Browsing Doctoral Theses / Doktorsavhandlingar Högskolan för scen och musik by Title
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A Field of Possibilities: Designing and Playing Digital Musical Instruments
(2011-11-04)This thesis focuses on a set of digital musical instruments I have designed and developed with ensemble improvisation in mind. The intention is not to create a universal improvisational instrument, but rather to create a ... -
An Inexplicable Hunger – flutist)body(flute (dis)encounters
(2019-03-18)This doctoral research is structured by singular encounters, that happened between 2014 and 2018. Together with a series of collaborators, I have developed a critical and poetic methodology through what I call “mixture”, ... -
An Operatic Game Changer: The Opera Maker as Game Designer and the Potentials of Ludo-Immersive Opera
(2022-01-28)How can live-performed chamber operas be conceptualized as immersive games with interactive features? This artistic study has resulted in a system model through which degrees of immersion may be generated and analyzed from ... -
Att ge form åt musikaliska gestaltningar. En socialsemiotisk studie av körledares multimodala kommunikation i kör
(2009-08-27)The purpose of this thesis is to identify and describe how musical interpretations and performances are semiotically designed and realised by choir conductors in their interaction with choir singers during rehearsals and ... -
Att göra plats för traditioner. Antagonism och kunskapsproduktion inom folk- och världsmusik
(2020-03-03)The aim of this thesis is to critically examine the educational area of folk and world music within higher education in Sweden, with a focus on questions of knowledge, power, and governance. The study is ethnographic and ... -
Att peka ut det osynliga i rörelse: En didaktisk studie av taktart i musik
(2010-09-30)The aim of this study is to examine what constitutes being able to discern time in music, as seen from the learner’s perspective. Listening is not only regarded as a higher mental process but also as a core skill in musical ... -
Att skapa ordning för det estetiska i skolan. Diskursiva positioneringar i samtal med lärare och skolledare
(2006)Recent rhetoric on aesthetic activities of the school has gained an increasingly large scope over the last few decades in Swedish texts on educational politics and educational science. In relation to the questioning of ... -
En avestetiserad skol- och lärandekultur. En studie om lärprocessers estetiska dimensioner
(2015-03-02)In this dissertation teaching and learning is studied based on the concepts of arts-based learning processes and the methods of art. I discuss the ontology of arts-based learning processes in relation to arts methods and ... -
Barns musikkomponerande i tradition och förändring
(2012-07-19)This thesis focuses on education at Swedish community music and arts schools and at primary schools. The aim of the study is to contribute to knowledge formation within the field of music education by examining how ... -
Before Sound: Transversal Processes in Site-Specific Sonic Practice
(2018-10-24)This doctoral research explores the capacity of site-specific practices of sound installation to bring about transformation. It claims that in order to understand this capacity, we need to address the complexity of the ... -
Circumscribing Tonality: Upper Secondary Music Students Learning the Circle of Fifths
(2020-09-29)The fundamental motivation for this research project is that listening is central to all musical activities, and that semiotic means for visualizing, representing, and conceptualizing music are central to educational ... -
Claiming Space: Discourses on Gender, Popular Music, and Social Change
(2011-01-27)This compilation (portfolio) thesis explores how language is used in the context of gender-equity music initiatives to construct ideas about gender, popular music, and social change. More specifically, it examines the use ... -
Den klingande verklighetens föränderlighet: Mot ett vidgat gestaltningsutrymme
(2022-05-06)For artists, the impact of the symbols in a score on interpretational positions may on some occasions be experienced as problematic. This is especially the case for artists, experiencing the classical musical tradition to ... -
Free Ensemble Improvisation
(2009-05-14)The aim of this doctoral project has been to study so-called non-idiomatic improvisation in ensembles consisting of two or three musicians who play together without any restrictions regarding style or genre and without ... -
Imagination, Form, Movement and Sound: Studies in Musical Improvisation
(2008)How does one improvise? How can one learn the art of improvisation? By considering these two questions this thesis aspires to make a contribution towards a greater understanding of what the production of improvised music ... -
Jag går från läsning till gestaltning - beskrivningar ur en monologpraktik
(2012-01-04)I go from reading to performing. Descriptions from a monologue practice is a dissertation based on an actor’s work with monologues. The path of work is traced and described from a practitioner’s perspective. Concrete ... -
Jazz in Worship and Worship in Jazz: Exploring the musical language of Liturgical, Sacred, and Spiritual Jazz in a Postsecular Age
(2021-05-21)The aim of this dissertation is to identify musical elements that contribute to the generation of religious meaning in jazz performance and to explore how religious experience can inspire jazz composition. In this study, ... -
Den kapitalistiska skådespelaren – aktör eller leverantör?
(2014-03-03)The dissertation revolves around an actor’s craft as a changing craft. Theatre workers - like many other professions in Sweden – have experienced major changes in the labour market during a relatively short period of time. ... -
“Lasciatemi morire” o farò “La Finta Pazza”: Embodying Vocal Nothingness on Stage in Italian and French 17th Century Operatic Laments and Mad Scenes
(2011-05-16)This music research drama thesis explores and presents a singer’s artistic research process from the first meeting with a musical score until the first steps of the performance on stage. The aim has been to define and ... -
Musik som handling. Verkanalys, interpretation och musikalisk gestaltning. Med ett studium av Anders Eliassons Quartetto d'Archi
(2009-05-25)The aim of the dissertation is to illustrate the potential musical analysis has in the development of artistic questions with regard to the interpretation and performance of western art music. The analyses of the ...