Sökning: "Western art music"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 15 avhandlingar innehållade orden Western art music.
1. Organ improvisation : Activity, action and rhetorical practice
Sammanfattning : This thesis focuses on contemporary organ improvisation in Western European musical culture. The aim of the study is to explore organists’ descriptions, constructions and definitions of improvisation in words and music, with an interest in the interaction between receptivity, creativity and change. LÄS MER
2. HÉR! An Exploration of Artistic Agency
Sammanfattning : This doctoral thesis is concerned with agency in the work of a performer, curator, and composer, and how these agencies are socio-culturally constructed. Grounded in creative practice as primary research methodology, the project builds on feedback loops between creation, analysis, and interpretation. LÄS MER
3. ”Det är ur görandet tankarna föds” – från idé till komposition : En studie av kompositionsprocesser i högre musikutbildning
Sammanfattning : “Doing gives birth to ideas”. From ideas to composition: a study of composition processes in higher music education. Recent technological developments have challenged the historical methods of composing music for acoustical instruments using traditional scores. LÄS MER
4. Wind and Wood : Affordances of Musical Instruments: The Example of the Simple-System Flute
Sammanfattning : The aim of this doctoral dissertation is to explore and describe the relationship and interaction between musicians and their instruments. In order to achieve a high level of detail, a certain instrument is in focus: the simple-system flute. LÄS MER
5. Timber and timbre : Affordances of the simple-system flute
Sammanfattning : While the simple-system flute was primarily developed as a product of 19th century Western art music, it has since become established in other genres and traditions. The aim of the present study is to explore approaches towards the simple-system flute as it is used across genres and traditions today. LÄS MER