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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"musical narrative"”.
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Massively multiplayer operas : interactive systems for collaborative musical narrative
Music, narrative, and social interaction have long been intertwined. The objective of this thesis is to create a platform, designed for interactive multiplayer operas, that explores the potential for technology-enabled systems to facilitate creativity through expression, the emotional affordances …
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The Performer as Analyst in the Piano Sonata Opus 12 by Jean Sibelius
… with the large-scale organizational features of musical works, using the Piano Sonata, Opus 12 by Jean Sibelius as a case study. The unique character and structure of each of the three movements suggests an equally wide range of approaches to analysis, including studies in sonata form, …
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Tonal Expectations Defining Narrative Archetypes
… examines the contributions of tonal analysis to narrative readings of three nineteenth-century pieces. The method used originates from the work of two theorists, Byron Almén and Fred Lerdahl. Almén’s 2008 book, <em>A Theory of Musical Narrative</em>, outlines narrative archetypes. Lerdahl’s 2004 …
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22: A Series Of Original Programmatic Compositions
… of six programmatic compositions. The extra-musical narrative deals with the fact that twenty-two veterans commit suicide each day, a low estimate by some accounts. The music is written not specifically for veterans but to bring attention to veterans. It is important for all Americans to know …
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OLD BECOMING NEW AGAIN: A FORM-FUNCTION AND NARRATIVE ANALYSIS OF RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS’ 'FANTASIA ON A THEME OF THOMAS TALLIS'
… the <em>Fantasia</em>'s historical and musical context.</p> <p>This study analyzes the overall form of the <em>Fantasia</em>, with particular focus on two key transitional sections and their various interpretations by other analysts. It presents a new analysis of the piece alongside …
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Exploring Academic Acculturation Experiences of Chinese International Students with Low Oral English Proficiency: A Musically Enhanced Narrative Inquiry
… currently studying at a Canadian university. A musically enhanced narrative inquiry approach was employed, building on traditional forms of narrative inquiry by utilizing sound and music. Data were collected through art-informed interviews with six Chinese international students, and were …
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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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We feed off the spirit of the audience' : an ethnographic study of musical storytelling in the street music of South Africa
… within which to examine the role of the musical storyteller, and a performance space that requires the development of specific skills by the street performer to maximaise its advantages. Watching a performance by a group of South African street musicians, telling a complex narrative to …
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Accentual counterpoint and metrical narrative in the music of Brahms
… nuanced understanding of metrical expression and narrative in his music. Recent analytical studies of metre in common-practice Western classical music have utilised a powerful analogy of consonance and dissonance between tonal and metrical dimensions. More theoretical studies, particularly of …
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Portfolio of compositions with technical commentary
… in this portfolio explore different modes of ‘narrative' musical development and display an increasing preoccupation with finding ways of integrating quarter-tonal and equal tempered material. Over the course of my portfolio I have largely allowed the material itself to drive the overall shape …
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Narrativity in Postmodern Music: A Study of Selected Works of Alfred Schnittke
The validity of music narratives has engendered much debate and research. This dissertation traces the development of narratology from its pre-structuralist phase to the post-structuralist phase where the discipline went through a narrative turn and blossomed into a broad-spectrum expansion that …
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Breaking; Mending- A New Piece for Oboe and Chamber Orchestra
… and chamber orchestra that explores the role of narrative and historical reference and quotation in contemporary music. In Breaking, Mending, J.S. Bach’s Double Concerto for Oboe and Chamber Orchestra is quoted, manipulated and transformed into a new piece of music driven by a central, …