The dissertation seeks to rediscover Julius Schloss, a German Jewish composer victimized by the Nazis. Except for the promising start of his career in his early years, Schloss suffered a hard life as an exiled refugee. However, his unusual experiences inspired him to compose two Chinese Rhapsodies during his last years of exile in Shanghai, in which he synthesized Western composition techniques and Chinese folk materials, amalgamating influences from both Western and Eastern music cultures. Focusing on Schloss's First Chinese Rhapsody, the dissertation explores how Schloss links the new to the old, the West to the East, through an analysis of the way he employs Chinese folk song material and serial polyphonic voice-leading in his post-tonal musical language. Since the Rhapsody has both serial and polyphonic voice-leading aspects, both are analyzed, showing how they are integrated in the form.

[pt] A presente dissertação de mestrado tem como tema de investigação duas noções centrais que fundamentam a discussão sobre a poesia e a rapsódia exposta por Platão no seu diálogo de juventude, o Íon: o conceito de téchne, padrão comparativo de que se serve o filósofo para demonstrar que não é por uma arte/habilidade que o poeta e o rapsodo se revelam capazes de falar sobre múltiplos assuntos, e o conceito de inspiração poética que, ao sustentar a possibilidade de uma ligação direta com as Musas capaz de anular temporariamente as faculdades racionais do homem, rompe parcialmente com as tradicionais concepções de poesia da época. Do entrelaçamento dessas duas noções emergem traços de um redirecionamento da atividade rapsódica e de uma nova compreensão da poesia, cuja presença, nos diálogos posteriores, atesta sua natureza programática e aponta para o surgimento da Filosofia. / [en] The present Master s dissertation has two central concepts as object of investigation that support a discussion about the poetry and rhapsody exposed by Plato in his early dialogue, Ion: the concept of techne, a pattern of comparison which the philosopher uses to demonstrate that it is not through art/ability that the poet and the rhapsodist turn out to be capable of talking about different subjects; and the concept of poetical inspiration, which disrupts in part the traditional concepts of poetry at the time, as it sustains the possibility of straight connection with the Muses, a possibility which can stop man´s rational faculties temporarily. From the intertwine of these two ideas, traits emerge concerning the redirection of the rhapsodic activity and the new understanding about poetry, whose presence in his following dialogues attests its programmatic nature and points to the origin of Philosophy.

L'étude de l'œuvre de Patrick Kermann permet de dresser les contours d'un théâtre où la parole des morts met en péril la mimésis et devient un véritable pari sur l'absence. Les différentes voix donnent une présence aux disparus, constituant la charpente du drame à travers un matériau sonore très dense, discontinu et hétérogène. La composition rythmique ouvre sur une polyphonie de voix qui génère un appel désespéré des morts n'ayant pas trouvé de place parmi les vivants. Une première partie traite de la dramaturgie de l'après où les disparus reviennent pour dire leur désastre intime et la barbarie du monde. Une deuxième partie déplace l'analyse sous l'angle de la dramaturgie sonore et examine comment la partition textuelle fait résonner la langue privilégiant une réception auditive qui n'est pas sans mettre en question la position du lecteur et, plus encore peut-être, celle du spectateur. Ainsi, ces voix abandonnées rencontrent-elles des metteurs en scène qui les accueillent en leur proposant des espaces singuliers faits pour répondre au trouble que crée l'écoute des corps absents. / The study of Patrick Kermann's work makes it possible to draw up the contours of a drama in which the words of the dead endanger the mimesis and become a real wager on absence. The different voices give presence to the departed, forming the framework of the drama through very condensed, intermittent and heterogeneous sound material. The rhythmic composition opens up on a polyphony of voices which produces a desperate appeal from the dead who have found no place among the living. A first part deals with the dramatic effects of what follows, when those who disappeared come back to relate their intimate disaster and the barbarity of the world. A second part moves the analysis to the angle of sonorous dramatic art and examines the way in which the textual score causes the language to resound, privileging auditory reception, which is not without questioning the reader's position and, perhaps, even more, that of the spectator. Thus it is that these abandoned voices meet producers who greet them with offers of unexpected areas intended to be an answer to the confusion resulting from listening to absent bodies.

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辭賦在兩漢四百多年間，由於作者身分逐漸轉換，傳播方式的改易，還有文人對五七言句的接受，及政治環境的崩解等因素，導致其語言形式產生明顯變化，有漸趨駢偶、篇幅縮減等傾向。為了說明其語言風格與時俱「變」的軌跡，本文以169篇現存完整的漢賦為觀察對象，具體地描述並比較兩漢賦的種種異同，也嘗試將原本以作者等單「點」研究為主的語言風格學，延伸為一斷代賦史的「線」性觀察，更全面地回應賦學和文學史的研究成果。 本文第一章交代研究動機、方法及範圍，第二章則針對漢賦排比成篇的特徵，討論其句式風格及與五七言詩的關係；第三章進一步分析排比句中的「假平行」現象，並指出其與近體詩「假平行」不同的對仗習慣。第四章從較為宏觀的「篇章架構」著手，一方面呈現西漢著重時空順序的特徵，另方面也說明東漢建安小賦以首句概括全篇的安排。在第五章，筆者敘述漢賦「鋪彩摛文」的設計，包括使用長主語、長賓語以炫耀博學，竭力排比長謂語的種種動態，乃至多採「奔行」等手法；第六章則援引俄國形式主義學者所謂的「陌生化」概念，說明漢賦穿插「零句」和倒置語序，以引起聽眾或讀者新鮮感的安排。最後，第七章結論略述各章梗概，說明本文價值、研究限制和可繼續發展的相關議題。此外，〈附錄一〉〈附錄二〉是第二章的補充資料，分別為各篇句式分析表，以及二三、四三節奏賦句列表。 / Researchers of Han Rhapsody often suggest that, as a dominant literary genre of the Han Dynasty, rhapsody had changed its linguistic style gradually owing to the differences from the changes of authors’ social identities, the growing popularity and development of five and seven syllables(五七言詩), and the decline and fall of the Han empire. However, research that describes the specific and concrete features of this genre during the four hundred years of Han Dynasty is scant. To illustrate how the varying line length, loose parallelism, and extensive themes in Han Rhapsody was built up, interacted with the five and seven syllables(the representative genre of the six dynasty(魏晉六朝)), and influenced other rhythm works for the following millennium, I described, grouped, and integrated all the distinguishing details in Han Rhapsodies with the method which Leo Spitzer had mentioned in his work, Linguistics and Literary History: Essays in Stylistics. By analyzing the syntactic mode(句式), the pseudo parallel(假平行),the discourse- oriented topics, and the strategies the authors took to extend the length of the rhapsody and to unfamiliarize the readers with the incomplete or inverted sentence, this study showed how the complicated expressions, exhaustive details, and magnificent structures had been simplified and shortened, and both the authors and readers paid more attention to the emotions expressed rather than to the exaggerated language adapted step by step. To conclude, this study may be of importance in providing researchers with a better understanding of how the changes within a genre had taken place, as well as enriching the realm of the traditional Chinese literary criticism, which usually explains the literature phenomenon by subjective impression.

abstract: This DMA project (in piano performance) consists of a concerto composed for trumpet and piano duo with orchestra and an analytical document that accompanies it. The text portion of this paper discusses the different compositional aspects of Rapsodia Camaleónica, including instrumentation, form, influences and the performers' perspective. The work is scored for a medium-sized orchestra: 2 flutes (flute 2 double piccolo), 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, horn, trombone, bass trombone, 4 percussionists (timpani, snare drum, crash cymbals, suspended cymbal, castanets, güiro or carrasca, shekere, whip, xylophone, triangle, pandeiro, tam-tam, wood blocks, 2 congas, glockenspiel, 3 tom-toms, bass drum) and strings. It is written in one multi-sectional movement with a duration of approximately twenty-three minutes. The full score is attached as an appendix. The influences in Rapsodia Camaleónica range from the western classical tradition to world music to urban dance music, all of which fuse together in a work that blends this eclectic mix into a unified whole. This composition is intended as an addition to the piano concerto repertoire from Latin America, which includes compositions by Carlos Chávez, Manuel María Ponce (both Mexican), Alberto Ginastera (Argentinian), Camargo Guarnieri and Heitor Villa-Lobos (both Brazilian). It is the composer's desire to add a Colombian piece of universal appeal to this list. / Dissertation/Thesis / D.M.A. Music 2012

Étudiée à travers un corpus de cinq auteurs scéniques – Romeo Castellucci, Pippo Delbono,Simon McBurney, Christoph Marthaler et François Tanguy, la représentation rhapsodique met en lumière une pratique théâtrale qui consiste à construire le spectacle à partir des composants du plateau : scénographie, jeu des acteurs et textes produits par les acteurs ou apportés comme« matériaux » de jeu. Le metteur en scène, devenu « auteur scénique », compose ainsi, en étroite relation avec les présences en scène une écriture scénique à l’intérieur de laquelle le texte,reconfiguré dans la partition scénique, déstabilise les attendus dramatiques. La caractéristique de cette écriture est de tresser les différents constituants entre eux et de se développer en séquences dramatiques, par un méticuleux travail de montage.Le paysage théâtral qui se dégage de cette étude place la réception au coeur du dispositif scénique. / Through the study of five scenic authors – Romeo Castellucci, Pippo Delbono, SimonMcBurney, Christoph Marthaler and François Tanguy, rhapsodic performance highlights a theatrical practice which consists of constructing the show with the stage components : scenography, the acting, and the text produced or introduced by the actor as the acting« material ». The director, who becomes the « scenic author », thus composes, in strict relation with the stage presence a scenic account in which the text, reworked in its scenic partitions,destabilizes the dramatic expectations. The characteristic of this technique is to harmonize the different constituents amongst themselves and to unfold into dramatic sequences, through ameticulous mounting process.The theatrical landscape revealed through this study places reception in the heart of the scenic device.

The point of departure for this study is the hypothesis that the American genre of nature writing has reached an important crossroads in the way it describes the human-nature relationship. My study argues that the awareness of the large-scale environmental changes that are signaled in terms such as the Anthropocene has changed the way nature writers approach their genre. Where traditional nature writing would tend to posit a separation between pristine and humanized environments, the nature writing of the Anthropocene emerges from the awareness that environmental impacts have reached a scope where no such distinction can be made. The traditional narrative of retreat to pristine nature or the wilderness from civilization has thus been replaced in Anthropocenic nature writing with the narrative of confrontation with a natural environment impacted by humans. This is a dystopian tendency in the genre, in which descriptions of nature are increasingly characterized by the writer’s concerns over what is happening to the landscape in question, and what the future might hold in a world where industrial humanity is affecting all ecological processes. Such literature increasingly foregrounds the best available environmental science, and the texts mark a shift from the traditional focus on spiritual connections with the environment, towards more material and functional understandings of the role of humanity in the complex organic and inorganic dynamics that maintain the world’s ecosystems. This dissertation analyzes the emergence of Anthropocenic awareness in selected texts of contemporary American nature writing with reference to its five main features: scientific interest in the function of ecosystems, interest in the agency of matter rendered through what is referred to as material nature writing, the dignification of the overlooked, the environmental landscape of fear, and a turn in the genre towards matters of environmental justice. Even though what I refer to as Anthropocenic nature writing may seem dystopian, this dissertation foregrounds the various ways in which the narrative of confrontation with the human also invites activism and engagement in the hope of stimulating change and environmental justice.

Cette thèse porte sur les caractéristiques du théâtre du monde telles qu’elles se manifestent dans différentes œuvres dramatiques contemporaines francophones. Il s’agit d’envisager sept pièces de ce répertoire comme autant d’images du monde, dans la mesure où elles convoquent les emblèmes de la vie terrestre : humaine, animale, végétale, et problématisent leurs interactions dans un espace-temps universel. Dans une partie introductive, on rassemble et commente les principales contributions universitaires à la réflexion sur la notion historique de théâtre du monde. Dans la partie principale, on observe les prolongements contemporains de la métaphore à travers l’étude des pièces du corpus. Une présentation générale des moteurs et motifs d’écriture des dramaturges introduit chaque analyse de texte, basée sur une grille de lecture calquée sur les catégories constitutives du drame : personnages, espace et temps, actions, didascalies. Le corps de la thèse est ainsi conçu comme l’exploration de sept déclinaisons du théâtre du monde, partant de la représentation la plus abstraite pour aboutir à la plus organique. Une synthèse boucle ce parcours en soulignant que les pièces dépendent de trois modèles de composition, déterminant autant de combinaisons des catégories dramatiques. Cette classification dévoile enfin l’ambition qui génère chaque projet d’écriture. En conclusion, il apparaît que le théâtre du monde dont on s’accorde généralement à penser qu’il est un topos daté évoquant la théâtralité de la vie humaine, est un cadre générique assez fort pour résister à la poétique du drame contemporain, assez vaste pour accueillir les inventions dramaturgiques les plus singulières. / This thesis deals with the characteristics of the theatre of the world metaphor, as they appear in several contemporary french-speaking plays. Seven plays have been selected as images of the world, since they summon various emblematic elements of life on earth: humans, animals and flora, and emphasize their interaction in a universal surroundings. Firstly, the principal academic contributions concerning the historical notion of theatre of the world are gathered and commented. The main part of the research consists of the demonstration of the metaphor's contemporary extensions, through the study of the corpus. The analysis of each play is preceded by a presentation of its author's writing motivations and motives. Then, the play itself is examined carefully with the help of a reading grid which focuses successively on the dramatic categories : characters, space and time, actions, stage directions. Thus, the thesis's body is built as an exploration of seven variations of the theatre of the world, beginning with the most abstract one and leading to the most organic one. A synthesis ends this journey, pointing out that the plays match three composition patterns, which induces many combinations of the dramatic categories. This classification unveils the ambition at the origin of each writing project. In conclusion, it appears that the theatre of the world, generally considered as an old topos which refers to the theatrality of human life, is a framework strong enough to stand up to the poetics of comtemporary drama, and vast enough to house the most singular dramaturgic inventions.

Four works are selected to demonstrate the stature and demands of this craft and to represent a pinnacle in the art of contemporary woodwind doubling. Concerto for Doubles, by Thomas Filas, Concerto Tri-Chroma. by Michael Kibbe, Rhapsody Nova, by Clare Fischer and Suite for Solo Flute. Clarinet and Alto Saxophone by Claude Smith all represent rare, major solo works written specifically for three individual woodwind doublers. The paper will begin with a history of the practice of woodwind doubling from the fifteenth century to the present. The four works will then be examined by considering form, style and related performance practices.