Banding together Lena, Jennifer C
2012., 20120212, 2012, 2012-02-12
eBook
Why do some music styles gain mass popularity while others thrive in small niches? Banding Together explores this question and reveals the attributes that together explain the growth of ...twentieth-century American popular music. Drawing on a vast array of examples from sixty musical styles--ranging from rap and bluegrass to death metal and South Texas polka, and including several created outside the United States--Jennifer Lena uncovers the shared grammar that allows us to understand the cultural language and evolution of popular music.
With the rapid development of information communication technology, social media has become a necessary part of people’s daily life. Recently, many music teachers have applied social media to augment ...their classes and enhance their teaching. This article explores the use of social media for musical instrument education, with a focus on the violin and piano. A qualitative semi-structured interview was conducted with eight music teachers from music centers and studios. Our participants revealed that social media creates a virtual environment to extend (but not to replace) face-to-face instruction, which facilities knowledge sharing, arouses students’ interest, and supports communication. For pedagogy, social media helps students improve musical instrument playing techniques (e.g., posture, fingering, and rhythm) and musical styles. Drawbacks of applying social media are mainly the quality of content, difficulties in differentiating subtle differences (e.g., intonation), and inadequate talent of some students. Therefore, teachers need to pay attention to these issues and use social media to develop a better educating environment for individual learners.
People's Artist of the Republic of Azerbaijan, Honored Art Worker, Professor Vasif Allahverdiyev is one of the bright faces of the modern school of composition. Along with the expression of various ...themes in the multifaceted work of the composer, the expression of lyrical beginnings and lyrical images is one of the main places. The richness of themes, characterized by the diversity of genres of the composer's works, led to the use of both heroic and lyrical themes in his work. V.Allahverdiyev revived the lyrical theme as the main means of expression in his symphonic works, songs and romances. In the work of Vasif Allahverdiyev, who represents the direction of romanticism in Azerbaijani music, this influence is expressed both at the level of programming and the embodiment of lyrical feelings and emotions. Depending on the content of the work, the composer has a different approach to the lyrical theme. In Vasif Allahverdiyev's work, lyricism manifests itself in various forms. Thus, if the auxiliary theme in the symphonic poem "The Way of Life" is based on lyricism, the second part in the symphony "Ataturk", "Waltz of Love" can be characterized as a real lyrical confession.
This portfolio of works considers the relationship between composer and performer, seeking to determine how levels of dialogic interaction can be modified to best serve my compositional aesthetic. ...The portfolio consists of ten scores, which are accompanied by recordings and a reflective commentary. In considering these roles, three models are presented, namely directive, interactive and collaborative. The directive model presents a fully notated score which restricts the performers' role to that of interpretation; this therefore represents the most traditional means of composing. The interactive model is applied in four compositions, interrogating strategies for increasing the creative role of the performer, whereby they assume some responsibility for the final product. The collaborative model sees a further modification of the composer-performer relationship, leading to an investigation of true creative co-authorship. This is addressed in three compositions. An assessment of the impact of each model on my compositional style leads to a final approach, where aspects considered to be successful in the directive and interactive models are fused to create a bespoke approach that best serves to consolidate my musical style. This model is applied in two final scores. It is intended that the research presented will be of interest to composers and performers who are working in the field of contemporary classical music, providing a case study that demonstrates how varying kinds of formal composer-performer relationships can affect the evolution of a composer's personal musical voice.
As Cirandasde Heitor Villa-Lobos, ainda que pequenas em sua extensão, configuram-se como uma grande referência no repertório pianístico do compositor brasileiro. Sua particularidade está na complexa ...e intrincada relação entre uma série de citações de melodias folclóricas infantis e o entorno criativo proposto por Villa-Lobos que, envolvendo tais melodias, reescreve-as. Assim, as relações entre melodia folclórica e sua envolvência constituem um processo contínuo de ressignificação. Esta dissertação pretende articular duas abordagens – análise estrutural e contextual – de maneira a propor uma leitura sincrônica das próprias Cirandase dos cenários culturais, sociais e políticos que as constituem.Nesse sentido, a relação dialógica entre música, partitura e contexto é pensada através da utilização da Teoria dos tópicos. Os tópicos constituem-se, nesta dissertação, como figurações musicais características que comportam esta relação fluida entre análise estrutural e contexto(s). Por meio desta perspectiva, este trabalho tem como objetivo estabelecer uma ponte entre as Cirandase três temáticas essenciais que constituem três dos quatro capítulos deste documento – temática nacionalista, temática infantil e temática luso-brasileira.A obra de Villa-Lobos é, ainda hoje, considerada um produto da sua “instintividade” e “genialidade” e, com isto, a sua análise reverte para segundo plano em prol da mitificação biográfica em torno da figura do compositor. Só mais recentemente, a abordagem analítica aplicada à sua obra tem vindo a ganhar forma e com ela fomentam-se discussões sobre processos de composição e recepção da produção do compositor brasileiro. Acompanhando este desenvolvimento, está o processo contínuo de reestruturação da Teoria dos tópicos para abarcar a realidade musical brasileira, iniciado nas últimas décadas. Assim, nesta dissertação, propõe-se uma análise das Cirandasque contribua de forma inovadora para uma leitura da produção de Villa-Lobos e, através desta, fomenta-se os estudos sobre os tópicos na realidade brasileira do início do século XX.
En este trabajo se aborda la cuestión de cómo el estilo musical influye en la emoción percibida y sus consecuencias pedagógicas. El primer problema lo encontramos en la propia definición de estilo. ...En este trabajo proponemos una definición del estilo y una aplicación del mismo. A posteriori, llevamos a cabo experimentos a sujetos para entender las respuestas emocionales al propio estilo. Escogimos seis estilos o "técnicas" (barroco, clasicismo, romanticismo, pandiatonismo, dodecafonismo serial y modo frigio). Se mide la respuesta emocional y se analizan los resultados (los cuales se miden en músicos y no músicos). Encontramos diferencias en los estilos, tanto en el modo (mayor-menor) como en la experiencia (músicos-no músicos), incluyendo patrones complejos en la valencia y activación. Por último, proponemos que todo el conocimiento derivado de este trabajo sea incorporado a los temarios de los conservatorios y facultades de música.
Genre Complexes in Popular Music Silver, Daniel; Lee, Monica; Childress, C Clayton
PloS one,
05/2016, Letnik:
11, Številka:
5
Journal Article
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Recent work in the sociology of music suggests a declining importance of genre categories. Yet other work in this research stream and in the sociology of classification argues for the continued ...prevalence of genres as a meaningful tool through which creators, critics and consumers focus their attention in the topology of available works. Building from work in the study of categories and categorization we examine how boundary strength and internal differentiation structure the genre pairings of some 3 million musicians and groups. Using a range of network-based and statistical techniques, we uncover three musical "complexes," which are collectively constituted by 16 smaller genre communities. Our analysis shows that the musical universe is not monolithically organized but rather composed of multiple worlds that are differently structured-i.e., uncentered, single-centered, and multi-centered.
What are the factors that determine how long a person chooses to listen to an unfamiliar piece of music? We examined this question across three experiments in which we played participants novel ...repeating multi-instrument stimuli and recorded their listening times and reasons for their decisions to either continue or stop listening. To influence the habituating effects of repeating musical material drawn from a large stimulus library (> 450 items), we manipulated novelty along several musical dimensions. In Experiment 1, all instruments entered simultaneously. In Experiment 2, instrument entrances were also offset in time. In Experiment 3, we composed core multi-instrument loops and manipulated them to further minimize harmonic variability, minimize rhythmic variability, introduce spatialization, or change timbral characteristics. Novelty introduced by instrument entrances was the strongest determinant of listening times, though harmonic variability and timbral features were also important. Subjective enjoyment was the best predictor of listening times, mediating the effects of the degree of perceived groove in a stimulus, the urge to move, interest in a stimulus, perceived complexity, and congruency with current mood. We conclude that naturalistic looping musical stimuli serve well to examine the diverse psychological and musical determinants of choice behavior underlying music consumption.
The purpose of this study was to explore how a preservice music teacher constructed his own learning in a graduate-level independent study course with a music education faculty member as the ...facilitator. In this course, the student wanted to learn how to play the trumpet and improve his knowledge of jazz improvisation and style. Questions guiding this study included: How did the preservice music teacher direct his learning and construct knowledge in this course? How did the music education faculty member serve as a facilitator during this process? Data collection included journals, reflective sessions, and video recordings of classes. Data analysis involved coding with prompts from constructivist theory to assist with portraying the sequencing of teaching and learning during the semester. Findings suggest that allowing the preservice music teacher to construct his learning helped him reflect on what he had learned and plan for future teaching experiences. Recommendations include incorporating student input into coursework planning, and implementation for preservice music teachers provides opportunities for more in-depth learning of subject material. Integrating different musical styles into all coursework also helps prepare preservice music teachers for teaching a wide variety of musical styles.
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