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The aim of this dissertation is to suggest how the learning and education of aural skills can be understood from an action-oriented perspective, which conceives that human cognition is rooted in the interaction between ...

Tämä väitöskirja muodostuu tutkimuksista, joissa analysoidaan valikoima varhaista post-tonaalista musiikkia (Debussyn, Skrjabinin, Schönbergin, Bergin ja Webernin teoksia) prolongaation käsitteen pohjalta. Niissä myös ...

The present study examines the programmatic character of six Beethoven overtures: the three Leonore Overtures, Coriolan, Egmont, and the Fidelio Overture. It divides into two parts. The first gives theoretical background ...

This study examined connections between pitch-class set-theoretical abstract concepts, setclasses, and perceptual estimations of chords derived from the set-classes. The study had two aims, the first of which was to compare ...

Jean Sibelius (1865-1957) composed choral music throughout his entire active career. The earliest mixed-choir works date from his period of study at the Helsinki Music Institute (probably from 1888 or 1889) and the last ...

The present study examines the two versions of Jean Sibelius's tone poem En saga, Op. 9. It is divided into three parts. The first part sheds light on the genesis and revision of the work as well as on the reception of ...

The purpose of this study is to examine the structure of the Satz of Sibelius. This consists of two branches: the traditional Satz and another Sibelian Satz-idea, hitherto little known. The core of it can be found in a ...

This study takes as its subject the idea of nature in the music of Gustav Mahler, and how this extramusical concept can be said to manifest in Mahler's works. The focus of the study is a multi- faceted analysis of the final ...

The purpose of this text is to combine the perspectives of the topical research and the Schenkerian analysis. The methodological starting point for the text is Playing with Signs by V. Kofi Agawu, and it deals with the ...

This study examines the ways in which Jean Sibelius's (1865-1957) solo songs depart from monotonality. The definition of monotonality in this study rests on Schenkerian theory and includes a monotonal composition featuring ...