musical event
collocation in Englishmeaningsofmusicalandevent
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musical
adjective
uk/ˈmjuː.zɪ.kəl/us/ˈmjuː.zɪ.kəl/
related to or connected ...
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event
noun[C]
uk/ɪˈvent/us/ɪˈvent/
anything that happens, especially something important ...
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(Definition ofmusicalandeventfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofmusical event
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But this obviously refers to the intrinsicmusicalevent, and has nothing to do with operatic convention in the broadest sense.
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As an example from the musical domain, imagine an object that represents amusicaleventor 'note'.
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What matters is that she has been encouraged to create amusicaleventwhich has been received with interest and enthusiasm by the teacher.
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Through our diagrammatic interpretation ofmusicaleventcontrol (figures 1-8), we will describe a new scheme for characterising musical control space.
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We begin first with some preliminary definitions and background in section 2, and then describe the components of amusicaleventin detail.
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How close can we get to a transparent reproduction of amusicalevent?
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Classical dance has always denied the relationship between dance gesture and musical gesture: the dance was always inserted into themusicalevent.
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We conclude with suggestions for how gestures might be mapped onto the parts of themusicaleventwe describe.
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Finally, through our diagrammatic interpretation ofmusicaleventcontrol (figures 1 - 8), we have described a new scheme for characterising musical control space.
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However, live performances are as much a social asmusicalevent.
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An apparently abstractmusicaleventcan signify through our interpretation of it relating to a kinaesthetic phenomenon, or indexically signifying a certain manner of time passing, or both.
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There are many musical parameters that could tell us that amusicaleventor passage is 'important' or 'climactic' - loudness and register are only the most obvious.
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Thus, the nature of improvising seems to exist within the joint action of an interactivemusicalevent where the performance is neither mine nor yours but 'ours'.
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The dance was too exact an inscription of the music: repetition of anymusicaleventcould do no more than inspire repetition of its attendant mimed gesture.
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The orchestra continues to play together because their shared participation in themusicaleventgenerates unconscious 'waves of feeling' that enable them to function as a unit.
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These migratory movements cause superficial and radical transformations: the symbolic dimension of themusicaleventis more fully revealed, while the materiality of musical entities and objects is correspondingly reinforced.
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The character is of amusicaleventwhere 'ideas' cannot be 'take(n) back', and where a pathway is mutually established for the continuation of a shared, collective encounter.
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That is, in listening to recording or transmission as the primarymusicalevent, the random fluctuations and interference patterns of the medium become an essential part of the work.
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The complementary category of 'amplification' can work in the same way: the character finds his or her state of mind reflected in the unexpected repetition of amusicalevent.
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