Unfurl: Folio of Compositions with Commentary

This portfolio of compositions is the result of four years of practice-led research. It consists of nine original scores, all of which are written for acoustic instruments and intended for concert hall performance: 1. Unfurl (2014) — mixed sextet 2. Uhtceare (2014) – mixed quartet 3. Uncanny Vale (2014) — wind quintet 4. Ropes of Maui (2015) — symphony orchestra 5. Cast (2016) — piano soloist and nine players 6. Locks of the Approaching Storm (2016) — mixed octet 7. Monologues & Dialogues (2017) — bass clarinet and piano 8. Betelgeuse Astral Funicular (2017) — sixteen players 9. Three Movements for String Quartet (2017) — string quartet In the commentary, these compositions are discussed in terms of a series of interconnected dialectical relationships: motion and stasis; line and circle; continuity and discontinuity; change and repetition; unity and disunity. These oppositions provide ways of illuminating the shared features of the portfolio, whilst also demonstrating what makes each work unique. In addition, the commentary reflects the developing nature of my practice over the course of the PhD. It does so by illustrating the continuous process of analysing, refining, and expanding my repertoire of constructive compositional techniques. Finally, this music represents the confluence of a wide range of influences, musical and otherwise. These are too numerous to acknowledge comprehensively, and so are outlined selectively where they help to elucidate specific aesthetic ideas and technical processes

Non-Standard Sound Synthesis with Dynamic Models

Full version unavailable due to 3rd party copyright restrictions.This Thesis proposes three main objectives: (i) to provide the concept of a new generalized non-standard synthesis model that would provide the framework for incorporating other non-standard synthesis approaches; (ii) to explore dynamic sound modeling through the application of new non-standard synthesis techniques and procedures; and (iii) to experiment with dynamic sound synthesis for the creation of novel sound objects. In order to achieve these objectives, this Thesis introduces a new paradigm for non-standard synthesis that is based in the algorithmic assemblage of minute wave segments to form sound waveforms. This paradigm is called Extended Waveform Segment Synthesis (EWSS) and incorporates a hierarchy of algorithmic models for the generation of microsound structures. The concepts of EWSS are illustrated with the development and presentation of a novel non-standard synthesis system, the Dynamic Waveform Segment Synthesis (DWSS). DWSS features and combines a variety of algorithmic models for direct synthesis generation: list generation and permutation, tendency masks, trigonometric functions, stochastic functions, chaotic functions and grammars. The core mechanism of DWSS is based in an extended application of Cellular Automata. The potential of the synthetic capabilities of DWSS is explored in a series of Case Studies where a number of sound object were generated revealing (i) the capabilities of the system to generate sound morphologies belonging to other non-standard synthesis approaches and, (ii) the capabilities of the system of generating novel sound objects with dynamic morphologies. The introduction of EWSS and DWSS is preceded by an extensive and critical overview on the concepts of microsound synthesis, algorithmic composition, the two cultures of computer music, the heretical approach in composition, non- standard synthesis and sonic emergence along with the thorough examination of algorithmic models and their application in sound synthesis and electroacoustic composition. This Thesis also proposes (i) a new definition for “algorithmic composition”, (ii) the term “totalistic algorithmic composition”, and (iii) four discrete aspects of non-standard synthesis

Pierre Schaeffers typo-morphology of sonic objects.

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Musical Composition in the Context of Globalization

Since the early transformation of European music practice and theory in the cultural centers of Asia, Latin America, and Africa around 1900, it has become necessary for music history to be conceived globally - a challenge that musicology has hardly faced yet. This book discusses the effects of cultural globalization on processes of composition and distribution of art music in the 20th and 21st century. Christian Utz provides the foundations of a global music historiography, building on new models such as transnationalism, entangled histories, and reflexive globalization. The relationship between music and broader changes in society forms the central focus and is treated as a pivotal music-historical dynamic

Keys to Play: Music as a Ludic Medium from Apollo to Nintendo

How do keyboards make music playable? Drawing on theories of media, systems, and cultural techniques, Keys to Play spans Greek myth and contemporary Japanese digital games to chart a genealogy of musical play and its animation via improvisation, performance, and recreation. As a paradigmatic digital interface, the keyboard forms a field of play on which the book’s diverse objects of inquiry—from clavichords to PCs and eighteenth-century musical dice games to the latest rhythm-action titles—enter into analogical relations. Remapping the keyboard’s topography by way of Mozart and Super Mario, who head an expansive cast of historical and virtual actors, Keys to Play invites readers to unlock ludic dimensions of music that are at once old and new

General Undergraduate Catalog, 2019-2020

Marshall University Undergraduate Course Catalog for the 2019-2020 academic year.https://mds.marshall.edu/catalog_2010-2019/1000/thumbnail.jp

General Undergraduate Catalog, 2016-2017

Marshall University Undergraduate Course Catalog for the 2016-2017 academic year.https://mds.marshall.edu/catalog_2010-2019/1003/thumbnail.jp

General Undergraduate Catalog, 2018-2019

Marshall University Undergraduate Course Catalog for the 2018-2019 academic year.https://mds.marshall.edu/catalog_2010-2019/1001/thumbnail.jp