Focal Impulse Theory

Author : John Paul Ito
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2021-01-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780253049940

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Focal Impulse Theory by John Paul Ito Pdf

Music is surrounded by movement, from the arching back of the guitarist to the violinist swaying with each bow stroke. To John Paul Ito, these actions are not just a visual display; rather, they reveal what it really means for musicians to move with the beat, organizing the flow of notes from beat to beat and shaping the sound produced. By developing "focal impulse theory," Ito shows how a performer's choices of how to move with the meter can transform the music's expressive contours. Change the dance of the performer's body, and you change the dance of the notes. As Focal Impulse Theory deftly illustrates, bodily movements carry musical meaning and, in a very real sense, are meaning.

Author : Mitsuko Aramaki,Mathieu Barthet,Richard Kronland-Martinet,Sølvi Ystad
Publisher : Springer
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-12
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783642412486

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From Sounds to Music and Emotions by Mitsuko Aramaki,Mathieu Barthet,Richard Kronland-Martinet,Sølvi Ystad Pdf

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on Computer Music Modeling and Retrieval, CMMR 2012, held in London, UK, in June 2012. The 28 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in this volume. The papers have been organized in the following topical sections: music emotion analysis; 3D audio and sound synthesis; computer models of music perception and cognition; music emotion recognition; music information retrieval; film soundtrack and music recommendation; and computational musicology and music education. The volume also includes selected papers from the Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives on Expressive Performance Workshop held within the framework of CMMR 2012.

Author : Robert S. Hatten
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2018-09-06
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780253038012

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A Theory of Virtual Agency for Western Art Music by Robert S. Hatten Pdf

In his third volume on musical expressive meaning, Robert S. Hatten examines virtual agency in music from the perspectives of movement, gesture, embodiment, topics, tropes, emotion, narrativity, and performance. Distinguished from the actual agency of composers and performers, whose intentional actions either create music as notated or manifest music as significant sound, virtual agency is inferred from the implied actions of those sounds, as they move and reveal tendencies within music-stylistic contexts. From our most basic attributions of sources for perceived energies in music, to the highest realm of our engagement with musical subjectivity, Hatten explains how virtual agents arose as distinct from actual ones, how unspecified actants can take on characteristics of (virtual) human agents, and how virtual agents assume various actorial roles. Along the way, Hatten demonstrates some of the musical means by which composers and performers from different historical eras have staged and projected various levels of virtual agency, engaging listeners imaginatively and interactively within the expressive realms of their virtual and fictional musical worlds.

Author : Nancy Murphy
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780197635216

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Times A-Changin' by Nancy Murphy Pdf

"It is 1969 and Joni Mitchell is on television, standing empty-handed in the middle of a circular stage that is adorned with psychedelic colors. She is wearing a long, hunter-green dress, surrounded by an audience sitting cross-legged on the floor. She waits for television host Dick Cavett to introduce her next performance. The show is filming on the day after the 1969 Woodstock music festival, an event that Mitchell was initially scheduled to attend but from which she was held back by her management to ensure she could perform on The Dick Cavett Show the next day. The host introduces Mitchell and jokes with her about singing a capella, wondering aloud if someone stole her guitar. The singer laughs politely in response, denies any theft, and then proceeds to her performance, explaining to the audience that she will be singing a "song for America" that she wrote "as a Canadian living in this country." With her hands clasped behind her back, she performs "The Fiddle and the Drum" with no accompaniment, channeling the folk performance tradition on which the song is based. This song about military participation is a rare political statement from Mitchell who, unlike her peers Bob Dylan and Buffy Sainte-Marie, had only released this one "protest song" by 1969. But the song's message was not a particularly risky proclamation. Her anti-war narrative echoed the opinions of the young Cavett Show audience that night, aligning with an established trend of resistance against the war in Vietnam. Similar to the way that Mitchell's song "Woodstock" would eventually capture the spirit of an event she did not attend, "The Fiddle and the Drum" characterizes a popular anti-war sentiment in the public consciousness of the late 1960s"--

Author : Esti Sheinberg,William P. Dougherty
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 437 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2020-03-17
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781351237512

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The Routledge Handbook of Music Signification by Esti Sheinberg,William P. Dougherty Pdf

The Routledge Handbook of Music Signification captures the richness and complexity of the field, presenting 30 essays by recognized international experts that reflect current interdisciplinary and cross-disciplinary approaches to the subject. Examinations of music signification have been an essential component in thinking about music for millennia, but it is only in the last few decades that music signification has been established as an independent area of study. During this time, the field has grown exponentially, incorporating a vast array of methodologies that seek to ground how music means and to explore what it may mean. Research in music signification typically embraces concepts and practices imported from semiotics, literary criticism, linguistics, the visual arts, philosophy, sociology, history, and psychology, among others. By bringing together such approaches in transparent groupings that reflect the various contexts in which music is created and experienced, and by encouraging critical dialogues, this volume provides an authoritative survey of the discipline and a significant advance in inquiries into music signification. This book addresses a wide array of readers, from scholars who specialize in this and related areas, to the general reader who is curious to learn more about the ways in which music makes sense.

Author : Daniel K L Chua
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-18
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780199773077

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Beethoven & Freedom by Daniel K L Chua Pdf

Over the last two centuries, Beethoven's music has been synonymous with the idea of freedom, in particular a freedom embodied in the heroic figure of Prometheus. This image arises from a relatively small circle of heroic works from the composer's middle period, most notably the Eroica Symphony. However, the freedom associated with the Promethean hero has also come under considerably critique by philosophers, theologians and political theorists; its promise of autonomy easily inverts into various forms of authoritarianism, and the sovereign will it champions is not merely a liberating force but a discriminatory one. Beethoven's freedom, then, appears to be increasingly problematic; yet his music is still employed today to mark political events from the fall of the Berlin Wall to the attacks of 9/11. Even more problematic, perhaps, is the fact that this freedom has shaped the reception of Beethoven music to such an extent that we forget that there is another kind of music in his oeuvre that is not heroic, a music that opens the possibility of a freedom yet to be articulated or defined. By exploring the musical philosophy of Theodor W. Adorno through a wide range of the composer's music, Beethoven and Freedom arrives at a markedly different vision of freedom. Author Daniel KL Chua suggests that a more human and fragile concept of freedom can be found in the music that has less to do with the autonomy of the will and its stoical corollary than with questions of human relation, donation, and a yielding to radical alterity. Chua's work makes a major and controversial statement by challenging the current image of Beethoven, and by suggesting an alterior freedom that can speak ethically to the twenty-first century.

Author : John Rink
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780197565391

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Music in Profile by John Rink Pdf

"This book reflects the increasing significance of musical performance studies in recent decades. Originally published as separate essays over thirty years, the twelve chapters have been refashioned as a monograph which is both scholarly in nature and intensely personal, building on the author's extensive musical experience, most notably as a pianist. Hence the primary focus on piano music by Chopin, Schubert, Liszt, Brahms and Rachmaninoff. The book's cross-cutting themes nevertheless apply to diverse performance idioms and domains. By exploring themes in complementary ways, the book offers broad insights into musical ontology, epistemology and semantics while demonstrating various methodologies now used to study performance. Among other things, it highlights the powerful effects that experiencing music in performance can have on those who take part in it, in any capacity. There are many practical insights too. The volume has four sections, focusing on 'performance and performance studies', historical performance, analysis and performance, and artistic research. Case studies of romantic masterpieces for the piano feature throughout"--

Author : Jeremy Begbie,Daniel K L Chua,Markus Rathey
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2021-02-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780192585691

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Theology, Music, and Modernity by Jeremy Begbie,Daniel K L Chua,Markus Rathey Pdf

Theology, Music, and Modernity addresses the question: how can the study of music contribute to a theological reading of modernity? It has grown out of the conviction that music has often been ignored in narrations of modernity's theological struggles. Featuring contributions from an international team of distinguished theologians, musicologists, and music theorists, the volume shows how music—and discourse about music—has remarkable powers to bring to light the theological currents that have shaped modern culture. It focuses on the concept of freedom, concentrating on the years 1740-1850, a period when freedom—especially religious and political freedom-became a burning matter of concern in virtually every stratum of Western society. The collection is divided into four sections, each section focusing on a key phenomenon of this period—the rise of the concept of 'revolutionary' freedom; the move of music from church to concert hall; the cry for eschatological justice in the work of black hymn-writer and church leader Richard Allen; and the often fierce tensions between music and language. There is a particular concern to draw on a distinctively 'Scriptural imagination' (especially the theme of New Creation) in order to elicit the key issues at stake, and to suggest constructive ways forward for a contemporary Christian theological engagement with the legacies of modernity today.

Author : Hans Dierckx,Flavio H. Fenton,Simonetta Filippi,Alain Pumir,S. Sridhar
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2019-10-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9782889630677

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Simulating Normal and Arrhythmic Dynamics: From Sub-Cellular to Tissue and Organ Level by Hans Dierckx,Flavio H. Fenton,Simonetta Filippi,Alain Pumir,S. Sridhar Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 620 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Dissertations, Academic
ISBN : UOM:39015062053965

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Dissertation Abstracts International by Anonim Pdf

Abstracts of dissertations available on microfilm or as xerographic reproductions.

Author : Edward K. Chung
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 794 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Medical
ISBN : UOM:39015007117156

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Electrocardiography by Edward K. Chung Pdf

Author : Christopher L. Bennett
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2020-12-27
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781000292251

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Digital Audio Theory by Christopher L. Bennett Pdf

Digital Audio Theory: A Practical Guide bridges the fundamental concepts and equations of digital audio with their real-world implementation in an accessible introduction, with dozens of programming examples and projects. Starting with digital audio conversion, then segueing into filtering, and finally real-time spectral processing, Digital Audio Theory introduces the uninitiated reader to signal processing principles and techniques used in audio effects and virtual instruments that are found in digital audio workstations. Every chapter includes programming snippets for the reader to hear, explore, and experiment with digital audio concepts. Practical projects challenge the reader, providing hands-on experience in designing real-time audio effects, building FIR and IIR filters, applying noise reduction and feedback control, measuring impulse responses, software synthesis, and much more. Music technologists, recording engineers, and students of these fields will welcome Bennett’s approach, which targets readers with a background in music, sound, and recording. This guide is suitable for all levels of knowledge in mathematics, signals and systems, and linear circuits. Code for the programming examples and accompanying videos made by the author can be found on the companion website, DigitalAudioTheory.com.

Author : Edward K. Chung
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Arrhythmia
ISBN : UOM:39015011456491

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Manual of Cardiac Arrhythmias by Edward K. Chung Pdf

Author : Edward K. Chung
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 792 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Arrhythmia
ISBN : UOM:39015002418112

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Principles of Cardiac Arrhythmias by Edward K. Chung Pdf

Author : Edward K. Chung
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Medical
ISBN : UOM:39015006689007

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Fundamentals of Electrocardiography by Edward K. Chung Pdf