Seeing Change: Techniques of Transition in the Three-Dimensional Space of Recorded Popular Song

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2015-11

Authors

Zatarain, Maxwell Christian

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University of Oregon

Abstract

This thesis presents a study of the recorded form of popular music through a visual lens. It seeks to show how we conceive of music visually through spatio-visual language such as high-pitch and low-pitch, and how these spatio-visual conceptual metaphors point towards the recorded from as a spatio-visual space. Second, it seeks to define the parameters of this three-dimensional spatio-visual space through the three axes of height, width, and depth. Third, it seeks to identify and define techniques of transition used by producers and musicians seeking to navigate the moment to moment transitions that give music its vitality.

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64 pages. A thesis presented to the Department of Music and Dance and the Clark Honors College of the University of Oregon in partial fulfillment of the requirements for degree of Bachelor of Arts, Winter 2015.

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Music, Popular music, Pop music, Record production, Arranging techniques

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