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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"musical texts"”.
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Music, Cinema and the Representation of Africa
… It begins by tracing the early importance of musicality and performance in cinema back to other cultures of visuality and socio-political ideologies that were prevalent at the time of cinema’s birth. The result of this relationship means that cinema has functioned as both a tool for portraying …
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Narrativity in Postmodern Music: A Study of Selected Works of Alfred Schnittke
… and postmodern characteristics evinced in the musical texts. We then provide a brief narratological reading of each concerto. We believe a theory of music narrative completes the aforementioned three-part comprehensive analysis of a musical work and is requisite for the full understanding and …
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Voice and Genre in Beethoven's Deux Grandes Sonates pour le Clavecin ou Piano-Forte avec un Violoncelle obligé, Op. 5
… into how the sonatas function as autonomous musical texts rather than historiographic documents of Beethoven's biography or transitional contributions in the development of the genre of the solo sonata as it was later cultivated. The insights offered by these perspectives argue for a …
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Home Girls And Understudies: Shy Women In Cold War Theatre And Film
… of shy young women. Primary play and musical texts, their film adaptations, and original films are read through a lens of feminist materialism and emotional labor, in tandem with mid-twentieth century texts on popular psychology, psychosociology, self-improvement, and sexuality. Such …
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House of shadows as text and performance : structural and conceptual considerations of/for the contemporary musical play
… conceptual processes in the creation of a new musical. As a theatre-maker, my research was driven by a need to {re)consider the musical as a compelling art form. The first chapter considers the contemporary South African theatrical landscape, creating the context in which House of Shadows was …
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"Los motz e.l so": words melody, and their interaction in the songs of Folquet de Marseille
… size to permit intensive analysis of poetic and musical compositional practices and the interactions between the two. A medieval grammatical theory for understanding texts, a theory which encompasses and links the verbal and musical texts, provides the thread of continuity. I first examine the …
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A "nihilistic dreamboat to negation"? : the cultural study of death metal and the limits of political criticism.
… seeking wider political agendas in all musical and subcultural practices. This thesis explores cultural studies’ marginalisation of metal by examining the critical literature on death metal, an ‘extreme’ variant of the genre that is particularly resistant to the kinds of political …
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Improvising Otherwise: Sound, Nature, and Coloniality in Early Modern England
… early modern English music history, situating my musical research within histories of the body, sounds of nature, Anglo-Ottoman relations, and the coloniality of the travelogue. Through reading theological texts, travelogues, literature about the natural world, plays, poetry, and music theory …
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Matteo Ricci’s contribution to the history of Sino-Western musical exchanges
… he composed substantially enhanced the early musical interactions between China and the West. The research purpose of my work is to elucidate and exemplify the significance and modern relevance of Ricci's tangible and intangible musical contributions within the history of Sino-Western …