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- Adler-McKean, Jack
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Brass instruments, techniques, and repertoire in the early twenty-first century
- 2024
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Ingår i: The Oxford Handbook of Wind Instruments.
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This chapter assess the state of brass instruments and their associated repertoire and performance practices in the early twenty-first century. Technological innovations and manufacturing developments from recent decades are outlined, as well an examination of how performance techniques have evolved and adapted to meet the demands of modern musicians. Finally, an overview is given of contemporary composition for brass, including examples of repertoire for trumpet, horn, trombone, and tuba, as well as ensemble deployment in compositions from the last quarter-century.
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- Adler-McKean, Jack
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The History and Future of the Tuba Family : Material-, Resonance-, and Performance-Based Perspectives
- 2024
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Ingår i: Timbre and Orchestration Resource.
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper proposes an examination of the intersections of materiality, acoustics, and musical performance practice through the prism of instruments of the tuba family.[*] Investigation into the symbiotic relationship between instrumental evolution and performance practice is a crucial facet of any study of timbre and orchestration. The development of musical objects to produce the sound colors demanded by aesthetic trends and compositional desires (or vice versa) has an inevitable impact upon both performance and pedagogical traditions. Gone unchecked, such transformations can easily solidify as common practices, and are soon followed unquestioningly by new generations of performers. This can result in a rarefication of the palette of timbres available to musicians, be they interested in evaluating the music of the past or exploring the music of the future.Such a risk is particularly acute in the case of the tuba family, the least-examined subsection of the labrosones (or “brass” instruments), and as such particularly vulnerable to isolationist performance practices.[1] Such “ghettos of interest” (Wills, 1997, p. 176) are reflected in contemporary academic and performance-based practices, implying an urgent need to both propagate an understanding of, and develop a means of knowledge transfer between, the organological, acoustical, physiological, and logistical parameters which define how music is made using instruments of the tuba family. Performance-based historical organology and acoustic analysis can illuminate how an instrument’s history informs discussions concerning the sound colors available to performers and composers. An interdisciplinary critical-experimental approach to a wide range of knowledge sources—from early-nineteenth-century newspaper reports to electro-acoustic organological experimentation—can thus provide a means of examining the complex relationship that performers have with their instruments.Attending to the above assessment, this article demonstrates how analytical processes can be applied to tuba family performance and pedagogical practices, book-ended by two diverse case studies. I first employ a combination of historical organology and practice-based research to illustrate how instruments of the tuba family that preceded the invention of the valve in around 1814 evolved as composers began adopting them into their orchestras. Audio-visual resources are then presented as a means of overcoming entrenched uncritical interpretational traditions. Following this, an overview of twentieth- and twenty-first-century appraisals of the tuba family juxtaposes the benefits provided by an acoustics- and resonance-based analysis of labrosones. This is then demonstrated in my second case study, which presents nascent findings from my ongoing experiments with electroacoustic resonant systems. These examples demonstrate how both historical and analytical organology can be used in combination with artistic research to form a rigorous, historical- and data-driven study that has the potential to have significant impact on contemporary performance practice.
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- al-Salami, Khadija
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Nojoom : age 10 and divorced
- 2014
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Annan publikation (populärvet., debatt m.m.)abstract
- En 10-årig jemenitisk flicka går in i en rättssal i Sana'a och bönfaller domaren att bevilja henne skilsmässa - flickans namn är Nojoom. Från rättssalen får vi följa hennes väg från barndomens trygghet på den jemenitiska landsbygden, till familjens flytt till huvudstaden där hon snart blir bortgift till en äldre man för att familjen ska klara ekonomin. Nojooms man tar henne med tillbaka till landsbygden, där hennes tidigare trygga barndomsvärld nu förvandlats till något skrämmande och hotfullt. Nojoom är stark skildring av ett dysfunktionellt och segregerat samhälle, men på samma gång en vaccker berättelse om en ung flicka som vågar stå upp för sin rätt att vara barn i frihet. Nojoom bygger på en bästsäljande verklighetsbaserad bok från 2009 om en verklig händelse där en liten bortgift flicka i Jemen efter en lång kamp beviljas skilsmässa. Boken publicerades 2009 och är nu utgiven i 35 länder och översatt till 16 språk.
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- Almahfali, Mohammed, et al.
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Photographs and Film for Freedom and Democracy in Yemen
- 2018
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Bok (populärvet., debatt m.m.)abstract
- A three-language book Swedish, English and Arabic, that includes the information about the project entitled: Photograph and Film for freedom and Democracy, that funded by Swedish Institute, and Organized by Ibn Rushd Association and pertnership with Yemeni Idintity Organization and Lund University, among other partners. Also, it contains the thirty photos that have been shown in Yemen Art Exhibition, Malmo, Lund and Kristianstad.
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