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- Every music theorist has their own personal reasons for engaging in the craft of theorizing about music. Many discover that there is something special about a theoretic disposition which differs from other sorts of interactions with music. It is often this special something that draws musicians into the discipline: specifically,...
- Keyword:
- Imagery, Memory, Galant Schemata, Expertise, and Music Theory
- Subject:
- Music theory
- Creator:
- Gates, Sarah Lindsay
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_961422 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16402
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- In this essay I examine George Aperghis’ process-based compositional thought in the score and performance practice of Retrouvailles, with a focus on the non-hierarchical and simultaneous use of interdisciplinary elements. I demonstrate how Aperghis sets up the complex dramaturgy of superimposed, suggestive narratives in this work as a case-study of...
- Keyword:
- composed gesture, music theatre, abstract narrativity, language, voice, and percussion
- Subject:
- Music theory, Linguistics, and Music
- Creator:
- Charlafti, Niki
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/31/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_987572 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16620
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- Description:
- Every music theorist has their own personal reasons for engaging in the craft of theorizing about music. Many discover that there is something special about a theoretic disposition which differs from other sorts of interactions with music. It is often this special something that draws musicians into the discipline: specifically,...
- Keyword:
- Imagery, Memory, Galant Schemata, Expertise, and Music Theory
- Subject:
- Music theory
- Creator:
- Gates, Sarah Lindsay
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 03/24/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_961422 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16402
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- Fausto Romitelli (1963-2004), one of the most inventive composers of his generation, created a musical language that draws inspiration from a multifaceted array of sources, including the technological landscape of daily life, the visual arts, poetry, literature, and philosophy. Furthermore, from early in his career, Romitelli incorporated elements in his...
- Keyword:
- Analysis, Music, and Romitelli
- Subject:
- Music theory and Musical composition
- Creator:
- Arrellin, Mathew
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/16/2023
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16376 and etdadmin_upload_947312
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- Listeners can experience strong and often positive identification with music. Contemporary research has emphasized the importance of a listener’s own identity, including their sense of self and their desires, when forming such identifications. However, acknowledgments of the listener’s role in the listening experience have failed to productively engage discussions of...
- Keyword:
- Agency, Musical Empathy, Empathy, Music Analysis, Musical Agency, and Subjectivity
- Subject:
- Cognitive psychology, Music theory, and Social psychology
- Creator:
- Leaman, Aubrey
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/22/2022
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_917201 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16158
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- This dissertation examines the remediation of video game music from their source games to the concert hall. I argue that while not unique in their repositioning from popular to classical registers, the classicalization of video game music offers a contemporary challenge to the current norms of classical music institutions. I...
- Keyword:
- Square Enix, Arrangement, Video Game Concerts, and Ludomusicology
- Subject:
- Music theory
- Creator:
- Greenfield-Casas, Stefan
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 09/22/2022
- Date Created:
- 2022-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_925256 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16200
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- This dissertation proposes a theory that views beats as probabilistic domains that I term “pockets,” taking a vernacular term commonly used by jazz, funk, and popular music performers to describe the state of being in a good groove and making it concrete through empirical methods. Pockets have three key properties:...
- Keyword:
- microtiming, rhythm, corpus studies, and music information retrieval
- Subject:
- Music theory
- Creator:
- Hosken, Fred
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/07/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_844477 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15738
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- Description:
- For much of the twentieth-century, English-language music scholars were reticent to speculate about the origins of music. In recent years, however, the study of music’s evolutionary origins has been revitalized. Resonating Subjects brings a critical-historical perspective to this renewed convergence of music studies and evolutionary science. Through close examinations of...
- Keyword:
- Edmund Gurney, Charles Darwin, Herbert Spencer, evolutionary musicology, Victorian music culture, and emotion
- Subject:
- Music theory and Music history
- Creator:
- Piilonen, Miriam
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14771 and etdadmin_upload_679879
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- Description:
- Musical meter is often described as an objective grid-like system of time-points that is created by musical sounds. I define meter instead as any pattern of felt beats an individual listener chooses to hear, a physical and cognitive interpretation of the music that is (re-) created in the moment of...
- Keyword:
- Embodiment, Cognitive Science, Motion, Rhythm, Performance Studies, and Meter
- Subject:
- Music theory
- Creator:
- Hudson, Stephen
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_662796 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14661