College of Fine Arts
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URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2144/972
The Boston University College of Fine Arts is a vibrant community of artists that brings together the School of Music, the School of Theatre, and the School of Visual Arts. Established in 1954, CFA offers professional training in the arts in conservatory-style environments for undergraduate and graduate students, complemented by a liberal arts curriculum for undergraduate students. Education at the College of Fine Arts begins on the BU campus and extends into Boston—a rich center of cultural, artistic, and intellectual activity—and reaches beyond the city to international programs as well.
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A clustering-based approach to automatic harmonic analysis: an exploratory study of harmony and form in Mozart’s piano sonatas
(Ubiquity Press, Ltd., 2022-10-13)We implement a novel approach to automatic harmonic analysis using a clustering method on pitch-class vectors (chroma vectors). The advantage of this method is its lack of top-down assumptions, allowing us to objectively ... -
A plural pedagogy for graphic design history
(2022-10-20)As part of the 2022 AIGA National Conference in Seattle, Washington, the DEC will host the SURFACE mini-conference on Thursday, October 20th, 2022. SURFACE will feature peer-reviewed papers, panels, workshops, posters, ... -
Musical ritual and ritual music: music as a spiritual tool and religious ritual accompaniment
(Peer-reviewed online journal, Musicological Annual, 2022-07-29)Music as a ceremonial accompaniment creates a sacred time and space for musical rites of passage, and recitation of sacred text may be interpreted as a musical ritual. This article discusses music as a “tool” in religious ... -
Sonicization of gender in Tanzania kwaya congregational music
(Institute for Promoting Research & Policy Development (IPRPD), 2022)In this article, I introduce issues related to the embodiment of gendered sound in contemporary Tanzanian Christian choral communities (East Africa). By pulling back the layers of meaning that frequently veil congregational ... -
A student-centered approach to middle school chorus
(2023-02-15)[Students who enroll in middle school chorus have a wide range of previous knowledge about music. Popular music reflects the students’ interests and passions, but it does not fit into traditional pedagogies or prescribed ... -
Wreaths for Rahn, and valuable exchanges
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Steve Reich’s signature rhythm and an introduction to rhythmic qualities
(Oxford University Press (OUP), 2021-03-17)The rhythm of Steve Reich’s Clapping Music (1972) features in so many of his pieces that it can be understood as a rhythmic signature. A theory of rhythmic qualities allows us to identify the signature rhythm’s significant ... -
Analysis of analysis: using machine learning to evaluate the importance of music parameters for Schenkerian analysis
(TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD, 2016-07-01)While criteria for Schenkerian analysis have been much discussed, such discussions have generally not been informed by data. Kirlin [Kirlin, Phillip B., 2014 “A Probabilistic Model of Hierarchical Music Analysis.” Ph.D. ... -
Voice-leading transformation and generative theories of tonal structure
(Society for Music Theory, 2015-12)Numerous generative approaches to explaining tonal structure and/or Schenker’s theories have been proposed since Babbitt noted a resemblance between Schenker’s analytical method and Chomskian generative grammars in 1965. ...
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