Search for dissertations about: "Contemporary Swedish music"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 17 swedish dissertations containing the words Contemporary Swedish music.

  2. 1. The Printed Score as a Mediator of Musical Meaning Approaches to Music Notation in Western tonal music

    Author : Cecilia Hultberg; Musikhögskolan i Malmö; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; notation as a cultural tool; music notation; music teachers’ education; instrumental training; apprentice education; teaching; Western tonal music; learning; musical literacy; agreed; Social sciences; Samhällsvetenskaper;

    Abstract : Abstract Centering on notation is a characteristic of Western tonal music. The printed scores are expected to provide the necessary information on musical expression. In this study, strategically selected contemporary musicians’ ways of under-standing the printed scores are investigated. READ MORE

  4. 2. Becoming Cyborg Composer : The Ecology of Digital Music Composition Didaktik

    Author : Jonas Asplund; Ketil Thorgersen; Cecilia Ferm Almqvist; Cecilia Wallerstedt; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Music education; Music composition; Digitalisation; Posthumanism; Didaktik; ämnesdidaktik med inriktning mot de estetiska ämnenas didaktik; Teaching and Learning with Specialisation in the Arts Education;

    Abstract : The aim of this licentiate thesis is to explore the sociomaterial relationality of music composition education with digital hardware/software and its outcomes. Two studies were conducted interleaved as original articles in the thesis. READ MORE

  5. 3. Organ improvisation : Activity, action and rhetorical practice

    Author : Karin Johansson; Musikhögskolan i Malmö; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Rhetorical practice; Cultural-historical activity theory; Higher music education; Western art music; Discursive practices; Organ improvisation;

    Abstract : 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. READ MORE

  6. 4. The geographies of Swedish musicians’ work practices : How, when and where Swedish musicians perform work and creativity in the contemporary popular music industry

    Author : Jimi Nilsson; Johan Jansson; Jenny Sjöholm; Brian Hracs; Thomas Florén; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Knowledge communities; social networks; music industry; music geographies; temporary clusters; Social and Economic Geography; Kulturgeografi;

    Abstract : Over the recent years, technological changes in the music industry have altered the geography of music production and non-creative music work. Progress in information and communication technology has lead to decreasing revenues from record sales, which in turn has affected traditional income models for musicians, in particular income from record sales. READ MORE

  7. 5. Making music together : An interactionist perspective on small-group performance in jazz

    Author : Peter Reinholdsson; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Musicology; small-group contexts; jazz performers; face-to-face relationships; interactionist perspective; bricolage; emics; etics; field-recorded materials; regular quintet; ad-hoc trio; Musikvetenskap; Music; Musikvetenskap; Musicology; Musikvetenskap;

    Abstract : This dissertation investigates and discusses music-making among players in contemporary small-group contexts in the world of jazz performance. It focuses on how jazz performers symbolically create meanings in their consciousnesses sociomusically and sociovisuaily in face-to-face playing situations which continuously flow into one another. READ MORE