Dans l'oeuvre contemporaine d'Alessandro Baricco, des références de toutes sortes attirent l'attention de ceux et celles qui s'intéressent aux récits et romans de l'écrivain italien. De cette esthétique néo-baroque, c'est la rencontre avec d'autres formes d'art qui nous a ici interpelée. Autant sur le plan formel que thématique, les références à la musique, à la peinture et au cinéma, entre autres, offrent de remarquables exemples d'intermédialité. Cette diversité de disciplines convoquées dans le texte de Châteaux de la colère (1995), Soie (1997), Océan mer (1998), City (2001) et Novecento : pianiste (1997), constitue l'originalité forte de l'oeuvre de Baricco. Ces formes artistiques produisent une ambiance qui plonge le lecteur dans le domaine de l'art et accorde à l'auteur la possibilité de déployer avec une grande maîtrise de moyens et d'effets son style unique. Les renvois intermédiatiques relevant principalement des personnages soutiennent les propos de Baricco au sujet de l'art : ils permettent d'établir l'importance qu'accorde ce dernier au métalangage artistique et à la création sous toutes ses formes. Par là, il devient possible de mieux comprendre sa propre oeuvre littéraire qui valorise, au détriment de la prétention réaliste, une fantaisie ludique qui relève du spectaculaire. Le premier chapitre présente les procédés formels au service de la musicalité dans l'écriture de Baricco et les personnages de musiciens - ou en lien avec la musique - qui évoquent cette forme artistique privilégiée. Dans le deuxième chapitre, il est question des moyens techniques qui permettent aux textes de Baricco de rappeler l'art pictural ainsi que des personnages qui, par le truchement de la peinture, tiennent un discours sur la création artistique. Dans le troisième et dernier chapitre, nous nous intéressons à la structure romanesque qui, par diverses stratégies formelles, imite le scénario. Les personnages qui renvoient à l'art dramatique sont aussi abordés, de façon à tenir compte de la vision artistique qu'ils mettent en place. Enfin, la conclusion nous permet, à la lumière des informations recueillies, de relever les effets entrainés i.e. [entraînés] par ces jeux intermédiatiques. Celle-ci est aussi pour nous l'occasion de dégager, en son caractère unitaire, la vision artistique à l'oeuvre chez Baricco.

Thesis (MMus) -- University of Stellenbosch, 2003. / ENGLISH ABSTRACT: As an instrument the recorder enjoys an active following in South African schools, in tertiary institutions and in private tuition. In spite of this healthy interest, few teachers and students are afforded significant exposure to essentially good recorder playing, nor do they receive specialised tuition in the various aspects of this field of study. The development - and popularity - of the recorder reached a high point during the Baroque era. During this period the greatest repertoire for the instrument was composed. It is to this music that the player is mostly exposed. The French Baroque falls within the broader Baroque period and has provided a substantial repertoire that is freely available and regularly performed, either as part of an examination programme or as a self-study piece at eisteddfodau. It is clear, however, that among South African recorder teachers and students, the background knowledge required for a historically informed performance of pieces from this period is generally insufficient. The reason for this could be a lack of exposure to this particular style: a problem that cannot be overcome without a concerted effort on the part of the teachers and students to redress it. The purpose of this study is to stimulate an enthusiasm for French Baroque music among teachers and students, and to provide them with a store of knowledge they can then apply in a meaningful way in practice. It is far easier for the musician of the 21st century to look back objectively at the developments of the Baroque period and to appreciate the prolific contributions of the musicians of the time. However, it is important to remember that the numerous examples, expositions and definitions left to us by the composers of the Baroque should be interpreted as guidelines, rather than rigid rules. It is of crucial importance that these guidelines - ornamentation and its conventions, articulation, variable rhythmic groupings, as well as a background knowledge of the composers and the repertoire - be subjected to an in-depth study. Subsequently, by cultivating an instinct for good taste and judgment, justice will be done to the music of the French Baroque. / AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Blokfluit, as instrument, geniet 'n aktiewe belangstelling in Suid-Afrikaanse skole, tersiêre instansies asook in privaatonderrig. Ten spyte van hierdie belangstelling, word min onderwysers en studente aan goeie blokfluitspel en gespesialiseerde opleiding in die verskillende fasette rakende die vakgebied blootgestel. Die blokfluit het tydens die Baroktydperk sy grootste ontwikkeling en gewildheid beleef. Dit is tydens hierdie tydperk wat die meeste repertorium vir die instrument gekomponeer is; derhalwe is dit die musiek waaraan die blokfluitspeler die meeste blootgestel word. Die Franse Baroktydperk maak deel uit van hierdie tydgleuf en heelwat repertorium is geredelik beskikbaar en word deur spelers aangebied, hetsy as deel van 'n eksamenprogram of as 'n keuse vir byvoorbeeld 'n eisteddfod. Dit blyk egter dat 'n gebrek aan agtergrondkennis om werke uit hierdie tydperk op 'n histories ingeligte wyse uit te voer 'n probleem by Suid-Afrikaanse blokfluitonderwysers en - spelers te wees. Die rede hiervoor kan 'n gebrek aan blootstelling wees. Die leemte kan nie sonder meer oorbrug word as daar nie 'n doelbewuste poging deur die onderwysers en studente daartoe aangewend word nie. Hierdie studie se doel is om onderwysers en studente se entoesiasme aangaande Franse Barokmusiek aan te wakker en kennis daaroor te laat inwin ten einde dit in die praktyk sinvol te kan toepas. Die musikant van die een-en-twintigste eeu kan makliker objektief terugkyk na die ontwikkelinge wat tydens die Baroktydperk plaasgevind het as die musikant wat in die tyd geleef het. Die voorbeelde, uiteensettings en omskrywinge wat komponiste van daardie tyd nagelaat het, moet verkieslik as riglyne geïnterpreteer word, en nie as onbuigbare reëls nie. Dit is wel van uiterste belang dat hierdie riglyne - die versieringskuns, ornamentele gebruike, artikulasie, ongelykmatige ritmiese groeperings asook die agtergrondkennis rakende komponiste en repertorium - deeglik bestudeer word. Met die nodige kennis en blootstelling sal goeie oordeel by die uitvoer van die Franse 8arokmusiek sy beslag kry.

Die Bedeutung und das Ausmaß der Umgestaltungen in der europäischen Musik um 1600

This thesis investigates the development of the biography of the Baroque portrait painter, Mary Beale (1633-1699), through historiography. The conventional gendered construction of Mary, primarily as a wife and mother, and secondarily as an artist, will be traced and examined, from the earliest art historical references to her, to the most recent. / Graduate

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Key words novella, honour, Baroque, woman, society Abstract The main subject of this thesis is the theme of honour. Unlike my previous study, The theme of honour in the Spanish theatre of the XVI and XVII centuries, this work focuses on the literary genre of the novella and it will be interested in honour of women. Woman's honour is one of the great themes, which played a part of literary output of every author at that time. The work will be based on particular literary works, as well as historical context. Because of this, the first part gives literary-theoretical and socio-historical context. This section has as its purpose to introduce the theory of the Spanish Renaissance and Baroque novella, as well as the social status of women in the society of the 17th century. The second part treats the honour of women in the literary context, and relies on selected texts of various significant authors. How the second part will show us, in spite of relative dogmatism and conservatism of Baroque society, every author in his texts offers a different vision and especially different solutions. The main objective of this thesis is capture and describe the multiplicity of attitudes to the universal theme of honour.

Thesis advisor: Elizabeth Rhodes / This dissertation studies the uses of silence in a corpus of Baroque poems about portraits and funerary monuments. I explore silence as a dynamic, dialogic space where poetic voice, implicit reader and work of art interact. Within these poetic texts --written between 1599 and 1650 by poets from Francisco de Rioja to Quevedo or Góngora-- I focus on the question of representation: how, in ekphrastic texts, silence--whether the silence of the poet or that if the object he is describing--reveals certain anxieties about representation. Using enargeia --lifelike vividness--the Baroque poet searches for a new poetic art in which the `speech' of the portrayed breaks the ultimate silence of death. My critical discussion is rooted in an extensive corpus of seventeenth-century poems, an awareness of the moral implications of silence in Spanish Baroque philosophy, and in recent theoretical discussion of intermediality and ekphrasis, such as Mitchell's theory of ekphrasis and otherness (1994), and Foucault's concept of heterotopy (1986). My dissertation also examines the role of silence in its relation to the ideas of presence and absence in funerary ekphrasis, which includes the poetical description of tombs, as well as in the genre of laudatory ekphrasis and the poetical epitaph. I analyze the relationship between these instances of ekphrasis and the visual representations of silence in several books of emblems by Alciato, Kircher, and Vaenius, published in Europe between the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. My dissertation demonstrates how silence is a central concept of Baroque aesthetics that identifies fictional representation with a "teacher of truth," and functions as a vehicle for the acquisition of moral knowledge in the context of the Baroque idea of desengaño, thus siding with the objectives of the Spanish Counter-Reformation. / Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2015. / Submitted to: Boston College. Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. / Discipline: Romance Languages and Literatures.

Com a elaboração deste trabalho pretende-se demonstrar o ressurgimento da suíte em meados do século XIX e posterior aplicação no inicio do século XX, a partir da suíte para cravo do século XVIII. Procurou-se verificar a influência formal e estilística do gênero barroco nas escolas posteriores, além do papel fundamental da suíte revisitada, como peças referenciais no repertório pianístico. Contextualização histórica e sócio-cultural da forma e do estilo em questão, bem como, da importância desse gênero para o repertório romântico e suas influencias nas escolas posteriores. Comparação formal e estilística entre a suíte barroca e a suíte da segunda metade do século XIX e inicio do século XX e, ainda, análise com finalidade ilustrativa de obras do gênero. A suíte da segunda metade do século XIX e inicio do século XX teve papel fundamental no rompimento, por parte dos compositores das escolas nacionalistas, com os paradigmas da música alemã do período em questão. / With the development of this work is intended to demonstrate the resurgence of the suite in mid-nineteenth century and subsequent implementation at the beginning of the twentieth century, from the suite for harpsichord of the eighteenth century. Tried to verify the formal and stylistic influence of gender in baroque schools later, and the role of the suite revisited, as reference pieces in the pianist repertoire. Historical background and socio-cultural fashion and style in question, as well as the importance in this kind for the Romantic repertoire and their influences in schools later. Formal and stylistic comparison between the Baroque suite and the suite of the second half of the nineteenth and early twentieth century, and also illustrative analysis with works of the genre. The suite of the second half of the nineteenth and early twentieth century played a key role in the disruption, by the nationalist composers, with the paradigms in German music.

Thesis advisor: Stephen C. Bold / Hagiography, or accounts of saints' lives, persists in literature through the ages. It accompanies historical movements and moments, serves as a memorial and remembrance, and often sends a message, explicit or implicit, relevant to the reader's contemporary world. In the early 17th century, hagiographic plays were a brief vogue on the recently renewed Parisian secular stage. In recent years, there has been a reawakening to this dramatic corpus, to its value and its challenges. The current work continues the effort to shed light upon the genre, which is often seen as mediocre when compared to its counterparts that resulted from the classical renaissance of the Grand Siècle in France. I limit my corpus to hagiographic tales of Christian martyrs (some of whom were not yet canonized in this period). The protagonists typically follow a life of pilgrimage. A secular period is followed by conversion, ascetic life, and finally death at the hands of detractors. These are often political, religious or emotional tyrant figures. Most of the saintly heroes in the corpus live at the time of Roman persecutions; others come from a more recent past, such as Thomas More and Joan of Arc. My objective is two-fold: on the one hand, I strive to establish the corpus's relationship to 17th-century religion, by exploring the Jesuit influence on dramatists and reflecting on the seeds of the "querelle de la moralité du théâtre"; on the other hand, I attempt to establish the corpus's relationship to the art of theater, at a time when classical secular theater was emerging in France. Moreover, I aim to affirm the compatibility between church and theater through their successful conciliation in the corpus. This compatibility is further justified by drawing a metatheatrical discourse from the texts, relevant to the time in which they are produced and by the plays' employment of the topos of theatrum mundi. The two objectives intersect in the ultimate goal of including and interpreting this genre as an essential part of a milestone in French intellectual, religious and cultural history. The first chapter focuses on the aesthetic background of the period, with an emphasis on the Baroque spiritualizing impulse in the arts, stemming from the Counter-Reformation and the Council of Trent. I also provide the foundations of theater within theater as a mode of dramatic expression common in the 17th-century repertoire, which becomes necessary for a better understanding of the metatheatrical discourse perceived in the hagiographic corpus. The second, third and fourth chapters focus on the individual plays, with a close reading and analysis of their form and content. After addressing the history of religious theater and its underlying message, I turn to the characteristics of the corpus and analyze strategies used by dramatists to adapt to (or skirt) the progressively more restrained regulations of classical secular theater. I then reflect upon the performativity and theatricality of the plays and discern the metatheatrical discourse in specific dramas. Finally, the fifth chapter is a holistic embodiment of the previous chapters, with an in-depth study and interpretation of Jean Rotrou's Le Véritable saint Genest. From my interpretations and reinterpretations, I conclude that this corpus, short-lived on the Paris professional stage, informed the debate surrounding theater in the 17th century in France, as well as in the polemic regarding its relation to the church. The decline of the genre, occurring around 1650, reflects and symbolizes the progression from a literature of the Counter-Reformation, of the European Baroque, to a literature with an independent French identity, rooted in neo-classical and Aristotelian reinterpretations. Following Lionel Abel's definition of metatheater, I support the idea that this corpus contributed positively to an aesthetic and cultural transformation nascent in French society at this particular historical moment. / Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2015. / Submitted to: Boston College. Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. / Discipline: Romance Languages and Literatures.

Medicine was an important aspect of ancient Greek philosophy, which also associated sanity with reason. The Platonic and Aristotelian threads initiated then were intertwined in the Middle Ages. Medieval Scholasticism equated insanity with the gift of prophecy and melancholy with heroism. As the seventeenth century opened new horizons in science, characters suffering from mental illness and despair were frequently depicted in Restoration semi-opera and song. The term "mad song" refers to a solo song with continuo accompaniment in which the singer impersonates an individual who is genuinely mad or feigning madness. Songs of despair typically share some characteristics of the earlier lute-song tradition and display a fast harmonic rhythm. Healing songs induce a state of hypnosis during which the mad individual no longer suffers. I attempt to show how seventeenth-century English continuo song reflects the evolution from neo-Platonic philosophy to scientific thinking both thematically and structurally. Early songs of melancholy reflect the notion that the individual afflicted by love-sickness may be regarded as a martyr. Any conscious scheme in form or text underlay is absent, and specific word-painting is minimal. Large-scale text-painting plays a more significant role. In the Purcellian mad song the scene changes radically. Iatromechanical scientific thinking, based on a Cartesian causality that evokes Aristotelian neo-Scholasticism, seems evident in the precision of the word-painting. Composers connect words and figures of speech to specific harmonic structures in the bass. Causality is also apparent in that the loosely defined melancholy of earlier songs is now largely replaced by a realistic depiction of insanity. Scientific progress was reserved for scholars working within university enclaves, but theatergoers could experience a reflection thereof reproduced on stage. Although the theme of madness was essential in seventeenth-century plays, there is a gap in the academic literature with regard to the depiction of mental disease in English vocal music. One must view music and words as cotexts bound to serve Baroque rhetorical purposes. Detailed analysis of these songs throw new light on the medical, cultural and social factors which shaped aesthetics in seventeenth-century England.