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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"popular songs"”.
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New Arrangements of Selected Taiwanese Popular Songs for the Early-Elementary Piano Student
… presents ten personal arrangements of Taiwanese popular song melodies for solo piano with teacher accompaniment parts. Should teachers wish to create music they believe their own students would enjoy, this project can also be used as a guide to the compositional process. This collection of pieces …
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Shelley and Peterloo : radical, nationalist and balladeer
… concerning the publication of "a littlevolume of popular songs, wholly political". This request met with failure andthe "little volume" was never published. It is the contention of this thesis thateleven of Shelley's poems written between September 1819 and July 1820would have formed part, if not …
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The Vocabulary Demands of Popular English Songs
Popular music is ever-present and widely available in students’ lives and the value of it as a factor in the language learning process has been a part of the pedagogical literature for many years. One of the often-discussed benefits is the potential for vocabulary learning through songs; however, …
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Music Speaks, We Listen: A Teacher's Guide for Using Music in the Adult ELL Classroom
… is to introduce adult ESL teachers to using popular songs to teach English. Music-centered curriculum offers rich, authentic and culturally-relevant material for use in the adult ESL classroom. This project explores research in second language acquisition and the neuro-cognitive and …
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A pedagogical analysis of the Estudos bem-humorados para trompete solo by Fernando Morais
… Brazilian trumpet etudes based on Brazilian popular music. This research is intended to serve as a performance and pedagogical guide for the performance of the estudos. It includes a historical analysis, a compositional analysis and a pedagogical analysis. The results of a survey sent to …
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Interactions between Female Impersonators and Tipping Audience Members: Heteronormativity and Techniques
… engage the audience, which included performing popular songs, wearing interesting outfits, and interacting with the crowd. These rational strategies were based upon the entertainer taking the role of the generalized other, the audience. Entertainers in this study discussed positive aspects of …
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An analysis of the lyrics of the top 10 African language pop songs on Umhlobo Wenene in 2016
… I critically analyse the lyrics of the top 10 songs (sung in an indigenous African language) aired on uMhlobo weNene (the national broadcast station for the Xhosa language) during 2016. Before the analysis of the songs I discuss various academic works on pop lyrics generally – ranging from a …
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The politics of the traditional Korean popular song style T'ŭrot'ŭ
T’ŭrot’ŭ, a traditional Korean popular song style, has existed in the South Korean music scene for more than eight decades. Nowadays, the song style may not be the most popular song style in South Korea in terms of media popularity, which is mostly oriented towards teenaged listeners. However, …
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IL 'QUARTO FRONTE'. MUSICA E PROPAGANDA RADIOFONICA NELL'ITALIA DIVISA (8 SETTEMBRE 1943 - 25 APRILE 1945)
… cinema, radiophonic programs, newspapers, popular songs, etc) used during the second world war, during a conflict characterized since the beginning by countries occupied for long periods of time and a by a strongly ideological character (differently from the Great War where the political …
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Accounting for taste: The early American music business and secularization in music aesthetics, 1720--1825
<p>This study redefines popular music in early America as sacred music sung and performed in most churches and, starting in the 1790s, theater music imported from England. Rather than more static secular ballads and traditional dance pieces customarily understood as popular music, sacred and …
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Radiohead and Identity: A Moon Shaped Pool and the Process of Identity Construction
… analysis to explore how listeners use popular music as a means of identity construction. Focusing on Radiohead’s 2016 album A Moon Shaped Pool, the dissertation investigates the various sociological and musical frameworks that illuminate how the songs interact with listener expectations …
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The self-conscious chanson : creative responses to the art versus commerce debate
… chanson. It examines,in particular, French popular songs that question and problematise the chanson form and the role of the chanson artist. While certain forms of self-consciousnessc an be traced back to the troubadours, this thesis will argue that the specifically self interrogatory nature …
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Ballads, songs and snatches: The appropriation of and responses to folk song and popular music culture in the nineteenth century
Ballads, Songs and Snatches demonstrates how allusion to folk song and some aspects of popular musical culture were absorbed into the polyphony of discourses in the realist prose of the nineteenth century, and explores the implications of the various transformations that occurred during this …
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American women saxophonists from 1870-1930 : their careers and repertoire
… repertoire. Parlor, religious, and minstrel songs are examined, as are waltz, fox-trot, and ragtime pieces. Discussion of music of a more "classical" nature concludes this section. Two appendixes are included--the first, a complete alphabetical list of the names of early female saxophonists …
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Military band musicians on the border: crossing over musical genres in the transnational space of the Korean War
… with analyses of selected military marches and popular songs written or played in South Korea from 1950 to 1961; they are further interpreted within a conceptual framework based on theories of transnationalism and hybridization and in relation to Korean nationalism. During the Korean War, South …
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Apprentissage de la conjugaison francaise et de la culture congolaise par la chanson de Franco Luambo Makiadi
… of life in a global village. The choice of songs as a medium of teaching French verbs draws both upon African culture and tradition and equips learners to cope with an international society. Singing is a natural way to learn a language and the choice of this subject is justified by the …
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The Italianate Wordsworth
… and in 1815; by Pietro Metastasio, author of popular songs and melodramas, in 1802-1803; by Michelangelo Buonarroti, the artist, poet, and polymath, in 1804 and again in 1839-1840; and by Gabriello Chiabrera, the epitaphist, in 1809-10 and 1837. Wordsworth's immersion in Italian culture became …
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Rock Becomes Jazz: Interpretations of Popular Music by Improvising Artists in the 1960s
… to itself and its musical public. The popularity of jazz, in decline since the rise of bebop in the mid-1940s, was further eroded by rock and roll’s rise to prominence in the mid-1950s. By the mid-1960s, the jazz world seemed to be faced with a choice: adapt to accommodate the …
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Computational lyricology: Quantitative approaches to understanding song lyrics and their interpretations
… considered. Based on the observation that most popular songs contain lyrics, whose different levels of complexity contribute to the overall music complexity, this dissertation research investigates song lyric complexity and how it might be measured computationally. In a broad sense, lyric …
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Graduate Recital, Violin
… styles, in an effort to break boundaries between popular music styles and high art music styles. This philosophy began to influence his compositions in the 1960's. Throughout his career, Bolcom has composed pieces across many genres, including operas, concerti, symphonies, string quartets, …
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