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The roots of musical meaning with special reference to Leonard B. Meyer's theory
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The Roots of Musical Meaning With Special Reference to Leonard B. Meyer'stheory (With) 'Symphony No. 1.' (Original Composition)
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The Varieties of Tone Presence: On the Meanings of Musical Tone in Twentieth-Century Music
… dissertation is about tone presence, or how musical tone shows up for experience in twentieth-century music. In exploring the subject of tone presence, I rethink notions of “pitch structure” in post-tonal theory and offer an alternative that focuses on the question of what it is to be a …
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The radical music of John Zorn, Diamanda Galás, and Merzbow: a hermeneutic approach to expressive noise
… of beauty and aesthetic excellence. From this musical space, vital new musical practices are emerging from composers such as John Zorn, Diamanda Galás, and Merzbow; however, because their music is so utterly unconventional, existing critical tools are failing to lead toward a greater …
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Die wahre Art das Clavier mit Fantasie. Gesto y tempo en los rondós y fantasías de C. P. E. Bach. Un referente para el complejo expresivo
… perspective on the process of creating the musical meaning, understanding the composer also as an performer. To do this in the thesis has developed a method of analysis called complejo expresivo and forma emoción in which physical gestures (instrumental) and metaphorical gestures, as well as …
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Manuel M. Ponce: A critical study of his Concierto Romántico for piano and orchestra.
… score sources. An analytical and stylistic musical study using conventional theoretical techniques leads to a musicological interpretation of the work's extra-musical meaning, based on close assessments of Ponce's compositional practice and social principles.
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A life in song: A phenomenological perspective of a person with Alzheimer's disease
… of this study was to discover how music is meaningful to one person with Alzheimer's disease who resides in a nursing home. Musical meaning and how music functioned in this woman's life both before and after the onset of Alzheimer's disease were explored. Data were collected by observation …
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Music Listening as Therapy
… in order to generate predictions and extract meaning. There are perceptual laws and information processing limitations to this process. Predictions are based in schematic and veridical approaches, which give rise to expectations. Frustrated expectations result in an effective response. Music …
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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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Music and power at the English court, 1575-1624
… public occasions. This thesis contends that musical provision and musicality were crucial to the prestige of a particular event, and are therefore crucial to a contextualised interpretation of the textual traces the events have left behind. It seeks to understand the role of music in these …
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Jazzvertising: Music, Marketing, and Meaning
… to unraveling the complicated web of cultural meanings and values that attend to jazz in the 21st century. Advertising is a critically important and profoundly complex medium for the mass dissemination of music and musical meaning. Advertisers and marketers therefore offer crucial perspectives …
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Revisiting the Past: Harmony, Structure and Narrative in Ralph Vaughan Williams’s Piano Quintet in C Minor
… of English pastoralism, and explores the dual meaning of Arcadia as it relates to expressive meaning in the second movement. Chapter 4 surveys the use of variations in the last movement and the movement’s relationship to Vaughan Williams’s Violin Sonata in A minor (1953), for which the composer …
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'n Musikale model van koherensieverhoudings getoets aan die hand van J.S. Bach se Schübler-koraalvoorspele : 'n loodsstudie (Afrikaans)
… musicology, especially as the problem concerning musical meaning, is still an ongoing debate. The design of a musical model of coherence relations is a new field of study and can not be connected to present day language models, therefore a new model should be invented. It should be kept in mind …
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I Cannot Sing You Here, But For Songs of Where: Contemporary Alt-folksong and Articulations of Place
… of such a songwriting method, and aspects of musical ‘meaning’ (Small 1998; Moore 1993). Chapter 4 investigates the use of production/recording technologies as themselves sources of meaning (Doyle 2005; Barthes 2000). Conclusions, in songs and text, work towards articulation of the ‘outside’ …
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Out of Order
… a basic historical context to the trope. The meaning of tenderness, it seems, is what it laments. Furthermore, analysing the structures according to which tenderness “disorders” the trope of loss, I suggest tenderness can be conceived as a trope of a trope. Time acts as a constant throughout …
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Ödön von Horváth’s Volksstücke. Sounds and silences in dramaturgy and theatrical performance
… to explore the intricacies of Horváth’s use of musical and silent moments in these plays. It shows that analysis of the roles of music and silence is crucial for a profound understanding of Horváth’s socially critical Volksstücke as well as for an apt definition of their relevance to …
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Imagery and the composition of music: an insight into an original compositional method inspired by mental imagery
This thesis presents a body of eight original musical compositions inspired by the phenomenology of mental imagery, together with a written commentary which describes in depth the compositional process undertaken whilst composing them, defines the concept 'mental imagery' as applied to this …
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Grievous Angel: Gram Parsons and the country rock movement
… was comprised of musicians who, through diverse musical practices and conceptual means, sought to fuse elements of country music with other popular genres. Developing amidst the social and political turmoil that defined the era, country rock provided a space for musicians and listeners to …
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The Rhetoric of Suggestion in Debussy's Mélodies: A Contingent Poetics of Thematicity, Temporality, and Agency
… study investigates Debussy’s manipulation of musical materials in ways that both enact and contend with the poems’ structures and semantics. The composer’s investment in elusiveness—the “introuvable”—suggests that these songs may be implicated with issues of musico-poetic contingency and …
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