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Åkemark, Elisabet. "Music in Butterfly Burning." Thesis, Växjö universitet, Institutionen för humaniora, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-8356.

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This thesis discusses the role of music and musical sounds in Butterfly Burning by Yvonne Vera. It analyses the way that Vera has used music interlinked with the action of the novel.  This thesis analyses a few areas where music is represented and is important such as: music as an element of healing/forgiveness; music as an element of hope; music as an element of despair; music as an element of working life and the absence of music.  This thesis also briefly discusses who the narrator of the novel is and Vera’s writing technique that incorporates images with hypothetical sounds.   The conclusi
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Mugandani, Viola Nyemudzai. "Jangwa music and musical performance by the Manyika people of Zimbabwe." Thesis, University of Pretoria, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/60400.

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Jangwa music is traditional to the Manyika people of Zimbabwe. The Manyika are a sector of the Shona people, occupying a portion of Manicaland Province in the eastern part of Zimbabwe. African societies carefully craft songs for different contexts to serve a functional and educational purpose. The aim of the study was to explore the origin and the structure of jangwa music, the sociological and social psychological functions of the music and its performance, as well as its aesthetic values among the Manyika people. The study utilised focused ethnographical methods. A large group of elderly Man
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Rutsate, Jerry. "Performance of Mhande song-dance: a contextualized and comparative analysis." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002321.

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This thesis is an investigation of the significance of Mhande song-dance in two performance contexts: the Mutoro ritual of the Karanga and the Chibuku Neshamwari Traditional Dance Competition. In addition, I undertake comparative analysis of the structure of Mhande music in relation to the structure of selected genres of Shona indigenous music. The position of Mhande in the larger context of Shona music is determined through analysis of transcriptions of the rhythmic, melodic and harmonic elements of chizambi mouth bow, karimba mbira, ngororombe panpipes, ngano story songs, game, hunting, war,
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Mufute, Josphat. "The training of the non-specialist music teacher in Zimbabwe : a case study." Thesis, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10948/565.

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The focus of this study thus was to establish if the training of teachers at a particular teachers’ training college in Zimbabwe is equipping students as future teachers with the required competences to realise the aims and objectives of the Zimbabwe Primary Music Syllabus. This study follows on the above-mentioned initial small-scale investigation conducted in 2002, which revealed that teachers lacked the required competences to implement this particular syllabus effectively (Mufute, 2002:16).
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Nota, Charles. "In-service training models for music educators in Zimbabwe / Charles Nota." Thesis, North-West University, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10394/4099.

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This dissertation is the documentation of an investigation aimed at identifying a model(s) that meets the needs of music educators in Zimbabwe. Although the government of Zimbabwe stipulates that music should be part of the education curriculum in the country, it has become evident that the majority of schools do not comply with this requirement. The failure to teach music effectively in schools has been attributed to a variety of factors. Among them are the non-availability of a clear policy on cultural arts education and the fact that music is not examined at the end of a [earning phase suc
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Nota, Charles. "Introducing marimba music as part of the school curriculum in Zimbabwe." Thesis, University of Pretoria, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/65458.

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This thesis is the documentation of an investigation to explore the applicability and use of indigenous African instruments in the development of primary school music curriculum for Zimbabwe. Although music is regarded as one of the compulsory subjects of the Zimbabwean primary school curriculum, it is noted with concern that western musical arts ideas are prominent in the school syllabus hence, they underline the whole essence of music teaching in the post-independence Zimbabwean education system. This is done at the expense of indigenous African musical arts practices that learners can easil
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Chipendo, Claudio. "Towards a changing context and performance practice of mbira dzavadzimu music in Zimbabwe." Thesis, University of Fort Hare, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10353/6357.

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Mbira dzavadzimu music and performance practice has been in existence since the pre-colonial era. It played a crucial role in ritual and non-ritual activities of the Shona people of Zimbabwe. However, political, social and global influences as well as technological advancement have resulted in change of context and performance practice. Unfortunately, these have not been recorded for future generations. The major aim of the study is therefore to examine the change of context and performance practice of mbira dzavadzimu in Zimbabwe. This was achieved by reviewing mbira dzavadzimu music and perf
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McLeod, Andrew Philip. "Language of music : a computational model of music interpretation." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/31371.

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Automatic music transcription (AMT) is commonly defined as the process of converting an acoustic musical signal into some form of musical notation, and can be split into two separate phases: (1) multi-pitch detection, the conversion of an audio signal into a time-frequency representation similar to a MIDI file; and (2) converting from this time-frequency representation into a musical score. A substantial amount of AMT research in recent years has concentrated on multi-pitch detection, and yet, in the case of the transcription of polyphonic music, there has been little progress. There are many
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Sithole, Emmanuel. "From dialect to ‘official’ language: towards the intellectualisation of Ndau in Zimbabwe." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/6086.

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Chihota-Charamba, Audrey. "An analysis of how Zimbabwean female audiences decode meaning from the Shona-language radio programme Nguva Yevanhukadzi (Time for Women) against the background of their lived experiences." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1011750.

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This study investigates the Zimbabwean women listeners of a gender-focused radio programme Nguva yevanhukadzi (Time for Women) to find out what meanings they take from the programme. Located within the broad theoretical framework of cultural studies and drawing on audience reception theories, the study focuses on the ways in which Shona-speaking women bring their understandings of their social roles, derived from their lived socio-cultural experiences of patriarchy, to their decoding of the text. The study was set in Harare’s high-density suburb of Mbare and used the qualitative research metho
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Roxbergh, Linus. "Language Classification of Music Using Metadata." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Avdelningen för systemteknik, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-379625.

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The purpose of this study was to investigate how metadata from Spotify could be used to identify the language of songs in a dataset containing nine languages. Features based on song name, album name, genre, regional popularity and vectors describing songs, playlists and users were analysed individually and in combination with each other in different classifiers. In addition to this, this report explored how different levels of prediction confidence affects performance and how it compared to a classifier based on audio input. A random forest classifier proved to have the best performance with a
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Kay, Marja Liisa. "Contemporary vocal music : language, technology and contemporary vocal music of Finland." Thesis, University of York, 2012. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.583263.

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This thesis is centred on a number of contemporary vocal performances and projects I encountered, and often single-handedly organised, during years of study and exploration. An introduction provides insights as to how I came to connect my original performance research goals with additional subject matters in an effort to provide a more complete illustration of the broad span of the music at hand. The bulk of this submission lies within the recordings of performances, which are supported by three exploratory chapters that discuss the relationships of the works to one another. The first chapter
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Hasler, Arthur Richard Patrick. ""Us" and "them": disagreement over the meanings of terms, ambiguity, contestability and strategy in the Zimbabwean House of Assembly." Thesis, Rhodes University, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1001600.

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This is a study of how certain value loaded political terms are used in Zimbabwean Parliamentary debate. Before 1980 it is argued that aspects of lexical choice and an individual's sociopolitical position were extremely closely related, especially in the case of "white Rhodesians". There was also a marked lack of ambiguity in the use of value loaded terms at this time. In contemporary Zimbabwean House of Assembly, however, terms which became popularized when the new government came to power in 1980 are used with considerable ambiguity and contestability in order to further specific strategies.
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Erickson, David Allen. "Language, ineffability and paradox in music philosophy /." Burnaby B.C. : Simon Fraser University, 2005. http://ir.lib.sfu.ca/handle/1892/2111.

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Makondo, D. "The effects of language of instruction on the performance of the Tsonga (Shangani) speaking Grade seven pupils in Zimbabwe." Thesis, University of Limpopo (Turfloop Campus), 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10386/880.

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Thesis (Ph.D. (Educational Psychology)) --University of Limpopo, 2012<br>This research project was an endeavor to investigate the effects of the languages of instruction (English and Shona), to teach Tsonga (Shangani) speaking children in Chiredzi district of Zimbabwe. Because of the nature of the study, a mixed method design was used where both qualitative and quantitative methods were adopted to study the performance of the Tsonga (Shangani) minority language speaking learners in five purposively sampled schools. 222 learners participated in the study. The main aim of the study was
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Garwood, Eileen. "Profiles of English language music therapy journals." Thesis, Temple University, 2013. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3564809.

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<p> The purpose of this study was to present a content analysis of seven music therapy journals in the English language in order to provide an objective documentation of the longitudinal growth of the field. The current study examined seven English language music therapy journals including the <i> Journal of Music Therapy, Music Therapy: Journal of the American Association for Music Therapy, Music Therapy Perspectives, The Australian Journal of Music Therapy, The Nordic Journal of Music Therapy, The British Journal of Music Therapy,</i> and <i>The New Zealand Society for Music Therapy Journal
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Pérez-Sancho, Carlos. "Stochastic language models for music information retrieval." Doctoral thesis, Universidad de Alicante, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10045/14217.

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Houston, David. "Music and language the case for music in linguistic curricula and research." Saarbrücken VDM Verlag Dr. Müller, 2006. http://d-nb.info/991593936/04.

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Youngs, Marisa B. "THE LANGUAGE OF MUSIC: LINGUISTICS IN TRUMPET PEDAGOGY." UKnowledge, 2018. https://uknowledge.uky.edu/music_etds/115.

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For decades, many brass teachers have relied heavily upon speech as a means of conveying pedagogical concepts. Additionally, a significant number of teachers in the brass community continue to use speech sounds to teach specific kinesthetic responses (i.e. using specific vowels for tone production, particular consonants for articulation, and variations of vowels for different pitch registers). These teaching concepts have been perpetuated over time, though many intricate aspects of human anatomy were yet to be understood at the inception of these methods, including the physiological processes
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Poss, Nicholas. "Hmong Music and Language Cognition: An Interdisciplinary Investigation." The Ohio State University, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1332472729.

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HAHN, LOIS BLACKBURN. "CORRELATIONS BETWEEN READING MUSIC AND READING LANGUAGE, WITH IMPLICATIONS FOR MUSIC INSTRUCTION (NOTATION)." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1985. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/188032.

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There is evidence that the strategies used by fluent readers of written language and by fluent "sight-readers" of musical notation are much the same. Both require a background in the modality represented by the written symbols. Both require context for construction of meaning through sampling and prediction. In this study, a method of elementary music-reading instruction was developed in which musical notation is introduced in the context of musical patterns familiar to the students through earlier musical experiences. The focus is on melodic contour and rhythmic units, initially with no empha
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Mull, Danielle. "Music as A Language: Does Music Occupy Verbal Working Memory in Experienced Musicians?" Honors in the Major Thesis, University of Central Florida, 2005. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETH/id/783.

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This item is only available in print in the UCF Libraries. If this is your Honors Thesis, you can help us make it available online for use by researchers around the world by following the instructions on the distribution consent form at http://library.ucf<br>Bachelors<br>Arts and Sciences<br>Psychology
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Kabwato, Chris. "The emergence of youth protest music and arts as alternative media in Zimbabwe: a Gramscian analysis." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/51228.

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The primary goal of the research is to examine the reasons for the emergence of - hip-hop-based youth protest music and satirical video comedy in Zimbabwe in a context where democratic and media practice has been restricted. The study examines the strategies and platforms that the young urban-based, musicians and cultural activists employ as they contest the meta-narrative of political nationalists who control the public mass media. The study recognises culture as a site of struggle and seeks to tease out the meaning of specific art forms (‘conscious’ hip-hop music and faux-news satire) in thi
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Ngwaru, Cathrine. "Improving Pre-Service Teacher Development Practices in English as a Second Language: A case of Secondary School Teacher Preparation at Great Zimbabwe University in Zimbabwe." University of the Western Cape, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/6373.

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Philosophiae Doctor - PhD ( Language Education)<br>Ordinarily, Teacher Development at the level of Bachelor of Education (B.Ed.) at Great Zimbabwe University (GZU) comes in two major phases spread over four years - the theoretical and the practical based phases. The theoretical phase comes in the form of courses based on pedagogical content and professional knowledge in the initial years at the university while the practical based phase comes in the form of school-based Teaching Practice (TP) for real and direct teaching experiences. The initial theoretical phase is often based on the liberal
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Rhodes, Mahlon. "Music + Design: Creating Holistic Multimodal Music Experiences." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent157469738121486.

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Shen, Mei-ling. "Listeners' recognition of native language (English) and foreign language (Chinese) songs in relation to methods of presentation /." Digital version accessible at:, 1999. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/main.

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Vaquero, Zamora Lucía. "Brain structural predispositions for music and language processing." Doctoral thesis, Universitat de Barcelona, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/665548.

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It has been shown that music and language training can elicit plastic changes on brain structure and function bringing along behavioural benefits. For instance, musicians have been reported to have better auditory discrimination including pitch and speech-in-noise perception, motor-synchronization, verbal memory and general IQ than individuals without formal musical background. Also, bilinguals have shown higher executive function and attention-related abilities than monolinguals. Furthermore, altered functional and structural connectivity can be tracked to brain areas related to the activiti
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Evans, Francois Michel. "Aural image and the language of electroacoustic music." Thesis, City University London, 1996. http://openaccess.city.ac.uk/8271/.

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A thesis in electroacoustic composition presented as a set of five electroacoustic works: Monches en bois ... manches de joie, Repeal, Suite from 'List of Contents, Corporation and Conquate de Z 'espoce recorded on digital audio tape and accompanied by scores and a text. The whole forms the sharing of a personal strategy for electroacoustic composition. The text is in two parts. The first, through five chapters, expounds the author's approach to composition and shows how it is based on filmic models for the treatment of sound and aural image. Chapter One explains the author's concept of 'aural
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Schulze, Walter. "A formal language theory approach to music generation." Thesis, Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/4157.

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Thesis (MSc (Mathematical Sciences))-- University of Stellenbosch, 2010.<br>ENGLISH ABSTRACT: We investigate the suitability of applying some of the probabilistic and automata theoretic ideas, that have been extremely successful in the areas of speech and natural language processing, to the area of musical style imitation. By using music written in a certain style as training data, parameters are calculated for (visible and hidden) Markov models (of mixed, higher or first order), in order to capture the musical style of the training data in terms of mathematical models. These models are
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Verster, François. "Language on music : Beethoven, Mann and the absolute." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/17531.

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Bibliography: 190-197.<br>This dissertation investigates the general use of language on instrumental music. Three types of linguistic usage are identified: the metamusical, the systemic, and the metasystemic. In the first section, various forms of the metamusical - description, attempts at "recreation" and formal analyses of music - are considered, and are all shown to fail in different ways. The limitations of existing systems for negotiation between language and music are also brought to the fore. Failure is redefined, and shown to be intrinsically related to the tradition of musical ineffab
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Nkomo, Dion. "Towards a lexicographical intervention in the acquisition and use of English in Zimbabwe." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/20074.

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Thesis (PhD)-- Stellenbosch University, 2012.<br>ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study considers a lexicographical intervention in the acquisition and use of English in Zimbabwe. English is the country’s sole official language. This means that it dominates all the other languages in the country in terms of prestige and usage in the high status domains such as government, media, law, education, etc. English is learnt as a compulsory subject throughout the education system up to the General Certificate of Ordinary Level (‘O’ Level) and used as medium of instruction from the fourth grade upwards. Th
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Musiyiwa, Mickias. "The narrativization of post-2000 Zimbabwe in the Shona popular song-genre : an appraisal approach." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/80237.

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Thesis (PhD)--Stellenbosch University, 2013.<br>ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The study explores the post-2000 popular song genre (expressed in Shona) in order to analyze its rhetorical potential in its appropriation as a medium for the construction and contestation of meanings concerning land, history and selected (political, social and religious) identities. The goal is to discover how the turbulent post-2000 period in Zimbabwe is narrativized through the lyrics of popular songs. The rationale to focus on popular songs in the context of this period was my observation of the uniquely high level of approp
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Shragg, Lior D. "Belonging: The Music and Lives of Black Zimbabwean Jews." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1585649059631573.

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makondo, Davison. "The effects of the language of instruction on the perfomance of the Tsonga (Shangani) speaking grade seven pupils in Zimbabwe." Thesis, University of Limpopo (Turfloop Campus), 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10386/1153.

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Thesis (Ph.D. (Educational Psychology)) --University of Limpopo, 2012<br>This research project was an endeavor to investigate the effects of the languages of instruction (English and Shona), to teach Tsonga (Shangani) speaking children in Chiredzi district of Zimbabwe. Because of the nature of the study, a mixed method design was used where both qualitative and quantitative methods were adopted to study the performance of the Tsonga (Shangani) minority language speaking learners in five purposively sampled schools. 222 learners participated in the study. The main aim of the study was
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Albert, Kimberly Joy. "Using music therapy and visuals to facilitate language in exceptional preschoolers." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2007. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/3245.

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The purpose of this project is to explore the effectiveness of combining music and visual supports as a means of facilitating communication in exceptional preschoolers. The results indicate that music and visual supports have some merit for increasing verbal responses.
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Jessel, Nadine Baptiste, and Javier Asensio Cubero. "Translation from Braille Music Mark-up Language to DAISYXML." Saechsische Landesbibliothek- Staats- und Universitaetsbibliothek Dresden, 2011. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa-78302.

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As result of the Contrapunctus European project the design of the Braille Music Mark-up as an XML representation of a music scores in Braille has been carried out. We propose a design of a prototype system for translating these kinds of files into spoken music encoded in DAISYXML. In this way any blind musician may be able to memorize any Braille score using a DAISY reader. Therefore the dependency of reading BMML files in front of a computer would be eliminated. This is a first work on feasibility which will be improved and managed by a working group.
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Strømhaug, Tommy. "Discriminating Music,Speech and other Sounds and Language Identification." Thesis, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Department of Computer and Information Science, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:no:ntnu:diva-8953.

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<p>The tasks : discriminating music, speech and other sounds and language identification have a broad range of applications in todays multilingual multimedia community. Both tasks gave a lot of possibilities regarding methods and development tools which also brings some risk. The Language Identification(LID) problem ended up with two different approaches. One approach was discarded due to poor results in the pre-study while the other approach had some promising potential but did not deliver as hoped in the first place. On the other hand, the music, speech discrimination was solved with great a
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Prytuluk, Natalie Anne. "Sound-to-symbol pedagogical practices in music and language." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape3/PQDD_0005/MQ59762.pdf.

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Featherstone, Cara R. "Sounding sparks : incongruities and aesthetics in music and language." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.540783.

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Laws, Catherine. "Music and language in the work of Samuel Beckett." Thesis, University of York, 1996. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/2507/.

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Jessel, Nadine Baptiste, and Javier Asensio Cubero. "Translation from Braille Music Mark-up Language to DAISYXML." Deutsche Zentralbibliothek für Blinde Leipzig (DZB), 2010. https://slub.qucosa.de/id/qucosa%3A1625.

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As result of the Contrapunctus European project the design of the Braille Music Mark-up as an XML representation of a music scores in Braille has been carried out. We propose a design of a prototype system for translating these kinds of files into spoken music encoded in DAISYXML. In this way any blind musician may be able to memorize any Braille score using a DAISY reader. Therefore the dependency of reading BMML files in front of a computer would be eliminated. This is a first work on feasibility which will be improved and managed by a working group.
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Thomas, Demetria Lucille. "Teachers' Perspectives about Infusing Music into Language Arts Instruction." ScholarWorks, 2014. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/169.

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Reading and writing curricula in more than 50% of America's schools have not been successful in assisting students to meet mandated academic performances for a number of reasons, including lack of student motivation and self-esteem. Research studies indicated that music can influence student motivation and academic performance in subjects such as language arts and that a music-infused curriculum could generate the positive difference between academic failure and academic success. For this qualitative case study with a constructivist paradigm, the purpose was to observe, document, and analyze m
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Jordan, Augustus III. "A study of language and ideology in Rap Music." DigitalCommons@Robert W. Woodruff Library, Atlanta University Center, 1998. http://digitalcommons.auctr.edu/dissertations/3334.

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This study examined the language of Hip-Hop songs and ideology of the artists as reflected through their songs. The study was based on the theory that Hip-Hop or rap songs are legitimate artforms because of their use of poetic elements such as figuration, figures of sound, symbolism, and ambiguity. The study recorded and interpreted the lyrics of a few current rap songs for the purpose of investigating their poetical and ideological elements. The researcher found signification battles by some rap artists as the best examples of songs which express the richness and complexity of Hip-Hop music.
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Mugore, Masawi Maireva Faustina. "Language learning and teaching in Zimbabwe : English as the sole language of instruction in schools : a study of students' use of English in Zimbabwe, their indigenous languages (Shona and Ndebele), and the schools' methods of instruction in secondary school classrooms." Thesis, McGill University, 1995. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=29090.

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This study focuses on the use of English as the sole medium of instruction in Zimbabwean schools and the effect of such a policy on the educational achievement of students, particularly in secondary schools. The role of Shona and Ndebele, two other Zimbabwean official languages, in schooling is also examined.<br>Some of the findings reveal a learning and teaching environment that prevents strategies from addressing linguistic, social and cultural development with a coherent workable vision in the English classroom.<br>Because English is the working language of government, business, and industr
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Panyaniti, Rawin. "Bartók as ethnomusicologist and composer: folk music and art music influences on his musical language." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1998. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31223278.

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Massey, Sara Miller. "The effects of auditory-motor mapping training on speech output of nonverbal elementary age students with autism spectrum disorder." Thesis, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10123641.

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<p> The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of auditory-motor mapping training (AMMT) on the speech output of nonverbal elementary age students with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Auditory-motor mapping training facilitates the development of association between sounds and articulatory actions using intonation and bimanual drumming activities. This intervention purportedly stimulates neural networks that may be dysfunctional in persons with ASD. </p><p> Seven nonverbal children with a primary diagnosis of ASD participated in twelve 20-minute weekly sessions consisting of eng
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Crankshaw, Amy Jane. "Hendrik Hofmeyr: the harmonic language of a theorist and composer theorist." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/20035.

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This dissertation seeks to investigate an aspect of Hendrik Hofmeyr's engagement with music through his theories of harmonic analysis and his use of expanded tonality in his compositions. The purpose of the discipline of music analysis is investigated, and analysis is compared with its sister disciplines to consolidate its vital role in relation to musical study and practice at large. The debate started in the New Musicology in the 1980s is discussed with special reference to the objectives of analysis. The current state of theoretical and analytical study that has emerged since the 1990s is e
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Cataylo, Vilma May Chavez. "Musical works built on the native language to bring about musical knowledge and cultural development /." Access Digital Full Text version, 1986. http://pocketknowledge.tc.columbia.edu/home.php/bybib/10624090.

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Thesis (Ed. D.)--Teachers College, Columbia University, 1986.<br>Typescript; issued also on microfilm. Sponsor: Harold F. Abeles. Dissertation Committee: Lenore Pogonowski. Bibliography: leaves 291-295.
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Greenberg, Jonathan Ross. "Singing up close voice, language, and race in American popular music, 1925-1935 /." Diss., Restricted to subscribing institutions, 2007. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1481673371&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=1564&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Chimbarange, Advice. "An analysis of gendered metaphors in selected Zimbabwean Shona songs." Thesis, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/26532.

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This qualitative study analyses gendered metaphors in selected Zimbabwean Shona songs. The study explores how musicians deploy gendered metaphors to propagate, reinforce or challenge gender views and positions held in the Zimbabwean contemporary society. The corpus of data comprised Shona popular songs released between 1988 and 2018 and down loaded from You-tube. The songs were transcribed, translated into English and metaphors identified and interpreted using a combination of the Pragglejaz Group (2007), Steen (2007) and Charteris-Black (2004) metaphor identification methods. Charteris-Black’
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