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Thompson, James W. | The effects of conducting-gesture instruction on high school string orchestra students' recognition of and playing response to common musical conducting emblems | The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of conducting-gesture instruction on high school string orchestra students' recognition of and playing response to common musical conducting emblems. Musical conducting emblems were defined as nonverbal movements or gestures used by conductors... | Conducting-gestures; Conducting instruction; High school music; Nonverbal communication; Orchestra students; Performance response; Music; Music education | 2012-08 |
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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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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 |