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Student Entrepreneurship Projects

Posted on January 22, 2015 by Paul Carr

Me and a colleague have been working with a range of interesting student entrepreneurship projects over the last few months. They range from music for media initiatives to Wedding Bands to the production of a concept album. Here is a … Continue reading →

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More thoughts on Vertical Melodic Analysis

Posted on January 19, 2015 by Paul Carr

After last weeks post on Horizontal melodic analysis – here are a few thoughts I am discussing with students regarding the vertical dimension. Although there any many ways I have considered this through the years – I have condensed it … Continue reading →

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More thoughts on Melody Analysis

Posted on January 12, 2015 by Paul Carr

This weeks musicology lecture examined  ways in which it is possible to analyse popular music melody – specifically from a horizontal perspective. I think this is an area that is under represented in popular music analysis – so here is … Continue reading →

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More Thoughts on Personae and Musical Environment

Posted on November 10, 2014 by Paul Carr

I have just given a lecture on the development of musical personae (mainly influenced by academics such as Cone, Auslander and Moore) and its resonance with musical texture. We began by suggesting the following two types of musical texture Texture … Continue reading →

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Music Theory Online Help: What are the best sites and working methods?

Posted on October 29, 2014 by Paul Carr

This is a very brief post about potential online websites that can assist with music theory. A few of my students asked me about this during the week – and I have found the following two sites that look interesting. … Continue reading →

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Typology of Mixes: How do the change through time?

Posted on October 27, 2014 by Paul Carr

In today’s musicology lecture – we discussed a few ways in which a musical mix can be analyzed. It started by suggesting the following factors as a way to consider recorded sound. We need to think of this as a … Continue reading →

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The Impact of the Musical Elements on Form

Posted on October 20, 2014 by Paul Carr

My yearly lecture on the relationship of the elements of music and musical form took a different approach this year. The lecture began by playing a number of examples taken from the current UK top 10 – that adhere to … Continue reading →

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Music Analysis and the Elements of Music

Posted on October 15, 2014 by Paul Carr

Like I have done for the last few years, I gave my annual lecture to my musicology class regarding the ways that the Elements of Music (EOM) can be a good starting point for analysis. In the UK, the EOM … Continue reading →

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Posted on September 30, 2014 by Paul Carr

Well – its been a very long time since my last blog. Moving house got the better of me – so had no choice but to give in to the pressures 🙂 Anyway, I have just given a presentation at … Continue reading →

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Update on Current Projects: Sting and the Gravitational Pull of Newcastle

Posted on March 13, 2014 by Paul Carr

Just a quick update of some of my activities over the last month or so. So –  not in any particular order – here goes. Firstly, last weekend I contributed to a radio show on The Alarm’s Mike Peters – … Continue reading →

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