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Evolution of the bass in orchestras

Oscar van Dillen Posted on November 25, 2012 by oscarOctober 29, 2014

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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Posted in Thesis | Tagged bass, double bass, music history, orchestra, thesis

Patriarchy and Subversion

Oscar van Dillen Posted on November 25, 2012 by oscarNovember 27, 2012

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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Posted in Thesis | Tagged argentina, patriarchy, tango, thesis

El Tango Canción

Oscar van Dillen Posted on November 25, 2012 by oscarNovember 27, 2012

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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Posted in Thesis | Tagged argentina, poetry, singing, tango, thesis

Eleggua

Oscar van Dillen Posted on November 25, 2012 by oscarNovember 27, 2012

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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Posted in Thesis | Tagged bata, cuba, eleggua, santeria, thesis

Music and Trance

Oscar van Dillen Posted on November 25, 2012 by oscarNovember 27, 2012

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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Posted in Thesis | Tagged bata, cuba, dance, music, neurology, orishas, santeria, thesis, trance

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