Dissertations / Theses: 'Serialism (Music) Musical analysis'

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Jurkowski, Nicholas. "Berio's early use of serial techniques an analysis of Chamber music /." Bowling Green, Ohio : Bowling Green State University, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=bgsu1251044362.

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Tönies, Simon. "Au fond de l'inconnu : Technique et esthétique dans "Polyphonie X" de Pierre Boulez." Thesis, Université Côte d'Azur, 2021. http://www.theses.fr/2021COAZ2000.

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Écrite en 1951, "Polyphonie X" est une œuvre clé des débuts du sérialisme et une pierre angulaire de la phase la plus expérimentale dans la carrière de Pierre Boulez. Cependant, le fait que la pièce ait été retirée peu après sa création a inhibé la possibilité même d’une réception ou d’une compréhension adéquate. Le présent travail vise à combler cette lacune en fournissant une analyse approfondie des procédés de composition sous-jacents ainsi qu’une discussion esthétique. En plus des trois mouvements achevés de "Polyphonie X", son prédécesseur Première Polyphonie, plus vaste, mais abandonné à un stade rudimentaire, est également pris en considération. Après un bref aperçu du contexte historique et une discussion sur le concept de polyphonie de Boulez, l’analyse se poursuit en deux étapes : tout d’abord, la structure complexe de fond est reconstruite à partir des esquisses en accordant une attention particulière à la relation entre les différentes dimensions compositionnelles telles que la hauteur, le rythme ou le timbre. Ensuite, il est examiné comment le compositeur travaille avec cette structure de fond dans la partition afin, par exemple, d’accentuer certains potentiels perceptifs. À cette fin, une méthodologie d’analyse harmonique est proposée qui intègre également les conclusions de diverses recherches empiriques axées sur la perception. Les résultats de l’analyse sont ensuite pris comme point de départ pour une critique esthétique. Il est soutenu que le rejet de "Polyphonie X" par Boulez résulte d’une crise non résolue de la créativité subjective par rapport à un matériau musical de plus en plus aliéné et auto-perpétué. En outre, il est estimé que c’est précisément ce conflit qui rend la pièce pertinente, c’est à dire transformatrice en ce qui concerne la conception traditionnelle de l’œuvre. Enfin, à la lumière de ces considérations, je fais quelques suggestions sur la manière dont la pièce peut être abordée aujourd’hui.
Written in 1951, "Polyphonie X" is a key work of early serialism and a corner stone of the most experimental stage in Pierre Boulez’s career. However, the fact that the piece has been withdrawn shortly after its premiere has inhibited the very possibility of an adequate reception or understanding. The present study aims to fill this gap by providing an in-depth analysis of the underlying compositional procedures as well as an aesthetic discussion. In addition to the three completed movements of "Polyphonie X", its larger scoped but only rudimentarily mapped-out predecessor Première Polyphonie is also taken into consideration. After a brief overview of the historical context and a discussion of Boulez’s concept of polyphony, the analysis proceeds in two steps: Firstly, the intricate background structure is reconstructed from the sketch material, paying particular attention to the relationship between the different compositional dimensions such as pitch, rhythm or timbre. Secondly, it is examined how the composer works with this background structure in order to, for example, accentuate certain perceptive potentials. To this end, I propose a methodology of harmonic analysis that also incorporates the findings of empirical, perception-centered research. The results of the analysis are then taken as a starting point for an aesthetic critique. It is argued that Boulez’s rejection of "Polyphonie X" is the result of an unsolved crisis of creative agency in relation to an increasingly alienated, self-perpetuating musical material. Moreover, it is opined that it is precisely this conflict that makes for the transformative relevancy of the piece. Finally, in light of these considerations, I make some suggestions as to how the piece can be approached today

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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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Higashikawa, Ai. "Conception musicale et enjeux esthétiques dans les relations entre les écritures instrumentale et électroacoustique chez Pierre Boulez." Thesis, Sorbonne université, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018SORUL003.

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Cette recherche de thèse vise à reconstruire des éléments de genèse de la composition électroacoustique de Pierre Boulez dans les années cinquante à travers l’étude d’esquisses et de manuscrits conservés au Paul Sacher Stiftung. Notre thèse s’est fondée sur deux approches complémentaires : la reconstitution du contexte musical, esthétique et historique et l’étude des esquisses. Dans la Partie I, nous avons tout d’abord examiné les Fonds Pierre Schaeffer afin de retracer le déroulement du premier stage de musique concrète au GRMC. La réorganisation des esquisses et la reconstitution du processus de montage sonore nous ont permis de souligner que la composition des deux études de musique concrète (1951-52) était une étape indispensable pour le développement de la pensée sérielle de Boulez dans le sérialisme intégral. Dans la Partie II, nous avons mis en relation la composition de Symphonie mécanique (1955) et Poésie pour pouvoir (1958) avec le concept de « sons organisés » dans Déserts (1954) d’Edgard Varèse en traçant la transition de la musique concrète à la musique mixte. Boulez y a développé la notion de « blocs sonores » originairement exploitée dans l’écriture instrumentale et orchestrale. Notre étude a éclairé que Boulez avait procédé par tâtonnements de façon cohérente et développée afin de réaliser l’intégration des mondes instrumentaux et électroacoustiques. En ce sens, il est raisonnable que Poésie pour pouvoir soit considérée comme l’origine de la « musique mixte » chez Pierre Boulez. Par ailleurs, cette tentative de confrontation était inévitable pour Boulez afin de réaliser la transmutation musicale de l’exorcisme corporel du poème de Henri Michaux
This research aims to reconstruct the compositional process of Pierre Boulez’s electroacoustic compositions of the fifties through the study of sketches and manuscripts preserved at the Paul Sacher Stiftung. Our thesis was based on two complementary approaches: the reconstruction of the musical, aesthetic and historical context and study of the sketches. In Part I, we first examined the Pierre Schaeffer archives in order to explore the program of the first musique concrète workshop at the GRMC. The eorganization of the sketches and the reconstruction of the process of sound synthesis allowed us to emphasize that Boulez’s composition of the two musique concrète studies (1951-52) was an indispensable stage for the development of his concept of serialism. In Part II, we related the composition of Symphonie mécanique (1955) and Poésie pour pouvoir (1958) to Edgard Varèse's concept of "Organized sound" in Déserts (1954) by tracing the transition of musique concrète to electroacoustic music. Boulez developed in his electroacoustic pieces the notion of "sound blocks" originally used in instrumental and orchestral pieces. Our study reveals that Boulez proceeded by trial and error in a coherent and developed way in order to realize the integration of the instrumental and electroacoustic sounds. In this sense, it is reasonable for Poésie pour pouvoir to be considered as the origin of mixed music in Pierre Boulez’s oeuvre. This confrontation of the instrumental and electroacoustic sounds was essential for Boulez’s realization of a musical translation of Henri Michaux's poem

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Xavier, Gabriel Fernandes 1992. "Por um método analítico generalizado : uma investigação da teoria ondulatória de Henri Pousseur no campo de análise musical /." São Paulo, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/183657.

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Orientador(a): Florivaldo Menezes Filho
Banca: Maurício Funcia De Bonis
Banca: Leonardo Martinelli
Resumo: Este trabalho aborda a pesquisa de Henri Pousseur exposta no ensaio "Por uma periodicidade generalizada", tendo em vista os possíveis desdobramentos de sua teoria no âmbito de análise musical. Pousseur identifica em diferentes fenômenos sonoro musicais relações de complementariedade entre periodicidade e aperiodicidade que, por meio de progressivas generalizações, são redutíveis a modelos comuns. Mediado por modelos da teoria ondulatória, o autor nos propõe que organizações sonoras complexas são, tanto físico quanto perceptivelmente, delimitadas por formas mais simples. Partindo desta proposição, a pesquisa investiga a aplicabilidade do método no campo de análise musical
Abstract: This research deals with the research of Henri Pousseur published in the essay "For a Generalized Periodicity", considering possible developments of his theory in the field of musical analysis. Pousseur identifies, in different musical sound phenomena, complementarity between periodicity and aperiodicity which, throughout progressive generalizations, are reducible to common wave models. Mediated by models of undulatory theory, the author proposes that complex sound organizations are, both physically and perceptually, delimited by simpler forms. Starting from this proposition, the research apply the method in the field of musical analysis
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LaFleur, Brandon Kyle. "Musical Colors| On Establishing a Methodology for Color Applications in Musical Analysis." Thesis, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, 2017. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10271870.

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This thesis explores the potential advantages of incorporating color into musical analysis and musical concepts into art analysis. Music and the visual arts are vehicles of expression using two different perceptible waves as a medium. By comparing the physical attributes of these waves, analogous terminology between the disciplines is highlighted. Terminology parallels allow us to identify relationships between musical ideas and sonorities and color theory concepts and color harmonies. Cross-modal relationships have been explored in synesthetically inspired works in both disciplines. In Scriabin?s Prometheus, the luce presents the colors to the audience. These colors emphasize the harmonic, formal, and mystical elements of the piece. Messiaen?s Des Canyons aux etoiles features chords that were specifically included to paint the colors of the places he had visited. Sonata No. 6 by Ciurlionis is a painting that includes the three major sections of sonata form with the color changes to match. Symphony verte by Valensi includes complex structural variations and the various shading and saturations found in the timbral diversity of a symphony. Accounting for the bimodal aspects of these pieces provides us with a more concise holistic understanding of the artist?s purpose.

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McLeod, Philip, and n/a. "Fast, accurate pitch detection tools for music analysis." University of Otago. Department of Computer Science, 2009. http://adt.otago.ac.nz./public/adt-NZDU20090220.090438.

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Precise pitch is important to musicians. We created algorithms for real-time pitch detection that generalise well over a range of single �voiced� musical instruments. A high pitch detection accuracy is achieved whilst maintaining a fast response using a special normalisation of the autocorrelation (SNAC) function and its windowed version, WSNAC. Incremental versions of these functions provide pitch values updated at every input sample. A robust octave detection is achieved through a modified cepstrum, utilising properties of human pitch perception and putting the pitch of the current frame within the context of its full note duration. The algorithms have been tested thoroughly both with synthetic waveforms and sounds from real instruments. A method for detecting note changes using only pitch is also presented. Furthermore, we describe a real-time method to determine vibrato parameters - higher level information of pitch variations, including the envelopes of vibrato speed, height, phase and centre offset. Some novel ways of visualising the pitch and vibrato information are presented. Our project �Tartini� provides music students, teachers, performers and researchers with new visual tools to help them learn their art, refine their technique and advance their fields.

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Harrison, L. "Music analysis and musical perception : studies in the psychology of musical structure." Thesis, Lancaster University, 1988. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.328316.

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Xaluva, Nomfundo. "An analysis of the musical style of Miriam Makeba." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/8249.

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Includes bibliographical references (leaves 56-67).
The motivation behind this study is to explore the musical style of the late Miriam Makeba. The intention is that it will add a valuable contribution to the study of South African musicians and those subsequent scholars, with a common interest, will use the work to further the analytical study of the musical style of South African jazz.

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Votta, Roberto. "Pluralidade e unidade: uma análise dos processos composicionais no Balé Agon, de Igor Stravinsky." Universidade de São Paulo, 2012. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/27/27158/tde-07032013-095102/.

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O balé Agon é considerado o ápice da produção conjunta entre Stravinsky e o coreógrafo russo George Balanchine, e sua concepção foi repleta de descontinuidades. As ideias iniciais que motivaram a composição do balé datam de 1948, entretanto, Stravinsky começou a esboçar os primeiros rascunhos somente no final de 1953 e concluiu a obra, após algumas interrupções, em meados de 1957. Durante os anos de criação do balé, Stravinsky operou mudanças significativas em seu processo composicional, alguns movimentos remetem ao diatonismo de seu período neoclássico, enquanto outros são construídos a partir de elaborações seriais, desenvolvidas pelo compositor após o início da década de 1950. Este trabalho expõe os diferentes aspectos envolvidos na concepção do balé e, através da análise dos processos composicionais presentes na obra, busca determinar pontos de conexão em meio às referências díspares estabelecidas no diálogo entre música e dança.
The ballet Agon is considered the apex of the partnership between Stravinsky and the russian choreographer George Balanchine, and its creation was full of discontinuities. The initial ideas that motivated the composition of the ballet came up in 1948, but only in the end of 1953 Stravinsky began sketching the first drafts, and then in 1957, after some interruptions, he completed the work. During this years, Stravinsky made significant changes in his compositional process, some movements refers to the diatonicism of his neoclassical period, while others are constructed from serial elaborations, all of them developed by the composer after the 1950s. This dissertation expounds the several different aspects about the creation of the ballet and through the analysis of the compositional processes in the work, it attempts to determine the connection among the disparate references established in the dialogue between music and dance.

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Schellhas, Daniel H. "PEREGRINATION: A MUSICAL SKETCH OF EUROPE IN FOUR MOVEMENTS." Bowling Green, Ohio : Bowling Green State University, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=bgsu1174323599.

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Thesis (M.M.)--Bowling Green State University, 2007.
For alto saxophone in E♭, violoncello, piano, percussion (vibraphone, crystal glasses (C,E,G♯, B)) Document formatted into pages; contains 1 score (19 p.) Duration: ca. 13 min. Includes bibliographical references.

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Macfarlane, Clare J. "The effect of verbal discussion on musical expressiveness." Scholarly Commons, 1994. https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/uop_etds/2268.

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In this study an attempt was made to measure the effects of verbal discussion on musical expressiveness. Subjects (N =30) were all members of a conservatory symphony orchestra. The subjects were divided into three groups: Group 1 was a listening and discussion group; Group 2 listening only; and Group 3 control group, no treatment. The study used a pre- and post-test design in which all the subjects were requested to play a given melody twice. Analysis of the data, using two-tailed t tests and ANOVAs, revealed no statistically significant differences among the three groups for the effect of verbal discussion on expressiveness. The subjects' self-reports, however, illustrated that they perceived a difference in their expressive playing.

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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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Fitzpatrick, Michael D. ""The concerned and thoughtful musical citizen": Music analysis as sufficient explanation." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/28144.

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Some scholars have proposed the application of scientific method to the practice of music theory and analysis. This thesis examines two such frameworks: one developed by Milton Babbitt, and another by Matthew Brown and Douglas Dempster. The first part presents Babbitt's prescriptions of "scientific language and method," along with his distinction between analytical explanation and description, and an outline of Hempel and Oppenheim's Deductive-Nomological model of explanation. The second part focuses on Brown and Dempster's application of scientific method to music theory and analysis and contrasts their view with Babbitt's. Within the thesis, I make the following restrictions to my theoretical framework: music theory and analysis are explanatory activities---as opposed to descriptive---and music theories are composed of generalized empirical statements concerning individual works on an analytical level. In its consideration of large methodological questions, this thesis promotes the continued integrity of the discipline of music theory and analysis.

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Reed, Alissandra. "An Applied Approach to the Descriptive Analysis of Music as Heard." The Ohio State University, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu149253274230909.

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Pearce, Alastair T. P. "MAP : a computer program for music information retrieval." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 1991. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.264938.

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Chan, Wing Yi. "Visualizing the semantic structure in classical music works /." View abstract or full-text, 2009. http://library.ust.hk/cgi/db/thesis.pl?CSED%202009%20CHAN.

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Reymore, Lindsey E. "Empirical approaches to timbre semantics as a foundation for musical analysis." The Ohio State University, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1586792450387823.

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Li, Qiushi. "Rhythmic analysis of motion signals for music retrieval /." Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2008.

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Cannon, Robert S. "An Investigation of Musical Styles and Applications in Select High School Choral Music." Kent State University Honors College / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ksuhonors1335226836.

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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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Follet, Diane Weber. "A comprehensive analysis of Samuel Barber's "Andromache's Farewell": A study in musical relationships." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/291978.

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This thesis is an analysis of Andromache's Farewell by Samuel Barber. A setting for soprano and orchestra of a scene from The Trojan Women by Euripides, this work contains a variety of musical materials, skillfully used for dramatic impact. This paper analyzes these materials to uncover their relationships, thus revealing the style and structure of the piece. This composition displays an unusually dissonant and contemporary idiom for Samuel Barber. The discussion in this paper includes not only musical language but also text, orchestration, and performance problems. This neglected work deserves more attention. It is an important part of Barber's contribution to twentieth-century art.

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Ross, Gordon. "Popular music analysis." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2001. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp05/MQ65051.pdf.

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Boyes, Graham. "Dictionary-based analysis/synthesis and structured representations of musical audio." Thesis, McGill University, 2012. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=106507.

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In the representation of musical audio, it is common to favour either a signal or symbol interpretation, where mid-level representation is an emerging topic. In this thesis we investigate the perspective of structured, intermediate representations through an integration of theoretical aspects related to separable sound objects, dictionary-based methods of signal analysis, and object-oriented programming. In contrast to examples in the literature that approach an intermediate representation from the signal level, we orient our formulation towards the symbolic level. This methodology is applied to both the specification of analytical techniques and the design of a software framework. Experimental results demonstrate that our method is able to achieve a lower Itakura-Saito distance, a perceptually-motivated measure of spectral dissimilarity, when compared to a generic model and that our structured representation can be applied to visualization as well as agglomerative post-processing.
Dans la représentation du signal audio musical, il est commun de favoriser une interprétation de type signal ou bien de type symbole, alors que la représentation de type mi-niveau, ou intermédiaire, devient un sujet d'actualité. Dans cette thèse nous investiguons la perspective de ces représentations intermédiaires et structurées. Notre recherche intègre tant les aspects théoriques liés à des objets sonores séparables, que les méthodes d'analyse des signaux fondées sur des dictionnaires, et ce jusqu'à la conception de logiciels conus dans le cadre de la programmation orienté objet. Contrairement aux exemples disponibles dans la littérature notre approche des représentations intermédiaires part du niveau symbolique pour aller vers le signal, plutôt que le contraire. Cette méthodologie est appliquée non seulement à la spécification de techniques analytiques mais aussi à la conception d'un système logiciel afférent. Les résultats expérimentaux montrent que notre méthode est capable de réduire la distance d'Itakura-Saito, distance fondé sur la perception, ceci en comparaison à une méthode de décomposition générique. Nous montrons également que notre représentation structurée peut être utilisée dans des applications pratiques telles que la visualisation, l'agrégation post-traitement ainsi qu'en composition musicale.

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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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Freyermuth, Jessie L. "An analysis of the musical interpretations of Nina Simone." Manhattan, Kan. : Kansas State University, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/4121.

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DiFalco, Elaine. "Cosmophonia: Musical Expressions of Astronomy and Cosmology." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2018. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1259404/.

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Astronomy and music are both fundamental to cultural identity in the form of various musical styles and calendrical systems. However, since both are governed by incontrovertible laws of physics and therefore precede cultural interpretation, they are potentially useful for insight into the common ground of a shared humanity. This paper discusses three compositions inspired by different aspects of astronomy: Solstitium e Equinoctium, a site-specific composition for four voices and metal pipes involving an inclusive communal musical ritual and sonic meditation; Helios, a short symphonic work inspired by helioseismology; and Perspectives, a piece for soprano and percussion based on a logarithmic map of the universe.

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Obrecht, Alexander Guy. "The dawning of musical aspect in process." Diss., Connect to a 24 p. preview or request complete full text in PDF format. Access restricted to UC campuses, 2008. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p3307165.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, San Diego, 2008.
Title from first page of PDF file (viewed July 14, 2008). Available via ProQuest Digital Dissertations. Vita. Includes bibliographical references: P. 286-294.

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Gerhardt, Kris. "The tritone paradox : an experimental and statistical analysis /." *McMaster only, 2002.

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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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Yeagley, David Anthony. "Franz Liszt's "Dante Sonata": The origins, the criticism, a selective musical analysis, and commentary." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/186883.

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The earliest European Christian (Catholic) music was exclusively vocal. Western music's Renaissance (c.1400-1600) brought about independent instrumental music. However, the idea that religious sentiment could be expressed non-vocally, in non-liturgical contexts, on instruments not associated with religious circumstance, did not develop before Franz Liszt (1811-1886). Though Beethoven (1770-1827) wrote non-liturgical music regarded as "spiritual," (e.g., the late piano sonatas, the late string quartets), Liszt sought to articulate a category of music specifically religious, apart from vocal, liturgical associations. Liszt invented such music at the piano, an instrument incorporating the variety of sounds, gestures, and harmonies he considered evocative of religious sentiment. The Dante Sonata is such a composition. Except for a brief, early moment in the Dante Sonata, the score is void of scales and arpeggios--very basic pianistic musical gestures. The score instead comprises innovative harmonies, creative use of octaves, chords, and original concepts of notation and rhythm. However, scales arpeggios, and indeed the gamut of 19th century pianism, are used by Liszt in other "religious" piano solos. The Legendes de St. Francois, contain substantial use of scales and arpeggiated figures. Other Catholic works, such as Pater noster, Vexilla Regis Prodeunt, Ave Maria, and numerous death-oriented works, though not virtuosic, are not limited in pianistic style. The Harmonies Poetiques et Religious (1845-1852, Nrs. 1-10), contain pieces with both limited and non-limited pianism. The Invocation is void of scales and arpeggios, like the Dante Sonata; but the Benediction and the Cantique d'amour contain much typical arpeggiated accompaniment of melody. The present essay does not identify individual compositional elements as "religious." Each element of the Dante Sonata selected for present analysis, is simply cited as interesting. The Dante Sonata itself is put in the context of religious music. The subjects of religious music and pianistic innovation are both addressed, though neither is interpreted nor defended. That the Dante Sonata is religious music, and pianistically innovative, are the author's judgments a priori. This essay assumes responsibility for circumstantial, pragmatic exemplification of these judgments, not the due process of academic logistics by which they derive. (The latter process requires separate essays.)

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Dougherty, William Patrick. "An Examination of Semiotics in Musical Analysis: The Neapolitan Complex in Beethoven's Op.131." The Ohio State University, 1985. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/23645007.html.

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McGilvray, Douglas. "On the analysis of musical performance by computer." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2008. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/451/.

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Existing automatic methods of analysing musical performance can generally be described as music-oriented DSP analysis. However, this merely identifies attributes, or artefacts which can be found within the performance. This information, though invaluable, is not an analysis of the performance process. The process of performance first involves an analysis of the score (whether from a printed sheet or from memory), and through this analysis, the performer decides how to perform the piece. Thus, an analysis of the performance process requires an analysis of the performance attributes and artefacts in the context of the musical score. With this type analysis it is possible to ask profound questions such as “why or when does a performer use this technique”. The work presented in this thesis provides the tools which are required to investigate these performance issues. A new computer representation, Performance Markup Language (PML) is presented which combines the domains of the musical score, performance information and analytical structures. This representation provides the framework with which information within these domains can be cross-referenced internally, and the markup of information in external files. Most importantly, the rep resentation defines the relationship between performance events and the corresponding objects within the score, thus facilitating analysis of performance information in the context of the score and analyses of the score. To evaluate the correspondences between performance notes and notes within the score, the performance must be analysed using a score-performance match- ing algorithm. A new score-performance matching algorithm is presented in this document which is based on Dynamic Programming. In score-performance matching there are situations where dynamic programming alone is not sufficient to accurately identify correspondences. The algorithm presented here makes use of analyses of both the score and the performance to overcome the inherent shortcomings of the DP method and to improve the accuracy and robustness of DP matching in the presence of performance errors and expressive timing. Together with the musical score and performance markup, the correspondences identified by the matching algorithm provide the minimum information required to investigate musical performance, and forms the foundation of a PML representation. The Microtonalism project investigated the issues surrounding the performance of microtonal music on conventional (i.e. non microtonal specific) instruments, namely voice. This included the automatic analysis of vocal performances to extract information regarding pitch accuracy. This was possible using tools developed using the performance representation and the matching algorithm.

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Cooper, Michelle L. "A MUSICAL ANALYSIS OF HOW MARY PRIESTLEY IMPLEMENTED THE TECHNIQUES SHE DEVELOPED FOR ANALYTICAL MUSIC THERAPY." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2011. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/173335.

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Music Therapy
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This study examined how Mary Priestley musically implemented 15 Analytical Music Therapy (AMT) techniques for exploring conscious material, accessing unconscious material, and strengthening the ego. Using the Priestley archives at Temple University, the author listened to 96 recorded examples of individual AMT sessions with 31 adult clients that were made between the years 1975-1991 to examine and aurally identify the musical phenomena and patterns occurring in the musical implementation of AMT techniques. The results of the study present clinical considerations necessary for applying each AMT technique and the clinical/musical roles of the analytical music therapist. Finally, this study presents distinctions between traditional and contemporary AMT practice and implications for AMT training and supervision.
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Lake, William Leroy Jr. "A Conductor's Analysis and Performance Guide for John Mackey's Songs from the End of the World (2015)." Thesis, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10750750.

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The purpose of this study is to provide background information, a conductor’s analysis, and a performance guide for John Mackey’s Songs from the End of the World (2015), a composition for soprano soloist, eleven winds, double bass, harp, piano, and percussion.

Background information for this study emerged from interviews with Abby Jaques, poet; John Mackey, composer; Lindsay Kesselman, premiering soprano vocalist; and Kevin M. Geraldi, premiering conductor. The text, Mackey’s compositional choices, the premiering vocalist's approach to characterization, and the conductor's interpretive decisions are presented to reveal the work's structure, construction, and dramatic elements. Insight into challenges and approaches for presentations of this work is provided in the performance guide.

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Hughes, John Charles. "Leonhard Lechner's Passion (1593): cultural contexts, musical analysis, and historical implications." Diss., University of Iowa, 2014. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/1469.

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The Historia der Passion und Leidens unsers einigen Erlösers und Seligmachers Jesu Christi (1593) by Leonhard Lechner (c. 1553-1606) is frequently cited as an important work in the development of the Passion idiom. Given the work's notoriety, it is therefore odd that little substantive analysis of the piece exists. Aside from some scholars' cursory comments about the piece, only James Morgan Sides's dissertation has discussed the work at length. Sides's findings give a somewhat limited picture of Lechner's Passion because he primarily focuses on technical aspects of Lechner's musical language. This essay instead seeks to provide a more comprehensive examination of Lechner's composition by taking into account social factors that influenced the history, reception, and stylistic influence of the work. The essay seeks to understand Lechner's Passion according to its cultural context, place it within the Passion genre and Lechner's biography, reception history, as well as explore its influence on later Passion settings. It then uses these factors as a means to explore Lechner's musical language to a greater extent than previous scholarship. The first chapter explores how social trends in sixteenth-century Württemberg, where Lechner was a chorister when he composed his Passion in 1593, affected his musical language. When Lechner wrote his Passion, the duchy was at a crossroads, balancing religious tradition and a more secular, modern future. On the one hand, over the 1500s, secularization occurred within the duchy's political, religious, and musical institutions. On the other hand, Württemberg's acceptance of Lutheranism in 1534 also shaped the duchy's culture. Additionally, despite its vehement anti-Catholic rhetoric and actions, Württemberg retained some of its long-standing Catholic religious and musical practices after its conversion to Lutheranism. Württemberg's dichotomous culture-a blend of secular, as well as Catholic and Lutheran influences-affected both the duchy's musical culture and Lechner's composition. The second chapter explores how Württemberg's societal changes, the history of the Passion genre, and Lechner's biography influenced specific musical devices in Lechner's Passion setting. Throughout the work, Lechner seems to use incongruous compositional language-the work not only boasts forward-looking expressive devices, such as text painting, but also incorporates compositional devices typically associated with older Catholic Passion settings. Lechner's setting of Biblical texts in the German vernacular, however, reflects the principles of the Reformation, as well as Württemberg's acceptance of Lutheranism. As the essay traces Lechner's use of text and text setting, expressive devices, and Passiontons throughout each of the piece's five movements, Lechner's musical language is understood to be a product of the Passion idiom, his personal faith, and sixteenth-century culture. While the first two chapters primarily focus on the relationship between Württemberg's culture and Lechner's musical language, the final chapter deals with the influence of Lechner's Passion, which has a bipartite legacy. In part, Lechner's Passion was summative because it is one of the last motet Passion settings, a subgenre that quickly disappeared due to the rise in popularity of instrumental music. Few motet Passions were composed after Lechner's; however, his work did influence later compositions, including pieces by Heinrich Schütz (1585-1672), Hugo Distler (1908-1942), and Kurt Thomas (1904-1973). It is significant that Lechner's Passion not only influenced Schütz, perhaps the greatest seventeenth-century Lutheran composer, but was also admired centuries later by twentieth-century composers. The approach of this essay recognizes that no work of art is created in a vacuum and therefore seeks to explore how cultural factors influenced the composition of Lechner's Passion. Lechner's dichotomous compositional language is an outgrowth of sixteenth-century Württemberg's culture, the history of the Passion idiom, and his own biography. As the essay progresses from the piece's social framework to its historical implications, Lechner's Passion is framed as both a product of its time and a model for future compositions. This essay therefore provides a more comprehensive perspective of Lechner's Passion than what previous musical analyses have offered.

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COUCH, III LEON WHELAND. "THE ORGAN WORKS OF DIETRICH BUXTEHUDE (1637-1707) AND MUSICAL-RHETORICAL ANALYSIS AND THEORY." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2002. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1028220263.

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Lewis, Paul. "A model for culture-independent music analysis : 'sounding form' and musical communication." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.361468.

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Anderson, Andrew E. (Andrew Edwin). "A Phenomenology of Music Analysis." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1995. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc277913/.

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Many of the early writings and lectures of the German phenomenological philosopher Martin Heidegger involve investigations into the question of Being. An important part of these investigations is his examination of how we go about the everyday business of existing--doing our jobs, dealing with things in our environment, working through problems, thinking, talking--and what our ways of operating in these everyday activities tell us about our Being in general. Musicians have their own everyday musical tasks, two of the most prominent of which are composing and performing. Composers and performers, like everyone else, have a 'world'--Heidegger's word for the structure of relationships between equipment, persons, and tasks and the way in which a person is situated in that structure--and that 'world' allows them to cope with their musical environment in ways that enable them to make music as composers and performers. Analyzing music is an activity that a Heideggerian approach sees as derived from the primary musical activities of composing and performing. A music analyst trades the possibility of primary musical involvement for a kind of involvement that points out determinate characteristics; hence in adopting an analytical stance, the analyst trades doing something musical for saying something about music. In making such a trade, however, a prior musical involvement--a basic musicality--is always presupposed. Every way of analyzing music has its own way of making determinations, and after detailing the manner of the derivation of the general analytical attitude, this study examines several types of analysis and the ways in which they exemplify the derivative nature of analytical activity. One extended example, an analysis of Jean Sibelius's The Swan of Tuonela, provides several opportunities for discussion (via interspersed passages of commentary) of a view of music analysis drawn from Heideggerian phenomenology.

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Kosek, Paul C. "Improved analysis of musical sounds using time-frequency distributions." Thesis, McGill University, 2005. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=83189.

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The objective of this research is to improve the analysis of musical sounds in comparison to traditional additive analysis, i.e. Fourier Analysis. Namely, the focus of this study is to improve the tracking of time-evolving partials. Traditional analysis methods assume constant amplitudes and frequencies over each successive frame in which a signal is analyzed. Tracking the time-evolution of these partials, however, can require the implementation of complex probabilistic techniques. This thesis presents an alternative method in which the Ambiguity Function, a distribution in both time and frequency, is used to create a clearer, more accurate representation that requires fewer complex methods to track partials. Through the use of a more accurate spectral representation and the inclusion of a chirp rate parameter, partials may be more readily followed based upon spectral parameters alone. This new method that is presented will build upon the traditional methods by first employing Fourier analysis to identify partials, and then utilizing the Analytic Signal and Ambiguity Function to improve individual spectral parameter estimations and partial tracking. The overall intent of this work is that through this method, one may create an improved spectral model that is more useful to musical analysis.

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Niles, Richard. "The invisible artist : arrangers in popular music (1950-2000) : their contribution and techniques." Thesis, Brunel University, 2007. http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/7914.

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This thesis is based on the research conducted by the author for the series, Richard Niles' History of Pop Arranging, seven thirty-minute documentary programmes for BBC Radio 2, researched, written and presented by the author and broadcast in 2003. It also draws on interviews conducted by the author (and other research) between 2002 and 2007 both for the radio series and for this thesis and on the author's experience as a professional arranger in popular music working with many of the genre's significant recording artists including Paul McCartney, Ray Charles, Cher, Tina Turner, Westlife, Tears For Fears, Dusty Springfield, James Brown, Pet Shop Boys, Kylie Minogue and producers including Trevor Hom, Steve Lipson, Steve Mac and Steve Anderson. It will be argued that the role of the arranger in popular music has often been undervalued and that during a critical period of popular music history (1950-2000) arrangers played a significant part in the evolution of musical content. This thesis is, to the best of the author's knowledge, the first time (apart from the above mentioned documentary) the subject has ever been examined. The arranger is "invisible" because musical arrangers are often un-credited on record liner notes or in books or articles concerning popular music. A considerable amount of research has been necessary to determine who wrote many of the arrangements considered herein. Motown's Berry Gordy purposely kept the names of musicians and arrangers off the records because he feared others might 'poach' the trademark 'Motown Sound'. Other record labels considered the job of the arranger to be reminiscent of an earlier era, diluting the Rock 'n' Roll image of emotion and spontanaeity they wished to promote. Some producers and recording artists disliked sharing credit for their work. Motown arranger David Van dePitte told the author that arranging was "thankless and anonymous - a very service-oriented profession where others often take credit for what you've done." Arranging has therefore remained an intrinsically unseen art created by 'invisible' artists. By analyzing many recordings, revealing the techniques and concepts they have used in their work to create popular records, arrangers and their art will be made more 'visible'.

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Anderson, Alasdair J. "Analysis of musical structures : an approach utilising monadic parser combinators." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2011. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/2353/.

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The work of this thesis seeks to further the use of computation in musical analysis. To a lesser extent it is hoped that it will provide some little evidence of a new angle on creating analytic elements through inference, and cast light onto some areas where analysis may be used anew. Parsers for musical information are small in number, none have been implemented in functional languages, nor using monadic combination techniques. Few analytic systems are capable of, or even consider it necessary to, represent semantic ambiguity, and this is even more true of parsing systems. The work herein presented provides a system of unique monadic parsers built on combination that are capable of delivering several different types and depths of results. Many computational-analytic systems are based on theories of similarity. The work presented here provides for analytic structures to be created through inference i.e. in the absence of known structures. This is believed to be the first instance of this type of structure generation in the field of music.

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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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Taylor, Millie. "Music in theatre : towards a methodology for examining the interaction of music and drama in theatre works of the twentieth century." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.324736.

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Ralston, Janette. "The development of a valid and reliable instrument to grade the difficulty of vocal solo repertoire /." free to MU campus, to others for purchase, 1996. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/mo/fullcit?p9712802.

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Sayrs, Elizabeth Paige. "Approaches to Wolf : Schenker, transformation, function /." The Ohio State University, 1997. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1243358893.

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Rhee, Meehyun. "A background and an analysis of Mozart's piano concerto no. 24 in C minor, K. 491 : aids towards performance /." The Ohio State University, 1992. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1335282431.

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Mearns, Lesley. "The computational analysis of harmony in western art music." Thesis, Queen Mary, University of London, 2013. http://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/8676.

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This thesis describes research in the computational analysis of harmony in western art music, focussing particularly on improving the accuracy and information-richness of key and chord extraction from digital score data. It is argued that a greater sophistication in automatic harmony analysis is an important contribution to the field of computational musicology. Initial experiments use hidden Markov models to predict key and modulation from automatically labelled chord sequences. Model parameters are based on heuristically formulated chord and key weightings derived from Sch¨onberg’s harmonic theory and the key and chord ratings resulting from perceptual experiments with listeners. The music theory models are shown to outperform the perceptual models both in terms of key accuracy and modelling the precise moment of key change. All of the models perform well enough to generate descriptive data about modulatory frequency, modulatory type and key distance. A robust method of classifying underlying chord types from elaborated keyboard music is then detailed. The method successfully distinguishes between essential and inessential notes, for example, passing notes and neighbour notes, and combines note classification information with tertian chord potential to measure the harmonic importance of a note. Existing approaches to automatic chord classification are unsuitable for use with complex textures and are restricted to triads and simple sevenths. An important goal is therefore to recognise a much broader set of chords, including complex chord types such as 9ths, 11ths and 13ths. This level of detail is necessary if the methods are to supply sophisticated information about the harmonic techniques of composers. Testing on the first twenty-four preludes of J. S. Bach’s Well Tempered Clavier, hand annotated by the author, a state of the art approach achieves 22.1% accuracy; our method achieves 55% accuracy.

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De, Paiva Santana Charles. "The Musical Piece as an Instance : essays in Computer-Aided Musical Analysis." Thesis, Paris 6, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016PA066672.

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A partir d'une interprétation musicologique de la notion scientifique de "modélisation et simulation'', cette thèse présente une approche d'analyse assistée par ordinateur où les partitions musicales sont reconstruites à partir de processus algorithmiques et simulées avec différents paramètres à partir desquels des variantes, appelés instances, sont générés. L'étude d'une pièce musicale par modélisation et simulation signifie comprendre l'oeuvre en la (re) composant de nouveau, en brouillant les limites entre le travail analytique et créatif. Cette approche est appliquée à trois études de cas: 1. une technique isolée, la "multiplication d'accords'', utilisé par Pierre Boulez (1925- 2016), qui a été explorée à travers le prisme formé par les théories de H. Hanson, S. Heinemann et L. Koblyakov; 2. La pièce "Spectral Canon pour Conlon Nancarrow" (1974) du compositeur américain James Tenney (1934-2006) à laquelle la simulation computationnelle à partir de différents paramètres a été prise à ses conséquences ultimes quand un "espace d'instances" est explorée a partir de stratégies de visualisation graphique; 3. Et enfin "Désordre" (1985), le première étude pour piano de l'austro-hongrois György Ligeti (1923-2006) dans laquelle les concepts de "tonalité combinatoire" et "décomposition en nombres premiers'', appliqué aux durées, ont été utilisés pour maximiser le potentiel de production d'instances
From a musicological interpretation of the scientific notion of “modeling and simulation”, this thesis presents an approach for computer-aided analysis where musical scores are reconstructed from algorithmic processes and then simulated with different sets of parameters from which neighbouring variants, called instances, are generated. Studying a musical piece by modelling and simulation means to understand the work by (re)composing it again, blurring boundaries between analytical and creative work. This approach is applied to three case studies: an isolated technique, Pierre Boulez Chord Multiplication, which is explored through the prism formed by the theories of H. Hanson, S. Heinemann and L. Koblyakov; the piece Spectral Canon for Conlon Nancarrow (1974) by the american James Tenney (1934-2006) to which the computational simulation from different sets of parameters was taken to its ultimate consequences when a “space of instances” is created and strategies of visualisation and exploration are devised; and finally “Disorder”, the first piano study written by austro-hungarian György Ligeti in which the concepts of “combinatorial tonality” and “decomposition prime numbers”, applied to durations, are used to maximize the potential that a model has to produce different variations of the original piece

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Lassetter, Jacob Garland. "Dominick Argento’s The Andrée Expedition: A Performer’s Musical and Dramatic Analysis." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1211914343.

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