Search for dissertations about: "timbre"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 13 swedish dissertations containing the word timbre.

2. 1. Orchestrating timbre – Unfolding processes of timbre and memory in improvisational piano performance

   Author : Magdalena Mayas; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; extended timbre; improvisation; composition; inside piano; prepared piano; listening; timbral memory; spatialization; gesture; choreography; musical perception; embodied musical performance; artistic research;

   Abstract : This doctoral thesis presents how the orchestration of timbre is investigated from a performer’s perspective as means to “unfold” improvisational processes. It is grounded in my practice as a pianist in the realm of improvised music, in which I often use preparations and objects as extensions of the instrument. READ MORE

4. 2. Sound Quality of Flue Organ Pipe. An Interdisciplinary Study on the Art of Voicing

   Author : Vincent Rioux; Chalmers tekniska högskola; []
   Keywords : TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; listening tests; psychoacoustics; verbal descriptors; flue organ pipes; musical acoustics; sound quality; deterministic stochastic separation; timbre; time-frequency analysis;

   Abstract : This thesis presents a research study carried out in collaboration with a department of applied acoustics, a department of musical acoustics and an organ workshop. The description of the sound quality of flue organ pipes has received fairly little attention either in organ-building or scientific literature, despite its importance in the overall quality of the instrument, probably due to the difficulties inherent in doing so. READ MORE

5. 3. Timber and timbre : Affordances of the simple-system flute

   Author : Markus Tullberg; Lärare (Musikhögskolan); []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Simple-system flute; Affordances; Music education; Effectivities;

   Abstract : While the simple-system flute was primarily developed as a product of 19th century Western art music, it has since become established in other genres and traditions. The aim of the present study is to explore approaches towards the simple-system flute as it is used across genres and traditions today. READ MORE

6. 4. Understanding didactic strategies based on the Laban-Malmgren technique when developing the technical and musical proficiency of singers

   Author : Bo Rosenkull; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; interpretive description; Jung; Laban; Laban-Malmgren technique; Malmgren; movement and singing; participatory action research; self-study; singing technique; Stanislavski; voice pedagogy; Yat Malmgren;

   Abstract : In this thesis multiple methods were used to explore how the use of didactic strategies based on the LMT may enable a voice pedagogue to develop the technical and musical proficiency of singers who specialise in Western art music. Data for this qualitative study were collected by working with fourteen singers in South Africa and Sweden during workshops, masterclasses and individual lessons. READ MORE

7. 5. Why so different? - Aspects of voice characteristics in operatic and musical theatre singing : Aspects of voice characteristics in operatic and musical theatre singing

   Author : Eva Björkner; Anders Askenfelt; Ronald C. Scherer; KTH; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; operatic singing; musical theatre singing; voice source; subglottal pressure; flow glottogram; inverse filtering; formant frequencies; amplitude quotient AQ ; Music; Musikvetenskap;

   Abstract : This thesis addresses aspects of voice characteristics in operatic and musical theatre singing. The common aim of the studies was to identify respiratory, phonatory and resonatory characteristics accounting for salient voice timbre differences between singing styles. READ MORE