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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"snare drum"”.
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The Snare Drum as a Solo Concert Instrument: An In-Depth Study of Works by Milton Babbitt, John Cage, Dan Senn, and Stuart Saunders Smith, Together with Three Recitals of Selected Works by Keiko Abe, Daniel Levitan, Askell Masson, Karlheinz Stockhausen, and Others
This dissertation discusses the potential of the snare drum as a solo concert instrument. Four pieces from a collection entitled The Noble Snare are used for demonstration ("Homily" by Milton Babbitt, "Composed Improvisation for Snare Drum" by John Cage, "Peeping Tom" by Dan Senn, and "The Noble …
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Striking Implement and Surface Area Specification in Unaccompanied Multiple Percussion Solos: Its Compositional Significance
… to be struck by an implement. The center of a snare drum head, for example, is a region within the topography known as the drum head, or membrane. A snare drum stick is an implement used to strike it.
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A Musical Approach to the Teaching and Performance of Percussion
… developing a musical approach to the teaching of snare drum using a recommended “like-grip” for holding all sticks and mallets (2) to provide the teacher of instrumental music with selected published methods and materials for developing musicianship; (3) to provide the instrumental music teacher …
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Unpopular Meters: Irregular Grooves and Drumbeats in the Songs of Tori Amos, Radiohead, and Tool
This dissertation investigates the drumbeat’s role in articulating irregular metric structures in rock music from the past three decades. Having analyzed a corpus of 240 songs, I theorize several distinct categories of metric irregularity; establish drumbeat conventions in the most common irregular …
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Paintings and Palaces, or the Lament of the Burger Flipper
… one tenor trombone, two percussionists (playing snare drum, bass drum, tambourine, wood block, triangle, suspended cymbal, crash cymbal, agogo bells, cow bell, brake drum, metal whistle, whip, large gong, Glockenspiel, chimes, timpani in F (low) and C), eight or more violins in two parts, six or …
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A Faint Light
… to describe the fighting scene, I used a snare drum, tom-toms, and bass drum. In the third section, I used sistrum and woodblocks to express the atmosphere of Zen. While the imagination of the fairy tale scene was portrayed in the introduction and the coda, the seed of the thematic melodic …
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A PORTFOLIO OF THREE COMPOSITIONS AND TWO ESSAYS
… compositions. First, Can One Hear the Shape of a Drum (2022-2023) is a performative installation for snare drum, bass drum, and electronic feedback. The work was first performed at Cornell University's Milstein Hall on September 15th, 2022, by percussionist Greg Stuart, supported by the Cornell …