Essays about: "Music composition"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 80 essays containing the words Music composition.

  1. 6. Music As a Means of Resistance : Rhetorical Analysis of Three Ukrainian Wartime Songs

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för konst, kultur och kommunikation (K3)

    Author : Ksenija Ševcova; [2023]
    Keywords : music; lyrics; war; Ukraine; Russia; slogan; symbol; sample; intertextuality;

    Abstract : This study delves into Ukrainian wartime songs of resistance that were inspired by the ‘Russian warship’ slogan. Langer (1953) believes that songs can express emotions that language alone fails to convey. Dynamic interaction of music and lyrics slows down, arrests, and intensifies images and moods. READ MORE

  3. 7. The Well Trained Algorithm : An exploration of the use of AI as a tool for musical expression

    University essay from Kungl. Musikhögskolan/Institutionen för komposition, dirigering och musikteori

    Author : Muiredach O'Riain; [2023]
    Keywords : Artificial Intelligence; AI; Machine Learning; ML; Generative Music; J. S. Bach; LaMonte Young; The Well Tempered Clavier; The Well Tuned Piano; Tuning System; Instrumentisation;

    Abstract : The Well Trained Algorithm is a composition that challenges prevailing conceptions of the use of AI tools in music through the reconceptualising of JukeBox, a generative AI model for music, as an instrument in its own right. Here, I am coining the term ‘instrumentisation’ to describe a methodology for applying the qualities and associations of a musical instrument to a traditionally non-musical object. READ MORE

  4. 8. Musical communication and intellectual disabilities : A study on social interaction through music playing among preverbal individuals

    University essay from KTH/Skolan för elektroteknik och datavetenskap (EECS)

    Author : Maria Svahn; [2023]
    Keywords : HCI; intellectual disability; communication; AAC; sound and music computing; ;

    Abstract : Music and its effects on the brain has been discussed from many different angels. Everything from “The Mozart effect” that shows that listening to music can improve your brain’s performance, to several studies showing that playing an instrument creates plastic changes to the brain. READ MORE

  5. 9. Playing Words, Speaking Music : An Autoethnographic Study on Intertextual Approach to Classical Composition

    University essay from Luleå tekniska universitet/Musik, medier och teater

    Author : Taja Astar; [2023]
    Keywords : intertextuality; music; intertextuality in music; classical music; autoethnographic study; composition; intertextual composition; intermediality; artistic collaboration; music and poetry; compositional strategies; intertextual strategies; text and music;

    Abstract : This master thesis is an autoethnographic study, wherein the author presents and analyzes her approach to composition practice through intertextuality. Drawing on previous research in literary and musical studies, she aims to identify and/or define the types of intertextuality that she uses in her compositional practice, and their interaction within compositions. READ MORE

  6. 10. Intervallic Semiosis: an Exploration of Valence and Pitch

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för psykologi (PSY)

    Author : Johan Wåhlander; Viktor Billberg; [2023]
    Keywords : music; affect; valence; arousal; constructionism; emotion; intervallic semiosis; musik; affekt; valens; aktivitet; konstruktionism; emotion; känslor; intervallisk semiosis;

    Abstract : A map of connections between musical features and musical expression have been much sought-after. Unveiling a system behind the musical expression humans achieve and perceive intuitively could benefit a range of human activities including musical composition, therapy, and computer science. READ MORE