dc.contributor.advisor | Mobberley, James | eng |
dc.contributor.author | Ng, Kelvin King Fung | eng |
dc.date.issued | 2012-06-01 | eng |
dc.date.submitted | 2012 Spring | eng |
dc.description | Title from PDF of title page, viewed on June 1, 2012 | eng |
dc.description | Thesis advisor: James Mobberley | eng |
dc.description | Vita | eng |
dc.description | Thesis (M.M.)--Conservatory of Music and Dance. University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2012 | eng |
dc.description.abstract | I believe in music as spiritual conveyor. My musical goal is to enhance
this function. The current thesis is an attempt, of which the principle is to reach
the spiritual through the corporeal, to resonate the mutual through the personal. The yoga practice of sleep-like meditation (yoga nidra), as well as the
situation of sleep in general, have been my interest. In yoga nidra, the
practitioner's attention is focused successively on each part of their own body
in an effort to achieve a state of wakeful sleep. In the current thesis, musical
materials are derived from the sounds, gestalts or other mental representations
of the bodily self during the situation of sleep, including interoception (sensual
information about our physiological condition such as gravity, pain or 'qi'),
proprioception (feedback information about our movements), somatic motor
control (voluntary muscular movement), habituation (desenisitization of
repeating stimuli) and attentional focus, in an attempt to come closer to the
personal realm through self-identification via the function of 'mirror neurons'.
These elements are however abstracted and deviated in their forms of
presentation, and are situated in various contexts in relation to other elements, serving to gear progressively toward the ritualistic goal of achieving a
collective but qualitatively distinctive state of heightened private selfconsciousness
shared among audience. | eng |
dc.description.tableofcontents | Abstract -- Acknowledgements -- Score -- Vita | eng |
dc.format.extent | vii, 19 pages | eng |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10355/14489 | eng |
dc.publisher | University of Missouri--Kansas City | eng |
dc.subject.lcsh | Chamber orchestra music -- Scores | eng |
dc.subject.lcsh | Yoga | eng |
dc.subject.other | Thesis -- University of Missouri--Kansas City -- Music | eng |
dc.title | Nidra for chamber orchestra | eng |
dc.type | Thesis | eng |
dc.type | Musical score | eng |
thesis.degree.discipline | Music (UMKC) | eng |
thesis.degree.grantor | University of Missouri--Kansas City | eng |
thesis.degree.level | Masters | eng |
thesis.degree.name | M.M. | eng |