Search for dissertations about: "musicality"

Found 3 swedish dissertations containing the word musicality.

  2. 1. Stroke Darkly the Strings : On Paul Celan and Music

    Author : Axel Englund; Anders Olsson; Jacob Derkert; Martin Zenck; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Paul Celan; music; poetry; intermediality; metaphor; modernism; Jörg Birkenkötter; Harrison Birtwistle; György Kurtág; Erhard Karkoschka; Tilo Medek; Aribert Reimann; Wolfgang Rihm; Peter Ruzicka; Literature; Litteraturvetenskap; Literature; litteraturvetenskap;

    Abstract : The aim of this study is to disclose the oeuvre of the German-Romanian Holocaust survivor Paul Celan as a site of problematic yet productive encounters between poetry and music. It addresses, on the one hand, music as a thematic and structural element in Celan’s poetry and, on the other hand, contemporary musical works interacting with this poetry. READ MORE

  4. 2. Do Satyrs Wear Sneakers? : Hellenic Polytheism and the Reception of Antiquity in Contemporary Greece – a study in serious play

    Author : Tao Thykier Makeeff; Religionshistoria och religionsbeteendevetenskap; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Antiquity; Ancient Greece; Contemporary Hellenic Pol ytheism; Contemporary Paganism; Greece; Ludic Theory; Native Faith Movem ents; New Religions; Play; Rece ption Studies; Ritual Studies;

    Abstract : This dissertation investigates the reception of ancient Greek religion (and to some extent also renaissance Platonism) among contemporary Pagans in Greece - a phenomenon the author refers to as contemporary Hellenic polytheism. The study looks at how and why historical narratives and notions of Hellenicity are constructed by contemporary Hellenic polytheists. READ MORE

  5. 3. Tracking selective attention in a musical cocktail

    Author : Cassia Low Manting; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
    Keywords : ;

    Abstract : The cocktail party effect refers to mankind’s ability to focus attention on a single sound within noisy or complex auditory environments, in order to extract the most behaviourally-relevant information present. To investigate this cognitive phenomenon in a precise manner, we used frequency-tagging to separate neural auditory steady-state responses (ASSRs), which are specific to the driving frequency of each auditory source, from a neural mix elicited by multiple simultaneous stimuli. READ MORE