Browsing Academy of Music and Drama / Högskolan för scen och musik by Title
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A CRITICAL WEDGE
(2016-06-27)A critical wedge – is an exploration of the in-betweens within performing arts and how they can become gaps for questioning, a place for exploring alternatives. How juxtaposition can be a political tool when composing a ... -
A Journey in the Pathways of Maqam and arranging Muwashahat
(2018-07-31)In this project, I explore the Arabic scalar system “Maqam” through studying, analysing and arranging one of the most traditional Arabic song forms “Muwashah”. I explore the different possibilities of arranging this song ... -
A Microhistory of Congregational Music-Making in Överselö, Stallarholmen 1754
(2018-08-02)In 1754 an organ was built in Överselö Church whose purpose was to accompany the congregational singing. My question in this project is to investigate how the accompaniment of the specific congregational singing in ... -
A musician on stage
(2014-08-06)This work discusses issues around performance; mental training, some exercises for instrument practice, nerves and reactions after mistakes. It includes both my own experiences as well as that of others through interviews. -
A Palette of my Inner Universe – To Use Synesthesia in Artistic Processes
(2021-10-21)In this thesis, the author investigates how the active use of synesthesia can be a tool for artistic work and creative processes, with the aim of finding new creative paths and to find a deeper understanding for inner ... -
About tricks, sensations and relationships- A collection of thoughts on performing, exhibiting skill and creating in contemporary circus.
(2020-06-02)This is a reflection and exploration of creation as a contemporary circus artist today, from the point of view of the same (I am a rope walker). To give myself a compass during the research I have worked with a few ... -
Acquiring the skills to pay the bills
(2013-06-17)This documents my attempts to become a better sight-reader and a faster learner. I proceed by examining literature and interviewing professional musicians and I discover that score- reading, transposing, sight-reading with ... -
Aiming for orchestral career
(2013-05-06)This thesis describes how auditions to symphony orchestras are organized, based on the auditioning experiences of the writer and Richard Davis’s book Becoming an Orchestral Musician – A Guide for Aspiring Professionals. ... -
Akvarell - I en levande musikalisk process
(2013-11-07)Ett utforskande av interpretation utfört i musik, akvarell och ord. En närgången bild av en levande musikalisk process studerad från en inre kärna. Arbetet består utav denna text, tre konserter från våren och sommaren 2013 ... -
An approach to practising Bartok's viola concerto
(2013-06-19)A master’s project on the process of practice that went towards learning the Viola Concerto by Bèla Bartók, with a progressive breakdown of the work and a specific look at the technical difficulties that needed to be ... -
An Exploration of Tone and Vibrato on the Flute in relation to the French Flute School of the Early Twentieth Century
(2017-09-22)Developing and improving sound quality on the flute is one of the fundamental areas of study for all flautists and vibrato is a key issue with regards to this. The flautists associated with the French Flute School mark a ... -
En analys av tre olika kompositionsmetoder
(2020-07-02)Nino Hellberg Håkansson har undersökt hur olika metoder för att skriva musik påverkar de stycken han skriver. Arbetet börjar med att undersöka hur tre av hans kompositioner är uppbyggda. Dessa verk har skrivits med tre ... -
Angående rytm
(2019-10-02)I arbetet undersöks grundläggande rytmiska förhållanden och hur dessa kan beskrivas och systematiseras. Även sätt att beskriva förhållanden och skiften mellan rytmer, likväl som hur olika typer av förändringar påverkar ... -
Ett annat sätt att tänka - Brahms stråkkvartett i a-moll, Op.51b
(2011-09-07)Titel: Ett annat sätt att tänka - Brahms stråkkvartett i a-moll, Op. 51b. Baaserar på ett projekt som gjordes som en del av forskningsarbetet "mot ett konstmusikens utvidgade fält" vid Högskolan för scen och musik, hösten ... -
Applying Epstein’s “Power Practicing” to violin orchestral excerpts
(2021-11-11)This thesis purpose was to find good strategies that would benefit the construction and preparation of orchestral excerpts. In practical terms, how to make an excerpt sound/work without spending hours studying those six ... -
Approaches to practising standard repertoire. In place of the main work, do piece specific exercises improve practice effectiveness and productivity, and prevent the piece from becoming overplayed and tired?
(2018-08-03)Musicians preparing for auditions have to practice a limited repertoire of standard pieces, and it is very easy for the pieces to become stale. This thesis examines practice methodologies and established study books in ... -
Approaching Piazzolla's Music
(2012-06-18)The aim of this degree project is to enhance the understanding of Astor Piazzolla’s musical style. As a method, a comparative approach and pastiche preparation is chosen. Form analyses are mainly the basis of a style study, ... -
Approaching Piazzolla's music
(2012-08-22)The aim of this degree project is to enhance the understanding of Astor Piazzolla’s musical style. As a method, a comparative approach and pastiche preparation is chosen. Form analyses are mainly the basis of a style study, ... -
ARTivistic strategies
(2021-04-01)This is a reflection on contemporary performance work and it’s various strategies and methods in the interdisciplinary field of theatre, dance and performance art. Researching performative art in public space I’m posing ... -
Att beledsaga en koral
(2013-09-17)Att med hjälp av improvisation framföra koraler med olika harmoniseringar och med olika tekniska modeller för att framhäva dess Cantus Firmus är en mycket gammal metod. Detta är en del av utbildningen och en del av ...