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Minimalism And The Guitar, Melissa Claire Branson Jan 2011

Minimalism And The Guitar, Melissa Claire Branson

Theses : Honours

This dissertation aims to investigate musical minimalism and its influence on the classical guitar repertoire. Minimalism is defined through a taxonomy of minimalist techniques and the use of minimalist techniques is then traced through a preliminary survey of the guitar repertoire. While classical minimalists Steve Reich and Terry Riley have written several guitar works, the true pioneer of minimalism on the guitar is shown to be Cuban composer Leo Brouwer. Use of minimalist techniques is also particularly prevalent among Australian composers, including Nigel Westlake, Peter Sculthorpe, Robert Davidson, and Phillip Houghton. Curiously, a large number of guitar works employ minimalist …

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Using Clare Fischer's Solo Piano Approach In Yesterdays To Reinterpret Jazz Standard Repertoire, Christopher N. Foster Jan 2011

Using Clare Fischer's Solo Piano Approach In Yesterdays To Reinterpret Jazz Standard Repertoire, Christopher N. Foster

Theses : Honours

Clare Fischer’s solo piano version of the Jerome Kern composition Yesterdays from his 1975 recorded album ‘Alone Together’, is not extensively known. It proves, however, to be an inherently paramount source for the study of harmony, rhythm, texture and solo jazz piano style. This paper defines the techniques used in this performance. Through a comprehensive transcription analysis, key aspects of Fischer’s solo piano style are discovered. This research extracts the defining aspects of this specific performance‐ then directly applies the musical techniques to show how they may be used to reinterpret and jazz standard. The current Fischer literature focuses primarily …

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The Improvisation Of Structured Keyboard Accompaniments For The Ballet Class, Simon Frosi Jan 2011

The Improvisation Of Structured Keyboard Accompaniments For The Ballet Class, Simon Frosi

Theses : Honours

This dissertation explores the question of how a pianist can learn to improvise accompaniments for a ballet class. It aims to examine the background knowledge required in order to embark upon such a task and to provide a theoretical tool kit for pianists to use in improvising. Additionally, this dissertation makes a detailed case study of notated improvisations by Michael Brett, an expert exponent of this genre. A thematic catalogue is provided of Brett’s improvisations for a forthcoming publication, examining accompaniment figurations and rhythmic structures. A more detailed harmonic and phrase analysis is then made of three complete pieces, examining …

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The Piano Music Of George Frederick Pinto, Aidan Boase Jan 2011

The Piano Music Of George Frederick Pinto, Aidan Boase

Theses : Honours

This dissertation explores the piano music of George Frederick Pinto, in the light of the output of the London Pianoforte School. After a discussion of Pinto in the context of his peers, the thesis examines Pinto’s professional career and the history of the reception of his works, using new information that has been made available by Chadwick’s online database of the British periodical press. This is followed by a discussion of his most significant works – the three Grand Sonatas for pianoforte, focusing on some of the influences on Pinto; and uses Hepokoski and Darcy’s Sonata Theory to make an …

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A Systemic Functional Investigation Into Experiential Meanings In The Biographies Of Mozart, Beethoven And Schubert ., Christina John Jan 2011

A Systemic Functional Investigation Into Experiential Meanings In The Biographies Of Mozart, Beethoven And Schubert ., Christina John

Student Works (2010-2019)

The present study investigates Experiential meanings in the genre of biographies of famous music composers. Specifically, the study investigates the System of Transitivity and the Schematic structure of three music composers of the 18th century namely Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert. The texts were coded, analysed and interpreted in terms of Transitivity (Process Types, Participants and Circumstantial elements), based on the model by Halliday and Matthiessen (2004), Eggins (2004), Bloor and Bloor (2004) and Thompson (2004), and Schematic structure by Eggins (2004). Data for the study comprised six texts; Two different accounts for each composer’s biographies. The findings show that the …

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