Thesis (S.T.M.)--Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, Mo., 1998. / This is an electronic reproduction of TREN, #020-0180. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 101-103).

Thesis (S.T.M.)--Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, Mo., 1998. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 101-103).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Chicago, Department of Music, 2001. / Includes bibliographical references. Also available on the Internet.

This thesis comprises a portfolio of creative musical work and a written commentary. The creative work seeks to rework musical strategies through technology by challenging aspects of how music is traditionally performed, composed and presented. The portfolio of submitted work is divided into five main projects. The first project is E-tudes, a set of four compositions for live electronics and six keyboard players. The second project is a composition called On Violence, for piano, live electronics, sensors and computer display. The third project is Zizek!?, a computer-mediated-performance for three improvisers that serves as an alternative soundtrack to a documentary about Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Zizek. The fourth project is a collection of small experimental pieces for fixed media called FreuPinta. The fifth project consists of a selection of different improvisations that I devised or participated in using a computer environment I developed for live improvisation. Throughout the portfolio recent technological advancements are considered not for their use in implementing pre-existing models of music-making but rather for their potential to challenge preconceived notions about music. The written commentary gives the theoretical tools necessary to understand the underlying reasoning, preoccupations and concerns behind the submitted work as well as providing supplementary information about the musical results and the computer programmes developed as part of this research.

Mário de Andrade (1893-1945) é considerado um dos grandes artistas e intelectuais brasileiros, cuja prolífica atividade foi decisiva para literatura, artes plásticas e música da primeira metade do século XX no Brasil, tendo sido um dos idealizadores da Semana de Arte Moderna de 1922 em São Paulo. Para a elaboração desta dissertação, foram analisadas as representações em torno da questão nacional e o conceito de nacionalismo em sua obra literária, crítica, musicológica, bem como no conjunto de suas cartas, num período de 1922 a 1945. Em nosso levantamento bibliográfico incluímos obras de Mário de Andrade, bem como de outros pesquisadores que abordaram sua obra, e delimitamos fases no pensamento do autor em relação ao tratamento do conceito de nacionalismo. Cumpridas estas etapas de pesquisa, reavaliamos possíveis distorções em sua recepção. Ou seja, levantamos aqui problemas sobre a possível mecânica com a qual muitos musicólogos brasileiros citam Mário de Andrade, sempre atrelado a um suposto contexto nacionalista. A musicologia de Mário de Andrade influenciou os compositores de sua época e das gerações posteriores, desde Francisco Mignone, Luciano Gallet, Camargo Guarnieri e Fructuoso Vianna, bem como mesmo os mais recentes epígonos neofolcloristas. / Mário de Andrade (1893-1945), known as one of the greatest Brazilian artist and intellectual, whose prolific activity was decisive in literature, art and music in the first half of the twentieth century in Brazil, was one of the creators of the Week of Modern Art in 1922 in São Paulo.On the preparation of this work, we analyzed the representations of the national question and the concept of nationalism in his literary works, art criticism, musicology, as well as the set of his letters, in a period from 1922 to 1945. In our bibliographic survey we have included works by Mário de Andrade, as well as other researchers who discussed his work, and outlined steps on the author\'s thought regarding the treatment of the concept of nationalism. After these stages of research, we reevaluated any possible distortion on reception That is, raised here on the possible automatic issues with which many Brazilian musicologists mention Mário de Andrade, always linked to an alleged context of nationalism. Mário de Andrade´s Musicology influenced composers of his time and of later generations as Francisco Mignone, Luciano Gallet, Camargo Guarnieri and Fructuoso Vianna, and even the latest neofolklorist epigones.

Submitted by Maike Costa (maiksebas@gmail.com) on 2016-07-01T11:15:43Z No. of bitstreams: 1 arquivo total.pdf: 1798555 bytes, checksum: 0269feddeaf52e8b76ac94c2d71e8966 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-07-01T11:15:43Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 arquivo total.pdf: 1798555 bytes, checksum: 0269feddeaf52e8b76ac94c2d71e8966 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-10-29 / This work focuses on the study of "Compendium Musicae" from the philosopher René Descartes. Translation ipsis literis with the explanations and notes is necessary for a brief analysis of short excerpts of the book. In addition to the translation, our goal is to provide some comments, since the text is unfamiliar and it is also of difficult comprehension, and for satisfactory understanding it is necessary that the reader knows a minimum of theory, rules and musical concepts, and also a minimum about the history that permeates the time when the text was written. Therefore, the unique research focus is Descartes‟ text itself, supported by books that are listed in the research bibliography for further development and understanding of the "Compendium Musicae". In this work, we can see how René Descartes understood music, sound and their interrelationships, therefore formatting a very particular musical aesthetic concept, which appears later at certain times of his life, through his correspondences. We intend that this work can put some light in a work that is still little studied, which presents us the philosopher in his early career, the philosopher that throughout its existence became known and labeled for the strong mathematical appeal, but one day, still young, wrote his first work in which, despite its mathematical trends, brings to the surface his human side. / O presente trabalho tem como foco de seu estudo o “Compendium Musicae” do filñsofo René Descartes. A tradução ipsis literis com as anotações e notas de esclarecimentos faz-se necessária para uma breve análise de pequenos trechos do livro. Além da tradução, nosso objetivo é apresentar pequenos trechos comentados, uma vez que, por conta do desconhecimento do texto e pela dificuldade de acesso às suas nuances, e, para um satisfatñrio entendimento é necessário que o leitor saiba um mínimo sobre teoria, regras e conceitos musicais, e também sobre a histñria que permeia a época em que o texto foi escrito. Portanto, teremos como foco de pesquisa única e exclusivamente o prñprio texto de Descartes, amparado por livros que estarão, por sua vez, listados na bibliografia de pesquisa para um maior aprofundamento e entendimento do “Compendium Musicae”. Neste trabalho, poderemos minimamente observar como René Descartes entendia a música, o som e suas inter-relações, formatando assim um conceito estético musical muito particular, que encontraremos em determinados momentos de sua vida, em suas correspondências. Pretendemos, que este trabalho lance luz numa obra de Descartes ainda pouco estudada, que nos apresenta um filñsofo em início de carreira que, durante toda sua existência, ficou marcado e rotulado por seu conjunto de obras com forte apelo matemático, mas que um dia, ainda jovem, escreveu sua primeira obra na qual, apesar de suas tendências matemáticas, explicita, dentro de seu conteúdo, além da matemática, o seu lado mais humano.

Mário de Andrade (1893-1945) é considerado um dos grandes artistas e intelectuais brasileiros, cuja prolífica atividade foi decisiva para literatura, artes plásticas e música da primeira metade do século XX no Brasil, tendo sido um dos idealizadores da Semana de Arte Moderna de 1922 em São Paulo. Para a elaboração desta dissertação, foram analisadas as representações em torno da questão nacional e o conceito de nacionalismo em sua obra literária, crítica, musicológica, bem como no conjunto de suas cartas, num período de 1922 a 1945. Em nosso levantamento bibliográfico incluímos obras de Mário de Andrade, bem como de outros pesquisadores que abordaram sua obra, e delimitamos fases no pensamento do autor em relação ao tratamento do conceito de nacionalismo. Cumpridas estas etapas de pesquisa, reavaliamos possíveis distorções em sua recepção. Ou seja, levantamos aqui problemas sobre a possível mecânica com a qual muitos musicólogos brasileiros citam Mário de Andrade, sempre atrelado a um suposto contexto nacionalista. A musicologia de Mário de Andrade influenciou os compositores de sua época e das gerações posteriores, desde Francisco Mignone, Luciano Gallet, Camargo Guarnieri e Fructuoso Vianna, bem como mesmo os mais recentes epígonos neofolcloristas. / Mário de Andrade (1893-1945), known as one of the greatest Brazilian artist and intellectual, whose prolific activity was decisive in literature, art and music in the first half of the twentieth century in Brazil, was one of the creators of the Week of Modern Art in 1922 in São Paulo.On the preparation of this work, we analyzed the representations of the national question and the concept of nationalism in his literary works, art criticism, musicology, as well as the set of his letters, in a period from 1922 to 1945. In our bibliographic survey we have included works by Mário de Andrade, as well as other researchers who discussed his work, and outlined steps on the author\'s thought regarding the treatment of the concept of nationalism. After these stages of research, we reevaluated any possible distortion on reception That is, raised here on the possible automatic issues with which many Brazilian musicologists mention Mário de Andrade, always linked to an alleged context of nationalism. Mário de Andrade´s Musicology influenced composers of his time and of later generations as Francisco Mignone, Luciano Gallet, Camargo Guarnieri and Fructuoso Vianna, and even the latest neofolklorist epigones.

John Cage’s Concerto for Prepared Piano and Chamber Orchestra (1950-51) holds a unique position within the composer’s oeuvre as the first work based in part on chance-derived compositional procedures. Cage entered into such practice gradually, incrementally abandoning subjective taste and personal expression through the course of the work. Drawing from the philosophical framework provided by Cage’s "Lecture on Nothing" (1950) and "Lecture on Something" (c. 1951-52), this thesis explores the aesthetic foundations of the concerto and examines Cage’s compositional methodology throughout its three movements. Special attention is paid to the procedure underlying the first movement, whose analysis is based largely on the composer’s manuscript materials for the work.

From flamenco guitarists to parlour pianists, Matisse’s images of music-making often appear within decorative scenes of gleaming carpets, multi-coloured costumes and lavishly embroidered wall hangings. All of these textiles and more comprised what he called ‘ma bibliothèque de travail’, a working library of inspiration that he maintained throughout his career. ‘I am made up of everything I have seen,’ he remarked, to which he might have added, ‘and heard.’ Practising, performing, listening and concert-going: music, like textiles, was a lifelong pursuit. But his passion for them is not simply of anecdotal significance, nor does it explain their mere co-existence as the subject-matter of his art. Rather, just as music and textiles are interwoven at every stage of his life, so too is their structural and conceptual significance in his work. In a series of case studies, a single textile from his working library is paired with the art it inspired: the kasāya robe and 'The Song of the Nightingale'; the Moghan rug and the Symphonic Interiors; and the Bakuba velours and 'Jazz'. In each case, visual form is found to have musical counterpart, both in the textiles themselves and as represented by Matisse. This opens up new, more imaginative possibilities of interpreting his visual musicality, which is found to be metaphysical, modal and motivic in concept. Finally, these separate strands are drawn together in a single synoptic analysis of the Chapel of the Rosary, the artist’s self-proclaimed masterpiece and ‘total’ work of art. This thesis explores the expansive musical space created by the reduced visual form of textiles. Considered together for the first time, these enduring and inseparable continuities of Matisse’s art – music and textiles – suggest not only a means of unravelling his own visual musicality, but point towards a much-needed methodology for interpreting this notion more broadly.

This Master's thesis deals with a critique of popular music by the British conservative philosopher Roger Scruton. It is based on a premise that this critique is not purely aesthetic, as it is deeply rooted in Scruton's conception of art, culture, and man. The first part of the thesis, therefore, deals with this broader context, and its outcome is an explanation of the reasons why Scruton rejects popular music as an integral part of popular culture. The second part of the thesis focuses on Scruton's philosophy of music, in other words, on questions of musical aesthetics: what the ontological status of music is, what the nature of its meaning is, what its value is, and what its 'ethical power' is. The third part is devoted to the critique of popular music itself: first, the concept of popular music is clarified, and then the outputs of the two previous chapters are linked to fully grasp Scruton's condemnation of popular music. In the end, the thesis points to problematic aspects of Scruton's theory: it questions the adequacy of applying the model of evaluating classical music to the case of popular music.