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- French Theosophy, Music, Art, and Reception.
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McInall, Piper, Music
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Working towards a larger-scale research venture regarding the Russian composer Alexsandr Skryabin, this project has focused on the creation and reception of theosophically influenced music and art in France. Theosophy, which directly translates to "God's wisdom" was the basis for the founding of the Theosophical Society in 1875, which widely popularized Theosophy and theosophical beliefs. Many composers and artists met and shared ideas through the Theosophical Society's salons, and they...
Show moreWorking towards a larger-scale research venture regarding the Russian composer Alexsandr Skryabin, this project has focused on the creation and reception of theosophically influenced music and art in France. Theosophy, which directly translates to "God's wisdom" was the basis for the founding of the Theosophical Society in 1875, which widely popularized Theosophy and theosophical beliefs. Many composers and artists met and shared ideas through the Theosophical Society's salons, and they incorporated theosophical influences into their art and music. In addition to researching the embodiment of theosophical ideas through art and music, attention has also been devoted to the public's reception of these artistic expressions of theosophy. In preparation for further inquiry into Skryabin's music and beliefs, focus was geared towards his friends, contemporaries, and influences, including the Theosophical Society's presence in France during Skryabin's lifetime.
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- 2015
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- FSU_migr_undergradsymposium2015-0022
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- A Systematic Examination of Music Listening Programming on Engagement/Behavior, Mood, and Cognition of Older Adults with Alzheimer's Disease and Other Related Dementia (ADRD).
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Stapleton, Geordan, Condon, Siera, College of Music
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Dementia is a general term that is used to describe significant decline in mental ability strong enough to interfere with daily life. Dementia impacts a person's level of independence and overall quality of life. Alzheimer's is a type of dementia that specifically causes an alteration in memory, cognition, and behavior. Music therapy involves the use of music to address emotional, cognitive, physical and social deficits. Music therapy, like other types of therapy, should be customized to...
Show moreDementia is a general term that is used to describe significant decline in mental ability strong enough to interfere with daily life. Dementia impacts a person's level of independence and overall quality of life. Alzheimer's is a type of dementia that specifically causes an alteration in memory, cognition, and behavior. Music therapy involves the use of music to address emotional, cognitive, physical and social deficits. Music therapy, like other types of therapy, should be customized to target individual needs. Music therapy can include: listening to music, writing musical lyrics, playing of musical instruments, and even dancing to music. This study will explore the impact of music therapy on elderly patients suffering from Alzheimer's and Other Dementia Related Diseases. The study will specifically conclude which type of music therapy is most effective: pre-recorded music listened to through headphones, live music being played by an instrument, live background music, or clinical group music therapy session. This study will analyze responses to the various forms of therapy in respect to mood, engagement/behavior, and/or cognition.
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- 2015
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- FSU_migr_undergradsymposium2015-0026
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- In the Footsteps of Clara Schumann.
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Falling, Frances, College of Music
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I first became interested in Clara Schumann when I heard her setting of Friedrich Rückert's beautiful poem "Liebst du um Schönheit" during voice seminar at Florida State a few years ago. When I had the opportunity to choose a research topic in my music history class last year, I chose Clara – focusing on her growth from Wunderkind to mature artist, how she has greatly influenced the customs of concerts, and how she championed composers that we consider "greats" today. Throughout the research...
Show moreI first became interested in Clara Schumann when I heard her setting of Friedrich Rückert's beautiful poem "Liebst du um Schönheit" during voice seminar at Florida State a few years ago. When I had the opportunity to choose a research topic in my music history class last year, I chose Clara – focusing on her growth from Wunderkind to mature artist, how she has greatly influenced the customs of concerts, and how she championed composers that we consider "greats" today. Throughout the research process I became more and more intrigued by Clara. She was not only a female performer and composer, and therefore pioneer in her time, but she also carved out a unique partnership with her husband, Robert Schumann. This paper led to my idea for an Honors Thesis Project. Many of the current scholarly works about Clara Schumann have not been translated into English. I was able to contact four of the living research authors and they were amazingly receptive and supportive of my inquiries. This film not only traces the footsteps of Clara Schumann, it also introduces these German scholars to the Florida State University community. Interviews with them bring the life and times of Clara Schumann to life, while also providing valuable insight into how music scholars work. The enthusiasm of these musicologists who live, breathe, and study their subject, certainly inspired me and I believe their insights will spark curiosity in those who have not yet heard of Clara Schumann. This project encompasses not only a short version of all the footage and interviews I took during my journey, but also full-length documentary film, to be available in the music library before I graduate.
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- 2014
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- FSU_migr_uhm-0422
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- The Songwriter's Vision.
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Espendez, Rachel, College of Music
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This creative report aims to present a snapshot of the songwriting approach used by RE (stage name), otherwise known as Rachel Espendez. The singer-songwriter shares her frame of mind regarding her original EP titled The Songwriter's Vision. This EP features three songs with pop, acoustic, and R&B styles.
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- 2014
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- FSU_migr_uhm-0341
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- Energy and Balance: Process, Form and Harmonic Magnetism in Michael Torke's July.
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Heilig, John Clifford, College of Music
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Michael Torke's July (1995) for saxophone quartet is a piece that fits within the post-minimalist style, but contains influences from many other styles of music, both contemporary and classical. In my thesis I will examine the different musical processes found in July, propose a new way of understanding the piece's harmonic structure, and then construct an overall reading of the form based on the piece's motivic and harmonic processes. The first chapter, "Harmony," begins by looking at the...
Show moreMichael Torke's July (1995) for saxophone quartet is a piece that fits within the post-minimalist style, but contains influences from many other styles of music, both contemporary and classical. In my thesis I will examine the different musical processes found in July, propose a new way of understanding the piece's harmonic structure, and then construct an overall reading of the form based on the piece's motivic and harmonic processes. The first chapter, "Harmony," begins by looking at the sixteenth-note ostinato, which I have labeled "the groove" (Example 1). The pitches found in the two voices revolve around a pair of alternating triads, F major and E!major. Using this information I construct a system that explains how these triads coexist within the piece's B!major key signature. Rather than understanding this piece as centered on B!as a tonal home, I propose that it resides within a B! diatonic space, a theoretical sphere that contains all of the pitches found in B!major. I compare this space to a magnetic field, and then take this concept of harmonic magnetism and apply it to the circle of fifths, which helps to explain many of the harmonic relationships between and within the larger sections of the piece (Example 2). The following chapter, "Music as Process", follows the work's musical transformations. Alongside the groove there are two recurring motives in this piece, found originally in the soprano and baritone saxophones, which I label the S and B motives, respectively. (Example 3). The first few processes involve only rhythm, but soon after Torke starts experimenting with textural and then harmonic transformations that propel the music into the contrasting second section. After establishing the motivic and harmonic processes I look to see how they would fit into a larger formal plan. While form in minimalist music can be difficult to determine due to the gradually changing nature of the style, there are many aspects of this piece that resemble a typical eighteenth-century sonata form. While there aren't true primary and secondary themes as one would find in Mozart or Beethoven, I consider the lack of groove and new rhythmic identity of the second larger section of this piece contrasting enough to consider it as a "second theme." Following the second theme there is a false recapitulation that quickly collapses into the development. The development in this piece attempts to rebuild the original themes, and after several attempts, succeeds in doing so, bringing about the true recapitulation. Only the first theme returns in this final section, forgoing the second theme for a new closing theme based on the opening material. There is then a brief coda reminiscent of the very beginning of the piece, ending the music where it began. Torke's seamless combination of modern techniques and Classical form allows him to capture the energy and momentum of minimalist music within the balance and structure of a sonata.
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- 2014
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- FSU_migr_uhm-0442
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- The Cellists' Guide to Finger Independence: The Finger Independence Works of D.C. Dounis Arranged for Cello.
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Sinha, Javier, College of Music
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Finger independence is an extremely difficult skill to learn on any instrument. While pianists and violinists have a wealth of teaching material for finger independence, there has been very little material written for the cello. This essay was written to fill this gap in the pedagogical resources available to cellists. Dr. Demetrios Constantine Dounis was both a virtuoso violinist as well as a medical doctor. Using his medical school specializations of psychiatry and neurology as well as his...
Show moreFinger independence is an extremely difficult skill to learn on any instrument. While pianists and violinists have a wealth of teaching material for finger independence, there has been very little material written for the cello. This essay was written to fill this gap in the pedagogical resources available to cellists. Dr. Demetrios Constantine Dounis was both a virtuoso violinist as well as a medical doctor. Using his medical school specializations of psychiatry and neurology as well as his violin expertise, he was able to come up with some of the most original and effective technical exercises for the violin. Luckily, finger independence was one technique that Dounis analyzed in depth, and one for which he wrote many different exercises. Unfortunately, these works were written solely for the violin, so most cellists are not even aware they exist, let alone how to practice them. It is with this in mind that these finger independence works by D.C. Dounis have been examined at length and arranged to be played on the cello.
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- 2013
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- FSU_migr_uhm-0188
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- A RITE REVISITED: ANALYZING CHOREOGRAPHIC INTERACTIONS WITH MUSIC INSIDE PINA BAUSCH'S LE SACRE DU PRINTEMPS.
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Savarino, Kimberly, School of Dance
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Igor Stravinsky's musical composition "Le Sacre du Printemps" has created an almost irresistible lure for dance choreographers since it first premiered in 1913. Most view creating their own interpretation of the music as a kind of choreographic "rite" of passage, while some see it as a monumental challenge waiting to be met–others are simply commissioned to try their hand. Although it has been almost a century since "Le Sacre du Printemps" first premiered, it continues to provoke and interest...
Show moreIgor Stravinsky's musical composition "Le Sacre du Printemps" has created an almost irresistible lure for dance choreographers since it first premiered in 1913. Most view creating their own interpretation of the music as a kind of choreographic "rite" of passage, while some see it as a monumental challenge waiting to be met–others are simply commissioned to try their hand. Although it has been almost a century since "Le Sacre du Printemps" first premiered, it continues to provoke and interest modern dance choreographers and music composers. Of the nearly two hundred versions created, Pina Bausch's 1975 version for the Tanztheater Wuppertal has been often heralded for the intensity and striking interactions that Bausch created between her choreography and Stravinsky's score. Why is this? Through analysis of "Le Sacre du Printemps"' score, its recorded music, and video documentation of the Tanztheater Wuppertal performing the piece, this project has attemped to delve into the ways that Bausch choreographically interpreted Stravinsky's music.
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- 2013
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- FSU_migr_uhm-0215
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- Velopharyngeal Insufficiency In A Clarinet Player: A First Hand Case Study.
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Behel, Kensley, College of Music
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The purpose of this study is to describe how Velopharyngeal Insufficiency (VPI) presented in a professional woodwind player and the corrective measures that were taken to fix the problem. In addition, this project examines the issue from two perspectives, how SVPI and VPI can be found in other musicians, and how they are treated. The project will also give a general overview of how to handle the physical and musical challenges in musician with this problem.
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- 2013
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- FSU_migr_uhm-0167
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- Decoding Dubstep: A Rhetorical Investigation of Dubstep's Development from the Late 1990s to the Early 2010s.
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Bradley, Laura, Department of English
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This thesis will rhetorically analyze dubstep, a British electronic music genre that has now achieved international fame, through two rhetorical frameworks. My interest in this project began with a love for the music itself, and developed as I realized how little attention has been paid to electronic music genres by rhetorical scholars. These genres are rich with musical sampling and intertextuality, making them a great place for collaboration between music theory and rhetorical scholarship....
Show moreThis thesis will rhetorically analyze dubstep, a British electronic music genre that has now achieved international fame, through two rhetorical frameworks. My interest in this project began with a love for the music itself, and developed as I realized how little attention has been paid to electronic music genres by rhetorical scholars. These genres are rich with musical sampling and intertextuality, making them a great place for collaboration between music theory and rhetorical scholarship. First, this project examines the cultural context that made and shaped the genre using Lloyd Bitzer's rhetorical situation framework to identify dubstep's rhetorical exigence, audience, and constraints. I chose Bitzer's framework to locate cultural context because of is close examination of exigence, audience and constraints in shaping rhetorical bodies. Then I will use Ernest Bormann's fantasy theme analysis to look more closely at the musical texts themselves, analyzing the musical narrative through sampled lyrics as products of the previously studied rhetorical situation. Dubstep's original exigence was to provide an overwhelming experience to overtake the body and allow its rhetorical audience (a small electronic music community of producers and potential producers) to confront a communal sense of individual anxieties, isolation, and disappointment with their urban environment and society. When the music gained fame and the audience became wider spread and less culturally connected to its roots, a schism occurred and the exigence changed to one of bacchanalian release, as producers made music to let a crowd let loose and blow off steam. This shift caused a notable change, and the change can be observed in the shifting fantasy themes within the musical texts. The fantasy theme of isolation, for instance, shifted from moody and gloomy isolation to violent rejection of societal rules. This project highlights the importance of audience in shaping a rhetorical body, and also demonstrates rhetoric's utility in analyzing electronic music, which is full of intertextual sampling.
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- 2013
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- FSU_migr_uhm-0163
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- Registration in the Female Singing Voice Across Triads.
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Dolly, Claire, Communication Sciences & Disorders
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A smooth register transition is a fundamental aspect of the classically trained singing voice. The purpose of this study is to examine the physiological and acoustical bases of the vocal techniques used by trained female singers to transition across the primo passaggio in triads. Triad recordings from ten female singers at various levels of training were analyzed physiologically with an electroglottograph (EGG) signal and acoustically with spectral analysis. The closing quotient (CQ)...
Show moreA smooth register transition is a fundamental aspect of the classically trained singing voice. The purpose of this study is to examine the physiological and acoustical bases of the vocal techniques used by trained female singers to transition across the primo passaggio in triads. Triad recordings from ten female singers at various levels of training were analyzed physiologically with an electroglottograph (EGG) signal and acoustically with spectral analysis. The closing quotient (CQ) measurements obtained from the EGG signal revealed three patterns among the subjects, a decreasing, an increasing, and a stabilized CQ across the register transition. The number of the dominant harmonic decreased across the register transition for the professional singers in contrast to the other subjects who maintained a relatively stable harmonic number. The frequency and amplitude of the dominant harmonic remained relatively stable for all the subjects. Data analysis concluded that the method used by the most experienced singers for smoothing the passaggio involved resonating a lower harmonic across the primo passaggio while maintaining a stable vocal tract and laryngeal adjustment.
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- 2012
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- FSU_migr_uhm-0090
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- Using Boundary Element-Based Near-field Acoustic Holography to Predict the Source Pressures and Sound Field of an Acoustic Guitar.
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Goldsberry, Benjamin, Mathematics
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In recording studios, the placement of microphones to record an acoustic guitar is very much subjected to trial and error and audio engineer preference. In order to make more informed microphone placement decisions, Near-field Acoustic Holography is used to study the sound pressures of the guitar. This technique involves solving the integral formulation of the Helmholtz equation over the surface of the guitar. By measuring the acoustic pressures surrounding the guitar, an inverse problem can...
Show moreIn recording studios, the placement of microphones to record an acoustic guitar is very much subjected to trial and error and audio engineer preference. In order to make more informed microphone placement decisions, Near-field Acoustic Holography is used to study the sound pressures of the guitar. This technique involves solving the integral formulation of the Helmholtz equation over the surface of the guitar. By measuring the acoustic pressures surrounding the guitar, an inverse problem can be solved to derive the pressures on the surface of the guitar. Then, the surface pressures are used to study the pressure propagations in the far-field. Using the superposition of waves principle, chords played on the guitar can be studied by summing the pressure waves of the three notes that make a chord. Studying the wave fields are then used to either validate current microphone techniques, or require new microphone placements and patterns.
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- 2012
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- FSU_migr_uhm-0088
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- Cross Cultural Music Therapy Interview: An analysis of How Music Functions Globally to Elicit Beneficial Change.
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Ohser, Nicolette, College of Music
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The purpose of the Cross Cultural Music Therapy thesis is to record how music functions therapeutically within Spanish, Irish, English and American cultures. Within each culture it involves the comparison of professional protocols, political and cultural implications, cultural music preferences, client population served, choice of music therapy approaches and treatment, educational focus, and specializations. A standard series of in-depth interview questions regarding international music...
Show moreThe purpose of the Cross Cultural Music Therapy thesis is to record how music functions therapeutically within Spanish, Irish, English and American cultures. Within each culture it involves the comparison of professional protocols, political and cultural implications, cultural music preferences, client population served, choice of music therapy approaches and treatment, educational focus, and specializations. A standard series of in-depth interview questions regarding international music therapy concepts was used to identify and expand upon the interventions and objectives that are being practiced across man cultural and geographical boundaries. Detailed, qualitative records of interviews and observations were used to compare and contrast how music is used as therapy across different cultures. Through the research and writing of Cross Cultural Music Therapy the discovery of universal passions and patterns of thinking for music therapist across the world have been shared. The choice in practicing principles, education level, qualifications, and geographical location may differ but the focus and drive for the chosen career field of music therapy has maintained a universally high standard. As the field of music therapy research and practice rapidly grows it is of vital importance that we evaluate the universal truths of music and therapeutic intention by looking beyond our own circle of influence and into those circles we seldom are able to explore. Spending one hour looking through someone else's eyes about the very subject you are most passionate about may be more beneficial in shaping your personal practice than months spent in a class room reading about it in print.
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- 2012
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- FSU_migr_uhm-0133
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- Are Implicit Learning Abilities in Language and Music Related?.
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Boebinger, Dana, Psychology
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One active area of psycholinguistics research seeks to determine whether language acquisition occurs through domain-specific processes or domain-general processes. In other words, are the cognitive resources dedicated to language learning specific to language, or are they part of a more general learning mechanism? One intriguing strategy for investigating this question is through the comparative use of language and music: each is a complex system in which basic auditory elements are combined...
Show moreOne active area of psycholinguistics research seeks to determine whether language acquisition occurs through domain-specific processes or domain-general processes. In other words, are the cognitive resources dedicated to language learning specific to language, or are they part of a more general learning mechanism? One intriguing strategy for investigating this question is through the comparative use of language and music: each is a complex system in which basic auditory elements are combined in hierarchical sequences governed by abstract rules. To understand either language or music, a person must learn these syntactic rules and generalize them to new situations. This study used an artificial grammar construct to investigate whether people learn and process musical and linguistic syntax similarly, and whether there is a correlation between a person's ability to learn complex grammatical systems in multiple modalities. The effect of previous musical experience on sequence learning was also examined. Results showed virtually no correlation between the three implicit learning tasks, suggesting that there is no domain-general implicit learning ability.
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- 2012
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- FSU_migr_uhm-0100
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- The sonic fetish: a study of the Marxist approach to popular music.
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Westlake, Douglas., Florida State University
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Two problems arose during the twentieth century that posed major problems for Marxism: the introduction of the mechanical reproduction of art and the rise of apathy amongst the proletariat. The twentieth century saw the beginning of the dissemination of immaterial artistic media, and it has culminated in the contemporary digital revolution. Nowhere has it had more of an impact than on the realm of popular music. This poses a major problem for aesthetic Marxism, because so many analyses of...
Show moreTwo problems arose during the twentieth century that posed major problems for Marxism: the introduction of the mechanical reproduction of art and the rise of apathy amongst the proletariat. The twentieth century saw the beginning of the dissemination of immaterial artistic media, and it has culminated in the contemporary digital revolution. Nowhere has it had more of an impact than on the realm of popular music. This poses a major problem for aesthetic Marxism, because so many analyses of Marx have focused on his connection to materialism. The revolutionary action of the proletariat was also a much-discussed aspect of Marx's philosophy, and it too posed a major problem for Marxism. By the middle of the twentieth century, the proletariat seemed inactive, and uninterested in advocating change. The Frankfurt school arose to confront these crucial Marxist dilemmas. First and foremost, the members emphasized the theoretical basis of Marxism. Coupled with psychoanalysis the members of the Frankfurt school attempted to explain the Marxist deficiencies. Theodor Adorno became one of the most important members of the Frankfurt school. It was Adorno's notion of the culture industry that saved Marxism from the passive and apathetic proletariat. The cultural apparatus acts to standardize enjoyment, in order to guarantee that every aspect of the proletariat's life is controlled. Adorno explains the cause of the proletariat's apathy, but his dogmatic appeal to materialism was his downfall. If Marxists are going to confront the aesthetic concerns of digital media, they must realize that matter doesn't matter.
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- 2008
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- 471798484, 341822, FSDT341822, fsu:19391
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- Document (PDF)
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- Kircher and Musica pathetica: A translation from Musurgia universalis.
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Tammearu, Peeter, Mathes, James, Spencer, Peter, Brewer, Charles E. (Charles Everett), Florida State University, School of Music
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The concept of Musica Pathetica figures significantly in the encyclopedic Musurgia universalis published in 1650 by Athanasius Kircher (1601-1680). Kircher, a German Jesuit who spent much of his life in Rome, was a polymathic scholar, following in the tradition of Mersenne, and attempted to form a systematic rationalization of the relationship between the Baroque doctrine of the affections and practical musical composition. Beginning from traditional concepts of numerical proportions and the...
Show moreThe concept of Musica Pathetica figures significantly in the encyclopedic Musurgia universalis published in 1650 by Athanasius Kircher (1601-1680). Kircher, a German Jesuit who spent much of his life in Rome, was a polymathic scholar, following in the tradition of Mersenne, and attempted to form a systematic rationalization of the relationship between the Baroque doctrine of the affections and practical musical composition. Beginning from traditional concepts of numerical proportions and the human temperaments and humors, his exposition of the subject puts a particular emphasis on modal theory and the musical literature of the early seventeenth century. A translation is provided for the Latin text of Book VII (Part Three, Chapters One to Five), along with a transcription of the musical examples.
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- 2000
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- FSU_ML4993T362000
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- Thesis