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Dissonance curves are the starting point for an investigation into a psychoacoustically informed harmony. Its main hypothesis is that harmony consists of two independent but intertwined aspects…
composition, harmony, dissonance curves, psychoacoustics, harmonic space, algorithmic composition
In our culture, vocal harmonics fuction as independent musical elements since only a few decades. Thresholds of the audible explores the changing relationship between singers, listeners and…
polyphony, voice, harmonics, timbre, overtone singing, listening, phenomenology, ethnomusicology, body, Michael Vetter
The performance practice of Italian instrumental music in relation to vocal music and text: sources and their modern realization.
text-underlay, 18th-century, Tartini, Geminiani, Corri, transverse flute
His research dives into the development, construction and creation of a present-day performance practice of late medieval plainchant, based partly on his work with the Belgian chant group Psallentes.
performance practice, voice, plainchant, plainsong
This project investigates how the field of instrumental practice can extend its epistemic horizon into a broader field of bio-cultural inquiry
performance practice, piano, theory-practice gap, personal theory, topical attractor model, bio-cultural
Between 1600 and 1800 countless manuals appeared on the subject: the improvised bass part on the harpsichord, pianoforte or organ. Musician and researcher Kathryn Cok unravels the secrets of the…
improvisation, basso continuo, harpsichord, continuo, continuo realization, figured bass, organ
The thesis presents a new perspective on Giovanni Girolamo Kapsperger (ca.1580-1651), who is nowadays only famous for his works for theorbo and lute, his remarkable output of vocal music of all…
basso continuo, Kapsperger, vocal music, harpsichord, ornamentation, affetto, passaggi, Rome
So-called "extended techniques" have suffered a consistent lack of understanding from a theoretical, historical and practical point of view.
extended techniques, historically informed performance practice, piano, prepared piano, string piano, cluster and glissando techniques
The thesis wishes to examine the pathways of thought underlying the creative act of music making and the performance practice of complex music from the late twentieth and early twenty-first century.…
Ferneyhoughs, etudes boreales, Cage, Scelsi, Feldman, Xenakis, life-form, Barrett, cello