Search for dissertations about: "Humanities Arts Musicology"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 68 swedish dissertations containing the words Humanities Arts Musicology.

2. 1. Music, mind and the serious Zappa : the passions of a virtual listener

   Author : Ulrik Volgsten; Alf Björnberg; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; affect; attunement; categorization; cognition; Daniel Stern; Donald Davidson; Eleanor Rosch; emotions; mood; ideology; imagination; metaphor; sympathy; Zappa; multimodal analysis; Musicology; musikvetenskap;

   Abstract : This dissertation argues that music is always ideological. For this thesis two lines of argument are given. The first states that music is always ideological because it requires verbal discourses about itself. The second line of argument states that music is always ideological because it influences the listener affectively. READ MORE

4. 2. Musicalized Characters : A study of music, multimodality, and the empiric child perspective on mainstream animation

   Author : Signe Kjaer Jensen; Jørgen Bruhn; Kirsten Drotner; Anahid Kassabian; Birger Langkjær; Linnéuniversitetet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Animation; music; children; interview; reception; film music; characters; audiences; multimodality; Musikvetenskap; Musicology; Film Studies; Filmvetenskap; Media and Communication Science; Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap;

   Abstract : This thesis is an audience reception study of film music and animation film. It focuses on the musical construction of characters, looking at how music becomes meaningful in film and how this meaning becomes part of child audiences' interpretation of filmic characters. READ MORE

5. 3. A Composite Modernist Composer : A Study of Intersections between Composition, Theorizing, and Performance in Olivier Messiaen

   Author : Jonas Lundblad; Johannes Brusila; Edward Campbell; Åbo Akademi University Psychology and Theology Faculty of Arts Musicology; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Olivier Messiaen; musical modernism; performance; composition; aesthetics; theory; Musikvetenskap; Musicology;

   Abstract : Different professional roles within music change over time. The evolution of modernism in twentieth century art music elevated the composer to the pinnacle of musical creativity. Accomplished modernist composers came to be regarded as intellectuals, and were expected to hold rational conceptions of their individual styles. READ MORE

6. 4. The Morality of Musical Imitation in Jean-Jacques Rousseau

   Author : Guy Dammann; King's College London; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Musikvetenskap; Musicology;

   Abstract : The thesis analyses the relation between Rousseau’s musical writings and elements of his moral, social and linguistic philosophy. In particular, I am concerned to demonstrate: (i.) how the core of Rousseau’s theory of musical imitation is grounded in the same analysis of the nature of man which governs his moral and social philosophy; (ii. READ MORE

7. 5. The Brothers Al-Kuwaity and the Iraqi Song 1930–1950

   Author : Dafna Dori; Lars Berglund; Virginia Danielson; Martin Greve; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Iraqi music; Saleh al-Kuwaity; Daud al-Kuwaity; Iraqi Jews; Iraqi Maqam; Hashemite Iraq; Baghdad; صالح الكويتي; داود الكويتي; يهود العراق; المقام العراقي; צאלח אל-כויתי; יהדות עיראק; מקאם עיראקי; האחים אל-כויתי; Musikvetenskap; Musicology;

   Abstract : The brothers Saleh al-Kuwaity صالح الكويتي (1908–1986) and Daud al-Kuwaity داود الكويتي (1910–1976) were active as performers, composers, teachers and music entrepreneurs in Baghdad between 1930 and 1950, and they continued to work after immigrating to Israel in 1951. This thesis explores the brothers’ work in Iraq, and how it was intertwined with processes of modernisation and westernisation, at a time when Iraq was forming itself as a nation-state. READ MORE