Thesis subject: How did the bass change in the orchestral use in 19th, 20th and 21th centuries? by Aydın Balpınar, Codarts Rotterdam Classical music, January 2012 Thesis-counselor: Andreas Czifra Motto “It is not surprising that things have developed as they have. The discovery, in the last century, of …
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Patriarchy and Subversion – Gender power relations and Sexual Identity in the Tango culture of Buenos Aires at the end of the 19th and beginning of 20th centuries as an inspirational tool for raising social responsibility in contemporary Tango. by Gabriel Wolff, Codarts Rotterdam Argentinian tango, January 2012 …
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Introduction ‘Tango contains the whole life: grandparents, children, dogs, streets, the whole volume of the sentiments, the missing, all the sorts of perfume, the suffering and the joy. This all is tango and because of this tango is the longing for yesterday, the pain from today and the hope …
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TIMBALES IN CUBAN MUSIC by Daniel Hahnfeld – Codarts University of the Arts (2009) Thesis-counselor: Oscar van Dillen Introduction The timbales are a percussion instrument, whose history is closely connected to the history of Cuban music. Its ancestors, the European timpani, were brought to Cuba more than two …
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ELEGGUA, WHO IS HE? WHAT MUSIC IS PLAYED TO HONOUR HIM by Jeanne Schmartz – University of Amsterdam, Musicology (2008) Coached by Wim van der Meer (UVA) and Oscar van Dillen (CODARTS) Introduction Since I have participated in my first Bata drum workshop with Jérôme Goldschmidt some years …
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Music and Trance – What are the relations between music and Trance in the Palo Monte and Santeria cults? by Jean-Luc Jossa, Codarts Rotterdam Latin Percussion, 2007 Thesis-counselors: Eli ´t Hart and Oscar van Dillen Introduction Since I have started playing Latin Percussion, I have always been interested …
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