Essays about: "Musicology"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 17 essays containing the word Musicology.

  1. 6. A Microhistory of Congregational Music-Making in Överselö, Stallarholmen 1754

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Högskolan för scen och musik

    Author : Hanna Drakengren; [2018-08-02]
    Keywords : Hymnal accompaniment; Seventeenth Century; Sweden; Gren and Stråhle organ; 1697 Hymnal; Överselö; Handwritten chorale books;

    Abstract : In 1754 an organ was built in Överselö Church whose purpose was to accompany the congregational singing. My question in this project is to investigate how the accompaniment of the specific congregational singing in Överselö sounded. Sweden adopted its first common hymnal in 1695/97. READ MORE

  3. 7. Nina Simone In Concert : Identifying Activism and Self-awareness Through Interactive Qualities

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för musikvetenskap

    Author : Nadja Ali; [2018]
    Keywords : Nina Simone; musicology; performance study; interaction; self-awareness; activism.;

    Abstract : The singer and activist Nina Simone played a crucial role in the political and musical outcome of the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960’s. This thesis aims to assess how Simone’s activism and self-awareness are expressed through interactive qualities by doing a case study of the performances of “Go Limp” and “Mississippi Goddam” on the live album In Concert. READ MORE

  4. 8. "Not eager to fit in" : The collective work of creating an alternative cosmology of Heavy Metal

    University essay from Linköpings universitet/Tema Genus

    Author : Lisa Schug; [2017]
    Keywords : Heavy Metal; Cultural Studies; Queer Studies; Gender Studies; Cosmology; Musicology; Community Building;

    Abstract : The celebration of a White heteronormative masculinity is still vivid in Heavy Metal. This has embodied and discursive consequences that are visible in the domination of Metal spaces or the marginalisation of female, trans* or non-binary musicians, but also in an aesthetics of (hetero- and cis-) sexism and racism that is often apparent. READ MORE

  5. 9. The visual album as a hybrid art-form: A case study of traditional, personal, and allusive narratives in Beyoncé

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för konsthistoria och visuella studier

    Author : Cara Harrison; [2014]
    Keywords : Visual album; narrative; Beyoncé; character development; visual leitmotif; Cultural Sciences;

    Abstract : The combination of visual art and music has resulted in many innovative audio-visual phenomena and provides an on-going exciting avenue of artistic production. This thesis explores one such phenomenon, the visual album. READ MORE

  6. 10. A Musical Journey: Music as Gameplay, Meaning and Narrative in Digital Games

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Musikvetenskap

    Author : Mikko Zuniga Jokela; [2014]
    Keywords : Musicology; Digital Games; Video Game Music; Journey; Narratology; Hermeneutics; Meaning; Play; Cultural Sciences;

    Abstract : This essay presents a detailed analysis of the music and its relations to gameplay, meaning and narrative in the interactive digital game Journey. Taking as its foundation multiple thorough playthroughs of the game, observation and questioning of test subjects has been conducted for greater perspective and objectivity. READ MORE