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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"rubato"”.
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Internet congestion control architecture with application-aware utilities and adaptive timescales
… the timescales in congestion control, we design Rubato. It starts from a pacing scheme encapsulating packet bursts with multiple burst rates, and inherently supports adaptive timescales by leveraging statistical inference techniques. Depending on the network conditions, Rubato is capable of …
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Chopin's Cantabile in Context
… recognizable context for ornamentation and tempo rubato in both vocal and instrumental music. Although modern scholarship has recognized diverse elements of cantabile, particularly in nineteenth-century opera, its signature features of ornamentation and tempo rubato remain comparatively unexplored …
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Towards a declamatory performance in Schubert Lieder
… The participants’ use of stress, emphasis and rubato was extrapolated and used (in combination with the historical evidence) to speculatively recreate several declamatory performances of Schubert lieder.
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Bach's Goldberg variations : a study of technical and stylistic transference to the piano
… including articulation, arpeggiation, tempo rubato, ornamentation, rhythmic alteration and the relating of tempi from variation to variation. To these can be added the possibility of a wide range of inflectional dynamics not available on the harpsichord, and the optional use of damper and una …
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The Art of Accompanying the Jazz Vocalist - A Survey of Piano Styles and Techniques
… creating appropriate introductions, performing rubato, performing in a duo setting, the use of musical texture, chord voicings, avoiding harmonic conflicts with the melody, the improvised solo, transposition and the effect of lyrics and ornamentation of the vocal line. The project examines how …
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A Performer’s Guide to Astor Piazzolla's <i>Tango-Études pour flûte seule</i>: An Analytical Approach
… three provides analysis of fraseo, rhythm, form, rubato, ornamentation, and improvisation and how musicians might implement these parameters in their performances. Chapter four offers formal and stylistic analysis of each <em>Tango-Étude</em> and gives interpretative suggestions based on analysis …
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Performance Approach in the Recorded History of Alban Berg's Piano Sonata, Op. 1
… analysis was joined with empirical data on rubato, facilitated by the application Sonic Visualiser. The resulting classifications reveal performance practice, tradition, and aesthetic. Chapter 2 investigates Glenn Gould’s longtime relationship with the work. Timing, manual asynchrony, and …
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Ignacy Jan Paderewski's Sonata in E-Flat Minor, Op. 21: Insights into his compositional technique and performance style.
… including counterpoint, asynchrony, tempo rubato, rhythmic variance, and pedaling. Each of these aspects of Paderewski's performance style is illustrated with transcriptions of excerpts from Paderewski's recordings. The author proposes examples of application of these aspects to …
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The Piano as an Orchestra: The Accompanist and the Twentieth-Century Orchestral Reduction
… uses and misuses of pedal, articulation, and rubato are discussed. The pianist is led through ways of deciphering and negotiating specific passages, in order to guide the accompanist through the possible pitfalls and challenges unique to many orchestral reductions. By focusing on twentieth …
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Jazz Recordings by Ed Bickert and Problems of Stylistic Analysis
… note values, effectively employ expressive or rubato timing, and shift the metric accents to suggest a different time signature (cross rhythm). LaRue’s concept of lulls: “a condition of relative stability,” seems to have some relevance to Bickert’s employment of punctuation chords in the …
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Performing practices in late-nineteenth-century piano playing
… hands), unnotated chordal arpeggiation, metrical rubato and various types of rhythmic alteration, and tempo modification. Each chapter compares contemporaneous and historical written references with numerous recorded examples provided on the accompanying compact discs. This process reveals, in …
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The Use of the Polish Folk Music Elements and the Fantasy Elements in the Polish Fantasy on Original Themes in G-sharp Minor for Piano and Orchestra, Opus 19 by Ignacy Jan Paderewski
… performance issues including pedaling, tempo rubato, and composer's own fingering. Chapter 5 provides a summary and conclusion of the study.
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Performing with a Personal Musical Identity: An Examination of Musicians' Distinctive Personalities in Performances of Bach's Solo Violin Sonatas and Partitas
… Romantic string techniques such as flexible rubato and a wide range of intonation, articulation, and dynamic contrasts, he is able to channel his deep empathy, shaped by his humanitarian convictions, into distinct human emotions through Bach’s music. Then, I compare four violinists, ranging …
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Modelling metrical flux: an adaptive frequency neural network for expressive rhythmic perception and prediction
… expressive timing, e.g. tempo changes or rubato. A neuro-cognitive model has been proposed, the Gradient Frequency Neural Network (GFNN), which can model the perception of pulse and metre. GFNNs have been applied successfully to a range of ‘difficult’ music perception problems such as …