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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"non-tonal"”.
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Non-Tonal Pitch Hierarchies and Dramatic Narratives in Oliver Knussen’s Variations, Op. 24
… have often commented on the lingering echoes of tonality present within the otherwise non-centered (and remarkably complex) harmonic world of Oliver Knussen’s music. Using his piece Variations, Op. 24 as a model, this project hypothesizes that the compositional techniques Knussen employs serve to …
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Teaching method for reading musical notation and sightsinging, including its application in contemporary non-tonal music
… 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. Methods used: 1. Safa or Safa and Solfa syllables. 2. Shape notes. 3. Intervals associated …
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Teaching method for reading musical notation and sightsinging, including its application in contemporary non-tonal music
… 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. Methods used: 1. Safa or Safa and Solfa syllables. 2. Shape notes. 3. Intervals associated …
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Closure: a mind/brain perspective
… when dealing with works which eschew the tonal-syntactic structure of the common practice period; a challenge common to music of the Twentieth Century. This dissertation concerns itself with the question of how closure can be achieved under these conditions. Most of the literature …
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Trails by a river: for large orchestra and electronic sounds (MAX/MSP)
… pointillism, spectralism, computer music, tonality, and other non-tonal categories. Although it cannot be referred to as a work that represents a style with a specific ethno-cultural background, the rhythmic foundations of certain parts are derived from some modern Afro-Brazilian folk …
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Incorporating pitch features for tone modeling in automatic recognition of Mandarin Chinese
… this thesis is to improve the performance of a non-tonal automatic speech recognition (ASR) system on a Mandarin Chinese corpus by implementing modifications to the system code to incorporate pitch features. We compile and format a Mandarin Chinese broadcast new corpus for use with the ASR …
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Effects of training methods on second language learning of Mandarin tones
… for L2 learners whose native language is non-tonal. Twenty-seven L2 learners of Mandarin at the beginner level participated in this study and were divided into two groups: Group 1 (G1) was trained with the 31/42 training method (which implies the T3[21]-First method), whereas Group 2 (G2) …
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Aspects of Kono phonology
… of three chapters, and deals mainly with non-tonal phonology. Chapter 1 discusses possible social and historical factors that may have affected the development of the culture and the language of the Kono people, the classification and possible origin of Kono particularly, and the Mande …
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A Study of Franz Liszt's Concepts of Changing Tonality as Exemplified in Selected "Mephisto" Works
… use of harmonic and melodic idioms that produced non-tonal or "omnitonic" effects, on the one hand, and to emphasize the need to duly accord Liszt a recognition of historical position as the nineteenth century's most influential avant garde composer whose attitude and approach had helped to shape …
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Linguistic Diversity On Africa: Clustering Methods Application On Language Typology Data
… structural divides: synthetic – analytic and tonal – non-tonal. Several methods, including latent class analysis and CFA models, hierarchical clustering, k-means family algorithms and CART modes, using feature networks focusing on relevant language domains were constructed to classify the data …
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Antumbra - Concerto for Classical Guitar and Chamber Orchestra
… and Celebration. Antumbra employs a post-tonal approach to the tonic-dominant harmonic scheme by contrasting non-tonal pitch collections with traditional Western modes. For instance, the piece uses ‘modes of limited transposition,’ such as the octatonic and whole-tone scales, whose …
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Effects of auditory feedback and real-time visual feedback on second language tone learning
Tone learning is challenging for non-tone speakers. While pitch, like melody, is processed by the right hemisphere for non-tonal language speakers, lexical tone as well as other language aspects (such as phonemes, syntax and semantics) appears to be processed by the left hemisphere for tonal …
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Paradoja
… language of Paradoja: Concerto for Orchestra is non-tonal yet centric, with surface references to functional harmony. However, the pitch content varies from movement to movement. The first movement is highly chromatic and based in the twelve-tone collection. The melodies are created by a …
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Quintet for two violins, viola, cello and piano, and string quartet no. 1 by Lazar Nikolov
… the influence of musical folklore and employ non-tonal techniques. Shortly before graduating from the State Academy of Music in 1946, Nikolov felt that the masters from the previous two generations had already used all the successful means to incorporate neo-Romantic features and Bulgarian …
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The Shores of Light
… tension between hierarchical complexity (tonality) and disorder (perceptual dissonance generated either by highly chromatic aggregates, acoustic saturation, or both) which plays the most crucial role in this discourse. The evolution toward greater and greater cohesion is achieved, …
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Larry Sitsky’s Century: A response to selected twentieth-century notation, associated piano techniques, and performance possibility
… are explored: clusters, feathered notation, and non-pitched notation. This research provides pianists with tools that may enable an understanding of specific twentieth-century notation and of associated pianistic techniques. Furthermore, the study establishes Century as a valuable, although …