86 search results for “musicology” in the Public website
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Joep Bor
Faculty of Humanities
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Frans de Ruiter
Faculty of Humanities
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Composed performers: the music-performing body from a compositional perspective
Based on recent scientific insights and both historical and recent music examples, the author develops a concept of 'intercorporeality' that sheds new light on the relationship between music performers, composers and music consumers.
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Sound & Score – Essays on Sound, Score and Notation
Sound & Score brings together music expertise from prominent international researchers and performers exploring the intimate relations between sound, score and notation, and the artistic possibilities that this relationship yields for performers, composers and listeners.
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Giovanni Punto (1746-1803), Cor Basse Virtuoso
His instrument, his technique, his music and his life
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Creating and Re‐creating Tangos: Artistic Processes and Innovations in Music by Pugliese, Salgán, Piazzolla and Beytelmann
In this dissertation the author digs into the constituent elements of River Plate tango in order to decode how specific musical materials were organized and combined by four outstanding musicians: Pugliese, Salgán, Piazzolla and Beytelmann.
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Bárbara Varassi Pega - Creating and re-creating tangos : artistic processes and innovations in music by Pugliese, Salgán, Piazzolla and Beytelmann
In this research project the constituent elements of River Plate tango are investigated in order to decode how specific musical materials were organized and combined by four outstanding musicians: Osvaldo Pugliese, Horacio Salgán, Astor Piazzolla and Gustavo Beytelmann.
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Harmonic duality : from interval ratios and pitch distance to spectra and sensory dissonance
This dissertation derives from the development of tools for algorithmic composition which extract pitch materials from sound signals, analyzing them according to their timbral and harmonic properties, putting them into motion through diverse rhythmic and textural procedures.
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Harmonic duality: from interval ratios and pitch distance to spectra and sensory dissonance
This research derives from the development of tools for algorithmic composition which extract pitch materials from sound signals, analyzing them according to their timbral and harmonic properties, putting them into motion through diverse rhythmic and textural procedures.
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Klankwerelden - The 20th century of Reinbert de Leeuw
Worlds of sound is important for everyone who is interested in listening to music of the 20th century or for anyone involved in studying or performing contemporary music. The central question is how to interpret music in case the performer is not willing to depend on personal taste or conventions.
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Extended piano techniques : in theory, history and performance practice
Playing the piano with your forearm, plucking the strings, sawing through the piano: pianist Luk Vaes's doctoral dissertation covers all the techniques of play for which a piano is NOT designed. His defence ceremony will consist of three concerts and a public defence. 'Musicians were using the interior…
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Extended piano techniques: in theory, history and performance practice
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Composed Performers: The music-making body from a compositional perspective
Composer Paul Craenen (1972) is actually a pianist, but as part of his PhD ceremony, he performed a composition on PVC pipes. Craenen studies the position and role of the body in music. ‘I am interested in what precedes the resulting sound’.
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Early Music Beyond Authenticity
Interpretation and Composition Outside the Work Concept
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The Cognitive Continuum of Electronic Music
From The Cognitive Continuum of Electronic Music: "The use of the electronic medium to compose music entails a variety of cognitive idiosyncrasies experienced by both the artist and the audience."
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Carlos Roos Muñoz
Faculty of Humanities
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Jochanan van Driel
Faculty of Humanities
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Printed Keyboard Intabulations of Secular Vocal Works and Dances in 16th-century Italy
Understanding the nature, characteristics and function of the secular vocal intabulations and dances found in Italian printed keyboard sources in the 16th century
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Thinking through the guitar: the sound-cell-texture chain
The present study aims to establish and develop guidelines for effective use of the classical guitar’s scoring potential.
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Thinking through the guitar : the sound-cell-texture chain
Although the guitar has been part of the classical music tradition for centuries, writing for the guitar remains a formidable challenge for many composers. Where orchestral instruments have a long history of scoring guides that help composers develop their craft, the number of studies dedicated to guitar…
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The relationship between gesture, affect and rhythmic freedom in the performance of French tragic opera from Lully to Rameau
The links between gesture affect and rhythmic freedom in the performance of the tragédie en musique are explored in a number of videos.
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Discantare Super Planum Cantum- New Approaches to Vocal Polyphonic Improvisation 1300-1470
Today’s performances of medieval polyphony have a lot in common with those of other ‘classical’ or ‘early’ music. Ensembles perform pieces written by known or lesser known composers, which the listener can revisit by listening to recordings or reading a score.
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Laborinth II: denken als experiment: 472 'meditaties' over de noodzaak van het creatief denken en experimenteren in het uitvoeren van complexe
The ideas in this thesis pay tribute to the French post-structuralist philosophers Jean François Lyotard, Jacques Derrida and Gilles Deleuze & Félix Guattari. In the terms of Deleuze they are rhizomatic structures of ideas that speak about the foundation on which the interpretation of a complex, ‘unheard’…
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The cognitive continuum of electronic music
How do we experience electronic music? How does electronic music operate on perceptual, cognitive and affective levels? What are the common concepts activated in the listener’s mind when listening to electronic music? Why and how are these concepts activated?
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New Issue of the Journal of Sonic Studies
In September, the eighth issue of the Journal of Sonic Studies will be online, dealing with sounds and/from outer space.
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Ton Koopman
Faculty of Humanities
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Azure Hiptronics release single and music video 'Ocean's Edge'
Apart from his activities as coordinator of the Academy of Creative and Performing Arts, Rogier Schneemann is co-founder, guitarist and composer of the Dutch-Italian group Azure Hiptronics, originally formed in 2006.
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Between air and electricity : microphones and loudspeakers as musical instruments
This thesis investigated how microphones and loudspeakers could become musical instruments.
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Thresholds of the audible
In our culture, vocal harmonics fuction as independent musical elements since only a few decades. Thresholds of the audible explores the changing relationship between singers, listeners and harmonics.
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Multiple Paths. Towards a Performance Practice in Computer Music
This thesis proposes multiple paths towards the development of a performance practice in Computer Music.
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Albert Mooiman
Faculty of Humanities
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(De)Composing Immersion
This dissertation explores various perspectives on the term immersion, and its relation with, and transformation through, a composer’s practice.
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Multiple paths. Towards a performance practice in computer music
This research project proposes multiple paths towards the development of a performance practice in computer music. It starts with the author’s transition from traditional instrumentalist to electronic musician, assessing the roles of composer, performer and instrument builder as integrated in computer…
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Thresholds of the audible
In our culture, vocal harmonics function as independent musical elements since only a few decades. Thresholds of the audible explores the changing relationship between singers, listeners and harmonics.
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Frans Preumayr's nineteenth century virtuosic bassoon repertoire
Frans Preumayr's nineteenth century virtuosic bassoon repertoire - An approach with a fine Grenser & Wiesner bassoon from Dresden: Issues of material and technique
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Dolce Napoli: approaches for performance - Recorders for the Neapolitan Baroque repertoire, 1695-1759
This thesis examined two previously neglected topics, Baroque Italian recorders and the Neapolitan Baroque repertoire for the recorder, and then combined both aspects.
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Romanticizing Brahms: Early Recordings and the Reconstruction of Brahmsian Identity.
Anna Scott is a Canadian pianist-researcher interested in using the early twentieth century recordings of the Brahms circle of pianists to question persistent gaps between the loci of knowledge, ethics, and act in both modern mainstream and historically-informed performances of Brahms’s late piano w…
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Dolce Napoli: approaches for performance - Recorders for the Neapolitan Baroque repertoire, 1695-1759
This PhD project examined two previously neglected topics, Baroque Italian recorders and the Neapolitan Baroque repertoire for the recorder, and then combined both aspects.
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Reconstructing Nineteenth Century Improvisational Practice at the Piano
How can working with musical materials of the past influence and help shape an extemporaneous practice at the piano?
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Romanticizing Brahms: Early Recordings and the Reconstruction of Brahmsian Identity
This research project seeks to problematize understandings of Brahms's identity: by investigating the origins and vestiges of the aesthetic ideology of control; by analysing and copying the recordings of pianists in the composer's inner circle; and by applying these pianists' styles in ways that are…
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What late medieval chant manuscripts do to a present-day performer of plainchant
This book is witness to Hendrik Vanden Abeele’s research into the development, construction and creation of a present-day performance practice of late medieval plainchant, based partly on his work with the Belgian chant group Psallentes.
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Between air and electricity: microphones and loudspeakers as musical instruments
My research takes the artistic use of the devices that bring sound waves into electricity and back as its central focus point; they are commonly called microphones and loudspeakers. These devices have become essential for many forms of music making.
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The relationship between gesture, affect and rhythmic freedom in the performance of French tragic opera from Lully to Rameau
Baroque flautist Jed Wentz followed two years of dancing classes in order to develop the right feeling for the gestures required for the Baroque French opera genre ‘tragédie en musique’. In his dissertation, the links between gesture affect and rhythmic freedom in the performance of the tragédie en…
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Tactile Paths: on and through notation for improvisers
Tactile Paths is an artistic research project that aims to expand and articulate the feedback between notation and improvisation in experimental music.
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Tactile Paths: on and through notation for improvisers
How are notation and improvisation interfaced in contemporary and experimental music?
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Giovanni Girolamo Kapsperger: life and work with special attention paid to basso continuo
The thesis presents a new perspective on Giovanni Girolamo Kapsperger (ca.1580-1651), who is nowadays only famous for his works for theorbo and lute, his remarkable output of vocal music of all genres being still mostly neglected from musicologists and performers.
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What late medieval chant manuscripts do to a present-day performer of plainchant
This research project aims to investigate the development, construction and creation of a present-day performance practice of late medieval plainchant, based partly on his work with the Belgian chant group Psallentes.
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Giovanni Girolamo Kapsperger (ca. 1581 – 1651): Betrachtungen zu seinem Leben und Umfeld, seiner Vokalmusik und seinem praktischen Material zum
The research projects takes a new perspective on Giovanni Girolamo Kapsperger (ca.1580-1651), who is nowadays only famous for his works for theorbo and lute, his remarkable output of vocal music of all genres being still mostly neglected from musicologists and performers.
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Shifting Identities - The Musician as Theatrical Performer
The focus of the research lies in the approach of reducing, denying, or taking away essential elements of music making in order to let the musician become theatrical.
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Basso continuo sources from the Dutch Republic c. 1620-c. 1790
The results of this research project demonstrate the generous contribution that the Dutch Republic has made to the genre of basso continuo, including a survey of twenty-six Dutch sources from the 17th and 18th centuries.