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Historical Perspectives On Change In Worship Music, Lilianne Douhkan
Historical Perspectives On Change In Worship Music, Lilianne Douhkan
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"Periodically through history, the church has been confronted with the problem of the introduction of new elements into an existing tradition. In the context of congregational singing, this issue centered on the infiltration of secular elements. The purpose of this study is to present such situations, to show how people dealt with change in their time, and to draw lessons from it for today."
Applying Lmprovisationbuilder To Interactive Composition With Midi Piano, William Walker, Brian Belet
Applying Lmprovisationbuilder To Interactive Composition With Midi Piano, William Walker, Brian Belet
Faculty Publications
In this presentation we will show how the ImprovisationBuilder framework was adapted to our compositions for pianists and computers. Software design issues include: capturing, transforming, and realizing MIDI piano data, and an easy-to-use graphical interface for altering parameters during performance. Compositional issues include: the causal responsorial aspect of the ImprovisationBuilder output, and varying the small-scale event and gestural levels while preserving the large-scale structure among multiple performances. The presentation will discuss the compositional and performance importance of these issues and show how each of these issues was handled within the ImprovisationBuilder framework. Work on this project suggests the advantages of …