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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"pitch structure"”.
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Octatonic Pitch Structure and Motivic Organization in George Walker's Canvas for Wind Ensemble, Voices, and Chorus
… in traditional harmonic ways. A hierarchy of pitch sets is created, lending a "tonic" function characteristic to prevalent and specifically placed sonorities. Onto this "canvas" of octatonic harmonies, Walker "paints" specific motivic gestures. These motivic gesture monopolize specific …
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The Varieties of Tone Presence: On the Meanings of Musical Tone in Twentieth-Century Music
… subject of tone presence, I rethink notions of “pitch structure” in post-tonal theory and offer an alternative that focuses on the question of what it is to be a musical interval for experience, drawing on a wide range of research from social theory, semiotics, theories of emotion, African …
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"The Act of Singing: A Study of Unsuk Chin's ""Cantatrix Sopranica"" for Two Sopranos, Countertenor and Ensemble"
… elements such as text, vocal considerations, pitch structure, and form, with emphasis on the relationships between the movements. Chapter 3 offers an analysis of each movement in depth, while Chapter 4 is a brief conclusion.
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Tonality And Atonality In Alban Berg's Four Songs, Op2 (austria)
… involved any radical change in how they handled pitch materials in their music. In Berg's Four Songs questions of tonality and atonality appear to be central: the first three of these songs are usually held to be still (barely) tonal, while the last song is often termed Berg's first atonal …
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Color circle : an original composition for orchestra and computer
… by a variation on a motive of three rising pitches and several overlapping sonorities. The work culminates in a motivic, instrumental, and harmonic climax in the final section, owing largely to the completion of the always present, yet often obscured, circle of fifths. The accompanying …
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The construction and evaluation of statistical models of melodic structure in music perception and composition
… in the context of sequential prediction of pitch structure in unseen melodies. This investigation results in a collection of modelling strategies which together yield significant performance improvements over existing methods. In the second stage, these statistical systems are used to …