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• Using the Trumpet to Create Metal: Jerome’s Reise um Die Erde (2019) author(s): Jerome Burns Limited publication. Only visible to members of the portal : KC Research Portal
  The purpose of the present research was initially to explore new ways of playing the trumpet by fusing elements of metal into improvisation, seeking to achieve an authentic metal sound on the trumpet. Can and should the trumpet be used to create and experiment with heavy metal sounds, especially after intently studying Stockhausen’s LICHT opera cycle? The research project is multifaceted, combining my own personal dedication and keen interests in Meshuggah and Stockhausen together to unveil unexplored territory for the trumpet. An exploration of the music of groundbreaking metal band Meshuggah and researching ways of bringing trumpet playing to the world of metal led to deeper explorations of my own improvisations in general. The original idea of fusing trumpet and metal, Stockhausen and Meshuggah, became a new and exciting project altogether.
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• the principal cellist (2019) author(s): Liesbeth Bosboom Limited publication. Only visible to members of the portal : KC Research Portal
  Name: Liesbeth Bosboom Main subject: cello Supervisor: Stefan Petrovic Mastercircle leader: Janet Krause Title: The principal cellist Research question: What does one need to be an effective principal cellist in a symphony orchestra? Over the past few years I have played in several orchestra’s as a tutti player but also as sectional leader. As a tutti player I noticed that there are a lot of different leaders. Some leaders moved a lot while playing, others almost didn’t move. Some showed a lot of entrances, others almost none. Some gave a lot of remarks during the rehearsals and others didn’t say anything. Some of them where open to suggestions from the group, others only wanted to do it their way. When I was leader myself, I sometimes didn’t feel very secure because I didn’t know what exactly was my role. I took this research as an opportunity to found this out. First of all, I did literature research, and soon I realized that not so many people wrote about this subject. Next to the few articles I read about sectional leaders in orchestra, I studied some articles about leadership in general and I tried to apply the results I found in those articles on my specific subject: leadership in orchestra. Second, I made interviews with conductors, tutti cellists and solo cellists from different orchestras and asked them about their opinion on a lot of things. For example, about the tasks of a principal, the way a principal should communicate with their section, other leaders and the conductor, and the way a principal cellist should be giving remarks to the section. As a result, I got a clear overview of the do’s and don’ts of a principal cellist. Biography Liesbeth (1995) studies with Michel Strauss and Jan-Ype Nota at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague. When she was 12 years old, she was accepted at the Prince Claus Conservatory. First in the Young Talent Class with Corine ‘t Hoen, then for bachelor with Jan-Ype Nota, which she finished with a 10. Currently, she is following an orchestra master program with the Residentie Orchestra. Also, she is substitute cellist at the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra. Starting from a very young age, she won prizes various national competitions. As a soloist Liesbeth played with several student- and professional orchestras in Holland and abroad.
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• The Interpretation of the Extramusical (2019) author(s): David Bonilla Chimeno Limited publication. Only visible to members of the portal : KC Research Portal
  The interpretation of the extramusical
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• Making a critical edition of a Viennese bass work. A case example: J. M. Sperger's Sextet Cassation in D Major (2019) author(s): Jussif Barakat Limited publication. Only visible to members of the portal : KC Research Portal
  The original repertoire for the Viennese bass that has been published in the past 30 years has been often transcribed for the modern double bass tuned in fourths. This makes the idiomatic material of the Viennese bass quite challenging as it is unsuited to this instrument. Pioneers such as Klaus Trumpf have published many pieces of Viennese bass music but in all of the transcriptions they have altered the original key signatures, changed octaves and slightly changed the melodies, added a piano accompaniment instead of viola (Sperger's duet), and transposed the piece a tone higher for solo tuning modern double bass. In this respect, the published material lags very far behind recently published music for historical instruments. Gradually one can now find some of the original manuscripts of this repertoire online. Nonetheless, when performing these pieces with other players on historical instruments it is useful to have a modern transcription which is more practical to read, with bars numbers written in and where the necessary corrections have already been made. The Cassation in D that I chose to focus on is a challenging piece for all the members of the sextet including the bassist, at the same time it has an optimistic character with many idiomatic themes for the double bass. My goal for this research was to simply to present the original material for the Historically Informed Performer with the added conveniences for performance, and with some historical contextualization of the piece, as well as an analysis.
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• Developing one musical idea to its fullest (2019) author(s): Eunjin Bae Limited publication. Only visible to members of the portal : KC Research Portal
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• Prince Andery Volkonsky : his influence on the Russian early music movement in the late 20th and early 21st century (2019) author(s): Anastasiya Akinfina Limited publication. Only visible to members of the portal : KC Research Portal
  what is the role of Prince Andrey Volkonsky in reviving the performance of early music in Russia? what are the consequences of his activities (currently)
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