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Showing 1 to 20 of 41 for “"musical structure"”.
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Automated analysis of musical structure
Listening to music and perceiving its structure is a fairly easy task for humans, even for listeners without formal musical training. For example, we can notice changes of notes, chords and keys, though we might not be able to name them (segmentation based on tonality and harmonic analysis); we can …
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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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Improvising pianists : aspects of keyboard technique and musical structure in free jazz - 1955-1980
… we had come to know it, a movement of unbridled musical energy and passion without the essential restraining influences of formal guidelines and reverence for - traditions. With the benefit of hindsight, from observing the almost neoclassical stance of jazz in the 80s, the notion that this music …
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The Application of Schenkerian Concepts of Musical Structure to The Analysis Segment of Basic Theory Courses at The College Level
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‘Dynamic Structure’ in the Performance of Symphonic Music: An Examination of Wilhelm Furtwängler’s Recordings
Recent theoretical and critical re-evaluations of musical structure have fostered a new understanding of the concept: it has been argued that structure is best understood as a pluralistic and diachronic phenomenon emerging from structural relationships inferred individually by analysts, performers …
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Structuring processes in electroacoustic composition
… Each approach is designed to create a musical structure that relates sound materials throughout the work in a meaningful way, with the final aim of presenting a memorable experience, enticing further listening. These relationships are explained by analysing the musical structure and by …
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An investigation of the construct validity and factor structure of the primary measures of music audiation through structural equation modeling
… Model, (2) a Structural Model, based on the musical structure of the test items, and (3) a Developmental Model, which allowed for items to be related to different factors.
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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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The repertoire of Kayamba Africa: contemporary reworking of traditional musics in Nairobi
… consultants, as well as Kayamba Africa's musical structure and recordings of Boniface Mganga's choral arrangement of Ngulũ and Hugh Tracey's recording of 'Rũimbo rwa ngũ'.
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Revealing the Determinants of Acoustic Aesthetic Judgment Through Algorithmic
… strong biases about relevant features (e.g., musical structure). In this project, a DNN is trained to mimic the acoustic aesthetic judgment of a professional composer. A unique corpus of sounds and corresponding professional aesthetic judgments is leveraged for this purpose. By applying a …
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Marian Devotion Through Music, Lyric, and Miracle Narrative in the Cantigas de Santa Maria
… melodies, which are deployed using two specific musical forms, virelai and Andalusian rondeau, reinforce their devotional intent. The musical structure strengthens both story and moral in each cantiga, thus joining music, lyric, and narrative to allow Cantigas de Santa Maria to be a uniquely …
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Listening and Musical Composition: Spectromorphological Analysis of Enfilade: Lamento-Cambiata
… shedding light to the relationship between the musical structure and listening experience.
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Practical performance considerations for the Andante con moto of Beethoven's Piano Concerto in G Major, Op. 58
… historical performance practices, and possible musical implications of the application of the Orpheus program as proposed by Owen Jander. The formal and theoretical analysis refers to significant scholarly works and includes a variety of interpretive options, detailing possibilities for …
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The Spiritual Madrigals of Giovanni Pierluigi Da Palestrina
… information about the historical context. Musical context for the composition and performance of these pieces is given in Chapter 2; that chapter also addresses issues of performance practice problems inherent in this repertoire. Chapter 3 includes analysis of the poetic structure, …
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Motives, Allusions, and Eclecticism: A Panametric Analysis of the First Movement of Christian Lindberg's Mandrake in the Corner Based on the Method of Jan LaRue
… and ensemble works for trombone. Many prominent musical organizations in the world have performed Lindberg's music, including the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, and the University of North Texas Wind Ensemble. Today, Christian Lindberg has commission requests up to …
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A Portfolio of Compositions and Commentary
… roles which such melodies can play in a musical structure. These pieces espouse a structural thinking encompassing a wide variety of material, but attempt to find unity and coherence even within the most extreme of contrasts. Each of these pieces also constitutes a dialogue, more or less …
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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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Structural analysis of the Chopin Etudes as prerequisite to physical practice
… will enable the performer to understand the musical structure of a Chopin etude in its broader and finer detail. The analytical procedure also supports thorough investigation into Chopin's interpretative indications. The study is geared towards the pianist with a mature technique who will …
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The influence of music on the emotional interpretation of visual contexts
… how alterations of specific aspects within the musical structure may influence the interpretation of visual scenarios.</p> <p>Background is provided from film-sound theory, studies of the expressive capabilities of sound in film, theories of connotation related to musical tonality, music …
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13-Limit Extended Just Intonation in Ben Johnston's String Quartet #7 and Toby Twining's "Chrysalid Requiem", "Gradual /Tract"
… intervals of a hyperchromatic scale to build a musical structure composed of well over a thousand discrete pitches. Johnston's microtonal techniques, from the smallest bits of melody and harmony to the largest aspects of design, were never so well on display as in this movement. Coupled with the …
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