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Gregorio, Joseph. "Concerto for Piano and Orchestra and Sonata Form in Sergey Prokofiev's First Piano Concerto: An Analysis from the Perspective of Hepokoski and Darcy's Sonata Theory." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2018. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/540539.

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Music Composition;
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This dissertation comprises two parts: an original composition, Concerto for Piano and Orchestra; and an essay that analyzes the form of Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No. 1 in D-flat Major, op. 10. Concerto for Piano and Orchestra is cast in three movements and scored in two versions: In “Version A,” members of the orchestra are at times called on to use their voices to sustain the phonemes [m], [ŋ], and [v] on pitch and to create an intense whisper on the vowel [æ]. “Version B” is an alternative realization that uses instruments only. The first movement, unable to produce a recapitulation and continually interrupted at decreasing intervals of time by increasingly intense outbursts from percussion, brass, and wind instruments, is an extreme deformation of a sonata-concerto form. It proceeds attacca to the second movement, which is built in a large ternary form. The third movement is a concerto adaptation of James Hepokoski and Warren Darcy’s “expanded Type 1” sonata form. The concerto’s total duration is approximately 30 minutes. The essay considers the form of Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No. 1 from the perspective of Hepokoski and Darcy’s Sonata Theory, as laid out in their seminal 2006 treatise. It finds that Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No. 1 is a highly individualized instance of Hepokoski and Darcy’s “Type 3” sonata form with introduction-coda frame. The essay’s analysis is preceded by a glimpse at Prokofiev’s experiences with sonata form during his youth, as well as brief reviews of the conceptual backdrop of concerto form as Prokofiev would have received it and of the basics of Sonata Theory.
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Klotz, Marcus L. "Eric Whitacre's When David Heard| Understanding Grief through the Lens of Kubler-Ross's Five Stages." Thesis, California State University, Long Beach, 2019. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10977634.

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This project report analyzes Eric Whitacre’s choral piece When David Heard, a work about grieving the loss of a son, alongside psychologist Elizabeth Kübler-Ross’s five stages of grief. The paper serves to better understand the lamentation of King David in Whitacre’s piece by seeing where each of the five stages fit into the process of grief throughout the piece.

The analysis observes Whitacre’s variety of musical devices such as tonal clusters, intermittent silences, and polyrhythms, as a means to describe the stages of grief that David is experiencing. By understanding these different stages of grief within the piece, one can conduct or sing the performance of this piece with better understanding of this grief.

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Rush, Matthew E. "An Analysis and Performance Guide for Anna Thorvaldsdottir's Aura for Three or Four Percussionists." Thesis, The University of Nebraska - Lincoln, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10846156.

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This doctoral document and accompanying lecture recital seek to illuminate and bring clarity to aura (2011) for three percussionists and AURA (2015) for four percussionists by Icelandic composer Anna Thorvaldsdóttir. This composition is examined through a thorough musical and formal analysis to show that there is a guiding force to be found behind the sustained drones and complex bell themes of the piece. A performance guide to reduce the composition’s logistical and musical challenges is included in the hopes that it will shorten the learning curve for a new ensemble as they learn the piece. It is this author’s aim that this resource will make this composition accessible to a wider range of ensembles and thereby bring more exposure to the music of Anna Thorvaldsdóttir.

In addition, biographical information and a survey of the composer’s compositional process and style is included to increase the limited amount of scholarly research that currently exists on Dr. Thorvaldsdóttir and her works.

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Viator, Landon. "Thanatos." Thesis, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, 2017. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10277362.

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Viator, Landon Bachelor of Music, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Fall 2015; Master of Music, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Spring 2017 Major: Music Title of Thesis: Thanatos Thesis Director: Dr. Quincy Hilliard Pages in Thesis: 68; Words in Abstract: 94 Abstract The purpose of this thesis is to provide a theoretical analysis of my composition as well as demonstrate the techniques used to compose and compile electroacoustic music in the digital realm using a DAW software. I have demonstrated how to use MIDI instruments to compose music, how equalization was used to digitally change the timbre of the guitar and drums, how compression was used to control the dynamic range of the drums and add fullness to their sound, and I have demonstrated how to create MIDI notes to be played by the software instruments.

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Mitchell, David J. "A Performance Guide and Analysis of Compositional Techniques in Selected Percussion Music of Dave Maric." Thesis, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10639934.

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The aim of this study is to provide insight into the percussion music of Dave Maric through an analysis of a trilogy of pieces with backing track, Trilogy (2000), Sense & Innocence (2002/2014), and Thrice Into Flames (2017). The present study examines Maric’s influences, analyzes his compositional style, and provides a performance guide. Brief biographical information is provided to introduce Maric. His compositional style is examined by analyzing tonal language and formal structures. The tonal language of these pieces combines octatonic scales and diatonic scales. In terms of form, Maric uses mathematical sequences to determine proportions between sections, including the Fibonacci sequence. The performance guide includes sticking suggestions, transcriptions of backing track cues, and additional comments.

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McKee, David Frank. "ALABAMA SUMMER: SUITE FOR ORCHESTRA WITH STRUCTURAL AND HARMONIC ANALYSIS." Lexington, Ky. : [University of Kentucky Libraries], 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10225/776.

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Thesis (D.M.A.)--University of Kentucky, 2008.
Title from document title page (viewed on May 13, 2008). Document formatted into pages; contains: vii, 114 p. : ill., music. Includes abstract and vita. Includes bibliographical references (p. 112).
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Safran, Benjamin. "SOUNDING STRATEGY: COMPOSERS’ USES OF SOCIAL JUSTICE AND POLITICAL THEMES IN CONTEMPORARY CLASSICAL CONCERT MUSIC." Temple University Libraries, 2019. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/570955.

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Music Composition
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Contemporary classical concert music could be part of the solution to build a just and sustainable future. My research demonstrates that such music, despite its niche, elitist positioning in contemporary American society, can contribute to social movements and change the world in meaningful, tangible ways when attention is paid to social movement strategy and structures of power. To reconsider the potential power of this music, I apply a range of methodologies from ethnography to hermeneutic analysis to nonviolent direct action strategy, drawing on the work of musicologists, ethnomusicologists, and social movement theorists. Given the elitism of the classical concert hall, it is a non-obvious genre in which to convey a social justice or leftist political theme, yet many composers try to do so. I examine five of these composers in depth: Laura Kaminsky, David Lang, Curt Cacioppo, Ludovico Einaudi, and Hannibal (who goes by other names but used the mononym Hannibal in the concert which I discuss). Concurrently with my research, I composed a large-scale experimental work to be used in a protest to demonstrate the potential for contemporary classical music to support nonviolent movements. I organized a pilot performance that brought together music students and community members in the lobby of a large utility headquarters as part of an ongoing campaign for local green jobs in Philadelphia.
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Safran, Benjamin. "Action pieces final." Temple University Libraries, 2019. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/571017.

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Music Composition
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Contemporary classical concert music could be part of the solution to build a just and sustainable future. My research demonstrates that such music, despite its niche, elitist positioning in contemporary American society, can contribute to social movements and change the world in meaningful, tangible ways when attention is paid to social movement strategy and structures of power. To reconsider the potential power of this music, I apply a range of methodologies from ethnography to hermeneutic analysis to nonviolent direct action strategy, drawing on the work of musicologists, ethnomusicologists, and social movement theorists. Given the elitism of the classical concert hall, it is a non-obvious genre in which to convey a social justice or leftist political theme, yet many composers try to do so. I examine five of these composers in depth: Laura Kaminsky, David Lang, Curt Cacioppo, Ludovico Einaudi, and Hannibal (who goes by other names but used the mononym Hannibal in the concert which
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Safran, Benjamin. "Action Piece 3." Temple University Libraries, 2019. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/571018.

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Music Composition
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Contemporary classical concert music could be part of the solution to build a just and sustainable future. My research demonstrates that such music, despite its niche, elitist positioning in contemporary American society, can contribute to social movements and change the world in meaningful, tangible ways when attention is paid to social movement strategy and structures of power. To reconsider the potential power of this music, I apply a range of methodologies from ethnography to hermeneutic analysis to nonviolent direct action strategy, drawing on the work of musicologists, ethnomusicologists, and social movement theorists. Given the elitism of the classical concert hall, it is a non-obvious genre in which to convey a social justice or leftist political theme, yet many composers try to do so. I examine five of these composers in depth: Laura Kaminsky, David Lang, Curt Cacioppo, Ludovico Einaudi, and Hannibal (who goes by other names but used the mononym Hannibal in the concert which
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Tanikawa, Takuma. "Ondo for Chamber Orchestra." Thesis, The University of Chicago, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10809519.

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Ondo was written for my grandmother’s 88th birthday. The composition comprises six sections based on a popular folksong, called “Tanko-Bushi,” which can be heard in every Japanese town during the Bon festival. Obon is a holiday in August, when we return home once a year to pay respect to our elders and ancestors. “Tanko-Bushi” became popular in Japan around the end of the Second World War and was based on a popular song from the early part of the twentieth century, around the time my grandmother was born, and has taken many forms since; it continues to do so under varied contexts and the versions I encountered there as a child, while attending the summer festivals with her, would have been but a small sample of these. As I worked on Ondo, I tried to imagine what it might have been like to live through all of the changes that took place in Japan over the past century. I think of the composition as a commentary on the westernization that has been taking place there and on the orientalization of Japanese identity—as an act of harmonizing disparate values. Between and within the sections, I explore varying degrees of fragmentation as they relate to, or disrupt, unifying threads that run through the four main sections (1, 3, 5 and 6). Above all, I wanted the piece to be enjoyable for my grandmother to listen to. The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra gave a reading of the four main sections of Ondo on 28 January 2011 at the SPCO Center in Saint Paul, MN. Subsequent to the reading, two interludes (sections 2 and 4) were added as contrasting materials and as expansions upon the relationships explored between the diverse approaches to formal considerations in the piece.

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Hollow, Malila Louise. "Scriabin's Gradual Journey to Post-tonal Writing| Pushing Boundaries through Harmonic Exploration and Synesthesia." Thesis, California State University, Long Beach, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10638764.

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Throughout his career, Alexander Scriabin created a bridge between traditional romantic harmony and modernistic, chromatic tendencies that ultimately led to the post-tonal era. Scriabin’s middle period after Opus 32 displays several examples of his progressive harmony. However, Scriabin’s transition into harmonic exploration is quite apparent in his Fantasy in B minor , which was written three years before his middle period is observed. This may demonstrate that Scriabin was developing his harmonic techniques much earlier in his career.

Furthermore, the thorough documentation of Scriabin’s color associations shows that Scriabin conceived his music with a strong integration of sound-color awareness. Many moments in the Fantasy appear to possess relationships between sound and color, which can be found in expanded harmonic techniques and multi-timbral textures within the pianistic writing. This essay will first discuss the existing research completed on Scriabin’s harmonic tendencies within earlier works, and then analyze the similar techniques used in the Fantasy. Using previous knowledge gathered about synesthesia, this essay will then examine the connections between Scriabin’s perspective on composition and his connection to synesthesia.

In summary, Scriabin’s unconventional voice leading, chromatic harmonic progressions, and altered tertian voicing, will be analyzed in Opus 28. Afterwards, synesthetic and multi-textural analysis will be demonstrated for the purposes of observing Scriabin’s exploration of the pianistic soundscape and synesthetic-inspired compositional techniques.

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Hoegberg, Elisabeth Honn. "From theory to practice : composition and analysis in Marin Mersenne's Harmonie universelle /." Electronic version Electronic version, 2005. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=885688441&sid=2&Fmt=2&clientId=12010&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Indiana University, 2005.
Computer printout. Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 66-02, Section: A, page: 0404. Chair: Frank Samarotto. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 407-419), abstract, and vita.
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Gregorio, Joseph. "Concerto for Piano and Orchestra - Gregorio." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2018. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/540484.

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Music Composition
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This dissertation comprises two parts: an original composition, Concerto for Piano and Orchestra; and an essay that analyzes the form of Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No. 1 in D-flat Major, op. 10. Concerto for Piano and Orchestra is cast in three movements and scored in two versions: In “Version A,” members of the orchestra are at times called on to use their voices to sustain the phonemes [m], [ŋ], and [v] on pitch and to create an intense whisper on the vowel [æ]. “Version B” is an alternative realization that uses instruments only. The first movement, unable to produce a recapitulation and continually interrupted at decreasing intervals of time by increasingly intense outbursts from percussion, brass, and wind instruments, is an extreme deformation of a sonata-concerto form. It proceeds attacca to the second movement, which is built in a large ternary form. The third movement is a concerto adaptation of James Hepokoski and Warren Darcy’s “expanded Type 1” sonata form. The concerto’s total duration is approximately 30 minutes. The essay considers the form of Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No. 1 from the perspective of Hepokoski and Darcy’s Sonata Theory, as laid out in their seminal 2006 treatise. It finds that Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No. 1 is a highly individualized instance of Hepokoski and Darcy’s “Type 3” sonata form with introduction-coda frame. The essay’s analysis is preceded by a glimpse at Prokofiev’s experiences with sonata form during his youth, as well as brief reviews of the conceptual backdrop of concerto form as Prokofiev would have received it and of the basics of Sonata Theory.
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Owen, Trefan. "Life Cycle: A Musical Composition in Four Movements." OpenSIUC, 2014. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/theses/1510.

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Life Cycle is a modern musical composition written for chamber orchestra. Life Cycle is scored for flute, clarinet, electric guitar, viola, cello, glockenspiel, vibraphone, marimba and drum kit. This composition is composed in four movements, each representing a different phase of the composer's musical life-journey. Life Cycle infuses elements and techniques from the Classical idiom with jazz, pop and rock idioms.
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Traill, John Peter. "The study of instrumental combinations." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.670179.

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Suiter, Wendy. "Text manipulation voice with audio or acoustic augmentation /." Access electronically, 2007. http://www.library.uow.edu.au/adt-NWU/public/adt-NWU20080228.103431/index.html.

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Gomez-Sandro, Pablo D. "PART 1 – MUSIC COMPOSITION “Not Worth the Bullet That Kills Them” (for large ensemble and reciter)PART 2 – MUSIC THEORY“The Historical Development of Consonance/Dissonance and a Model for Its Assessment”." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1583928640691947.

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Herrlein, Julio Cesar da Silva. "Das alturas ao ritmo : teoria dos conjuntos rítmicos como ferramenta composicional." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/179457.

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Esta tese de doutorado divide-se em duas partes: a primeira trata de uma Teoria dos Conjuntos Rítmicos, e a segunda traz o Portfolio de Composições desenvolvidas no período do doutorado. A Teoria dos Conjuntos Ritmicos apresenta um sistema de organização rítmica paralelo ao sistema de organização de alturas, tendo como ponto de partida a Teoria dos Conjuntos Musicais (TCM), tal como organizada por FORTE (1973), além de uma adaptação do time-point-system (BABBITT, 1962). A partir da sistematização da TCM, e também de noções da Teoria dos Conjuntos Diatônicos (TCD), essa abordagem sintética permite estabelecer uma conexão entre aspectos básicos da harmonia e da cifragem de acordes com a organização rítmica. A um só tempo, em um catálogo completo, são relacionadas as famílias de conjuntos de alturas e cifras cordais, com suas respectivas contrapartes rítmicas. A motivação musical para esta investigação acerca dos ritmos surgiu pelo interesse nos ritmos dançantes e repetitivos, denominados timelines (TOUSSAINT, 2013), comumente utilizados na chamada música popular As timelines dançantes refletem propriedades similares às dos conjuntos diatônicos e, por essa razão, esta tese apresenta algumas propriedades dos conjuntos diatônicos de alturas, traçando um paralelo com suas contrapartes rítmicas. Essas relações também aparecem no portfolio de composições, caracterizando alguns procedimentos utilizados. O portfolio de composições, que inclui uma composição para orquestra sinfônica, é tematizado a partir da dualidade transparência/opacidade, abordando algumas diferenças essenciais, do ponto de vista da audibilidade, entre os resultados oriundos de técnicas variadas de composição. Este estudo sobre Teoria dos Conjuntos Rítmicos ajudará na abordagem analítica da minha produção composicional na música popular, trazendo uma maneira sistemática de entender e extrapolar alguns aspectos já utilizados na minha prática como compositor e improvisador.
This doctoral dissertation is divided into two parts: the first deals a rhythmic set theory, and the second contains the portfolio of compositions developed during this period of studies. This dissertation presents a system of rhythmic organization parallel to the musical set theory pitch class organization FORTE (1973), as well as an adaptation of the time-point-system (BABBITT, 1962). From the standpoint of the traditional set theory, and also from the diatonic set theory, this unified approach allows to estabilish a connecting tissue of basic aspects: from the harmony and chords symbols to the rhythmic organization. At one time, in a complete catalog, the families of pitch class sets and chord symbols are related to their respective rhythmic counterparts. The musical motivation for this research came from my interest in the swinging and groovy repetitive rhythms called timelines (TOUSSAINT, 2013), commonly used in popular music. These dancing timelines have properties similar to those of the diatonic sets, and for this reason, this dissertation presents some properties of the diatonic pitch class sets, drawing a parallel with their rhythmic counterparts. These relationships also appear in the portfolio of compositions, characterizing some procedures used. The portfolio of compositions, which includes a composition for symphony orchestra, is presented form the standpoint of a duality between transparency and opacity. This duality address the essential differences in the audibility of the results from various composition techniques. This study of Rhythmic Set Theory will serve as an analytical approach of my compositional output in popular music, with a systematic way to understant and to extrapolate some aspects already used in my practice as composer and improviser.
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Schröder, Gesine. "Mendelssohn - a model for young composers." Saechsische Landesbibliothek- Staats- und Universitaetsbibliothek Dresden, 2010. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa-61678.

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In der zweiten Hälfte des 19. Jahrhunderts spielte Mendelssohns Musik in Kompositionslehren noch eine keineswegs unbedeutende Rolle. Insbesondere in deren Abteilungen zur sogenannten freien Komposition, soweit sie Fragen der musikalischen Form und der Orchestration betrafen, wurde Mendelssohn oft zitiert. Vor allem in Salomon Jadassohns Kompositionslehre erlangte sein Werk Modellcharakter. Der Beitrag zeigt, wie dieser Lehrer am Leipziger Konservatorium im späten 19. Jahrhundert auf der einen Seite Mendelssohns musikalische und ästhetische Haltung fortwirken lassen wollte, wie er sich jedoch andererseits bereits vorsichtig von gewissen Aspekten des Mendelssohnschen Komponierens distanzierte. Aus um 1900 geschriebenen Lehren verschwindet Mendelssohns Name zusehends ebenso wie die Namen jüdischer oder französischer Komponisten wie Halévy oder Meyerbeer
In the second half of the 19th century Mendelssohn’s music played a prominent role in treatises upon composition. Especially the volumes on socalled „free composition“, including recommendations concernig musical forms, instrumentation and orchestration, often quote from his works. Mendelssohn claimed the figure of a model-composer. The paper concentrates on Mendelssohn as a model for young composers, as it was given by teachers at the Leipzig conservatoire. Treatises upon musical forms and instrumentation, written by Mendelssohn’s successors at the conservatoire show how the teachers on the one hand try to continue Mendelssohn’s compositional attitude and on the other hand try to part themselves from certain aspects of Mendelssohn’s music
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Schröder, Gesine. "Mendelssohn als Modell für Kompositionsschüler." Saechsische Landesbibliothek- Staats- und Universitaetsbibliothek Dresden, 2010. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa-61662.

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In der zweiten Hälfte des 19. Jahrhunderts spielte Mendelssohns Musik in Kompositionslehren noch eine keineswegs unbedeutende Rolle. Insbesondere in deren Abteilungen zur sogenannten freien Komposition, soweit sie Fragen der musikalischen Form und der Orchestration betrafen, wurde Mendelssohn oft zitiert. Vor allem in Salomon Jadassohns Kompositionslehre erlangte sein Werk Modellcharakter. Der Beitrag zeigt, wie dieser Lehrer am Leipziger Konservatorium im späten 19. Jahrhundert auf der einen Seite Mendelssohns musikalische und ästhetische Haltung fortwirken lassen wollte, wie er sich jedoch andererseits bereits vorsichtig von gewissen Aspekten des Mendelssohnschen Komponierens distanzierte. Aus um 1900 geschriebenen Lehren verschwindet Mendelssohns Name zusehends ebenso wie die Namen jüdischer oder französischer Komponisten wie Halévy oder Meyerbeer
In the second half of the 19th century Mendelssohn’s music played a prominent role in treatises upon composition. Especially the volumes on socalled „free composition“, including recommendations concernig musical forms, instrumentation and orchestration, often quote from his works. Mendelssohn claimed the figure of a model-composer. The paper concentrates on Mendelssohn as a model for young composers, as it was given by teachers at the Leipzig conservatoire. Treatises upon musical forms and instrumentation, written by Mendelssohn’s successors at the conservatoire show how the teachers on the one hand try to continue Mendelssohn’s compositional attitude and on the other hand try to part themselves from certain aspects of Mendelssohn’s music
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Schröder, Gesine. "Hermann Kretzschmars Kompositionen." Saechsische Landesbibliothek- Staats- und Universitaetsbibliothek Dresden, 2010. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa-60530.

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Die Beschäftigung mit Hermann Kretzschmars Kompositionen bereichert das Gesamtbild dieser musikschriftstellerisch und musikpolitisch wirkungsmächtigen Persönlichkeit. In dem Beitrag werden Kretzschmars Bearbeitungen für Männerchor und deren Bezug zu seinen Schriften untersucht; seine Originalkompositionen für dieselbe Besetzung werden mit Rücksicht auf die Leipziger Harmonielehre der Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts betrachtet, seine Chorsätze für gemischten Chor dienen als Dokument für Kretzschmars formale Ambitionen und für seine Arbeitsweise. Für die Geschichte der musiktheoretischen Unterweisung am Leipziger Konservatorium in der zweiten Hälfte des 19. Jahrhunderts kann Kretzschmars einseitig nur bestimmte Genres bedienendes Werk eine Quelle darstellen.
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Oliveira, Rafael Fajiolli de. "Análise da estrutura atonal da Primeira Sinfonia para duas orquestras de cordas de Cláudio Santoro." Universidade de São Paulo, 2017. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/27/27157/tde-12012018-112149/.

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Cláudio Santoro (1919-1989) compôs, ao todo, quatorze sinfonias ao longo de toda a sua vida. A Primeira Sinfonia para duas orquestras de cordas (1940), além de possuir uma formação instrumental curiosa, também representa uma das obras inaugurais de sua primeira etapa como compositor, procurando ao lado de Koellreutter, novos paradigmas para a composição musical de seu tempo, tendo influenciado uma geração de compositores brasileiros. Este trabalho pretendeu desenvolver uma atenta e inédita análise da Primeira Sinfonia de Cláudio Santoro, procurando demonstrar sobre qual estética atonal, sendo ela dodecafônica ou livre, a obra foi escrita. Além da identificação sugerida, propõe-se também a averiguação de possíveis hibridismos estéticos que podem ter ocorrido na Primeira Sinfonia de Santoro. A análise atenta dos movimentos que constituem essa obra, utilizando métodos como a Teoria dos Conjuntos desenvolvido por Allen Forte, a Teoria dos Contornos Musicais de Robert Morris e a relação parcimoniosa entre diferentes coleções tal como proposto por Dmitri Tymoczko, nos permitiu identificar alguns processos pós-tonais, que indicam influencias de autores como Claude Debussy, Paul Hindemith e Heitor Villa-Lobos no primeiro movimento Allegro Majestoso da Primeira Sinfonia de Santoro. A manutenção de algumas sonoridades como a coleção pentatônica, a escala de tons inteiros e a coleção acústica, são alguns dos indícios que nos permite identificar tais influencias na obra de Santoro. No segundo movimento Andante quasi adagio, podemos observar um processo serial tradicional, que se desenvolveu a partir de duas séries que se relacionam. Tal apontamento foi possível a partir do método da identificação e contagem serial, tal como proposto por autores como Kostka e Francolí. No terceiro movimento, observamos uma estrutura que é engendrada a partir de coleções simétricas como a coleção eneatônica e a escala octatônica paradigmática, além de outras formatações simétricas que ocorrem a partir de sobreposições entre camadas, procedimento que também é encontrado na obra de Villa-Lobos. Nesse sentido, a Primeira Sinfonia para duas orquestras de cordas de Cláudio Santoro, foi engendrada através de procedimentos pós tonais considerados livres e sistêmicos, sendo possível observar hibridismos estilísticos nesta obra.
Cláudio Santoro (1919-1989) composed, in all, fourteen symphonies throughout his life. The First Symphony for two stringed orchestras (1940), in addition to possessing a curious instrumental formation, also represents one of the inaugural works of his first stage as composer, looking alongside Koellreutter, new paradigms for the musical composition of his time, having influenced a generation of Brazilian composers. This work developed a complete, attentive and unpublished analysis of the First Symphony of Claudio Santoro, trying to demonstrate on which atonal aesthetic, being it dodecaphonic or free, had written the work in question. Besides the suggested identification, it is also proposed the investigation of possible aesthetic hybridity that may have occurred in the First Symphony of Santoro. The careful analysis of the movements that constitute this work, using methods such as the Theory of Sets developed by Allen Forte, Robert Morris\'s Theory of Musical Constraints and the parsimonious relation between different collections as proposed by Dmitri Tymoczko allowed us to identify some post Which indicate influences by authors like Claude Debussy, Paul Hindemith and Heitor Villa-Lobos in the first Allegro Majestic movement of the First Symphony of Santoro. The maintenance of some sonorities such as the pentatonic collection, the whole-tone scale and the acoustic collection are some of the indications that allowed us to identify such influences in Santoro\'s work. In the second Andante quasi adagio movement, we can observe a traditional serial process, which developed from two series that relate, such an approach was possible from the method of serial identification and counting, as proposed by authors such as Kostka and Francolí. In the third movement, we observe a structure that is generated from symmetrical collections such as the eneatonic collection and the paradigmatic octatonic scale, as well as other symmetrical formations that occur from overlaps between layers, a procedure that is also found in the work of Villa-Lobos. In this sense, the First Symphony for two chord orchestras by Claudio Santoro was conceived through postural procedures considered free and systemic, being possible to observe stylistic hybrids in this work.
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Williams, Benjamin John. "Music Composition Pedagogy: A History, Philosophy and Guide." The Ohio State University, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1274787048.

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Gormley, John. "Portfolio of original compositions." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/7072.

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This folio and accompanying commentary draw together my compositional work over the period of the PhD and plot the development and exploration of a number techniques which are to be found in varying degrees in each of the works but with different emphases. These techniques include the use of: parallel structures and metres to provide a sense of independence of compositional ideas; parallel tonal centres within overarching schema to control and draw thematic material together; the use of rhetorical musical gestures that seek to break free of their context; fragmentation and the accumulation of material in terms of quantity and density in order to facilitate a sense of change; the limitation of pitch material in order to create a sense of stasis; and the use of slow sustained melodies that lack a clear pulse in order to create a sense of musical events that are not bound by time.
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Vanoni, Gabriele Carlo. "Sculpting Sounds and Colors: Works 2008-2013." Thesis, Harvard University, 2013. http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:10906.

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This dissertation contains seven works from the last 5 years, from solo works to large ensemble, as well as works with electronics. Composing for me is the result of an imaginative attitude, an alert intuition and a suitable use of technique. It originates from reality, followed by singling out one or more musical ideas, and ends up, as Gustav Mahler puts it, in "building a new world with every available technical means." What drives my compositional interests, and represents the core of the works presented here, is the desire to shape and reify these musical worlds. I strive to find and detail the qualities of these worlds through an approach to composition that is based on "sculpting" gestures, figures and colors, contextualized in a form that is as controlled and thoughtful as possible. I also pursue a distinctive vision of the relationship between microtonal and tempered harmony, mixing the two in a harmonic domain that produces an extremely attractive and worth exploring musical ambiguity, enriched by a systematic approach to timbre. This dissertation offers different examples on this exploration, where musical parameters from an ever-changing palette as well as extra-musical element such as visual arts and literature contribute in offering an image of the gradual unfolding of my "voice," a search that is the core of my daily composing and represents a never-ending process. N.B. One of the works, Winds, is a solo electronic multi-channel soundfile, and a paper version of the works does not exist and cannot be included.
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Rao, Madhuri Preeti. "Senior Composition Thesis." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2016. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/812.

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I had performed a recital of my compositions on April 22, 2016. This thesis is a portfolio of all of my compositions, including the program from my recital, program notes for each piece, and all scores. My senior recital consisted of two distinct halves. The first half was an exploration of abstract, theoretical, and experimental concepts in Western Art Music. The second half was an exploration in synthesizing the Carnatic music system with Western Art Music styles. This half was also an experiment in reversing musical orientalism, which has been historically prevalent in Western Art Music.
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Kim, Yoonjee. "Lily Park for Symphony Orchestra." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/305366.

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Composers have long been interested in authentic materials from their own national heritage. Many composers favored folk-based melodies and rhythms. Bela Bartok, for example, collected volumes of Hungarian folk and gypsy melodies throughout his life. Igor Stravinsky's three ballets ( Firebird, Petrushka , and The Rite of Spring ) are also famous for their employment of folk melodies and primitive rhythms. American composers such as Charles Ives and Aaron Copland represented 'Americana' through the use of American pop music, jazz, and folk songs in their compositions. Much of the music of composers who emigrated to foreign countries represents strong implications of nationalism. These composers' efforts to remember their origins, as well as nostalgia for their native culture, were expressed in their music. These qualities appear most interestingly in Asian composers such as Toru Takemitsu and Isang Yun. Despite the drastic difference between Asian and Western music, the two contrasting idioms are handled similarly by these two composers. They not only use non-Western musical materials such as folk melodies and rhythms, but also employ Asian titles, concepts, and traditional instruments to represent Asian inspiration in their music. The composition Lily Park consists of three movements, entitled Wind Bell, Goblin Lights , and Rock of Ages . The three movements are based on my personal impressions of the cemetery Lily Park, located near Deagu, Korea, where all my grandparents are buried. In this composition, Western musical idioms are integrated with the composer's Asian musical heritage. The concept of Lily Park , which is purely non-Western in origination, is realized by utilizing compositional techniques and concepts that have been developed by Western composers, such as tone color, tonality, pitch-class set theory, and serialism, with an ensemble that consists of Western instruments. These ideas are combined with Asian materials such as exotic scales, extended performance techniques associated with Asian music, and ideas that are associated with Asian philosophical and religious thought (the sacredness of the number three, use of space, and isolation).
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Brister, Michael. "Negative Harmony: Experiments with the Polarity in Music." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2019. https://dc.etsu.edu/honors/507.

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I set out to experiment and justify the use of a new theory called Negative Harmony in 21st century music. Negative Harmony is a musical avenue from which composers can glean new tones within traditional music theory rules. I took inspiration from the current leading authority on the topic, Jacob Collier, as well as older scholars from the 20th century, such as Ernst Levy and George Rochberg. I conducted research on the theory by finding its relation to major and minor chords, and how these mirrored chords worked from a theory standpoint. I then composed two original works, one piano piece and one piece for SATB choir and piano. I aimed to find the best balance between the unfamiliar negative chords and the familiar positive chords. I then looked to justify the use of this theory through the writings of scholars and modern music listeners and casual music makers.
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Adam, Timothey Andrew. "PROCEDURAL MUSIC GENERATION AND ADAPTATION BASED ON GAME STATE." DigitalCommons@CalPoly, 2014. https://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/theses/1202.

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Video game developers attempt to convey moods to emphasize their game's narrative. Events that occur within the game usually convey success or failure in some way meaningful to the story's progress. Ideally, when these events occur, the intended change in mood should be perceivable to the player. One way of doing so is to change the music. This requires musical tracks to represent many possible moods, states and game events. This can be very taxing on composers, and encoding the control flow (when to transition) of the tracks can prove to be tricky as well. This thesis presents AUD.js, a system developed for procedural music generation for JavaScript-based web games. By taking input from game events, the system can create music corresponding to various Western perceptions of music mood. The system was trained with classic video game music. Game development students rated the mood of 80 pieces, after which statistical representations of those pieces were extracted and added into AUD.js. AUD.js can adapt its generated music to new sets of input parameters, thereby updating the perceived mood of the generated music at runtime. We conducted A/B tests comparing static music, both composed and computer-generated, to dynamically adapting music. We find that AUD.js provides reasonably effective music for games, but that adaptiveness of the music does not necessarily improve player experience over composed music. By conducting a user study during Global Game Jam 2014, we also find that since AUD.js provides a software solution to music composition, it can be a useful tool for game music integration under time pressure.
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Epstein, Louis Kaiser. "Toward a Theory of Patronage: Funding for Music Composition in France, 1918-1939." Thesis, Harvard University, 2013. http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:10952.

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This dissertation illuminates the funding contexts that structured art music composition in interwar France. While music historiography tends to focus solely on patronage - an ill-defined and limited category - as the paradigmatic economy within which pre-paid composition takes place, I bring patronage into conversation with other, similarly enabling funding sources: publishing, radio, film, orchestras, and ballet companies. Through a series of case studies of the individuals, institutions, and practices that provided a market for interwar French art music, I pursue two central ideas: first, that musical works, genres, and styles present sonic traces of the economic forces that structured their composition, and second, that the funding context of music often determines its historiographical reception. The rich musical landscape of interwar France provides a unique setting through which to explore these ideas. Between a remarkable flowering of artistic movements, the rapid proliferation of new media for cultural expression, and steadily increasing institutional involvement in music composition and performance, we can observe a remarkable context of wealth and power exerting a significant impact on the practices of music composition and performance. In order to theorize patronage in the broader context of funding for music composition, I explore the conventions of individual, aristocratic patronage, focusing on commissions as contractual exchanges and as reflective of the "collections" to which they belong, both for patrons and composers. While the state lagged far behind individual patrons in terms of direct commissions to composers, it nevertheless found numerous ways to intervene in musical culture in the hope of stimulating the market for art music composition, particularly with respect to symphonic music. The clear-cut patronage of aristocratic individuals and public ministries contrasts sharply with the ambiguous roles played by the leaders of three influential ballet companies (Ballets Suedois, Soirees de Paris, Ballets Ida Rubinstein) whose competition with the Ballets Russes engendered precisely the market for new French music that the state sought vainly to encourage. Through my study of these ballet companies and of the business correspondence of Darius Milhaud, I show that rather than constraining or corrupting creativity, many sources of funding not ordinarily considered "patronage" nevertheless freed composers to pursue experimental avenues and enrich musical culture, in their time and in ours.
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Jenney, Charles Davis. "A.F.C. Kollmann's theory of homophonic forms." Connect to resource, 1986. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view.cgi?acc%5Fnum=osu1260458396.

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Hardin, Gary Joe II. "IN THE DIVISION OF COMPOSITION, MUSICOLOGY, AND THEORY OF THE COLLEGE-CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2000. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin960900004.

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Desbruslais, Simon Stephen. "The identity, application and legacy of Paul Hindemith's theory of music." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2013. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:eadcc792-503f-46e3-960c-e1d08ccb8cd0.

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This thesis investigates the relationship between Hindemith’s music theory and his evolving compositional practice. It focuses on the first volume of his Unterweisung im Tonsatz (1937); both evaluating the very identity of the treatise and analysing how it may be applied to free composition. Above all, this work highlights the increased use of quartal pitch collections found in Hindemith’s Unterweisung-based compositions. Archival documents from the universities of Yale, Berlin, Buffalo, and the Frankfurt Hindemith Institute augment this process, and are used to revise our understanding of how Hindemith’s music theory originated, and how it relates to his practice and teaching. The dissertation begins by exploring the theoretical and intellectual climate of the Rundfunkversuchsstelle at the Berlin Hochschule für Musik within a critical commentary of Hindemith’s music theory. It then develops a new theoretical perspective of quartal pitch space, and atonal prolongation, to provide an analytical toolkit. The list of compositions in the Unterweisung appendix, which Hindemith felt most successfully demonstrated his theory in practice, structures the next three chapters. The Sonata for Solo Viola op. 25/1, a pre-Unterweisung composition, is followed by the Ludus Tonalis, which was published soon afterwards, which is investigated for its explicit theoretical connections. The third analytical chapter focuses on the Das Marienleben cycle as a work written before the Unterweisung, and subsequently revised with theoretical concerns. The final two chapters investigate the prominent decline in popularity experienced by Hindemith, both regarding his theory and compositions, from the 1950s. This is epitomised by a number of strongly-worded polemics published in The Music Review, much of which, it may be argued, is inaccurate or unduly critical. The thesis ends by constructing a Hindemith legacy based on a selection of archival documents and scores, together with a selection of trends in composition and music theory.
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Timossi, Alessandro. "Portfolio of compositions (Canti Sacri, Cantico, …ed erra l’armonia…, Pneuma) and dissertation (An exploration of the connections between music theory and cognition in composition)." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2012. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:fdc32917-455a-4cae-a233-36fa92be23e4.

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This study is an exploration of the integration in composition of theoretical and psychoacoustic properties of pitch and duration; its aims are essentially practical in showing how cognitive research can inform composition, but it also addresses more broadly the value and role cognition can have in the current musical compositional climate. Various contexts for this exploration are discussed: the mediating role analysis has within theory and composition; constraints imposed by aesthetic positions and music theory/pedagogy templates; the role of cognitive psychology in connecting music templates and listening experiences; and the ultimately mythopoetic (Cook, 1992) rather than scientific nature of any such theory/psychology integration. Using Huovinen’s “pitch constellation” approach and Lerdahl’s theory of tonal pitch space, a hierarchical pitch-space is set up for the string piece ed erra l’armonia, developing from pc set 5-22 a non-standard octatonic scale (pc set 8-27) as the basic pitch collection of the piece. Similarly, using the works of Fraisse, Hasty and London, a hierarchical rhythm-space is set up for the orchestral piece Pneuma developing, from the indifference interval in duration, the temporal and metric envelops and the duple and triple subdivisions of the tactus, a three layered metrical structure as the generative rhythmic template of the piece. This is contextualised against the problematic notion of metre in modern art-music. General characteristic of both spaces are discussed: redundancy according to information theory, hierarchy in relation to cognitive opaqueness, salience and association; and elaborational and permutational processes. It is argued that composition needs to bridge, in practice, the gap between music theory and psychology of music, looking beyond their often absolutist positions; that cognitive constrains in music should be seen as opportunities to work compositionally along the mind’s cognitive grains in order to maximise structural and expressive communication; and that at a time of a ‘deregulated’ musical language it is necessary to re-develop cognitive heuristics to secure the connection between compositional choices and listening experiences. Three principles are given as guidelines for the alignment of theoretical and cognitive issues in composition. It is proposed that cognitive analysis should be developed as an independent discipline as well as a compositional tool, and that the connections style/cognition should be looked at more closely to gain a more unified perspective on diverse (and divisive) stylistic musical camps.
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Viel, Massimiliano. "Listening patterns : from music to perception and cognition." Thesis, University of Plymouth, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10026.1/11809.

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The research aims to propose a narrative of the experience of listening and to provide some first examples of its possible application. This is done in three parts. Part One, “Words”, aims to methodologically frame the narrative by discussing the limits and requirements of a theory of listening. After discussing the difficulties of building an objective characterization of the listening experience, the research proposes that any theorization on listening can only express a point of view that is implied by descriptions of listening both in linguistic terms and in the data they involve. The analysis of theories about listening is therefore conducted through a grammatical path that unfolds by following the syntactic roles of the words involved in theoretical claims about listening. Starting from the problem of synonymy, the analysis moves around the subject, the object, adjectives and adverbs to finally discuss the status of the references of the discourses on listening. The Part One ends by claiming the need to reintroduce the subject in theories about listening and proposes to attribute the epistemological status of the narrative to any discourse about the listening experience. This implies that any proposed narrative must substitute its truth-value with the instrumental value that is expressed by the idea of “viability”. The Part Two, “Patterns”, is devoted to introducing a narrative of listening. This is first informally introduced in terms of the experience of a distinction within the sonic flow. After an intermission dedicated to connecting the idea of distinction to Gaston Bachelard’s metaphysics of time, the narrative is finally presented as a dialectics among three ways of organizing perceptive distinctions. Three perceptive modes of distinctions are presented as a basic mechanism that is responsible for articulating the sonic continuum in a complex structure of expectations and reactions, in terms of patterns, that is constantly renewed under the direction of statistical learning. The final chapter of the Part Two aims to briefly apply the narrative of pattern structures to dealing with the experience of noise. Part Three aims to show the “viability” of the proposed narrative of listening. First, a method for analysing music by listening is discussed. Then, a second chapter puts the idea of pattern structures in contact with music composition, as a framework that can be applied to data sonification, installations, music production and to the didactics of composition. Finally, the last chapter is devoted to the discussion of the idea of “soundscape” and “identity formation”, in order to show the potential of applying the proposed narrative to the context of cultural and social studies.
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Perez, Francisco S. "AN ANALYSIS AND PERFORMANCE GUIDE OF STEVE REICH’S MALLET QUARTET." UKnowledge, 2018. https://uknowledge.uky.edu/music_etds/109.

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Steve Reich’s music has had a profound effect on the contemporary percussionist’s repertoire. More recently, his Mallet Quartet (2009) has been one of the most performed works in the rising genre of mallet-keyboard quartets, which was featured in Third Coast Percussion’s 2017 Grammy-winning album Third Coast Percussion | Steve Reich. With Mallet Quartet, Reich codified this type of ensemble into the contemporary repertoire of percussion as evidenced through current commissions in progress by groups such as Sō Percussion and Third Coast Percussion. The purpose of this document is to delineate the trajectory (past and present) of the mallet-keyboard quartet and highlight the most important compositional characteristics found within Mallet Quartet. These characteristics include the use of canonical augmentations, large-scale tonal shifts, rhythmic modification, and developing variation. After this analysis, this dissertation provides a performance guide to Mallet Quartet which specifically address the practicalities necessary for a successful performance. Topics such as the setup of instruments, mallet considerations, approaches to challenges in part-reading, and common ensemble issues are discussed.
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Duby, Marc. "Soundpainting as a system for the collaborative creation of music in performance." Thesis, Pretoria : [s.n.], 2006. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-08032007-164326/.

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York, Perrin. "Comparing the Emotional Impact of a Vadd11 Chord versus a V Chord." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2019. https://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/1314.

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The psychological research on music and emotion supports how the two concepts have always been intertwined. The most common line of research in this field is related to the commonly experienced phenomenon that major chords sound happy while minor chords sound sad. This proposed study takes a specific extended major chord (the Vadd11 chord) and tests whether the V chord with a color note, an added 11, has a significantly different emotional impact on listeners as compared to a V chord without an 11. The chord will be played within a I-V-I progression so that the Vadd11 chord is given musical context. Participants are asked to rate the how emotional the progression is and to indicate their preference between the two chords. Both piano and strings timbres will be tested. The chord progression change is hypothesized to cause a significantly increased emotional impact. Multiple confounding variables will be examined within the study (specifically cultural musical background, or what culture’s music participants listened to in their upbringing, and musical sophistication, or how musically adept participants are). Neither of these variables nor the timbre are anticipated to affect the changes in emotional reaction.
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Krämer, Reiner. "Algorithmic Music Analysis: a Case Study of a Prelude From David Cope’s “From Darkness, Light”." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2015. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc801959/.

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The use of algorithms in compositional practice has been in use for centuries. With the advent of computers, formalized procedures have become an important part of computer music. David Cope is an American composer that has pioneered systems that make use of artificial intelligence programming techniques. In this dissertation one of David Cope’s compositions that was generated with one of his processes is examined in detail. A general timeline of algorithmic compositional practice is outlined from a historical perspective, and realized in the Common Lisp programming language as a musicological tool. David Cope’s compositional output is summarized with an explanation of what types of systems he has utilized in the analyses of other composers’ music, and the composition of his own music. Twentieth century analyses techniques are formalized within Common Lisp as algorithmic analyses tools. The tools are then combined with techniques developed within other computational music analyses tools, and applied toward the analysis of Cope’s prelude. A traditional music theory analysis of the composition is provided, and outcomes of computational analyses augment the traditional analysis. The outcome of the computational analyses, or algorithmic analyses, is represented in statistical data, and corresponding probabilities. From the resulting data sets part of a machine-learning technique algorithm devises semantic networks. The semantic networks represent chord succession and voice leading rules that underlie the framework of Cope’s prelude.
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Norris, Marcus Duane JR. "Brown Eyes, Black Magic." FIU Digital Commons, 2017. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/3270.

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This thesis consists of a large composition for chamber orchestra titled Brown Eyes, Black Magic and an accompanying analytical paper. The piece, approximately twelve minutes long, is a tribute to women of color in America. The title pays homage to the “Black Girl Magic” campaign that CaShawn Thompson founded in 2013 to empower women of color by highlighting their achievements in different fields (Wilson 2016). Although the piece is not programmatic, I tried to create a mysterious sound world, in which the listener focuses on the beauty of ever-shifting sonic colors. The composition explores musical texture and timbre, and is influenced by the works of Orlando Jacinto Garcia, Georg Friederich Haas, Krzysztof Penderecki, Arnold Schoenberg, and Anton Webern.
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Clark, Matthew. "HOLY LAND." OpenSIUC, 2010. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/theses/405.

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Holy Land is an approximately 13 minute long three movement work fororchestra and choir. It is essentially a large scale ternary form, with eachmovement comprising one part of the form. The work is inspired by thecomposer’s experience of growing up in Southern Illinois and by the presenceand influence of religion in the region, to which the title is a sarcastic reference.The first movement of the work, Golden Age, represents the simplicity andinnocence of childhood, and is characterized by long sustained harmonies and aprimarily homophonic texture. The second movement, Seeker of Truth, containsa setting of the E.E. Cummings poem of the same name, and represents anemotionally turbulent adolescence, characterized by fast, perpetual rhythms anda primarily contrapuntal texture. The third movement, A Better Resurrection,contains a setting of an excerpt of the Christina Rossetti poem of the samename, and represents a nihilism-tinged adulthood, with a return to musicalmaterial similar to that of the first movement.
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Ortiz, Sánchez José Mario. "THEORETICAL STUDY AND PERFORMING EDITION OF SONATA III BY JAVIER G. COMPEÁN." UKnowledge, 2019. https://uknowledge.uky.edu/music_etds/143.

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Mexican composer Javier G. Compeán finished Sonata III, his most recent composition for solo guitar, in December 2015. Since the composition of his first such work in 2003, the composer has been experimenting with texture, register, dynamic range, extended techniques, harmonic possibilities, timbre, and form in his solo guitar music. In Sonata III, Compeán applied the experience he gained in previous compositions for guitar. This work represents the composer’s current style, in which he returns to a more traditional language but continues to experiment with the technical capabilities of the instrument. Sonata III is Compeán’s most ambitious guitar composition and one of the most important twenty-first century contributions to the Mexican guitar literature. This research focuses on the production of a performing edition of Sonata III. This research also includes a comprehensive analysis of Compeán’s solo guitar music to provide context for guitarists so that they can better understand the composer’s style.
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Miller, Kevin. "PART 1: SYMPHONY NO. 1: THE SLEEP SYMPHONYPART 2: SYMMETRY AND FORM IN CHRISTOPHER ROUSE'S FLUTE CONCERTO." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1556401120609963.

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Goodwin, Donald F. "SYMPHONY FOR WIND ORCHESTRA BY LUIS SERRANO ALARCÓN: BACKGROUND, ANALYSIS, AND CONDUCTOR’S GUIDE." UKnowledge, 2016. http://uknowledge.uky.edu/music_etds/55.

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Born in 1972, Luis Serrano Alarcón has in a very short period of time, established himself as one of Spain’s most prominent composers. His works are constantly being performed, not only in his home country, but throughout the world. While some of his compositions tend to retain the rhythmic, harmonic, and melodic style typical to Spanish music, many of the works sound as if they were borne more from the Viennese symphonic tradition, both during the time of Haydn and Beethoven, but also during the time of Arnold Schoenberg. As a young boy Alarcón took up piano lessons with a local teacher by the name of Javier Barranco. Through him, Alarcón learned “the music for piano of the great masters of Classicism, Romanticism, and Spanish Nationalism.” In addition he began to study with two other teachers: Jose Cervera Collado and Jose Maria Cervara Lloret. With Collado, Alarcón studied conducting, and with Lloret he studied harmony. As a result of all of this training, Alarcón was drawn toward the symphonic music of the Classical and Romantic periods, especially gravitating toward the music of Beethoven and Brahms. Alarcón’s compositional style has maintained a chameleon-like flexibility as he is able to change styles from one composition to the next with litheness and grace, showing a strong grasp of American jazz as well as flamenco music of his native country in Duende, capturing the sounds of tango from Argentina in Concertango, and of course, in the many examples of his paso dobles. Unlike many of his contemporaries, though, Alarcón’s unique voice seems to emerge through any style he is embracing or any combination of instruments in his orchestration. In terms of style, Symphony for Wind Orchestra (2012) is an entirely different type of composition. It is immediately apparent from the opening tutti strikes, that (like Mozart and many other traditional composers before and after), Alarcón is embracing a iii traditional symphonic style in this composition by utilizing one of its most common symphonic topos. Symphony for Wind Orchestra is an amazing study of the Classical symphony from its earliest beginnings in Mannheim, to its codification at the hands of Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven, and to its explosion in size and scope at the end of the nineteenth and early twentieth century with composers like Brahms, Bruckner, and Mahler. Perhaps more important, though, is his choice of harmonic language and compositional approach. The work is decidedly based upon thematic material that is reminiscent of the Second Viennese School; atonal at times, semi-tonal at others, but consistently manipulated through the operations (transposition, inversion, retrograde, verticalization, and serialization), that were made popular by Arnold Schoenberg, his students, and those who followed them. The genesis of this composition was a consortium of band directors from the Southeastern Conference Band Association, led initially by Tom Verrier, who is Senior Band Conductor and Director of Wind Ensembles at Vanderbilt University. Dr. John Cody Birdwell was a part of the consortium from its onset, but didn’t initially plan on conducting the premiere at his school (the University of Kentucky). Birdwell stated,“...the opportunity to premiere the work sort of ‘landed in our lap.’ I had heard some of Alarcón’s other compositions in recent years, and I knew that this piece was going to be fantastic, so we moved forward without any hesitation.” Clearly with so much positive feedback regarding the work, this document is certainly justified. The goals of this study are to provide some background for the work and its composer, to analyze the work while providing examples of all of its main themes and important figures, and where appropriate, to show how they relate to each other. This document will also create a helpful performance guide for conductors, which should facilitate and contribute to many more performances of this significant work in the future. Along with the harmonic and thematic analysis of the work, this document will also include interviews with the composer, the conductor of the premiere of the work (Dr. John Cody Birdwell), one of the early and staunch supporters of Alarcón’s works (Dr. Tim Reynish), and Javier Enguidanos Morató - another Spanish conductor who recently performed the work.
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Ross, Zachary R. "MIRRORS." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2014. https://dc.etsu.edu/honors/183.

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MIRRORS is a cycle of songs composed for soprano voice and piano using five poems by Sylvia Plath. The work features the creation of a protagonist and tells a chronological story through the arrangement of the five poems colored and unified by the manipulation of a thematic twelve-tone row.
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Cheng, Yu-sum Anthony, and 鄭汝森. "An application of Arnold Schoenberg's gedanke manuscript as a blueprint theory for a portfolio of original compositions." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10722/209587.

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Laster, Andrew Jay. "AMPHION.pdf." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2014. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/304705.

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Music Composition
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This monograph explores the integration of improvisation and orchestral music. It consists of two closely related large-scale compositions, Amphion and Zethos, and an accompanying essay. Amphion, for orchestra, is in three movements and includes frequent references to styles and genres of the Baroque era, specifically the French dance suite. Zethos, for five improvisers and chamber orchestra, includes the three movements of Amphion, in toto, plus five additional concertato sections with improvisation. These sections have multiple player configurations and were composed for specific players with distinct improvisational skills. These sections also fulfill specific functions in relation to the three fully notated movements of Amphion: as introductions, codas, transitions, and development. The accompanying essay considers issues relevant to Amphion's and Zethos's rehearsal and performance, and examines their form and melodic/harmonic language. It also discusses the historical precedent and aesthetic rationale for improvisation in orchestral music, and the notation of improvisation in Zethos.
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Laster, Andrew Jay. "ZETHOS.pdf." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2014. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/304811.

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Music Composition
D.M.A.
This monograph explores the integration of improvisation and orchestral music. It consists of two closely related large-scale compositions, Amphion and Zethos, and an accompanying essay. Amphion, for orchestra, is in three movements and includes frequent references to styles and genres of the Baroque era, specifically the French dance suite. Zethos, for five improvisers and chamber orchestra, includes the three movements of Amphion, in toto, plus five additional concertato sections with improvisation. These sections have multiple player configurations and were composed for specific players with distinct improvisational skills. These sections also fulfill specific functions in relation to the three fully notated movements of Amphion: as introductions, codas, transitions, and development. The accompanying essay considers issues relevant to Amphion's and Zethos's rehearsal and performance, and examines their form and melodic/harmonic language. It also discusses the historical precedent and aesthetic rationale for improvisation in orchestral music, and the notation of improvisation in Zethos.
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Laster, Andrew Jay. "Amphion and Zethos: An Orchestral Work Reimagined as a Concerto for Five Improvisers." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2014. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/304872.

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Music Composition
D.M.A.
This monograph explores the integration of improvisation and orchestral music. It consists of two closely related large-scale compositions, Amphion and Zethos, and an accompanying essay. Amphion, for orchestra, is in three movements and includes frequent references to styles and genres of the Baroque era, specifically the French dance suite. Zethos, for five improvisers and chamber orchestra, includes the three movements of Amphion, in toto, plus five additional concertato sections with improvisation. These sections have multiple player configurations and were composed for specific players with distinct improvisational skills. These sections also fulfill specific functions in relation to the three fully notated movements of Amphion: as introductions, codas, transitions, and development. The accompanying essay considers issues relevant to Amphion's and Zethos's rehearsal and performance, and examines their form and melodic/harmonic language. It also discusses the historical precedent and aesthetic rationale for improvisation in orchestral music, and the notation of improvisation in Zethos.
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Copini, Guilherme de Cesaro 1985. "O tempo como espaço do som : a composição da carne do tempo em Gérard Grisey." [s.n.], 2014. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/285276.

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Orientador: Silvio Ferraz Mello Filho
Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Artes
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Resumo: A presente Tese é resultado de pesquisas realizadas desde 2008. Em 2010 foi concluído Mestrado junto ao Programa de Pós-Graduação em Música da UNICAMP, cujo tema principal foram as reflexões de Gérard Grisey acerca do tempo musical, apresentadas segundos as ideias e conceitos registrados pelo próprio compositor em seus escritos. Após a imersão no seu pensamento composicional viu-se necessário verificar como ele traduziu em música tais estruturas. Assim, o objetivo principal do presente trabalho é averiguar como o compositor construiu suas estruturas musicais, procurando as ressonâncias com sua produção teórica. Para isso foram escolhidas três peças de distintas fases composicionais de Grisey: Tempus ex machina (1979), Talea (1986) e Vortex Temporum (1994-96). Outro objetivo foi encontrar elementos do processo criativo do compositor que tivessem sido influenciados por teorias vigentes na década de 1970, especialmente a Teoria da Informação. A metodologia consistiu no estudo de bibliografia especializada, e na quantificação e análise dos principais elementos estruturais das peças escolhidas. Como resultados podem-se destacar: 1) elaboração de ferramenta de análise segundo taxa de entropia e informação; 2) identificação das estruturas fundamentais das três peças analisadas; 3) composição de peças originais a partir do estudo conceitual. Após o estudo detalhado das três peças verificou-se que as mesmas técnicas de manipulação dos materiais são preservadas ao decorrer da obra do compositor. A novidade se restringe especialmente à maneira como ele organizou formalmente os processos de transformação, atitude motivada pela necessidade de introduzir maior imprevisibilidade em sua música
Abstract: This thesis is the result of a research conducted since 2008. In 2010 was completed a Master Degree at UNICAMP, whose main theme was Gérard Grisey's reflections on musical time, presented according to ideas and concepts by the composer himself in his writings. After immersion in his compositional thinking it became necessary to check how he translated into music such structures. Thus, the main objective of this work is to investigate how the composer has built his musical structures, looking for resonances with his theoretical production. For this three pieces from Grisey¿s distinct compositional phases were chosen: Tempus ex machina (1979), Talea (1986) e Vortex Temporum (1994-96). Another objective was to find elements of the composer¿s creative process that had been influenced by prevailing theories in the 1970s, especially information theory. The methodology consisted in the study of relevant literature, and, quantification and analysis of the major structural elements of the chosen pieces. The results that can be highlighted are: 1) the development of an analysis tool by rate of entropy and information, 2) identification of the fundamental structures of the three pieces analyzed, 3) composition of original pieces based on the conceptual study. After the detailed study of the three parts it was found that the same techniques for handling the materials were preserved throughout the work of the composer. The novelty is restricted especially the way he formally organized the processes of transformation, attitude motivated by the need to introduce greater unpredictability in their music
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