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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"musical notation"”.
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Musical Notation and Liturgical Books in Late Carolingian Nonantola
The musical notation of the northern Italian Benedictine abbey of St Sylvester in Nonantola has hitherto been neglected by most scholarship on early music scripts, mainly because of the paucity of surviving music manuscripts and their limited geographical diffusion. A new study was needed in order …
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"ENGRAVE - An expert system that understands and generates musical notation"
… of "spatial planning" to generate correct musical notation. We show by example that spatial planning can be applied to other domains.
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Teaching method for reading musical notation and sightsinging, including its application in contemporary non-tonal music
Object: To suggest a method of teaching sightsinging. Objections to the Tonic Solfa System. Designed for diatonic music, does not work with non-distonic. A comparison of various fixed name system. (a) English letter names. ( b) German letter names. ( c) French solfege. ( d) Siler's Safa System. …
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Teaching method for reading musical notation and sightsinging, including its application in contemporary non-tonal music
Object: To suggest a method of teaching sightsinging. Objections to the Tonic Solfa System. Designed for diatonic music, does not work with non-distonic. A comparison of various fixed name system. (a) English letter names. ( b) German letter names. ( c) French solfege. ( d) Siler's Safa System. …
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The Effect of Learning Musical Notation and Performance on the Reading Fluency of At-Risk Middle School Students
… done to determine how learning and performing musical notation affect the textual reading fluency and reading comprehension of at risk middle school students. One group of 11 students was surveyed and taught 12 music lessons. They were tested on their reading fluency and comprehension before …
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CORRELATIONS BETWEEN READING MUSIC AND READING LANGUAGE, WITH IMPLICATIONS FOR MUSIC INSTRUCTION (NOTATION).
… language and by fluent "sight-readers" of musical notation are much the same. Both require a background in the modality represented by the written symbols. Both require context for construction of meaning through sampling and prediction. In this study, a method of elementary music-reading …
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Audio-scores, a resource for composition and computer-aided performance
… earphones. The interaction between audio-scores (musical material sent through earpieces to performers) and visual input (musical notation) changes the traditional relationship between composer, conductor, performer and listener. Audio-scores intend to complement and transform the printed score. …
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Multipitch Analysis and Tracking for Automatic Music Transcription
… is the ability to transcribe audio files into musical notation. In this thesis, a method of multipitch analysis is used to track multiple simultaneous notes through time in an audio music file. The analysis method is based on autocorrelation and a specialized peak pruning method to identify …
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The development and trial of a beginning band method for teaching wind and percussion instruments based on a notation system different from the traditional notation
… band method based on a number-system approach to musical notation and to describe its effect on beginning wind and percussion students after fifteen weeks of instruction. The problem addressed in this study was the need for finding a better way to help the beginning band instrumentalist to cope …
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The effect of musical training on verbal and tonal working memory
… tonal language Mandarin versus English versus musical notation in healthy volunteers. The performance of musicians and non-musicians was compared across a variety of reading tasks in an attempt to examine whether musical training can facilitate Mandarin tone or phonological processing. The …
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Star-struck, lovesick, poet-musicians: Troubadours and the cultural significance of music in Medieval society
… troubadour song as music, in the absence of musical notation for most of the repertory, how troubadour song influenced social structures of music-making, and the extent to which troubadour song interacts with other aspects medieval culture. The first aspect of medieval culture that has …
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Performing Brahms: Rediscovering expressive devices in the sonatas for violin and piano
… for the degree of Master of Philosophy in musical performance at the Elder Conservatorium of Music, University of Adelaide, consists ofa portfolio of two CDs containing recorded performances of the complete Sonatas for Violin and Piano of Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) accompanied by an …
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The performance of accompanied recitative in Italian opera according to the conducting method of Ilya Musin
… significant challenges, many arising because musical notation for recitatives is necessarily incomplete. Conductors must make important interpretive choices and they require sound conducting techniques to implement their interpretive decisions. This study presents solutions to the specific …
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Dance with Musical Architecture: Eurhythmy in Gottfried Semper's works
… between Semper's architectural drawing and musical notation. Second, it scrutinized the attitude toward the integration of arts among artists and philosophers in nineteenth century Germany. Third, it explored the role played by
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Animate Structures: The Compositions and Improvisations of the Instant Composers Pool Orchestra
… Cage and uses various forms of compositional and notational techniques to explore the different improvisatory possibilities that they afford, thus blurring the distinction between improvisation and composition both in name and in practice. Apart from a detailed historical and ethnographic …
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Performing practices in late-nineteenth-century piano playing
… It also suggests that descriptive language and musical notation have hidden meanings for which the recordings provide an indispensable key. Early piano recordings capture an expressive style alien to modern taste. The implications of this study are that any attempt at historically informed …
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Automatic recognition of Persian musical modes in audio musical signals
… for computational identification of Persian musical modes. This involves constructing a database of audio musical files and developing computer algorithms to perform a musical analysis of the samples. Essential features, the spectral average, chroma, and pitch histograms, and the use 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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The Neural Dynamics of Action Representation for Sound: An investigation of musical training effects on mu suppression
… the more abstract association of observation of musical notation. The overall aims of this current thesis were to extend this visuomotor work into the audiomotor domain, and investigate whether specific sensorimotor training led to action representation for auditory stimuli. Study 1 showed that …
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