The yoik is a vocal technique practised by the Sámi of Northern Europe. It relies on circular melodies, chanted in everyday life and a cappella, with or without lyrics. Each melody evokes a particular being, usually a ...

The aim of this dissertation is to understand the role of embodiment in melodic contour perception. In other words, it studies how we move our bodies in response to music. Melodies play an important role in both speech and ...

Johan Svendsen is one of the most influential Scandinavian composers of the nineteenth century. He contributed in particular to the orchestral repertoire in Scandinavia and he was a celebrated conductor throughout Europe. ...

Bind 1-2 er en undersøkelse av Johan Halvorsens kunstneriske virke og en stilistisk gjennomgang av hans komposisjoner, mens bind 3 inneholder en tematisk verkoversikt, en kronologisk fortegnelse over Halvorsens konsertvirksomhet ...

This thesis investigates the interaction between perceived rhythm and underlying reference structures in the experience of rhythm in music. The point of departure is that both music performers’ and perceivers’ body motions ...

This project deals with how notions of urban space in rap music might attach to certain meanings or identification through cultural practices. Through my case studies I present analyses and readings of the Norwegian rap ...

This thesis aims to demonstrate that Tchaikovsky’s symphonic style is explicitly contrapuntal. Not only has this aspect of the composer been significantly undervalued in western musicology until today, it would be about ...

In this thesis, I investigate into the politics of gendered representation in Norwegian popular music, and how these function in a transcultural context. To this end, I take Norwegian pop artists Marit Larsen and Marion ...

Barn i barnehagealder har rik tilgang til musikk. Kanskje har de allerede som seksåringer hørt mer musikk enn deres oldeforeldre gjorde gjennom et helt liv. Men hvorfor hører barn på musikk? Hva betyr musikken for barna ...

Technological mediation has been imperative to popular music's production throughout its history. In addition to their impact upon the means of producing popular music, new developments in technology have always had an ...

Devoted to productions of Salome by Richard Strauss, this dissertation discusses opera as a material exemplification of canonicity as a process. Its premise is that opera should be treated as a coexistence of repeated texts ...

Autonomous instruments are computer programmes that generate music algorithmically and without realtime interaction, from the waveform level up to the large scale form. This thesis addresses questions of aesthetics and the ...

The “PoumTchak” pattern is a rhythmic pattern consisting of a continuous alternation between bass drum and hi-hat sounds. It forms the basic rhythmic structure in myriads of dance music tracks. This suggests a connection ...

This thesis explores the way we perceive correspondences between music and body movement. This is done by analysing similarities between music and movement in terms of specific features in music and movement. The analyses ...