Search for dissertations about: "Musikvetenskap"

Showing result 21 - 25 of 69 swedish dissertations containing the word Musikvetenskap.

  2. 21. The Tonus Peregrinus in the Polyphony of the Western Church

    Author : Mattias Lundberg; Michael Talbot; John Harper; University of Liverpool School of Music; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Music; Musikvetenskap; Musikvetenskap; Musicology;

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  4. 22. 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

  5. 23. Mechanics and acoustics of violin bowing : Freedom, constraints and control in performance

    Author : Erwin Schoonderwaldt; Anders Askenfelt; Knut Guettler; Jim Woodhouse; KTH; []
    Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; bow-string interaction; bowed string; violin playing; motion capture; bowing parameters; performance control; Other physics; Övrig fysik; Music; Musikvetenskap;

    Abstract : This thesis addresses sound production in bowed-string instruments from two perspectives: the physics of the bowed string, and bow control in performance. Violin performance is characterized by an intimate connection between the player and the instrument, allowing for a continuous control of the sound via the main bowing parameters (bow velocity, bow force and bow-bridge distance), but imposing constraints as well. READ MORE

  6. 24. Lusus Poeticus vel Musicus : Johann Sebastian Bach, the Baroque Paragram and Friedrich Smend's Number Alphabet Theory

    Author : Ruth Tatlow; Arnold Whittall; London university; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Bach; Number alphabet; Germanistics; Baroque literature; Music; Musikvetenskap; Musikvetenskap; Musicology; Idé- och lärdomshistoria; History of Sciences and Ideas;

    Abstract : The starting point of this investigation was Friedrich Smend's number alphabet theory. Contrary to current trends in the analysis of Bach's music, Friedrich Smend used an eighteenth-century technique to understand eighteenth century music. READ MORE

  7. 25. 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