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The Semiology of Music Part 1: Is it the music or our words that are Vague?
This week was the first of a series of lectures on how music REFERS meaning. What I am interested in is any examples of how music imparts meaning using – Saussures simple dyadic model as a starting point. The question … Continue reading
Posted in Musicology
Tagged adagio for strings, gorecki, music analysis, musicology, paul carr, saussure, signified, signifier, tagg
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Vertical Melodic Analysis
Where as my blog last week focused on horizontal melodic analysis – this session concerned the vertical movement of melody. More specifically, the session was related to how tension and release operates when specific note types come up against a … Continue reading
Melodic Analysis: horizontal techniques
This weeks musicology lecture examined ways in which it is possible to analyse popular music melody – specifically from a horizontal perspective. As will be seen in the PowerPoint and the audio stream of the lecture – I get some … Continue reading
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Tagged answer phrase, melodic analysis, motif, music analysis, musical form, musicology, paul carr, question phrase, repetition, section
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Christian Music: Art or Commerce?
I read an article the other day which asked the question, somewhat problematically for me – ‘Is Christian Music Dying’. Inspired by another, much earlier post by Michael Gungor – it focuses upon the relationship between using Art as a … Continue reading
Posted in Academic, Musicology
Tagged Christian, christian music, Genesis, Michael Gungor, paul carr, Supers Ready
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Geoffrey Farmer:Lets Make the Water Turn Black
I have just returned from a great couple of days in Nottingham – giving a keynote address to coincide with Geoffrey Farmer’s amazing sound sculpture – Let’s Make the Water Turn Black. Alongside my two colleagues – Prof. Richard Hand … Continue reading
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Tagged Frank Zappa, geoffrey farmer, let's make the water turn black, Nottingham Contemporary, Object, paul carr, project, Text, Work
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More Analysis of Social Space: Sting’s Dead Mans Boots
Last weeks post commenced with a discussion of the ways in which the background of a musical mix can resonate with the persona in a song – describing it as ‘Inert’, ‘Active’ or ‘oppositional’ (I still need more examples of … Continue reading
Posted in Musicology, podcast
Tagged Allan Moore, analysis, Dead Mans Boots, musicology, paul carr, Song Means, sting, The Last Ship
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The Environment and Persona of a Musical Mix
This week, I have asked students to consider the ontological gap between a singer and the ‘environment’ or textual backing. We started with two simple points: Texture can be ‘physical’ (descriptive sound) and/or ‘rhetorical’ (carry extra-musical meaning). It is the … Continue reading
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Tagged Active, Inert, musicology, Oppositional, paul carr, performance persona, performer, protagonist, real person
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Modern Uses of The Soundbox: Examples of Triangular Mixes
Today in my musicology session – 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. ¨Listen closely for the relationships between instruments … Continue reading
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Tagged Allan Moore, Cluster, Diagonal mix, musicology, paul carr, Ruth Dockaway, The soundbox, Triangular mix
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200 Motels: The Programme Notes that Never Happened!
Editor ‘Frank Zappa and the And’ For those that are interested, here are the programme notes that never happened! Guitarist, satirist, political activist, music technologist film maker and composer, Frank Zappa (1940-1993) has to be objectively considered one of the … Continue reading
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Tagged 200Motels, analysis, Frank Zappa, musicology, paul carr, Programme Notes
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Elements of Music and Impact on Musical Form
My last musicology session discussed the various ways in which the elements of music impacted our appreciation of music. Factors such as dynamics, texture, timbre, harmony, melody etc are interesting – as they can be discussed with all age groups … Continue reading
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Tagged elements of music, music analysis, musical form, musicology, paul carr
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