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Description:: Characterization is the musical creation of fictional characters, and it is particularly important for creating multi-dimensional, nuanced characters in opera. However, how do composers characterize roles if the opera does not feature a traditionally linear plot or story? Does opera need a narrative to create characterization? Some may view narrative...
Keyword:: music, narrative, opera, composition, characterization, and chamber opera
Subject:: Music
Creator:: Liza Sobel Crane
Owner:: Liza Anna Sobel
Language:: English
Date Uploaded:: 05/24/2023
Date Modified:: 05/24/2023
Date Created:: 2023-05-23
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Description:: The creative process of an artistic work is a space, figuratively, in which every facet of our personal lives has an effect and, in turn, can be explored and altered. One of the most fundamental aspects of life, be it human or not, is the way in which one relates...
Keyword:: Lim, Amaya, composition, Kitundu, posthumanism, and more-than-human
Subject:: Environmental studies, Musical composition, and Aesthetics
Creator:: Amaya Muñoz, Luis Fernando
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 09/22/2022
Date Created:: 2022-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16177 and etdadmin_upload_920819

Description:: The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of applied improvisation and composition assignments that were related to and reinforcing of curriculum content on fifth-grade students' ability to sight-read traditional music notation, ability to learn to play the soprano recorder, and understanding of music theory. Specifically, the research...
Keyword:: learning, composition, divergent, creativity, convergent, and recorder
Subject:: Music Education
Creator:: Lois Veenhoven Guderian
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 09/14/2018
Date Modified:: 09/14/2018
Date Created:: 2008-11-04
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Description:: The primary purpose of this study was to describe what comprises an undergraduate compositional identity. Building upon recent research investigating musical identities with a social psychological framework (Macdonald, Hargreaves, & Miell, 2002), I examined the confluence of socially based experiences that shaped four undergraduate composers' lives. Specifically, this study investigated...
Keyword:: composition, undergraduate music majors, creativity, storyboards, case study, and music education
Subject:: Music Education
Creator:: Bruce Allen Carter
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 08/31/2018
Date Modified:: 08/31/2018
Date Created:: 2008-05-05
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Description:: Since Ottorino Respighi included the recording of a nightingale in his Pini di Roma (1924), composers have used prerecorded nature sounds, or field recordings, to help establish a specific sense of place. The purpose of this project is to examine how modern composers utilize field recordings to create natural-world settings,...
Keyword:: prerecorded, mason bates, bird song, nature sound, alex shapiro, ottorino respighi, electroacoustic, insect sound, composition, whale song, and dma project
Subject:: Conducting
Creator:: Joseph E. Higgins
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 01/10/2018
Date Modified:: 02/02/2018
Date Created:: 2017-12-09
Resource Type:: Dissertation

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