This dissertation is an analytical comparison of the works for solo clarinet by Paul Hindemith and his student Arnold Cooke. A total of seven compositions are studied and analyzed for style, covering aspects of melody, harmony, rhythm, form, and texture. From this data, conclusions concerning the accessibility of Cooke's music for solo clarinet to the player and listener are made. Although Hindemith's music for solo clarinet is more often played, it is this author's conclusion that Cooke's works are more satisfactory in their accessibility and ease of performance.

This song cycle consists of ten settings, and has been divided into two parts by the composer. Each part is preceded by a short quotation in Latin which has been inserted by the composer. The two parts of the cycle are evidently meant to typify the division of a human life into the periods of youth and old age. The Latin quotations which divide the cycle into its two parts are taken from the Latin Vulgate version of the Bible, Psalm 89, verse six.

by Lai Boon Tsing Joseph. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1994. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 212-214) and discography (leave 215). / Chapter Chapter 1 --- Introduction --- p.1 / Chapter Chapter 2 --- The Development of I. Stravinsky's Word- setting Philosophy --- p.8 / Chapter Chapter 3 --- The Word-setting of Threni: id est Lamentationes Jeremiae Prophetae (1957/58) --- p.29 / Chapter Chapter 4 --- "The Word-setting of A Sermon, a Narrative and a Prayer (1960/1)" --- p.70 / Chapter Chapter 5 --- The Word-setting of Abraham and Isaac (1962/3) --- p.102 / Chapter Chapter 6 --- Comparison of the Word-setting of the Three Selected Passages --- p.137 / Chapter Chapter 7 --- Conclusion --- p.156 / Appendices --- p.162 / Bibliography --- p.212 / Discography --- p.215 / List of Appendices / Appendix I THRENI: The metric placement of the normally-stressed syllables --- p.162 / Appendix II THRENI: The metric placement of the normally-unstressed syllables --- p.168 / Appendix IIIA THRENI: Normally-unstressed syllables that are accentuated resulting from an ascending leap in the melody --- p.175 / Appendix IIIB THRENI: Normally-stressed syllables that are accentuated resulting from an ascending leap in the melody --- p.178 / "Appendix IV THRENI: The treatment of the ultimate syllable of a phrase, clause or sentence" --- p.180 / "Appendix V A SERMON， A NARRATIVE AND A PRAYER, II A NARRATIVE: Table of monosyllabic sung- words showing their stressed or non- stressed identity" --- p.182 / "Appendix VI A SERMON, A NARRATIVE AND A PRAYER, II A NARRATIVE: The metric placement of the normally-stressed syllables" --- p.185 / "Appendix VII A SERMON, A NARRATIVE AND A PRAYER, II A NARRATIVE: The metric placement of the normally-unstressed syllables" --- p.187 / "Appendix VIIIA A SERMON， A NARRATIVE AND A PRAYER, II A NARRATIVE: Normally-unstressed syllables that are accentuated resulting from an ascending leap in the melody" --- p.189 / "Appendix VIIIB A SERMON, A NARRATIVE AND A PRAYER, II A NARRATIVE: Normally-stressed syllables that are accentuated resulting from an ascending leap in the melody" --- p.190 / "Appendix IX A SERMON, A NARRATIVE AND A PRAYER,II A NARRATIVE: The distribution of all syllables stressed by all means" --- p.191 / Appendix X ABRAHAM AND ISAAC :The metric placement of the normally-stressed syllables --- p.195 / Appendix XI ABRAHAM AND ISAAC: The metric placement of the normally-unstressed syllables --- p.199 / Appendix XIIA ABRAHAM AND ISAAC : Normally-unstressed syllables that are accentuated resulting from an ascending leap in the melody --- p.204 / Appendix XIIB ABRAHAM AND ISAAC: Normally-stressed syllables that are accentuated resulting from an ascending leap in the melody --- p.206 / "Appendix XIIIA A SERMON, A NARRATIVE AND A PRAYER, II A NARRATIVE: The distribution of normally-stressed monosyllabic words" --- p.208 / "Appendix XIIIB A SERMON, A NARRATIVE AND A PRAYER,II A NARRATIVE: The distribution of normally-unstressed monosyllabic words" --- p.210

The period between 1880 and 1885 was a significant time in Claude Debussy's life and compositional career. 1880 marks the date of his first published composition, "Nuit d'étoiles," and 1885 is the year in which he began his two-year tenure in Rome after winning the coveted Prix de Rome in 1884. During the intervening time Debussy composed about forty songs. Scholarly literature, especially analytical literature, tends to focus heavily on music in Debussy's mature style, often casting his early compositions in an unfavorable light. Writing on Debussy is scattered with references to the early songs but authors almost always situate them on one end of a continuum that shows an evolution of compositional style culminating in maturity. Such a view tends, if only tacitly, to regard early works as inferior instances of juvenilia rather than works worthy of study in their own right. In this dissertation I establish a foundation for regarding Debussy's early songs as significant compositions in their own right, independent from anachronistic comparisons with his more mature compositional style, and provide justification for considering the songs as a unified, identifiable repertoire within Debussy's larger œuvre. Using a modified Schenkerian analytical approach, I identify consistencies among the songs that give them an independent identity and provide support for their classification as an identifiable collection of works. I consider the songs within a proper historical narrative and in close association with poetry, French musical culture, and issues related to Debussy's biography. Furthermore, I delineate Debussy's compositional aesthetic in the early songs and examine his relationship to other notable contemporary composers of the mélodie, thus showing how his early style emerged from the tradition of the mélodie, how he participated in late-nineteenth century art-song culture, and how he ultimately pushed the genre of the mélodie forward.

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During his lifetime, Johann Christian Bach (1739--1782) was considered the most famous musician of the Bach family throughout England and Europe. Although his music was highly regarded in the eighteenth century, little scholarly work has been undertaken on the historical and analytical aspects of his compositions. His keyboard compositions are valuable in tracing his musical development since this was the only genre that he wrote throughout his career in Berlin, Milan and London. Previous analyses of Bach's keyboard music have mainly focused on stylistic development, thus neglecting the importance of phrase and larger formal functions. / I adopt William Caplin's theory of formal functions to analyze Bach's solo keyboard sonatas: the Solo in A minor from Berlin (1750--55), three sonatas from the Milan collection (1755), six sonatas from London Op. 5 (1767), and six sonatas from London Op. 17 (1773--4). I demonstrate that Bach gradually refines phrase and thematic functions of the exposition of first-movement sonatas. I examine Bach's use of core technique and subordinate theme-like units in development sections and discuss the reasoning behind different recapitulation strategies. I also compare the sonata forms of the first movement to the second and third movements, and discuss other types of large-scale formal design (theme and variations, minuet and trio, and rondo). / Many sources indicate that Mozart was greatly influenced by Bach, but they remain vague in describing the type and extent of this influence. Building on previous melodic, motivic and stylistic studies, I draw important phrase-structural connections between the music of Bach and Mozart. I discuss the construction of Mozart's early piano pieces (KV 6 through K 284) and demonstrate that he adopts particular phrase-structural and thematic designs similar to pieces from Bach's Op. 5 and 17 collections. Through form functional analysis, I illustrate Bach's development of phrase and thematic structures and provide important phrase-structural evidence of his influence on the music of Mozart.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2004. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 532-554) and discography (leaves 555-557). / Also available by subscription via World Wide Web / 2 v. (xix, 557 leaves, bound) music 29 cm

Noted for both vocal and symphonic output, Gustav Mahler's musical sophistication constantly puzzled scholars in the past decades. In his symphonic works, the mixed forms and styles in combination with the vocal influence make it abstruse for listeners to detect the meaning of the use of traditional instruments. The solo violin, which has an extensive history of appearing in symphonic compositions since the Baroque era, is an instance of a traditional instrument given an unusual function. For instance, Mahler's violin solos do not tend to showcase the virtuosity of the instrument as they normally do in orchestral music. In order to closely examine the role of the solo violin, I rely on aspects relating to introversive semiosis such as harmonies, rhythms, textures, phrase structures, and forms; then my focus shifts to extroversive semiosis, specifically to topics and contextual factors. By considering the violin as a musical sign, listeners can comprehend the instrument's structure, syntax, and ultimately the complex logic of Mahler's musical discourse.

Orientador: Claudiney Rodrigues Carrasco / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Artes / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-17T11:23:14Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Freitas_SergioPauloRibeirode_D.pdf: 99460171 bytes, checksum: e7e72fd118735dce6334d35e1483a8de (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010 / Resumo: Harmonia, práticas teóricas e o estudo de planos tonais em música popular Situando a pergunta central - que acorde ponho aqui? - no âmbito das práticas teóricas da harmonia tonal, o presente estudo examina criticamente algumas respostas possíveis procurando perscrutar diferentes motivações, procedências, contextos, concepções, saberes, argumentos e justificativas que, entremeadas, discordantes e concordantes, animam os discursos e as ações de escolha que dão respostas para perguntas como esta. O tom coloquial da questão abrevia um entrelaçado de tópicos que, com diferentes formulações, ramificações, ênfases e abordagens, são mais ou menos recorrentes nos programas pedagógicos, técnicos, teóricos, analíticos, valorativos e artísticos da nossa disciplina. Deste entrelaçado ganha enfoque mais delimitado aqui uma problemática que pode ser enunciada assim: quais são, onde se encontram, no que se fundamentam as escolhas e como se combinam em sucessão os tons vizinhos (áreas tonais, regiões, tonalidades) e acordes principais que, propositadamente dispostos em média e larga escala, referenciando a concordância dos acordes coadjuvantes (meios de preparação) e demais alturas (notas adjacentes, tensões, escalas, modos, etc.), contribuem na efetivação das "funções estruturais" (relações entre a função harmônica e a incumbência formal dos segmentos) numa obra musical harmônica e tonal? A proposição que acompanha esta delimitação é a de que, a arte e ofício de escolher e combinar acordes em planos tonais, em diversas e controversas medidas e das mais variadas maneiras, não se aparta das práticas teóricas que intentam balizar tal conhecimento e competência. E essas relações dinâmicas de vinculação e desvinculação entre os feitos e fazeres da harmonia e os feitos e fazeres da sua teoria são observadas aqui como uma espécie de principal questão transversal. Os Capítulos 1 a 6 cuidam da revisão, da contextualização, do levantamento e cruzamento circunstanciado de referências, do repertório e da memória teórica e poética, do questionamento e discussão a respeito de determinadas abordagens interpretativas sobre assuntos como: os fundamentos diatônicos da tonalidade, a atribuição funcional dos acordes e áreas tonais, a inclusão teórico-normativa de acordes não diatônicos, os meios de preparação alterados e as vizinhanças de terceira que envolvem transformações cromáticas. Os Capítulos 7 e 8 propõem e avaliam um modelo pré-analítico para o estudo comparado de planos tonais complexos. Trata-se de um ferramental para-musical voltado para a experimentação, produção, análise e crítica que visa favorecer a macro-confrontação dos lugares de chegada dispostos em obras tonais que, no cenário da música popular "tortuosa", alcançam seus efeitos contando com a mistura de determinados diatonismos / Abstract: Harmony, theoretical practices and the study of tonal planes in popular music Examining the core question - which chord should I use here? - within the context of theoretical practices of tonal harmony, this study critically examines some potential answers attempting to explore different motivations, origins, contexts, conceptions, knowledge, arguments and justifications that, when intermixed, both discordant and accordant, stimulate argumentation and choice?making to answer these types of questions. The colloquial tone of the issue at hand reveals a web of intertwining topics with different formulations, branches, emphases, and approaches that are somewhat recurrent in the pedagogical, technical, theoretical, analytical, evaluative, and artistic areas of the discipline. From this web structure, the problem takes on a more bounded focus which might be described as follows: what are the possible choices, where are they, and on what criteria are they based, and how are related tonalities (tonal areas, regions) and main chords arranged in succession, which, purposely arranged in mean and large scale and referencing the accordance of the adjunct chords (means of preparation) and other pitches (adjacent notes, tensions, scales, modes, etc.), contribute to the execution of "structural functions" (relationships between harmonic function and the formal role of the segments) in a harmonic and tonal piece of music? The proposition accompanying this delineation is such that the art and the task of choosing and arranging chords in tonal planes in several conflicting measures and in the most varied forms does not depart from theoretical practices that attempt to define such knowledge and competence. These dynamic relationships of binding and unbinding between acts and actions of harmony and acts and actions according to the theory are considered a central issue. Chapters 1 through 6 deal with review, contextualization, identification, and detailed comparison of references; repertoire and theoretical and poetic memory; questioning and discussion regarding certain interpretative approaches on such subjects as: the diatonic basis of tonality, the functional attribution of chords and tonal areas, the inclusion of theoretical?normative non?diatonic chords, the altered means of preparation and third relations that involve chromatic transformations. Chapters 7 and 8 propose and evaluate a pre-analytical model for the comparative study of complex tonal planes. This deals with a para-musical tool aimed at experimentation, production, analysis, and review, which attempts to support the macro confrontation of final locations arranged in tonal works that, within the context of "tortuous" popular music, achieve their results by mixing certain diatonicisms / Doutorado / Fundamentos Teoricos / Doutor em Música

Orientador: Aci Taveira Meyer / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Artes / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-17T21:14:33Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Rosa_LiliadeOliveira_D.pdf: 4441858 bytes, checksum: 53564442162a3cc196ba783dfe47aadc (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011 / Resumo: O objetivo principal desta pesquisa é estudar três peças aleatórias do compositor pelotense Luiz Carlos Lessa Vinholes - Instrução 61, para quatro instrumentos quaisquer (1961); Instrução 62, para instrumentos de teclado (1962); e Peça/Pessa para fazer Psiu/Xi, para bocas (1979) - e, a partir da análise deste material, criar atividades pedagógicas para o uso em salas de musicalização com crianças na faixa-etária de seis a dez anos de idade. O trabalho desenvolveu-se a partir das seguintes questões: Como estimular a imaginação e a criatividade da criança? Quais tipos de músicas ou obras contemporâneas seriam adequados para tal propósito? As peças de Vinholes apresentam-se como possível resposta para estas questões, justamente por serem aleatórias e não exigirem dos usuários qualquer conhecimento musical tradicional ou, ainda, por utilizarem novos códigos ou notações de fácil leitura ou entendimento. Para a comprovação da hipótese, a pesquisadora utilizou-se da abordagem qualitativa, privilegiando a obtenção de dados descritivos mediante contato direto e interativo com a situação objeto de estudo. Na fundamentação, as principais abordagens pedagógicas da segunda metade do século XX foram discutidas, no intuito de compreender os pressupostos educacionais de pedagogos contemporâneos e contextualizar as peças de Vinholes no âmbito educacional. O trabalho propõe, ainda, a criação de um site para a preservação e divulgação da vida e obra de Vinholes, bem como da presente pesquisa. A autora acredita que este trabalho possa contribuir para o surgimento de novas reflexões, hipóteses, estudos e pesquisas no âmbito da pedagogia musical e do repertório contemporâneo e, principalmente, na formação e postura didática de futuros professores de música e musicalização / Abstract: The main objective of this research is to study three aleatory pieces by the composer from Pelotas/RS Luiz Carlos Lessa Vinholes: Instrução 61, for any four instruments (1961); Instrução 62, for keyboard instruments (1962); and Peça/Pessa para fazer Psiu/Xi, for mouthes (1979) and, from the analysis of this material, create pedagogical activities for use in musicalization classes with children from six to ten years old. This work has been developed from the following questions: How to stimulate the child's imagination and creativity? What kind of music or contemporary works would be appropriate for such purpose? The pieces by L. C. Vinholes are presented as possible answers to these questions, precisely because they are aleatory, do not require any knowledge of traditional music and, better yet, for using new codes and notation of easy reading and understanding. To prove this hypothesis, the researcher used the qualitative approach focusing on obtaining descriptive data through direct and interactive contact with the object of study situation. In the grounds, the main pedagogical approaches of the second half of the twentieth century were discussed in order to understand the educational assumptions of contemporary educators and contextualize the pieces by Vinholes in the educational scope. The paper also proposes the creation of a site for the preservation and dissemination of some aspects of the activities and work of L. C. Vinholes, as well as to make available the present research. The author believes that this work can contribute to the rise of a new thinking, assumptions, studies and researches in the field of music pedagogy and contemporary repertoire, especially in training and didactic/pedagogical attitude of teachers of music and musicalization / Doutorado / Doutor em Música