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Showing 1 to 20 of 191 for “"performance practice"”.
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Three case studies in twentieth-century performance practice
… middle of the twentieth century, the study of performance practice has increasingly drawn the interest of musicologists; however, despite the extensive documentation pertaining to matters of performance, the twentieth century has largely been neglected. Twentieth-century composers often …
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Historically Informed Performance Practice of the Baroque Era
… to how closely we should strive to emulate the performance conditions that would have been present during the Baroque era. Robert Donington, an English musicologist and author of two definitive texts on Baroque performance practice, suggests in his Performer's Guide to Baroque Music that we can …
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Violin Performance Practice and Ethnicity in Saraguro, Ecuador
… ways. I investigate the diversification of performance practice among Saraguro violinists to analyze this phenomenon. To point to the differentiation of ethnic consciousness, I focus on the import of the contrast between older Saraguros who play the violin while sitting, and the younger ones …
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Psychoacoustic Entropy Theory and Its Implications for Performance Practice
… importance of harmonic analysis as a tool for performance practice. It also outlines the critical limitations for many of the most influential historical approaches to modeling harmonic stability, particularly when compared to available scientific research in psychoacoustics. Rather than …
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Taste Untold: Critical Performance Practice and Contemporary Public Space
… and urban design, focusing on the codes and practices of contemporary public space. Underscoring a dependent correlation between research and existing urban sites, the investigation is situated on Granary Square, arguably the most successful privately owned public space made in London in …
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Symbiotic synergies : adaptive framework for polydisciplinary collaboration in performance practice
… This inquiry is investigated through Practice Research with project-based and iterative methodology aiming towards developing a novel framework for organising collaborative environments. Presented here is the thesis that investigates modes of interaction between disciplines and …
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"Manuel Rodrigues Coelho's ""Flores De Musica"": Style and Performance Practice"
… style between late Renaissance and early Baroque practices, especially in the tentos, which form a link in the evolution of the Spanish tiento, beginning with those of Mudarra and Cabezon and culminating in the works of Correa and Cabanilles. This study of Flores de musica (1) provides the first …
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(In)authentic Participation: Contemporary Participatory Performance Practice, Social Media & Neoliberalism
… in contemporary western European theatre and performance since the mid-2000s. The concern at the root of contemporary participatory performance practice is the authenticity or inauthenticity with which one constitutes and presents one’s self in contemporary digitised society. Social media …
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Selected students of Leopold Auer: a study in violin performance-practice
… Recent research in late 19th-century violin performance-practice has focused mainly on the ‘German’ and ‘Franco-Belgian’ Schools, and on tracing ‘genealogies’ of violin playing, especially within the ‘German’ school itself. Auer, however, has been little studied, as remarkably is also true …
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Flute Performance Practice in the Tragédies en Musique of Jean-Philippe Rameau
Focusing on historically informed flute performance practice in an ensemble setting, this essay explores performance possibilities pertaining to rhythmic alteration, articulation, and ornamentation in the context of Jean-Philippe Rameau’s tragédies en musique—Hippolyte et Aricie (1733), Castor et …
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The Theatre Pipe Organ: An Overview. Considerations of History & Performance Practice
… treatises on arranging, and more contemporary performance practices since comparatively little has been written on the subject.
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Regenerating the Live: The Archive as the Genesis of a Performance Practice
Live performance lacks the durability of art practices such as photography, film and painting, and so definitions of ‘live’ acts have traditionally been formulated in terms of ‘transience’ and ‘disappearance’. In this context the archive and archival documents are often described as the antithesis …
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Indications Concerning Contemporaneous Performance Practice in the Prose Writings of William Billings
… the teaching of musical fundamentals and vocal performance in the singing schools. Five additional tunebooks followed; three of these six contained lengthy prose introductions in which Billings addressed pedagogy, music theory, and sight singing. This prose provides important information about …
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Aaron Cassidy’s Second String Quartet: Resilient structures, indeterminate localities, and performance practice
… structures, sound, and its interpreters’ performance practice. The analysis provides an introduction to parsing Cassidy’s notation, then focuses on the distinct relationships between the quartet’s resilient yet provocative structures and the indeterminate localities situated within them. …
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Performance practice in Hungarian folk music and its relationship to the Style Hongrois
This study investigates style and performance practice within the oral traditions of Hungarian folk music, and explores intersections with the nineteenth-century idiom style hongrois. Interviews, lessons, and workshops were undertaken as part of a practice-based immersive research experience, and …
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A holistic view of the creative potential of performance practice in contemporary music
… or for the ideal collaboration. I investigate performance practice not as an absolute art but rather as something embedded in and shaped by social relations and society. Accordingly I understand this thesis as an empirically based study of the questions performers could ask, as well as …
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John Tavener's Choral Anthems, 1985--1990: Analysis of Style, Form and Performance Practice
… their influence on his compositional choices. Performance practice issues related to Tavener's works are explored through interviews with Sir John Tavener, Sir Martin Neary, and Patricia Rozario.
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Johann Nauwach's <i>Teütscher Villanellen</i>: A Critical Performance Edition with Performance Practice Commentary
… <p>This dissertation provides a critical performance edition of Teütscher Villanellen. It includes settings of all the poetry verses provided in the original edition by Nauwach, translations of the poetry, translations of the dedication and dedicatory poem, and editorial notes. In …
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Chord Conundrum: Examining the Performance Practice of Polyphonic Figures in J.S. Bach's Solo Violin Works
… scholars have long debated the proper stylistic performance of these chords; a truly informed interpretation requires careful study not only of the instrument used during the 17<sup>th</sup> and 18<sup>th</sup> centuries, but also of scholarly writings from the time, and analysis of the works …
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Fashioning the Hip-Hop Dancing Body: An Actor-Network Theory Approach to “Fresh” Performance Practice
This thesis examines how hip-hop dance performance, which increasingly moves into digital and site-specific contexts, is constituted through the material movements of, and connections between, bodies, clothing, and space. The research proposes a new materialist framework and highlights, through the …
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