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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"performance style"”.
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Ignacy Jan Paderewski's Sonata in E-Flat Minor, Op. 21: Insights into his compositional technique and performance style.
… are a valuable documentation of his piano performance style. Knowledge of late-Romantic performance practices gleaned from Paderewski's recordings suggest ways of approaching the performance of his Sonata in E-Flat Minor, Op. 21. This Sonata, composed in 1903 near the end of his …
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Is Ziggy Stardust Camp?: David Bowie As A Case Study In Music And Camp
David Bowie’s performance style and image during his “Stardust Years” (1972-1973) are widely considered as exemplifying a Camp aesthetic. With few exceptions (Buckley, 1993), all consider his image, the persona Ziggy Stardust, as being Camp and specific discussions of his music as Camp are lacking. …
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A Lighting Design Process for The Mystery of Edwin Drood by Rupert Holmes
… while the performers emulated the vaudevillian performance style of the period. The overall goal was to transport our audiences to another time and place for “a frothy Victorian romp.” (Parry) The scenic and costume designs utilized styles and practices of the period along with modern techniques …
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Across the Pacific: the transformation of the steel guitar from Hawaiian folk instrument to popular music mainstay.
… characterised as a prepared instrument and a performance style whereby a guitar is positioned face up on the lap of a seated player who stops the strings by means of a steel bar – is a late 19th century Hawaiian adaption of the Spanish guitar. Its original role was that of a solo and …
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Anglican Chant and Chanting in England and America, 1660-1811
… the decisive determinants of liturgical performance style. The various forms of chant trace their historical lineage to Sarum plainsong tones harmonized in four parts in faburden style. Composed treble melodies replaced psalm tone tenors in the English chant tune, a psalmodic formula for …
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Toward a Postmodern Avant-Garde: Labour, Virtuosity, and Aesthetics in an American New Music Ensemble
… I argue, has created an ensemble identity and performance style designed to satisfy numerous audience positions, from experts well-versed in the intricacies of musical techniques to lay-persons unacquainted with the values and practices of new or classical music. This attempt to satisfy such a …
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The Role of Analysis and Comparison in the Performance of Selected Single-Movement Compositions for Trumpet and Piano by Joseph Turrin with an Interview of the Composer, a Lecture Recital, Together with Three Recitals of Selected Works by Handel, Honegger, Tomasi, and Others
… professional players as seen by their frequent performance in those venues as evidenced by the International Trumpet Guild's Trumpet and Brass Programs for the years 1995-2002. The three works selected for the present study include: Elegy for Trumpet and String Orchestra (1971, rev. 1993, piano …
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The Changing Style of Playing Rachmaninoff’s Piano Music
… he established a powerful interpretative style for his music that clearly influenced his contemporaries. However, the way people have performed his piano music has changed over the years. In this thesis, I show how the recorded interpretations of some important figures have become …
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‘This is what Salvation must be like after a While’: Bob Dylan’s Critical Utopia
… treatment, and of the distinctiveness of Dylan’s performance style, while Dylan himself has been treated both as an important figure in the world of popular music, and also as an artist, as a significant poet. In his prolific output Dylan deals with a number of recurring themes, which he …
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Alfred Cortot's response to the music for solo piano of Franz Schubert: a study in performance practice
… can potentially be a relevant source for the performance of this repertoire. Due to his educational background and the roots of his performance style, he can be a link to performance traditions of the late nineteenth century, which comprise important sources for the performance of Schubert’s …
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Three Essays on Performance and Behavior of Agricultural Market Advisory Services in Corn and Soybeans
… dissertation investigates trading behavior and performance of agricultural market advisory services. The data employed consist of advisory programs tracked by the AgMAS project at the University of Illinois for 1995 through 2004 corn and soybean crops. The first essay develops measures of …
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Computational Framework Enabling an EEG-based BCI for Neurofeedback in Language Disorders: The case of dyslexia
… BCI control to be adapted to each individual’s performance style, without changing the core neural pattern being targeted. The BCI was played by 15 adults (7 dyslexics) who performed an EEG-BCI neurofeedback protocol of 16 sessions administered across two weeks. The majority of these adults …
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Sekgapa : a culture-based study of a musical tradition of BaPedi women of Mailula, Mmamabolo district, Limpopo Province, South Africa
… and community. There are also accounts ofSekgapa performance contexts and their social functions. Chapter 3 looks at some requirements of Sekgapa performance style (including dancing dress and delivery of Direlo Praises), something of the concepts underlying the musical action, and correlations …
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The auditory fingerprint : multidimensional characterization of individual pitch perception in musicians
… perception mode, musical instrument preference, performance style, as well as musical abilities such as absolute- and relative pitch perception or auditory imagery (audiation). However, relevant literature in the field regarding perceptual and psychophysical aspects of sound and particularly …
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The philosophical, behavioural and academic merit of uMaskandi music
… document on umaskandi is about a vocal musical style that was created and nurtured by the Zulu people. Externally and, at a distance, the style may not appear to be artistically captivating, praiseworthy, and linguistically significant. It is but only on closer scrutiny that the aesthetic worth …
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A study on performing the Hungarian Rhapsodies in the Liszt tradition
… considering Liszt’s own ideas on music and performance, the writings and recordings of his pupils, and Liszt’s book Des Bohémiens et de leur musique en Hongrie (1859).