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A conductor's guide to the Eduard Tubin bass concerto
No full textThis project will guide the reader through the Tubin Bass Concerto. There are moments
in this piece, as with many other concertos, where the conductor needs to know precisely what
will work when considering both the soloist and the orchestra. David Itkin, a well-known
conducting teacher, and author of the book Conducting Concerti, introduces some thoughts that
are considered in this paper. Regrettably, he does not discuss bass concertos in his book. This is
understandable, as the least popular violin concertos are still performed more often than the most
popular bass concertos. This is because the double bass instrument exacerbates many of the
problems that exist in concertos for other instruments. Problems considering tempo, balance,
articulation, phrasing, and tone are mentioned throughout the paper.Thesis (M.M.)School of Musi
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
Tempo variation in the interpretation of Claude Debussy's Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune
No full textThis creative project analyzed seven recordings of Claude Debussy’s Prélude à l'aprèsmidi
d'un faune for their tempo interpretations and offered possible reasons for vastly different
tempo interpretations. Analysis of the recordings shows a wide range in performance length,
spanning from as short as eight and a half minutes to as long as eleven minutes. Tempi were
clocked for their metronome markings and compared to Debussy’s printed tempo markings, of
which none provide specific metronome markings; relationships between tempi were analyzed
for their resemblance to Debussy’s notations. Relationships between the analyzed recordings
were also discussed, as three pairs of recordings share identical performance lengths. Possible
reasons for varying tempo interpretations discussed include a relationship to French symbolist
poetry and its unusual structure and cadence.School of Musi
Di qui non-si passa: Luigi Nono and political engagement in post-war Italy
No full textThis study examines the Italian composer Luigi Nono’s proximity to extremist violence
and state oppression in the period between 1954 and 1968. American scholarship typically
analyzes Nono’s work in this time through a transnational lens. Doing so naturally invites a
comparison to his contemporaries in the Darmstadt School, chief among them Pierre Boulez and
Karlheinz Stockhauzen. This attitude downplays the significance of the Italian composer’s
domestic political affiliations, and the social conflict which followed him as a result. It is within
this period that Nono develops the use of politically charged media as his key operating
procedure. This writing argues that Nono’s proximity to political and social friction was a key
factor in influencing the course of his compositional output, contrary to analyses which primarily
examine contributions to the serial or experimental idioms, and thus do not consider innovations
in source material. This writing uses primary and secondary sources to examine the linear
progression of oppressive events which affected Nono in Italy, and the various ways he engaged
with them. The sources presented in this writing show a pattern of extreme reaction to Nono’s
politically charged composition from the Italian state and far-right; far more than is presented in
the typical survey of his life and works.Thesis (M.M.
Speaking string in the 21st century: a guide to teaching Strum by Jessie Montgomery and Entr'acte by Caroline Shaw
No full textThis paper serves as a guide to non-string playing conductors and music directors who find
themselves wanting to conduct and teach Strum by Jessie Montgomery and/or Entr’acte by
Caroline Shaw to an advanced student ensemble. Both pieces are contemporary string orchestra
works originally conceived as string quartets. In this paper, I describe how to achieve the variety
of bow strokes, extended techniques, and sound effects that are used in Strum and Entr’acte.
Though this paper focuses on those two works, the methods and general information could be
applied to many other pieces as well.Thesis (M.M.
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