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Prozzillo, Nicholas Stefano. "Organ reform in England : aesthetics and polemics, 1901-1965." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2011. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:edc38b39-1749-49b6-b35f-1493f605e7e0.
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This thesis examines organ reform in England between 1901 and 1965, an arena of practical music-making and intellectual and ideological debates in which a number of related practices surrounding the English organ – notably its scholarship, aesthetics of design, liturgical functions, native and foreign repertoires, including J. S. Bach’s organ music – played a central role in transforming the sound, design, and appearance of the instrument. Whilst influential musicians asserted that the English organ of the first half of the twentieth century was a great work of art, and survived in what could be termed ‘splendid isolation’ from Continental models, others contended that it lacked a logical relationship with more than a home-grown repertory. However, supporters of the English organ claimed that technological and tonal improvements made it the most perfect medium for Bach performance. It was a renewed interest in historical organs and repertory that exposed the limitations of cultural centrism, pointing to the English organ’s weakness as a point of departure for understanding its European repertory. This insistence paved the way for an enthusiastic reception of other organs, which, through their construction and new tonal qualities, won the favour of musicians who had found the English organ too limited and focused on a particular culture. The thesis allows historical actors to populate the discourse, revealing the diverse practices out of which a quest for reform emerged. As such the organ provides a fascinating and preliminary rehearsal case for what in the 1970s and 80s would be termed the early music revival.
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Parry, Simon Halsall. "Why should the Devil have all the best tunes? : 20th century popular- and folk-style church music in England." Thesis, University of Liverpool, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.369112.
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Bray, Michael Robert. "The liturgical canticle settings for chorus and organ of Ralph Vaughan Williams." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/186253.
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Within the sacred choral music of composer Ralph Vaughan Williams, little is known regarding his subset of works intended for liturgical use. This study focuses on the canticle settings for choir and organ, written by Ralph Vaughan Williams for use in Anglican Worship. The compositions in this study include: Magnificat and Nunc dimittis (Village Service), Te Deum in G, Service in D Minor and Te Deum and Benedictus. This study provides a discussion of the structure and history of the Anglican service and a description of how canticle settings traditionally function in liturgical worship. Each work in this study is analyzed with particular attention given to form and structure, harmonic language, text derivation and declamation, melodic tendencies and the role of the organ accompaniment. Evidence gathered from this study demonstrates that, although the liturgical canticle settings for choir and organ are diverse in function and style, they contain many common characteristics in such compositional areas as: structural form, voicings, consistent use of thematic material, and the effective application of text to music. Suggestions for performance options of the settings are also included in the results of this study. It is hoped that, through differentiating between these works with regard to function and style, this study will help close the lacuna in the choral literature concerning Vaughan Williams' smaller liturgical works and serve as an introduction to modern choral conductors.
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Hopwood, Paul Andrew. "Frank Bridge and the English pastoral tradition." University of Western Australia. School of Music, 2007. http://theses.library.uwa.edu.au/adt-WU2008.0017.
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This study's thesis is that instances of pastoralism in the works of Frank Bridge from 1914 to 1930 demonstrate a gradual darkening of his pastoral vision, and evince his increasingly complex relationship with the genre of pastoral music that flourished in English music in the early twentieth century (referred to in this study as 'the English pastoral tradition'). The study traces the change from the sensual and romantic idyll of Summer (1914-15), through progressively more ambiguous and darker manifestations of pastoral, and eventually to a bleak anti-pastoral vision in Oration (1930). This trend reflects Bridge's increasingly ambivalent relationship with the English musical establishment, his own radical change of musical language during these years, and significant changes in his personal circumstances. It also reflects the decline of romanticism and the rise of modernism in English music, a paradigm-shift that happened around the time of World War I, considerably later than in the music, literature and visual art of continental Europe. Chapters 1 to 3 examine the English pastoral tradition from three different contexts. Chapter 1 suggests that the English pastoral tradition may be understood as a genre, and describes a number of 'family resemblances' that run through and characterise it. Second, the English pastoral tradition is placed in the context of pastoral art from Classical times to the twentieth century, with a focus on pastoral in English literature. Finally, chapter 3 examines the social and cultural context of the English pastoral tradition and explores resonances between English society in the early twentieth century and the meaningstructures that underpin pastoral. The remaining chapters comprise a series of analytical discussions of six of Frank Bridge's works: Summer (1914-5), the first of the Two Poems (1915), Enter Spring (1926-7), There is a willow grows aslant a brook (1927), Rhapsody-Trio (1928) and Oration (1930). While a variety of analytical techniques are employed, the approach is broadly semiotic and focussed on musical meaning. Each analysis traces the relationships between signifying structures in the works and various musical and non-musical strands of the contextualising cultural discourse. As a result the works become the starting points for relatively wide-ranging discussions in which pastoralism in the music of Frank Bridge is understood as a site at which ideas of English nationalism and international modernism engaged with one another. Frank Bridge's place in this discourse, as revealed in the analyses of his works, becomes increasingly ambivalent and modernist.
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Bagley, Paul Michael. "Mysticism in 20th and 21st century violin music." Thesis, University of Maryland, College Park, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3643907.
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<p> “Mysticism,” according to the Oxford dictionary, can be defined as “belief in or devotion to the spiritual apprehension of truths inaccessible to the intellect.” More generally, it applies to the aspects of spirituality and religion that can only be directly experienced, rather than described or learned. This dissertation examines how mysticism fits into the aesthetic, compositional, and musical philosophies of four prominent composers of the 20<sup>th</sup> and 21<sup>st</sup> centuries—Ernest Bloch, Olivier Messiaen, Sophia Gubaidulina, and John Zorn, with a cameo by the Jewish composer David Finko—and how their engagement with the concept of mysticism and the mystical experience can be seen in a selection of their works featuring the violin: Bloch's <i>Baal Shem</i> suite and <i>Poème mystique</i>; Finko's <i>Lamentations of Jeremiah,</i> Zorn's <i>Kol Nidre,</i> <i>Goetia,</i> <i> All Hallow's Eve,</i> and <i>Amour fou</i>; Gubaidulina's <i> In tempus praesens</i>; and Messiaen's <i>Quartet for the End of Time.</i> These works exemplify the mysticism shared by these composers, despite their different religious and cultural backgrounds, particularly their belief in the transcendental nature of music. This belief is expressed in their works through programmatic, melodic, harmonic, rhythmic, and formal elements, all of which display, to a greater or lesser degree, the influence of mystical philosophy and symbolism.</p>
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Tsurtsumia, Rusudan. "The Value Orientation of 20th-Century Georgian Music." Bärenreiter Verlag, 2012. https://slub.qucosa.de/id/qucosa%3A72008.
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Hocking, Rachel School of Music & Music Education UNSW. "Crafting connections: original music for the dance in Australia, 1960-2000." Awarded by:University of New South Wales. School of Music and Music Education, 2006. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/27289.
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This thesis documents the artistic connections made between composers and choreographers in Australia during the period 1960-2000. These 40 years saw a growth in the establishment of dance companies, resulting in many opportunities for composers to write original music for original dance works. The findings of original dance-music are tabulated in an extensive database giving details of 208 composers and over 550 music compositions written specifically for dance. Examples of choreographer and composer collaborative relationships and attitudes to each other???s artforms are discussed. Further examination of how these relationships have affected the sound of the music is detailed in four case studies. These concern the works The Display (music by Malcolm Williamson, choreography by Robert Helpmann, 1964), Poppy (music by Carl Vine, choreography by Graeme Murphy, 1978), Ochres (music by David Page, choreography by Stephen Page, 1994), and Fair Exchanges (music by Warren Burt and Ros Bandt, choreography by Shona Innes, 1989). These case studies look at dancemusic collaborated in different styles: ballet, modern dance, dance-theatre and experimental dance. This discussion is carried out through the analysis of the context of the collaborative relationships, and the temporal and interpretive aspects of the original dance-music. It is found through the investigation of collaborative relationships and discussion of these case studies, that similar methods of writing are used when composing music for theatrical dance, regardless of the type of dance. These methods show that composers have intentionally crafted scores that fulfil needs in the dance works and that are suited to choreographers??? intentions. Importantly, it is also found that involvement with dance has influenced some composers??? styles, aided musical innovation and added significantly to the corpus of Australian music.
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Bernier, Kiyono Monique. "Disparate measures: Two 20th century treatments of the Paganini theme." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/284086.
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This study investigates the significance of the Paganini theme and variation sets composed by two living composers, Neils Viggo Bentzon and Robert Muczynski. The popularity of the theme and variation form gradually spread to the keyboard repertoire first as entertainment for both courtly and bourgeois audiences, and later as a means of technical display for performing piano virtuosi. Paganini's twenty-fourth Caprice from Op.1 for solo violin is the basis for sets of variations for solo piano by three major pianist-composers: Liszt, Brahms, and Busoni. Bentzon and Muczynski follow in this tradition, constructing their variations on the Paganini theme as a showcase of their individual compositional language and skill. The body of the document will be a discussion of their contrasting treatments of the immortal theme as demonstrated through their choices of melody, sonority, texture, rhythm, register, and form. Bentzon's and Muczynski's theme and variation sets constitute compositional achievements in piano literature that deserve a place alongside previous outstanding models that are an important part of the standard repertory.
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Reeh, Tina Alice Bonne. "The Church of England and Britain's Cold War, 1937-1948." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2015. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:2c197863-2037-4cf9-af48-590f5694abea.
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The thesis deals with Britain's early Cold War history and the political history of the Church of England. It mainly uses primary sources, and contributes to our growing understanding of the early Cold War, especially in its cultural/religious elements. It explores how the Church of England dealt with the development of the early Cold War in Britain. It argues that in order to understand better the Church of England's role, an account of its perspective on issues of state modernisation dating back to at least the 1930s is necessary. It was then, during a decade of authoritarianism, and especially at the Oxford Conference of 1937, that the Church' standpoint towards secularisation was established, while the transnational agenda of the ecumenical movement was also adopted and internalized by Church of England. The thesis also examines the agencies which it built and worked with: in particular the British Council of Churches and the World Council of Churches. As the Church is the Established Church, its relationship with specific government agencies, especially the British Foreign Office and the Ministry of Information also became increasingly important. The thesis reveals the Church of England's lack of autonomy in time of crisis and the importance of key individuals for the institutional leadership of the Church. Its ecumenical agenda had played an important role, but this was under pressure after the War, as a Europe-wide Christian community was increasingly challenged by 'Western Union' plans for a Cold War Western, Christian community and bloc. By 1948 the Church had been enrolled in the Cold War between East and West which was apparent in its alignment with British government policies and its withdrawn role in the ecumenical community. The thesis adds to our understanding of the Church of England's relationship to the state in these years, and contributes to the cultural dimension of the early Cold War in Britain.
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Strahle, Graham. "Fantasy and music in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England /." Title page, contents and abstract only, 1987. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09PH/09phs896.pdf.
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Bentley, Eileen. "Music in schools in England during the twentieth century." Thesis, University of Manchester, 1989. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.561210.
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This thesis traces the development of music in the school curriculum this century, with particular reference to the maintained sector of education. It demonstrates how the subject has expanded from being an activity almost exclusively concerned with the singing of songs, to become a discipline, which by the 1980's embraced instrumental work, musical appreciation, creative music making, examination work and electronic music. This research examines the process of development from the early days of the 20th Century when singing was the most important feature of school music. The significance of singing in school music lessons has been consistently acknowledged throughout the century by music educators, although as the years progressed the acquisition of other musical skills was considered essential. The work traces the gradual introduction of percussion bands, and eurhythmics during the early years of the century, a shifting emphasis to the appreciation movement in the 1930"s and the introduction of the radio and gramophone during this period. After 1944 instrumental tuition in schools became increasingly popular and during the 1950's and 1960's the emphasis again moved and focused on the developing creativity movement. During the 1970's and 1980's a number of current issues evolve and the impact of technology, G. C. S. E., the National Curriculum and the 1988 Education Act is examined. Thus can be seen the expansion of curriculum music this century and the way in which at various stages of this development different aspects of class music assumed greater or lesser significance. Despite this development, school'music has had apparent low esteem in many schools and has usually been amongst the first subjects to be sacrificed in order to make way for more academic areas of the curriculum. Any esteem which music has gained, has often been associated with extra curricular work either within school or at Masic Centres, and the growth of such musical activities has been considerable throughout the 20th Century. The thesis seeks to ask and answer a number of questions. Why has music had low esteem? Why has it so often suffered as a curriculum subject? How have various developments in our understanding of the learning process influenced music in the curriculum? What has been the impact of various Reports throughout the century and how have they viewed the importance of music as a curriculum subject? What has been the impact of certain educators in music this century? What has been the impact of the development of instrumental services and music centres during recent years? It is not within the scope of this work to examine music in the Private Sector or in specialist schools for children showing exceptional musical ability.
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Kane, Mike. "A consideration of modes of dissonance in 20th-century music." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp01/MQ59180.pdf.
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Milin, Melita. "The National Idea in Serbian Music of the 20th Century." Gudrun Schröder, 2004. https://ul.qucosa.de/id/qucosa%3A21226.
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If there was but one important issue to be highlighted concerning
Serbian music of the 20th century, it would certainly be the question
of musical nationalism. As in all other countries belonging to the
so-called European periphery, composers in Serbia faced the problem
of asserting both their belonging to the European musical community
and specific differences. The former had to be displayed by
their musical craftmanship and creative individuality, while the latter
were conveyed through the introduction of native folk elements
as tokens of a specific identity.
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Ouyang, Yiwen. "Westernisation, ideology and national identity in 20th-century Chinese music." Thesis, Royal Holloway, University of London, 2012. http://repository.royalholloway.ac.uk/items/8f19c444-ee12-c022-d86c-879118683355/7/.
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The twentieth century saw the spread of Western art music across the world as Western ideology and values acquired increasing dominance in the global order. How did this process occur in China, what complexities does it display and what are its distinctive features? This thesis aims to provide a detailed and coherent understanding of the Westernisation of Chinese music in the 20th century, focusing on the ever-changing relationship between music and social ideology and the rise and evolution of national identity as expressed in music. This thesis views these issues through three crucial stages: the early period of the 20th century which witnessed the transition of Chinese society from an empire to a republic and included China's early modernisation; the era from the 1930s to 1940s comprising the Japanese intrusion and the rising of the Communist power; and the decades of economic and social reform from 1978 onwards. The thesis intertwines the concrete analysis of particular pieces of music with social context and demonstrates previously overlooked relationships between these stages. It also seeks to illustrate in the context of the appropriation of Western art music how certain concepts acquired new meanings in their translation from the European to the Chinese context, for example modernity, Marxism, colonialism, nationalism, tradition, liberalism, and so on.
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Leung, Tai-wai David. "Memory, aesthetics and musical quotation four case studies in 20th century music /." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2008. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/HKUTO/record/B39733919.
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Hume, James Cameron. "The Chapel Royal partbooks in eighteenth-century England." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2013. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/the-chapel-royal-partbooks-in-eighteenthcentury-england(18b3a468-67ea-42b8-a9a1-1aa51505d33f).html.
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This thesis provides a comprehensive source study of the eighteenth-century Chapel Royal partbooks (London, British Library R.M.27.a–d). The 56 manuscript volumes in this collection, which are now catalogued into four groups (or ‘sets’), were used in the daily choral services at St James’s Palace during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The sources have a complex history since they have an ‘organic’ quality whereby the books continued to be copied into and altered whilst they were in regular use. The first part of the thesis (chapters two to six) examines the physical characteristics of the manuscripts by considering the books’ construction, the traits of the copyists, and the way material was gradually added. Paper and scribal analysis, as well as general cataloguing work, are used to identify the contents and explore the layers of copying. The second part of the thesis (chapters seven and eight) looks at the function of the books and considers the collection within its eighteenth-century context. Documentary sources are considered alongside various elements of the books to establish how the partbooks were used in performance. The Chapel’s method of partbook organisation is then compared with the organisation of similar collections at other choral foundations (including those with which the Chapel had strong connections).
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Tisdall, Laura Alison. "Teachers, teaching practice and conceptions of childhood in England and Wales, 1931-1967." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2015. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.708670.
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You, Xuesheng. "Women's employment in England and Wales, 1851-1911." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2015. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/283968.
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Ohki, Hitomi. "American Poet Emily Dickinson Set to Music by 20th Century Composers." Thesis, Kungl. Musikhögskolan, Institutionen för klassisk musik, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kmh:diva-3869.
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When singers perform art songs, how many of them, especially students, learn about the poem and poet behind the lyrics? It might be that a number of singers focus on composers, however not poets. Even in concert programs, it is common to only write the composer’s name. I am one of the singers that has learned lyrics in the last minute before a concert or an examination. I will experiment with changing my learning process and see if that makes any difference when performing the art song. The purpose of this study is also to focus on the poet Emily Dickinson. Furthermore, to find out about the music of composers from the 20th century onwards using Dickinson’s poems. I choose Aaron Copland’s song cycle “Twelve Poems of Emily Dickinson”. Finally, I will perform the work and demonstrate if there is a difference in the singing interpretation by studying not only the music but also the poems behind the lyrics. “Who is Emily Dickinson?” The study explores this question first. After researching 100 songs using her poems, I chose three composers, Aaron Copland, Libby Larsen and Niccolò Castiglioni. Thereafter, “Bind me - I can still sing” of Larsen and “Dickinson-Lieder” of Castiglioni is mentioned. Furthermore, the song cycle “Twelve Poems of Emily Dickinson” by Copland is analyzed deeply to find out more about the piece and why the composer was inspired by Dickinson. It was discovered that one is able to understand the piece deeply, knowing not only about the life of the composer, but also the poet leads to a better understanding of the work. From the singer’s point of view, the level of expression and singing performance has improved after researching the poet Emily Dickinson. The study concludes knowing deeply about the poet that there is no doubt how important the poem is when understanding and interpreting art song.<br><p>Soprano: Hitomi Ohki</p><p>Piano: Anders Kilström</p><p></p><p>Aaron Copland (1900-1990)</p><p>Twelve Poems of Emily Dickonson</p><p>1, Nature, the gentlest mother</p><p>2, There came a wind like a bugle</p><p>3, Why do they shut me out of Heaven?</p><p>4, The world feels dusty</p><p>5, Heart, we will forget him!</p><p>6, Dear March, come in!</p><p>7, Sleep is supposed to be</p><p>8, When they come back</p><p>9, I felt a funeral in my brain</p><p>10, I've heard an organ talk sometimes</p><p>11, Going to Heaven!</p><p>12, The Chariot</p>
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Dennehy, Anne. "Keeping mum : the condition of working class women in late 20th century England." Thesis, University of Bristol, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.265304.
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Brindle, Patrick. "Past histories : history and the elementary school classroom in early 20th century England." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1998. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/272284.
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Leung, Tai-wai David, and 梁大偉. "Memory, aesthetics and musical quotation: four case studies in 20th century music." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2008. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B39733919.
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Munk, James N. "Agency, physicality, space : analytical approaches to contemporary Nordic concertos." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2011. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:d4c79a2a-0836-4921-b33c-9a3fd2aa0f8a.
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The concerto enjoys a position of centrality within the oeuvres of many contemporary Nordic composers: the genre often functions as a vehicle for the exploration of advanced compositional techniques and aesthetic preoccupations, and the resulting works are well-represented on recordings and in the concert hall. Yet this repertory has largely been neglected in scholarship. Through detailed analysis of works by Per Nørgård, Kaija Saariaho, Magnus Lindberg, and Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen, this thesis develops analytical technologies for a genre which has received less musicological attention than it deserves. Placing a particular emphasis on the theatrical aspects of concerto performance, the project explores the application of three lines of enquiry, each of which has been theorised in some detail: agency (Cone, Maus, Cumming), physicality (Clarke, Cox, Larson), and space (Brower, Williams). Each of these lines of enquiry has been directed at the concerto sporadically, if at all – even though concertos make particularly compelling and potentially enriching case studies for the theoretical models in question. This thesis represents the first sustained attempt to explore the concerto with reference to these bodies of literature. The analytical models developed have wider applicability, to concertos both within and without the Nordic arena. I draw attention at numerous points to ways in which they can illuminate works by Ligeti, Birtwistle, Musgrave, Berio, and Lutosƚawski, among others. The project also has wider implications for our understandings of Nordic identity, virtuosity, and musical modernism at the turn of the twenty-first century.
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Danziger, Renée. "Dimensions of powerlessness : a study of agricultural workers in post-war England." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1986. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:543a07f7-a9eb-46f0-83ea-166c638ec7b9.
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This inquiry into the nature of political powerlessness begins with a definition which posits that Q is politically powerless to the extent that it is unable to promote and defend its interests within authoritative processes of value allocation. Political powerlessness is said to derive from Q's lack of relevant power resources; and from T's exploitation of this deficiency through its exercise of power over Q. Contrary to pluralist assumptions, it is argued that T may exercise political power over Q both within and beyond formal arenas of value allocation: the determining factor is not where political power is exercised, but rather that it prevents Q from satisfying its interests within these authoritative arenas. The above hypotheses are tested for their validity and utility by being applied to the experiences of the post-war agricultural work force in England. In particular, the study asks whether farmworkers' workplace powerlessness, as identified by Howard Newby in 'The Deferential Worker' (Penguin, Harmondsworth, 1979), has been compensated for by their Union's promotion and defence of agricultural workers' occupational interests at the formal, political level. Part One provides a theoretical, historical and descriptive setting for the empirical study. Part Two determines the extent to which the efforts of the Union and of its external political allies to influence the relevant value allocating institutions have resulted in the successful promotion and defence of farmworkers' objective interests. These interests are defined as: earning high wages (Chapter Four); living in housing which is independent from employment (Chapter Five); and ensuring a reasonable standard of occupational health and safety (Chapter Six). The study shows that the farmworkers' Union has been largely unable to compensate for its members' industrial weakness by taking political action. The Union's political powerlessness is attributed chiefly to its lack of relevant power resources; and to its resulting vulnerability to power exercises both within and beyond the formal political arena, all of which have weakened the Union within that arena. It is suggested finally that the Union's recent merger with the Transport and General Workers' Union provides farmworkers with access to new power resources which may allow for greater success in the future promotion of farmworkers' occupational interests.
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Abernethy, Simon Thomas. "Class, gender, and commuting in greater London, 1880-1940." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2016. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.709477.
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Bryder, Linda. "The problem of tuberculosis in England and Wales, 1900-1950." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1985. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.670406.
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Kelly, Caleb, and n/a. "Cracked and Broken Media in 20th and 21st Century Music and Sound." University of Canberra. Creative Communication, 2007. http://erl.canberra.edu.au./public/adt-AUC20070601.135617.
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From the mid 20th century into the 21st, artists and musicians manipulated,
cracked and broke audio media technologies to produce novel, unique and
indeterminate sounds and performances. Artists such as John Cage, Nam June
Paik, Milian Kn��k, Christian Marclay, Yasunao Tone, Oval and Otomo
Yoshihide pulled apart the technologies of music playback, both the playback
devices � phonographs and CD players � and the recorded media � vinyl records
and Compact Discs. Based in the sound expansion of the 20th century musical
avant garde, this practice connects the interdisciplinary Fluxus movement with
late 20th century sound art and experimental electronic music. Cracked and
broken media techniques play a significant role in 20th century music and sound,
and continue to be productive into the 21st. The primary contribution of this
thesis is to provide a novel and detailed historical account of these practices. In
addition it considers theoretical approaches to this work. After considering
approaches through critiques of recording media, and concepts of noise, this
thesis proposes novel theorisations focusing on materiality and the everyday.
Ultimately it proposes that these practices can be read as precursors to
contemporary new media, as music and sound art cracked open the fixed
structures of �old media� technologies for their own creative purposes.
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Papanikolaou, Dimitris. "Singing poets : literature and popular music in France and Greece /." London : Legenda, 2007. http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&doc_number=016510046&line_number=0002&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA.
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Wardhaugh, Benjamin. "Mathematical and mechanical studies of music in late seventeenth-century England." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.439685.
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Dino, Rose M. "Contemporary ties: wedding 20th-century musical theatre to opera using the same source material." Diss., University of Iowa, 2019. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/6724.
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Daigle, Paulin. "Les fonctions harmoniques et formelles de la technique 5-6 à plusieurs niveaux de structure dans la musique tonale /." Thesis, McGill University, 1999. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=35996.
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This research constitutes a detailed study of 5 - 6 voice-leading technique that is often found in music - theoretical literature and in the tonal repertoire. The study aims to prove that this technique is an essential theoretical and analytical concept for understanding the evolution of tonal music.<br>The first part of this study examines concepts and descriptions of 5 - 6 technique as they appear in the theoretical literature of the eigthteenth and nineteenth centuries and in the writings of Heinrich Schenker and the modern Schenkerian school. The descriptions of 5 - 6 technique in earlier conterpoint, figured-bass and harmony treatises led Schenker and his disciples to place the technique in a much broader context, though even they do not always grasp the full implications of their procedures.<br>In the light of William Caplin's recent theory of formal functions, (Caplin 1985; 1998), the second part of the thesis in a substantial selection of musical excerpts from the eighteenth through the early twentieth centuries, demonstrates that 5 - 6 technique as a contrapuntal analatycal concept, provides an effective model for understanding the development of chromaticism and the extension of the tonal language at multiple structural levels.
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Trochimczyk, Maja. "Space and spatialization in contemporary music : history and analysis, ideas and implementations." Thesis, McGill University, 1994. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=116333.
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Note: Pages have been removed from this digital copy due to copyright restrictions. A print copy is available in the McGill Library.<br>This dissertation presents the history of space in the musical thought of the 2Othcentury (from Kurth to Clifton, from Varèse to Xenakis) and outlines the development of spatialization in the theory and practice of contenlporary music (after 1950). The text emphasizes perceptual and temporal aspects of musical spatiality, thus reflecting the close connection of space and time in human experience. A new definition of spatialization draws from Ingarden’s notion of the musical work; a new typology of spatial designs embraces music for different acoustic environments, movements of performers and audiences, various positions of musicians in space, etc. The study of spatialization includes a survey of the writings of many composers (e.g. Ives, Boulez, Stockhausen, Cage) and an examination of their compositions. The final part of the dissertation presents three approaches to spatialization: Brant’ s simultaneity of sound layers, Xenakis’s movement of sound, and Schafer’s music of ritual and soundscape.<br>Cette thèse présente l’histoire de l’espace dans la pensée musicale du vingtième siècle (de Kurth à Clifton, de Varèse à Xenakis) et retrace le développement de la spatialisation dans la théorie et la pratique de la musique contemporaine (après 1950). Le texte souligne les aspects perceptuels et temporels de la spatialisation musicale, reflétant ainsi le lien étroit entre temps et espace t!ans l’expérience humaine. Une nouvelle définition de la spatialisation tire son origine de la notion de l’oeuvre musicale d’Ingarden; une nouvelle typologie des plans spatiaux prend en considération des musiques pour différents environnements acoustiques, diverses positions des musiciens dans l’espace de même que le mouvement de ceux-ci et des auditeurs, etc. L’étude de la spatialisation inclut un survol des écrits de plusieurs compositeurs (Ives, Stockhausen, Boulez et Cage, par exemple) de même qu’un examen de leurs oeuvres. La dernière partie de la thèse présente trois approches compositionnelles de la spatialisation: la simultanéité de strates sonores ,:hez Brant, le mouvement du son chez Xenakis et la musique du rituel et l’écologie sonore chez Schafer.
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Leitão, Simone Azevedo. "Heitor Villa-Lobos's Mômoprecóce Fantasy for Piano and Orchestra (1919-1929): An Historical, Stylistic, and Interpretative Study." Scholarly Repository, 2009. http://scholarlyrepository.miami.edu/oa_dissertations/328.
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The life and works of the Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887-1959) have been well documented. However, a comprehensive study concerning any of his nine works for piano and orchestra has not been undertaken. Among this prolific output, the Mômoprecóce, fantasie pour piano et orchestra, stands as a faithful representation of the composer's skillful orchestration, descriptive piano writing through the observation of a childhood universe, and his multi-faceted approach to nationalism. The fantasy is a through-composed arrangement of a previous solo piano suite by Villa-Lobos entitled, Carnaval das crianças brasileiras (Brazilian Children's Carnival, 1919). This research aims to investigate the historic, stylistic, and interpretative aspects of Mômoprecóce, while discussing the composer's unique usage of the piano through his innovative compositional techniques and comparison of the fantasy with his original solo piano suite. Current literature in English, Portuguese and French is thoroughly examined, discussed, evaluated, and cited. In addition I provide a formal analysis, an interpretative guide, and a sociological perspective into Brazilian carnival, as specifically applied to the performance of Mômoprecóce.
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Lloyd, Johannah M. "The province of art : the aesthetic in the advent of modernism to London, 1910-1914." Thesis, McGill University, 1987. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=63769.
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Hands, Rachel M. "The Nature and Value of Accessibility in Western Art-Music, 1950-1970." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1236091441.
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Helyard, Erin. "Muzio Clementi, difficult music, and cultural ideology in late eighteenth-century England." Thesis, McGill University, 2012. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=106325.
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This dissertation takes as its historical point of departure the radical appearance in print in 1777 and 1779 of technically difficult keyboard music, composed by Muzio Clementi. The difficult passages contained within these works are unique amongst keyboard music published for a market that was understood at the time to consist almost entirely of female amateur keyboardists. Clementi's music affords female pianists a new kind of musical expression. This dissertation maps the ideological changes in English and European keyboard culture from 1779 to Clementi's death in 1832 and asserts that Clementi's works and entrepreneurial career mark him as far more of an influential strategist operating within the parameters of early capitalism than has been previously thought. Attempting to understand the social, musical, and gendered implications of technically difficult music helps underline important changes in keyboard culture that can be seen to have had significant consequences across the cultural landscape of the Western world.<br>Cette thèse examine les conséquences de l'impression, entre 1777 et 1779, de partitions d'œuvres pour instruments à clavier de Muzio Clémenti, œuvres dont l'exécution présente un degré de difficulté élevé. Les exigences techniques imposées par certains passages de ces œuvres n'ont aucun équivalent dans le répertoire pour clavier de cette époque, répertoire dont le public cible était principalement constitué de pianistes amatrices à qui la musique de Clementi offrit des possibilités d'expression entièrement nouvelles. Cette thèse retrace les changements idéologiques qui survinrent au sein de la culture anglaise et européenne de la musique pour clavier entre 1779 et la mort de Clementi en 1832. Les œuvres et les qualités d'entrepreneuriat de ce dernier révèlent qu'il fut, bien davantage qu'on ne le croit, un stratège influent ayant manœuvré avec succès à l'intérieur des paramètres du capitalisme primitif. L'étude des répercussions des difficultés techniques sur les plans social, musical et lié au genre met en lumière des changements majeurs dans la culture de la musique pour instruments à clavier, changements qui eurent un impact significatif sur le paysage culturel du monde occidental.
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Curran, Terence William. "Recording classical music in Britain : the long 1950s." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2015. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:2340cf56-c2be-4c0b-b5a6-2cfe06c22fe4.
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During the 1950s the experience of recording was transformed by a series of technical innovations including tape recording, editing, the LP record, and stereo sound. Within a decade recording had evolved into an art form in which multiple takes and editing were essential components in the creation of an illusory ideal performance. The British recording industry was at the forefront of development, and the rapid growth in recording activity throughout the 1950s as companies built catalogues of LP records, at first in mono but later in stereo, had a profound impact on the music profession in Britain. Despite this, there are few documented accounts of working practices, or of the experiences of those involved in recording at this time, and the subject has received sparse coverage in academic publications. This thesis studies the development of the recording of classical music in Britain in the long 1950s, the core period under discussion being 1948 to 1964. It begins by considering the current literature on recording, the cultural history of the period in relation to classical music, and the development of recording in the 1950s. Oral history informs the central part of the thesis, based on the analysis of 89 interviews with musicians, producers, engineers and others involved in recording during the 1950s and 1960s. The thesis concludes with five case studies, four of significant recordings - Tristan und Isolde (1952), Peter Grimes (1958), Elektra (1966-67), and Scheherazade (1964) - and one of a television programme, The Anatomy of a Record (1975), examining aspects of the recording process. The thesis reveals the ways in which musicians, producers, and engineers responded to the challenges and opportunities created by advances in technology, changing attitudes towards the aesthetics of performance on record, and the evolving nature of practices and relationships in the studio. It also highlights the wider impact of recording on musical practice and its central role in helping to raise standards of musical performance, develop audiences for classical music, and expand the repertoire in concert and on record.
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Belling, Huw. "Dimensions of allusion : synthesis affecting craft in the works of Huw Belling and in 20th and 21st century composition." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2016. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:fa0579cf-6405-4ab0-a5bb-90c28a9d36a8.
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This examination of my own works (presented largely in chronological order) and of related music by others, broadly concerns itself with appropriation and allusion on the part of twentieth and twenty-first century composers. It considers how the deliberate synthesis of existing works affects the responding composers' own output. To this end, whether surveying my own music or others', I do so within a four-pronged framework: 1. The philosophical premise and aesthetic of pieces which somehow appropriate existing composition (as claimed overtly by the composer, or inferred from available research). 2. The compositional procedure and techniques employed in the process of composing works which allude to or synthesise other pieces. 3. The product resulting from the interaction of the above two factors (naturally the latter is more concrete). 4. Critics' and scholars' responses: the basic phenomenology of the allusive element, synthesis, or stylistic appropriation, and the ethical problems surrounding any appropriation. My analyses address one or more of these connected points. They raise a number of significant questions. Is synthesis and re-composition (the latter taken to be more specifically referential) affective or effective? That is to say, is it aesthetically prescriptive? Can composers manage to quarantine 'Les objets trouvés' from their individual practice? Of interest are composers with individual credibility as innovators, whose craft is its own defence against criticism on dogmatic grounds. I consider what is to be gained, in terms of technique, and in terms of developing an aesthetic, from the process of specifically engaging with other pieces, and explore the effects of differing methods of synthesis as compared across compositional practices.
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Clarke, Jennifer. "The Effect of Digital Technology on Late 20th Century and Early 21st Century Culture." [Tampa, Fla. : s.n.], 2003. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/SFE0000108.
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Mui, Kwong-chiu, and 梅廣釗. "Crossing the musical divides: a collection ofmy musical creations." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2005. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B3157788X.
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Skirpan, Richard. "The Choral Music of Joseph Willcox Jenkins." Scholarly Repository, 2011. http://scholarlyrepository.miami.edu/oa_dissertations/518.
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Composer Joseph Willcox Jenkins (b. 1928), longtime professor at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylania (since 1961) and the first arranger for the United States Army Chorus (1956-1959), has composed and arranged a prolific amount of choral music, much of which has remained unpublished. After presenting a brief biography of Jenkins, this essay examines a sample of seven of his choral works, with analyses and scores of each. Catalogs of the choral compositions to which he assigned opus numbers and his U.S. Army Chorus arrangements follow, along with a classified list of remaining choral works and arrangements. The document concludes with the transcription of a conversation between Jenkins and the author about his career and music. It is hoped that this resource for choral musicians will encourage a more widespread knowledge of Jenkins’ choral music, providing increased possibilities for performance and further study.
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Finn, Michael Thomas. "The political economy of higher education in England, c.1944-1974." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2012. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.610463.
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Jordan, Christopher. "Steering taste : Ernest Marsh, a study of private collecting in England in the early 20th century." Thesis, University of the Arts London, 2007. http://ualresearchonline.arts.ac.uk/5253/.
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The primary aim of this thesis is to focus attention on the bourgeois, 'un-named' collector. The driving force behind most museum and art gallery collections of the Victorian and Edwardian period. British museum and art gallery records of gifted collections, bequests and loans usually note their donors. However, with a few notable exceptions, little is known about the collectors, their activities and motivation in making such presentations. Using the interests and activities of the Quaker miller and collector Ernest Marsh (1843-1945) as a case study, this thesis explores how in the period 1890-1945 a collector came to be a key agent in the construction and manifestation of taste in British Applied Arts and to a lesser degree in the Fine Arts. Through primary visual and documentary evidence of the Marsh home, and reference to contemporary and later commentaries it considers the relative influences of husband and wife on decorating and furnishing the domestic interior, the evolution of taste, and, for Ernest Marsh, its impact upon his artistic interests within the public arena. By examination of private papers, metropolitan and provincial art gallery and museum archives it also considers evidence of the inter-relationships between donors and curators, and the mutual advantages and disadvantages accruing to both, particularly focussing on the processes in bringing about changes in individual and institutional collecting policy. Further, by review of records of, in particular, the Contemporary Art Society and the Greenslade archive, it examines the degree to which private benefactors and those in public or semi-public office, acting as fund-raisers and spenders exercise influence through patronage of particular practitioners, choice of works and initiating new designs.
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Kam, Chi-lim Daniel, and 甘志廉. "Contemporary Chinese music in Hong Kong: the Wuji Ensemble, a case study." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2010. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B45161859.
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Kunkel, Caroline Beth. "Psalms to Plainchant: Seventeenth-Century Sacred Music in New England and New France." W&M ScholarWorks, 1989. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539625537.
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Pardee, Katharine. "Perceptions of J.S. Bach and performance of his music in nineteenth-century England." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2013. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:b45e576e-b727-4afa-b7e8-f55bea10b1a1.
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At the turn of the nineteenth centudy knowledge of J.S. Bach was limited in England to a very few musicians, mostly German organists connected with the Hanoverian court. By the close fof the century, Bach had won widespread popularity, and England was second only to Germany in numbers of published editions, performances, and the written word. This thesis looks at the reception of J.S. Bach in nineteenth-century England, and considers why England reacted with such enthusiasm to his works. First. the elements important to Bach reception are explored and situated in English culture at the beginning of the nineteenth century; areas such as the Ancient and Modern discourse; the interest in historicism; the attraction of German culture; the love for Handel; and the notion of the sublime (especially in terms of music) are discussed. In Chapter 2, Bach is seen through the activities of his proponents in the first part of the nineteenth century, both performers and writers. Since it will be shown that it was on the backs of the choral and organ music that Bach entered into English musical consciousness, the reception of those genres is considered in the following two chapters, with a particular focus on the St Matthew Passion and the Mass in B Minor in the area of choral music (Chapter 3). In Chapter 4 I consider Bach and the English organ, and the activities of Mendelssohn, Gauntlett, and those others who were his advocates in the first half of the century after Wesley. Finally, I summarise the topic by looking at the ways his music was interpreted to fit the ideal so nineteenth-century English culture, and how he was regarded through an English lens.
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Fang, Ming-Jian. "Notational systems and practices for the lute, vihuela and guitar from the Renaissance to the present day." Virtual Press, 1988. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/558361.
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Discussion in this dissertation is directed toward the lute, vihuela and guitar's notational systems and practices: chapters two, three, four, and five are concerned with the stylistic changes in the notations. The history of the tablatures is presented in a paralled fashion with that of the four-course and five-course guitars. An attempt is made to eliminate the guitarist's lack of knowledge about most practices and about subtle differences in performance. This is accomplished by presenting the development of these notations from the Renaissance to the present day.This study is concerned with the mastery and understanding of notation. After an introduction, the second chapter discusses three main tablatures for the lute and vihuela. It is important to confine oneself to the tablatures, in order that they be throughly understood. Thusthe third chapter deals with ornamentations, the fourth chapter with four-course, five course, six-course and six-string guitar notations, and the fifth chapter encompasses progressive notationfor the modern guitar. Systems for folk and commercial music are not addressed in this paper.The author hopes that with the use of this dissertation, tablatures can be handled with less difficulty and put into proper perspective. Careful thought has been given in selecting representative examples and notational literature excerpts as illustrations for the reader and/or performer. These examples need not only be studied but can be used as preparation for any other related composition. The purpose of this study is to supply teachers, students, and guitarists with a ready-reference guide to the notational practices for the lute, vihuela and guitar, a subject previously shrouded in confusion.<br>School of Music
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Napper, Lawrence. "The middlebrow, 'national culture' and British cinema 1920-1939 : Alf's Button (1920); The Constant Nymph (1928); The Good Companions (1933); The Lambeth Walk (1939)." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.395149.
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Venter, Carina. "The influence of early Apartheid intellectualisation on twentieth-century Afrikaans music historiography." Thesis, Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/2839.
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Thesis (MMus (Music))--University of Stellenbosch, 2009.<br>ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis attempts to understand questions of our past in the present. It is broadly
premised on the assumption of complicity as an interpretive frame in which the
relationship between Apartheid intellectualisation and Afrikaans music historiography
can be elucidated. Its protagonists are Gerrie Eloff, Geoffrey Cronjé, H.F. Verwoerd,
Piet Meyer, Jan Bouws, Rosa Nepgen and Jacques Philip Malan. In each of the four
chapters, I attempt to construct metaphors, points of intersection or articulation
between Apartheid intellectualisation and Afrikaans music historiography. Music is
never entirely absent: for Apartheid ideologues such as Geoffrey Cronjé and Gerrie
Eloff musical metaphors become ways of enunciating racial theories, for the Dutch
musicologist Jan Bouws music provides entry into South Africa and its discourses, for
J.P. Malan music becomes a conduit that could facilitate national goals and for Rosa
Nepgen music constitutes the perfect domain for and the gestating impulse of her own
often ornate national devotions. Some of the themes addressed in this thesis include
the language and metaphors of Apartheid intellectualisation, discourses of paranoia,
struggle, purity, contamination, the ‘Afrikanermoeder’ (‘Afrikaner mother’), the
cultural language of Afrikaner nationalism and the reciprocity between cultural
fecundity and dominance of the land. The final denouement comprises a positing of
the Afrikaans art song ‘O Boereplaas’ and the singing soprano Afrikanermoeder who
emerges as the keeper of Afrikaner blood purity, guardian of her race and prophet of
its fate and future.<br>AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Hierdie tesis probeer om vrae uit ons verlede in die hede te verstaan. Die aanname van
komplisiteit verskaf ’n premis en interpreterende raamwerk waarbinne die verhouding
tussen Apartheid-intellektualisering en Afrikaanse musiekhistoriografie belig kan
word. Die protagoniste van hierdie tesis is Gerrie Eloff, Geoffrey Cronjé, H.F.
Verwoerd, Piet Meyer, Jan Bouws, Rosa Nepgen en Jacques Philip Malan. In elk van
die vier hoofstukke poog ek om metafore, punte van kruising of artikulasie tussen
Apartheid-intellektualisering en Afrikaanse musiekhistoriografie te konstrueer.
Musiek word nooit buite rekening gelaat nie: vir Apartheid-ideoloë soos Geoffrey
Cronjé en Gerrie Eloff word musikale metafore maniere hoe teorieë oor ras
geformuleer kan word, vir die Nederlandse musikoloog Jan Bouws verleen musiek
toegang tot Suid-Afrikaanse kulturele diskoerse, vir J.P. Malan word musiek ’n kanaal
waardeur nasionale doelstellings vloei en vir Rosa Nepgen verteenwoordig musiek die
ideale omgewing en teelaarde vir haar eie en gereeld oordadige nasionale lofuitinge.
Sommige van die temas wat in hierdie tesis aangespreek word sluit in die taal en
metafore van Apartheid intellektualisering, diskoerse van paranoia, stryd, suiwerheid,
kontaminasie, die Afrikanermoeder, die kulturele taal van Afrikanernasionalisme en
die wederkerigheid tussen kulturele oplewing en oorheersing van Suid-Afrika. Die
tesis word tot slot gevoer deur ’n besinning oor die Afrikaanse kunslied ‘O
Boereplaas’ en die singende sopraan, die Afrikanermoeder, wat na vore tree as die
bewaarder van Afrikaner-bloedsuiwerheid, oppasser van haar ras en die profetes van
die volk se lot en toekoms.
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Carter, Stephanie. "Music publishing and compositional activity in England, 1650-1700." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2011. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/music-publishing-and-compositional-activity-in-england-16501700(14b13888-a2be-44d4-9e14-66b0980b3fec).html.
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This thesis focuses on the flourishing music-publishing industry in England in the second half of the seventeenth century, and examines its relationship to and influence on the activities of professional musicians. Music publishing as a commercial entity developed in England during this period, particularly, but not exclusively, through the endeavours of the Playford family. By placing the printed music books within the social and cultural contexts in which they were produced, this thesis explores the consequences of printing on the musical text, understanding the purposes for which the printed book was created and how different functions of print affected the musical texts that they contained. A detailed examination of the printed music sources sheds light on how publication (including posthumous publication) related to the image and status of the composer, and draws attention to the interaction between public music-making, compositional activity and music publishing during this period. Through an investigation of the contemporary printed outputs of five case-study composers - William Lawes, Henry Lawes, Matthew Locke, Henry Purcell and John Blow - this thesis explores the individual nature of the composers' relationships with the printed music book trade and how their contemporary printed outputs relate to their overall compositional output. This is followed by a detailed analytical study of specific compositions by the five case-study composers, examining both contemporary manuscript and printed sources, in order to determine to what extent the commercial print market influenced professional musical creativity. Different versions of compositions of certain genres, particularly secular vocal works, were disseminated via print as opposed to manuscript, and these alternative versions appear to have been instigated by both composers and stationers. This approach to examination of contemporary sources calls for the contextual consideration of sources and the musical texts within them.