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Nordic Tone: Redrawing borders of culture and boundaries of style.

Presentation / Conference
Medbøe, H. (2012, July)
Nordic Tone: Redrawing borders of culture and boundaries of style. Paper presented at International Musicological Society, Rome, Italy
Historians and educators have traditionally presented the century long evolution of jazz in a linear, canonical fashion. Applications of this model are often limited to the mu...

Contextual incongruity and musical congruity: the aesthetics and humour of mash-ups

Journal Article
Brøvig-Hanssen, R., & Harkins, P. (2012)
Contextual incongruity and musical congruity: the aesthetics and humour of mash-ups. Popular Music, 31, 87-104. https://doi.org/10.1017/S026114301100047X
The academic literature on mash-ups has been dominated by discussions about issues relating to their illegal nature and infringement of copyright. We aim to appraise this musi...

Groovin’ High and Low: exploring the jazz vernacular.

Presentation / Conference
Medbøe, H. (2013, April)
Groovin’ High and Low: exploring the jazz vernacular. Paper presented at Rhythm Changes 2013, Salford UK
Debate over origin and authenticity aside, the musical language of jazz is today spoken and understood amongst a diversity of communities the world over. Standard repertoire, ...

Towards a Critical Consideration of Higher Popular Music Education: 5 Questions and some proposed answers

Presentation / Conference
Moir, Z. (2018, June)
Towards a Critical Consideration of Higher Popular Music Education: 5 Questions and some proposed answers. Paper presented at Association of Popular Music Education Annual Conference, Tennessee, USA
No abstract available.

Towards a fusion of western classical/contemporary and traditional Scots bagpipe composition techniques: "Manntaireachd".

Thesis
Davidson, L. Towards a fusion of western classical/contemporary and traditional Scots bagpipe composition techniques: "Manntaireachd". (Thesis)
Edinburgh Napier University. Retrieved from http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/6492
The body of research that this document accompanies and which forms a folio of compositions has sought to develop a new type of music utilising elements from both the western ...

Kenneth Leighton, Quartets 1 & 2, Seven Variations for String Quartet op. 43.

Digital Artefact
Burrin, P., Bailey, M., Beeston, M., & Stanzeleit, S. (2002)
Kenneth Leighton, Quartets 1 & 2, Seven Variations for String Quartet op. 43
Edinburgh Quartet play the quartet works of the highly respected Kenneth Leighton. "Their infinite ability to sustain and constantly to change colour make them a perfect vehic...

Towards a notion of cultural soundscape as an informant to original music composition - with particular reference to that of the Maltese Islands

Thesis
Zammit, V. Towards a notion of cultural soundscape as an informant to original music composition - with particular reference to that of the Maltese Islands. (Thesis)
Napier University. Retrieved from http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/6048
In this folio of compositions, which includes orchestral, chamber, electroacoustic and solo pieces, an attempt was made to capture some aspects that constitute the Maltese cul...

The Dancing-Master's Toolkit: a Summary of the Pochette of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries and its Role in Society

Journal Article
Durkin, R. (2017)
The Dancing-Master's Toolkit: a Summary of the Pochette of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries and its Role in Society. The Galpin Society journal, LXX, 65-79
The pochette or kit of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries survives in surprisingly large numbers in both specialist and general collections, and displays a variety of fo...

Sohal’s String Quartet No.2

Exhibition / Performance
Burrin, P., Bailey, M., Beeston, M., & Mutter, C. (2006)
Sohal’s String Quartet No.2. 25 July 2006 - 25 July 2006. (Unpublished
No abstract available.

Music From The Mundane: Found Sounds and Popular Music Composition

Presentation / Conference
Moir, Z. (2018, June)
Music From The Mundane: Found Sounds and Popular Music Composition. Paper presented at Association of Popular Music Education Annual Conference, Tennessee, USA
No abstract available.