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Iachimciuc, Igor | Part I: Sound color in the music of Gyorgy Kurtag, Part II: Leopard's path, thirteen visions for chamber ensemble | The dissertation is in two parts, a theoretical study and a musical composition. In Part I the music of György Kurtág is analyzed from the point of view of sound color. A brief description of what is understood by the term sound color, and various ways of achieving specific coloristic effects, are... | Gyorgy Kurtag; Music; Sonorism; Sound color; Timbre; Tone color | 2010 |
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Bernal, Sergio | The triumph of joy over tragedy: pitch A in Mahler's Fifth Symphony | One of the extraordinary innovations found in Mahler's symphonies is the use of progressive tonality as a vehicle to express emotional transformation. Two of Mahler's four "Wunderhorn" symphonies, the Second and Fourth, both progress away from the original tonic and end in a mediant or submediant ke... | Analysis; Fifth; Harmonic; Mahler; Melodic; Symphony | 2013-05 |
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Bickmore, Isaac Lamont | Functions of popular music in the lives of adolescents | This study determines that a specified group of adolescents' favorite songs fulfill Frith's functions of popular music; (a) to create a type of self-definition; (b) to provide a way of managing the relationship between one's private and public emotional lives; (c) to shape popular memory, organiz... | Music and youth; Group identity | 2010-02-10 |
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Wilks, Nathan A. | Verse chorus verse: an analysis of repetition in popular music | Popular music is often criticized by academics for being too repetitive. However, repetition is the mechanism by which music makes sense of itself. It is a conduit for meaning â€" separating music from noise, poetry from ambient chatter. By showing that in most verse-chorus songs, the amount of v... | Analysis; Music; Music psychology; Music repetition; Popular music; Repetition | 2017 |
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Landvatter, Scott Alan | Gustav Holst's Savitri Elucidated by Hindu thought | Gustav Holst, throughout his life manifesting a rather mystic penchant, was, in his early career, quite taken with Hindu writings? it was as a result of his studies in Sanskrit that his chamber opera Savitri , Opus 25, emerged in 1908. Based on a story in the Mahabha - rata, the one act opera tells ... | Opera; Hindu writings; Music | 1984-12 |
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