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Showing 1 to 20 of 232 for “"musician"”.
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Robert Prescott Stewart (1825–1894): A Victorian Musician in Dublin
Appointed to the most eminent of musical establishment positions, Robert Prescott Stewart (1825–1894) was held in high regard by Dublin’s musical public and was seen as the ‘figurehead’ of music in Ireland by his English contemporaries. His career as an organist of exceptional talent saw a lengthy …
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Structural change in the music industry : the evolving role of the musician
… industry rhetoric and offers methodologies for musicians with examples, analyses, and codifications of relevant elements of the business. The economic asymmetry of the system that exploits musicians’ work can now be rebalanced. Ironically, the technologies that triggered the industry downturn …
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Breaking down the silos: tales from a jazz musician and management educator
… I critically reflect on my roles as jazz musician and management educator and discuss how two bodies of knowledge have informed each other over the course of my career. At the core of my works as a management educator, is the application of the jazz metaphor – largely in the strategic …
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The business of live music in South Africa and the jazz musician
… industry of South Africa in relation to the jazz musician;; also what systems are in place that assist, protect the rights of, and provide for, the jazz musician (bearing in mind that most jazz musicians double as session musicians and dabble in various genres). Research will be conducted into …
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THE DIGITALIZATION OF MUSIC CULTURE: A CASE STUDY EXAMINING THE MUSICIAN/LISTENER RELATIONSHIP WITH DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY
This dissertation explores how the rise of widely available digital technology impacts the way music is produced, distributed, promoted, and consumed, with a specific focus on the changing nature of the relationship between artists and audiences new technology has engendered. Through in-depth …
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Mindfulness and the musician: case studies of an 8-week meditation class for university music students
… meditation as an experience as well as how musicians might integrate meditative practices into their musical practice and performance. A group of music students (N = 7) participated in an 8-week meditation class, introducing them to a diversity of meditative practices. Completing weekly …
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The Musician in America: A Study of His Social Roles. Introduction to a Sociology of Music
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The Legacy of Vanalombo: Exploring links between Vanalombo and Jako Malabar from the perspective of a Makonde musician and dancer
… I examine the performance traditions of Jako musician-dancers from Réunion Island and Vanalombo performers from the Mueda Plateau in Mozambique from a personal perspective as a Makonde musician and dancer versed in these styles. In the process, I explore possible connections between these two …
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Learning from Past Market Outcomes: Evidence from the Music Industry
… features of music albums to investigate how musicians learn from current products when developing new products. We find that songs on a musician’s next album tend to be more similar to the songs that are more successful on that musician’s current album. This effect is stronger when the …
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In Pursuit of Non-Knowledge: Perspectives on Performing with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company
… took place over ten years performing as a guest musician with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company. I am a professional musician, a cellist. Through this practice-based research project, I set out to understand the influence of an experience that changed and liberated me as a musician. In this …
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The relationship of the transformational leadership process and group mood among musicians and their effects on artistic quality within the American orchestral organization
… of the leadership process between conductor and musician, musician group mood, and artistic quality are all considerations in understanding the classical musical experience. The research design for this study was a quantitative design using simple correlation analysis. The intent of this study …
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Oliver C. Hampton and other Shaker teacher-musicians of Ohio and Kentucky
… is to present an example of a Shaker teacher-musician whose thinking and activities exemplified those Shakers living in the "western" Shaker societies of Ohio and-Kentucky. Oliver C. Hampton is that person. Hampton was a teacher, musician, composer, poet, writer of prose, elder, and trustee of …
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Beyond the tune: new Irish music
The Irish musician is in an interesting position in relation to other post-colonial world cultures. As a colonised nation we have much in common with other colonised or formerly colonised peoples but we are also a first world country firmly ensconced as part of the “Western World”. As an Irish …
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A church musician's resource guide to the available resources from the Choral Public Domain Library for the Liturgical Year A
… (CPDL) represents a free resource to the church musician, and yet, as a user-edited database, has its limitations. This monograph provides a measure of quality control of the broad database presenting a usable resource guide for the church musician faced with the selection and presentation of …
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A cultural biography of an acclaimed Queen of Xhosa music, Madosini Manqineni, and her contributions to Xhosa cultural music
… for Madosini, who is recognized as a "specialist musician", a notion that did not exist in pre-colonial times. In this study I am concerned with biography, which also needs some historical data. My writing comes from my position as a professional musician who was also a long-term student of …
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Automatic acoustic guitar tuner
Acoustic guitar musicians tune their instruments by using a conventional tuner. Individuals pluck the string and the conventional tuner indicates whether the note is sharp or flat. The musician then has to wind the string to increase the tension or loosen it to lessen it. This process can be very …
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Answering the Call: A guide to supporting horn players for band directors
… in the initial stages of learning. A ‘whole musician’ focused education is therefore frequently overlooked by their teachers causing a delay in the all-important development of musical conviction and artistry. This dissertation project proposes a solution to this dilemma, a book entitled …
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