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1 | Kirschner, Aaron J. | Divisions without hierarchy: four-dimensional modeling of submeter and its use in empirical analysis of the musics of the new complexity | Central to virtually all scholarship of meter is a notion of beat hierarchy. However, when beat units and/or tempi are in constant flux, defining a hierarchy becomes nearly impossible. Such impulse structuresâ€"common to music of the New Complexityâ€"resist traditional scholarship of meter/sub... | Empirical Analysis; Ferneyhough; Meter; New Complexity; Rhythm; Submeter; Music | 2017 | |
2 | Russell, Jessica | From the Old testament to the Paris Opera: Saint-Saëns's Samson Et Dalila and nineteenth-century french orientalism | Despite its successful premiere in Weimar in 1877, Saint-Saëns's Samson et Dalila met resistance as the composer attempted to stage the biblical story in France. When the work finally premiered in Paris in 1890, the opera directors exclaimed, "If we only knew!" In this thesis, I explore the aspec... | Gender; Nineteenth-century opera; Orientalism; Saint-Saëns; Samson et Dalila | 2017 | |
3 | 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 |