Search for dissertations about: "stylistic analysis"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 23 swedish dissertations containing the words stylistic analysis.

  2. 6. The acoustics and performance of DJ scratching, Analysis and modelling

    Author : Kjetil Falkenberg Hansen; Roberto Bresin; Rolf Inge Godöy; KTH; []
    Keywords : TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; LANTBRUKSVETENSKAPER; AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES; NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; Acoustics; Akustik; Other veterinary medicine; Övrig veterinärmedicin; scratching;

    Abstract : This thesis focuses on the analysis and modeling of scratching, in other words, the DJ (disk jockey) practice of using the turntable as a musical instrument. There has been experimental use of turntables as musical instruments since their invention, but the use is now mainly ascribed to the musical genre hip-hop and the playing style known as scratching. READ MORE

  4. 7. 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

  5. 8. Zhou Chen : the life and paintings of a Ming professional artist

    Author : Mette Siggstedt; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES;

    Abstract : Zhou Chen played a major role in the development of professional painting in Suzhou during middle Ming. The thesis presents Zhou’s biography, focussing on his relations to his contemporaries and on the conditions of professional artists in general. READ MORE

  6. 9. The object markers ba and jiang in modern literary Chinese

    Author : Wai-Ling Ragvald; Kinesiska; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; literary Chinese; South-East China; object marker; jiang; ba; instrumental; disposal construction; pattern; action verbs; style; euphony; four character phrase; Mandarin; tradition; Cantonese; Minnan dialect; Hakka; East and Central China; North China; Taiwan; Hong Kong;

    Abstract : Modern standard written Chinese has two common object markers, 把 ba and 将 jiang, both of which mark a direct object preceding the verb. Both markers appear to have been widely used in the spoken language of the Tang dynasty but the actual distribution is not entirely clear. READ MORE

  7. 10. Early Discourses on Colour and Cinema : Origins, Functions, Meanings

    Author : Eirik Frisvold Hanssen; Astrid Söderbergh Widding; Eva Jørholt; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; colour film; film history; film theory; film technology; film aesthetics; indexicality; intermediality; colour and sound; catalogue; Kinemacolor; Sergei M. Eisenstein; Film; Filmvetenskap;

    Abstract : This dissertation is a historical and theoretical study of a number of discourses examining colour and cinema during the period 1909 to 1935 (trade press, film reviews, publications on film technology, manuals, catalogues and theoretical texts from the era). In this study, colour in cinema is considered as producing a number of aesthetic and representational questions which are contextualised historically; problems and qualities specifically associated with colour film are examined in terms of an interrelationship between historical, technical, industrial, and stylistic factors, as well as specific contemporary conceptions of cinema. READ MORE