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Ralph Shapey and the Search for a New Concept of Musical Continuity, 1939-66
Get PDFThis dissertation creates a narrative for the stylistic development of the American composer, Ralph Shapey, during the first half of his career. Shapey\u27s music represents a fusion of Schoenbergian metamorphic process and Varèsian stasis, methods for the creation of musical continuity that are usually considered incompatible. I show how Shapey formulated his compositional techniques, influenced by his teacher, Stefan Wolpe, and his friend, Edgard Varèse.
Shapey\u27s interest in the music of Schoenberg was mediated through the prism of Wolpe\u27s musical ideas. Wolpe used unordered pitch-class sets to present the aggregate in his music, and avoided Schoenberg\u27s neo-classic and neo-baroque forms in favor of more fluid continuity procedures. Shapey developed an interest in the use of block forms through his study of the music of Béla Bartók, Olivier Messiaen and Edgard Varèse. He began to employ techniques derived from Varèse\u27s music during the mid-1950s, including the use of static constructions and the exploitation of a wide musical space. At the same time, he continued to use the procedures of pitch organization that he had learned from Wolpe. During the early 1960s, Shapey synthesized the opposing musical tendencies represented by Wolpe\u27s dynamic narrative processes and Varèse\u27s use of stasis.
Chapter 1 outlines Wolpe\u27s compositional pedagogy, and shows how Shapey applied his teacher\u27s concepts in his student works. Chapter 2 explores Shapey\u27s vacillation during the early 1950s between traditional methods of motivic development and the creation of sound blocks. Chapter 3 addresses Shapey\u27s abandonment of the concept of metamorphic process in favor of stasis during the years 1954-58. Chapter 4 covers Shapey\u27s systematization of his new compositional techniques in the years 1959-61. Chapters 5 and 6 examine Shapey\u27s synthesis of metamorphic process and stasis during the early 1960s. Chapter 7 presents a detailed analysis of movement IV of Shapey\u27s Incantations for Soprano and Ten Instruments (1961), illustrating Shapey\u27s use of the technique of varied repetition as a continuity device. The dissertation concludes with a comparison of Shapey\u27s compositional pedagogy and that of Stefan Wolpe, showing similarities in their discussion of pitch, rhythm, musical space and counterpoint
Cross-Modality Domain Adaptation Challenge (crossMoDA)
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Shapey, J., Kujawa, A., Dorent, R., Wang, G., Bisdas, S., Dimitriadis, A., Grishchuck, D., Paddick, I., Kitchen, N., Bradford, R., Saeed, S., Ourselin, S., & Vercauteren, T. (2021). Segmentation of Vestibular Schwannoma from Magnetic Resonance Imaging: An Open Annotated Dataset and Baseline Algorithm [Data set]. The Cancer Imaging Archive. https://doi.org/10.7937/TCIA.9YTJ-5Q7
Tiny infinity for orchestra and Stefan Wolpe\u27s Zone technique and Ralph Shapey\u27s late music: an intensive analysis of String Quartet no.9
No full textdissertationSchool of MusicMusicThis dissertation consists of two components, a composition for orchestra entitled Tiny Infinity and a theoretical study entitled "Stefan Wolpe\u27s Zone Technique and Ralph Shapey\u27s Late Music: An Analysis of the Introduction Movement of Shapey\u27s String Quartet No. 9 ." The article presents a comparative analysis of the first sections of Ralph Shapey\u27s Form for piano and Stefan Wolpe\u27s Form for piano, exploring how Wolpe\u27s zone technique is integral to both composers\u27 methods for working with the pitches of a twelve-tone row. The comparative analysis of the Form compositions elucidates how Wolpe\u27s zone technique contributed to Shapey\u27s development of the serial precompositional structure use in his late serial music, the Mother Lode worksheet. Finally, the study explores how the Mother Lode worksheet is deployed in the Introduction movement of String Quartet No. 9 and contextualizes Shapey\u27s self-imposed label of "radical traditionalist.
Boston University Percussion Ensemble, November 23, 2004
Get PDFThis is the concert program of the Boston University Percussion Ensemble performance on Tuesday, November 23, 2004 at 8:00 p.m., at the Concert Hall, 855 Commonwealth Avenue. Works performed were Ku-Ka Ilimoku by Christopher Rouse, Interchange by Ralph Shapey, Ta and Clap by Nico Muhly, and Third Construction by John Cage. Digitization for Boston University Concert Programs was supported by the Boston University Center for the Humanities Library Endowed Fund
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
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