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Terezie Švarcová:
Authors’ Approach to the Vocal Component within the Instrumentation ProcessThis article deals with the use of the human voice within the instrumentation process. It defines three basic situations in which the voice can be found: Dominant role of vocal part, The human voice as an equal partner to other instruments and The human voice and its timbre function. The text also mentions the human […]Articles and studies -
Vratislav Zochr:
Theoretical Concepts of Pitch Organization in the Music of the Arabic and Hindustani Cultural Circle and Their Use in the Author’s Compositions for Oud and SitarThis text presents a summary of the results of my artistic research in the field of string plucked instruments of Hindustani and Arabic cultural area (namely sitar and oud) and their creative use in contemporary Western artificial music. The examples used to demonstrate these possibilities are taken from my own compositions, which, in addition to…Articles and studies -
Margaret Collins Stoop:
Contemporary Composition for XiaoThis paper discusses a cross-cultural approach to music composition, specifically as it relates to my own compositions for the xiao, a Chinese end-blown flute made of bamboo. Cross-cultural composition is understood here as the inclusion of non-western instruments in ensembles with western orchestral instruments and reflects a striving toward…Articles and studies -
Geoffroy Colson:
Te Vārua o te Auahi: Channelling Traditional Arts into the Operatic Genre Through Practice-Led ResearchIn 1785, at Covent Garden, London, Omai, Or, A Trip Round the World, a pantomime with music by English composer William Shield was premiered. Although the music aesthetics were predominantly Western, in paying much attention to the realism of the scenery, the work represented a “proto-ethnomusicological” effort to display and recreate…Articles and studies -
Colleen Christina Schmuckal:
Advantages of a Traditional Centre for Compelling Modernity: Examining the Roles of Japanese Traditional Instruments in Contemporary Music Through the Analysis of Katsusuke Nakajima’s Mizu no EnNagauta shamisen performer, founder of the genre “Sōsaku Kamigata-Jōruri”, and Japanese composer Tōon Katsusuke was a prolific forward thinker of traditional instruments and music through a complex web of musical practices, historic roles, and deeply developed traditions with new and creative compositional solutions. His composition, Mizu…Articles and studies -
Devon Osamu Tipp:
Mamoru Fujieda’s Plant Language: Hybrid Approaches to Composing for KotoComposer Mamoru Fujieda (b. 1955) has carved out an intercultural musical world essential to his artistic language. Fujieda’s work is informed by the electrical activity emitted from plants and its translation into sound, American minimalism and microtonality, gamelan music and traditional Japanese musical mediums. This paper analyzes the Third…Articles and studies