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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"percussion instruments"”.
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New expressive percussion instruments
This thesis presents several new percussion instruments that explore the ideas of musical networks; playing, recording, and developing musical material; continuous control over rhythm and timbre; pressure sensing; and electronic / acoustic hybrids. These instruments use the tools of electronics and …
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The manufacture of tuned percussion instruments in Indonesia and Africa: a selective study
… examines the manufacture of Javanese gamelan percussion instruments, the second examines the manufacture of xylophones in Central African Republic, Ghana and Zambia, and the third examines the acoustics of xylophones. Part I: Gamelan is a generic term for a set of instruments consisting …
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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
… 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 with the basic mechanical aspect of performance while developing …
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Cultural Implications of Percussion in Music Therapy: A Qualitative Analysis of Semi-Structured Interviews With Experts
… therapists are expected to be competent in using percussion within their sessions and are expected to develop cultural awareness and sensitivity in their music therapy practice. Additionally, percussion has a deep and rich cultural history and relationship, both within European contexts and …
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Curious virtuosity: the emergence and decline of unconventional repertory for timpani and percussion in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries
… manifestation the role of so-called Turkish percussion instruments is reasonably well-documented, and this has served to create a rather distorted picture of the use of percussion during this period. As this thesis demonstrates, timpani and percussion instruments were also used by late …
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A Musical Approach to the Teaching and Performance of Percussion
… covering selected and most commonly use percussion instruments.
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Symphony No. 1
… for twenty-four instrumental groups without percussion instruments. It was composed with Algorithmic Composition System software, which gives driving forces for composition to the composer through the diverse compositional methods largely based on physical phenomena. The symphony consists of …
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Junior High School Student Preference: Teaching Taiwanese Folk Songs Using Orff Activites vs Traditional Teaching
… includes learning singing technique, singing to percussion instruments and the recorder, and vocal improvisation.
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Hybrid percussion : extending physical instruments using sampled acoustics
… for creating hybrid digital-acoustic percussion instruments by combining extensions of existing signal processing techniques with specially-designed semi-acoustic physical controllers. This work aims to provide greater realism to digital percussion, gaining much of the richness and …
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The Lambeg Drum in Ulster
… generally omitted from text books on musical instruments and even from specialist works on percussion instruments<br/>
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Percy Graingers's "The Warriors--Music to an Imaginary Ballet". Innovations in orchestration. The addition of the melodic percussion section as an equal force in 20th century orchestral writing
… for what Grainger himself described as "tuneful percussion" in his orchestral work The Warriors. To Grainger, "tuneful percussion" refers to mallet keyboard instruments and members of the traditional keyboard family including pianos, celesta, and other finger operated instruments. Three main …
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A Sketch of Sound
… work, A Sketch of Sound. The brass, wind, percussion, and string sections function independently of each other, and each creates a single type of atmospheric sound. Extensions of these basic textures either connect or collide against each other. Such extensions include the use of the harp …
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Percussion scoring and orchestration in the wind and percussion ensemble literature of Jared Spears and David Gillingham
… of wind ensemble literature have utilized percussion extensively in their compositions, Jared Spears and David Gillingham are renowned wind ensemble composers who have also written specifically for the percussion ensemble. Within their writing, both have exploited percussion through …
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Music as an educative enrichment medium for the remediation of children with reading problems
… stamping) and transferring this rhythm to percussion instruments while experiencing the speech rhythm. Many approaches have been used with children who are disabled readers and none use music as a tool. The progress of these children has therefore been slow, tedious and not always …
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Extended notation. The depiction of the unconventional
… in this thesis. It comprises chapters on string instruments, wind instruments, percussion instruments, plucked instruments and keyboard instruments. A systematic notation of unconventional instrumental playing techniques has not yet been attempted, nor have all tech-niques subject to this work …
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An Annotated Bibliography of Selected Chamber Music For Saxophone, Winds and Percussion with Analyses Of Danses Exotiques by Jean Françaix, and Nonet by Fisher Tull
… for ensembles comprised of saxophone, wind and percussion instruments. Many musicians, including saxophonists and conductors, are unaware of this enormous body of literature. This produces a compelling need for sources of identification available to conductors, performers and teachers. This …
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Sprout
… dense. In this development process, the sound of percussions promotes the development of music and emotions-each small part has a lead percussion such as antique cymbals, Chinese Bass Drum, Congas to highlight the different emotions. Different timbres intertwine or collide against each other to …
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A Faint Light
… the performing skills of Chinese plucking instruments in the strings. To highlight the images of each section, I used different percussion instruments respectively. For example, in the second and the fourth sections to describe the fighting scene, I used a snare drum, tom-toms, and bass …
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Scissors for Orchestra
… of the instrument, scissors, by using various percussion instruments such as cymbals, gong, triangle, and tubular bells. Fast runs will also bring up the image of the scissors thrown in the air. The pitch material is broadly atonal yet the progressions are mostly linear to be more accessible. I …
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Amega: A synthesis of ancient, traditional and contemporary musics
… construction. In Chapter 4, I discuss the instruments used in this composition and their sonic properties, as well as how these have been sampled through the use of electronics. String, wind and percussion instruments are being explored through combinations of digital effects, influencing …
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