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Minimalism and time: the perception of temporality in American minimalist music from1958 to 1974
Get PDFThis thesis examines the ways in which American minimalist music affects the listener's perception of temporality by applying the phenomenological approach, particularly that of Husserl, to the music of La Monte Young, Terry Riley, Steve Reich and Philip Glass. The output of each composer, especially between 1958 and 1974, is examined individually, and then a detailed discussion on the relationship between their music and the perception of temporality is given in the final chapter. It will be shown that the durational minimalism of Young can create an apparent state of timelessness, whilst the repetitive minimalism of Riley, Reich and Glass can cause effects as diverse as time retardation and non- directional time. Crucially, it will be shown that different types and styles of minimalist music can cause different effects on the listener’s perception of temporality. The relationship between minimalism in the visual arts and the perception of spatiality will also be discussed - it will be found that the relationship is analogous and instructive
Four Musical Minimalists: La Monte Young, Terry Riley, Steve Reich, Philip Glass
No full textThe American composers la Monte Young, Terry Riley, Steve Reich and Philip Glass are widely regarded as pioneers of the aesthetic and the techniques of minimalism in musical composition during the 1960s and early 1970s. This book offers the most detailed account so far of their early works, putting extensive discussion of the music into a biographical perspective. The true musical minimalism of these years is placed in the wider context of their music as a whole, and considered within the cultural conditions of the period which saw not only the rise of minimalism in the fine arts but also crucial changes in the theory and practice of musical composition in the Western cultivated tradition
American minimal music: La Monte Young, Terry Riley, Steve Reich, Philip Glass
No full textMusik minimal (juga disebut minimalis) adalah bentuk seni musik atau praktik komposisi lainnya yang menggunakan materi musik terbatas atau minimal. Fitur menonjol dari musik minimalis termasuk pola atau denyut yang berulang, drone yang stabil, harmoni konsonan, dan pengulangan frasa musik atau unit yang lebih kecil. Ini mungkin termasuk fitur seperti pergeseran fase, menghasilkan apa yang disebut musik fase, atau teknik proses yang mengikuti aturan ketat, biasanya digambarkan sebagai musik proses. Pendekatan tersebut ditandai dengan pendekatan non-naratif, non-teleologis, dan non-representasional, dan menarik perhatian pada aktivitas mendengarkan dengan memusatkan perhatian pada proses internal musik. Pendekatan ini berasal dari kancah New York Downtown tahun 1960-an dan awalnya dipandang sebagai bentuk musik eksperimental yang disebut Sekolah Hipnotis New York. Dalam tradisi musik seni Barat, komposer Amerika La Monte Young, Terry Riley, Steve Reich, dan Philip Glass dikreditkan sebagai orang pertama yang mengembangkan teknik komposisi yang memanfaatkan pendekatan minimal. Gerakan ini awalnya melibatkan lusinan komposer, meskipun hanya lima (Young, Riley, Reich, Glass, dan kemudian John Adams) muncul untuk dikaitkan secara publik dengan musik minimal Amerika; pionir lain yang kurang dikenal termasuk Pauline Oliveros, Phill Niblock, dan Richard Maxfield. Di Eropa, musik Louis Andriessen, Karel Goeyvaerts, Michael Nyman, Howard Skempton, Eliane Radigue, Gavin Bryars, Steve Martland, Henryk Górecki, Arvo Pärt dan John Tavener menunjukkan ciri-ciri minimalis
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
Book review: Singing Archaeology: Philip Glass's 'Akhnaten' by J Richardson; Four Musical Minimalists: La Monte Young, Terry Riley, Steve Reich, Philip Glass by K Potter; Jonathan Harvey by A Whittall
No full textThis article reviews the following books:
Singing Archaeology: Philip Glass's ‘Akhnaten’ by John Richardson, pp. xiv + 294, ‘Music/Culture’ (Wesleyan University Press, Hanover, NH, & London, 1999, ISBN 0-811195-6342-0); Four Musical Minimalists: La Monte Young, Terry Riley, Steve Reich, Philip Glass by Keith Potter, pp. xv + 390, ’Music in the Twentieth Century‘ (Cambridge University Press, 2000, £45, ISBN 0-521-48250-X); Jonathan Harvey by Arnold Whittall, pp. [vi] + 90 (Faber & Faber, London & Boston, in association with IRCAM, Paris, 1999, £9.99 ISBN 0-571-19581-4)
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
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