, and performative practice—to negotiate the social tensions that afflicted nineteenth century American culture. Drawing on a diverse archive of primary materials, I argue that music’s development into an improvisational aesthetic inspired sentimental …
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The French Organ Toccata from 1874 to 1934
… two traces the development of the toccata as a musical form. Chapter three contains the main body of the thesis; here is a detailed discussion of ten organ toccatas by Boellmann, Dubois, Dupre, Duruflé, Gigout, Guilmant, Peeters, Vieme and Widor. The toccatas appear chronologically, beginning …
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It's bigger that hip hop: popular rap music and the politics of the hip hop generation
… rap music in its first years as a popular musical form and in present years fails to address these political issues to any significant degree, though in past years popular rap music addressed these themes with slightly greater frequency. Suggestions are given for why this decrease occurred …
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Amy Beach for the new generation: the effects of increased interest in Beach’s works on the current place in the performance canon of concerto for piano and orchestra in C sharp minor, op. 45
Amy Beach sets an example of musical activism and dedication to her art that has inspired and illuminated her successors. Beach’s music has particular significance considering that she is arguably the most notable female American composer-pianist. Thus, her Concerto for Piano and Orchestra in C …
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An Analytical Study of the Variations on the Theme of Paganini's Twenty-Fourth Caprice, Op. 1 by Busoni, Friedman, and Muczynski
… of this study. Chapter 2 provides background information on the musical form "theme and variations" and the theme of Paganini's Twenty-fourth Caprice, Op. 1. Chapter 2 also deals with the question of which elements have made this theme so popular. Chapters 3,4, and 5 examine each of the three …
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Text Selection and Musical Treatment In Selected Choral Works of Jean Belmont Ford
… them regarding themes, instrumentations, and musical form. Chapter five highlights her unusual feelings towards traditional time and key signatures, as well as examines her general compositional approach. Finally chapter six is a conclusion. A bibliography, transcription of an interview with …
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Gyorgy Orban's Mass Compositions (1989--1999): An Analysis of Masses 1,5, and 9
… of voices and instruments and consistency of formal design in movements using the same text. Next, the formative role of text, the various processes of musical form, melodic construction, thematic reference, meter and rhythm, and harmony will be ascertained in relation to each of the three …
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"""To immerse myself in words"": Text and music in selected choral works of Samuel Barber"
… chapter presents historical and analytical information about the text and its author and an analysis of the musical work as Barber's response to the poetry. The discussion focuses on Barber's attraction to and treatment of poetic devices, meter and rhythm, color, subject, and meaning. In the …
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What Pain Calls to Witness for Mezzo-soprano, Clarinet, Piano, and Fixed Media
… of overcoming, this composition invites performers and listeners to exercise patience and enter a complex emotional space. Like music, physical pain is a sensory experience often captured with abstract language; but the two can inform each other. The fixed media component of this work is …
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"Looking for the Land that is Nowhere": A Portfolio of Compositions and Commentary
… function in a variety of contexts. Central to my musical thinking, they provide a coherent core around which more complex musical situations are created through layering and textural invention. On a harmonic level these works attempt to integrate the insights of 'spectral', 'serial' and 'modal' …
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A New Place at the Table: Ancient Cadential Patterns for Modern Improvision and Aural Skills Training
… a reassessment of the order of introduction of musical elements found in formal music instruction, which privileges the chord as a discrete entity, and relegates intervallic suspension, schemata and counterpoint to intermediate, advanced, or supplementary study. These cadences concisely …
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Replicative network structures : theoretical definitions and analytical applications
… the techniques associated with the theory of musical transformations, network analysis stands out because of its broad applicability, demonstrated by the diverse examples presented in David Lewin’s seminal work Musical Form and Transformation and related articles by Lewin, Klumpenhouwer, …
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Blue Poets: Brilliant Poetry
… and the sadness associated with the blues as a musical form. Brilliant poetry may be productively therapeutic, pedagogical, cathartic, or freshly reflected through a symbolic slant or a psychoanalytical lens. The poems in this study lend themselves to several possible areas of exploration: …
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World music technology : culturally sensitive strategies for automatic music prediction
Music has been shown to form an essential part of the human experience-every known society engages in music. However, as universal as it may be, music has evolved into a variety of genres, peculiar to particular cultures. In fact people acquire musical skill, understanding, and appreciation …
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Limits of Abstraction in Electroacoustic Music
… music, as the interaction between musical form and the world outside the immanent context of the work is revealed. In Chapter 1 an examination of the complex system of relationships between sounds within a musical structure and the representational nature of many of the sounds …
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Gustav Mahler and psychasthenia : a musical and psychological investigation of the Kinder-Totenlieder
… suicide.Chapter Two concentrates on poetry, musical form and orchestration in regards to the Kinder-Totenlieder,. Specific musical examples are given which symbolize the underlying theme of death. Theories as to why the song cycle was written and whether it was a prophecy concerning his …
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