abstract: In 1808, Heinrich Domnich (1767-1844) published his book, Méthode de Premier et de Second Cor, in which he credited the invention of hand horn to Dresden hornist Anton Joseph Hampel (1710-1771). The notion that Hampel was the first horn player to experiment and teach hand horn technique has persisted to the present day. This assumption disregards evidence found in Telemann's compositions and Baroque instrument design, where hand horn technique was clearly in use before Hampel. This paper presents evidence that before Hampel, hand horn was in use and called for by composers. Because of the number of works for horn he generated before and during Hampel's life, Telemann's pieces provide powerful insight into the use of Baroque horn. Musical examples originate from passages in Telemann's works where the horn performs in a solo capacity and the music requires the performer to produce pitches outside the harmonic series. By necessity, the performer must use either the hand or bend the note with the embouchure in order to produce the correct pitch with the hand being the logical choice. The paper also examines published interviews from horn pedagogues, history books, method books from the classical and baroque eras, baroque and hand horn design, as well as articles written by some of the world's foremost baroque and hand horn experts. By indentifying the number of non harmonic series tones in Telemann's music, combined with the opinions of hand horn experts, this paper suggests that horn players during the Baroque era must have known about, and used, hand horn technique. This knowledge will influence performer's interpretation of baroque pieces by providing a more historically informed performance, clearer understanding of intonation, the variety of tone colors expected, and create a better understanding of the development of the horn from foxhunting to the concert hall. / Dissertation/Thesis / Doctoral Dissertation Performance 2014

En 1982, Ingmar Bergman avait pris la décision d’arrêter le cinéma avec une œuvre qu’il voulait ultime : Fanny et Alexandre. Il ne tint pas tout à fait parole et continua à réaliser des œuvres pour la télévision, ce qu’était déjà Fanny et Alexandre. Une fresque de 5h40, film somme et sommet cinématographique. Notre travail souhaite comprendre la complexité d’une œuvre qui renferme à elle seule tous les motifs du cinéaste. Notre désir est de l’étudier sous l’angle de deux notions : le visible et l’invisible. Ces notions viennent d’emblée interroger la présence et l’absence, le plein et le vide, le conscient et l’inconscient, le blanc, couleur de la transparence, et le rouge, celle de l’intérieur de l’âme. Il semble donc que les notions de visible et invisible sondent un univers clivé à l’image d’une œuvre qui, dans sa narration même, oppose la troupe de théâtre à la solitude de l’évêque, la foi dans l’imaginaire à la foi en Dieu, l’enfance à la vieillesse, la vie à la mort, le bien au mal, l’eau de la rivière au feu qui brûle vif le « diable ». Mais notre propos est de tenter de dépasser cette opposition formelle pour parvenir à démontrer sa réversibilité. Les dimensions de visible et d’invisible apparaissent finalement non comme duales mais complémentaires, elles sont un endroit et un envers, où l’invisible est la profondeur du visible. Nous supposons que cette réversibilité, c’est-à-dire un lien qui organise les opposés en manifestant en même temps leur interdépendance, montre comment l’esthétique baroque gouverne le cinéma bergmanien. / In 1982, Ingmar Bergman had decided to stop making movies with a piece of work he considered as final – Fanny and Alexander. He didn’t quite keep his word, and kept directing TV works – which he had already started to do with Fanny and Alexander. A 5h40-long epic, a comprehensive piece of work and a cinematic pinnacle. Our research tries to understand the complexity of a piece of work enclosing all of the filmmaker’s motifs. We wish to study it through two notions: the visible and the invisible. These notions immediately question the present and the absent, the full and the empty, the conscious and the unconscious, the white– the color of transparency –, and red as representing the inside of the soul. It thus seems that the notions of visible and invisible probe a divided universe, reflecting a piece of work which, in its very narrative, brings into opposition the theater troupe and the bishop’s solitude, belief in fantasy and faith in God, childhood and old age, life and death, right and wrong, the river stream and the fire that burns “the devil”… Yet, we wish to go beyond this formal opposition to demonstrate its reversibility. Indeed, the dimensions of the visible and the invisible eventually appear as being complementary rather than dual: they represent one side and its reverse, the invisible is the visible’s depth. From our study of the paradigmatic duo “the visible and the invisible”, we assume a reversibility, i.e. a bond that both structures opposites and brings out their interdependence – thus showing how baroque aesthetics reign over Bergman’s cinema.

Main topic of this work is to analyze language and stylistic elements used in two sermons from baroque period dated 1709 and 1724. Both texts come from servites order library in Nove Hrady. In the first part, main traits of the baroque poetic art are thoroughly described with respect to preachership and most important baroque preachers. Either text is being compared from point of view of composition and stylistics, text structure as well as application of rhetorical elements and figurative language in particular composition parts is dealt with. Analysis of further language levels, especially with regard to phonetics, morfology and lexicology, is also included. No research in the field of syntax was made at this point. Principal aim of this work is to contribute to a deeper understanding of the usage of Czech language at the beginning of 18th century. It should influence the reader emotionally, be persuasive, form his way of thinking and help him to come up with new ideas.

The main intention of this dissertation The linguistic analysis of a baroque text is to present some from charakteristic signs of Czech language of 17th century. I have keeped at disposition a copy of the text Cvičení v dokonalosti a ctnostech křesťanských (The Exercising of Christian perfection and quality). Thist text of Alphons Rodericius was translated by the priest and linguist Jiří Konstanc and printed in 1664. In my work I get some informations about morphology and syntax of the baroque czech language and compare them with the present situation. There are many differences between baroque and present Czech language, for example the ending {--}ův in plural masculines or some forms of possessive adjectives. We can find many differences also by the conjunctions, e.g. anobrž, alebrž, an. In the syntax level we can see an effect of Latin or German. There are many complicated sentences, the verb stands often at the end of a sentence. We can find many other examples. At the end of this work I bring a small dictionary, where I make clear some words, which can make problems. This work doesn´t bring comprehensive informations, there are many other problems in this religious text.

abstract: Compared to sacred choral music of the great Spanish composers of the Renaissance, church music of later Spanish composers is relatively ignored, despite the fact that many left behind a significant body of works worthy of scholarly investigation and performance. In fact, there is a paucity of information on eighteenth-century church music in Spain - music history books generally treat the subject in the briefest way. To correct this situation, scholars must delve into the large caches of unpublished works from this period, which lie dormant in the archives of religious institutions. Even contextualizing these works is difficult, because so much remains to be unearthed. To help fill the lacuna of knowledge about this repertoire, I will shed light on the music of maestro de capilla José Gil Pérez (1715-1762), who was active at the cathedral of Segorbe, Spain from 1745 until his death in 1762, by presenting an edition of one of his vespers services. This service is comprised of a magnificat and three psalms (nos. 116, 122, and 147). These works, transcribed from the composer's autograph housed in the Segorbe cathedral, and written for SAT/SATB chorus and organ, will serve as a valuable contribution to the body of knowledge concerning choral music of the Spanish late Baroque. It will be seen that despite Gil Pérez's innovative use of "theatrical" instruments in the Segorbe cathedral and "Italianisms" in his villancicos, his compositional style in Latin works was largely conservative, in keeping with the practice of most maestros in Spain at this time. In fact his oeuvre demonstrates varying influences, largely dependent upon the genre. To contextualize this composer and his works, I will provide background information regarding music in the Segorbe cathedral during the century in question, including trends and influences, as well as information on Gil Pérez himself. / Dissertation/Thesis / D.M.A. Music 2013

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.

One prominent consequence of globalization has been rapid urbanization and the formation of extremely large cities. In East Asia, such cities are not only large, but have blurred edge conditions and are increasingly difficult to distinguish from their once rural hinterlands, are usually fragmented in form, and simultaneously juxtapose different scales of physical things such as buildings and infrastructures, and economic and social networks that thread through them. The aim of this thesis is to explore these kinds of globalized cities in East Asia, and focuses on the city of Taipei in particular. The thesis identifies a set of conceptual and methodological limitations in conventional approaches to studying these contemporary urban conditions of such cities. The thesis argues that new ways of thinking through the concept of scale is essential to properly understanding the large, globalized cities of East Asia. The thesis works through the issue of multiple and co-present scales. It suggests that different kinds of ‘bigness’ and ‘smallness’ coexist, and that this coexistence is central to the experience of such cities. With a special focus on the city of Taipei, Taiwan’s largest city, the thesis indicates that cities that appear to be merely ‘big’ urban formations disguise many overlooked global ‘middling’ (Sassen, 2007a) and ‘small’ conditions that emerge from their struggle with their post-war urban reconstruction and the emergence of globally networked urban logics. The conditions of Taipei register the contextual specificity to the importance of thinking in a multi-scalar way. The theoretical framework of the thesis is grounded in re-examining the idea of scale within the particular fields of architecture, geography and urban studies. The concept of a hierarchically-nested scale has been a dominant approach to scalar conceptualization in these fields for a number of decades. However, the thesis argues that this linear approach has been weakened by its limited abilities to respond to the more complex and multiscalar processes that crucially inform the big urban formations in the context of globalization. Drawing from the critiques of The Fold (Deleuze, 1993; Wölfflin, 1986) and the concept of ‘flatness’ (Latour, 2005; Law, 2004; Marston, 2005), as well as critical work on place significance (Sassen, 2007a), the thesis proposes a ‘Baroque’ alternative to these conventional theorizations of urban scale. In order to offer an enabling approach to cities such as Taipei, the thesis argues this ‘Baroque’, used here in a quite specific sense, as a way of appreciating the multi-scalar nature of such cities, and as a means of developing a methodology by which to better appreciate and understand them. The thesis develops this ‘Baroque’-inspired methodology by examining five socio-spatial practices at different scales which have been selected to represent multi-scalar characteristics in the Xin-Yi planning district of central Taipei which is formed by a globally networked urban logic. The thesis concludes by proposing the idea of the ‘Baroque City’ as a more suggestive, multi-dimensional approach to capturing the richness of the contemporary urban scale of cities. It is intended that this will not only support investigations of East Asian cities, but also enhance architectural engagements with such dynamically complex and multi-scalar conditions of global urban centres.

I L’objet de cette thèse est de montrer les caractéristiques de la représentation du favori royal dans la littérature française du premier XVIIe siècle. Alors que le mot « favori » entre dans la langue française dès le début du XVIe siècle, il faut attendre le début du siècle suivant pour que le favori devienne une notion politique opératoire et un personnage littéraire topique. Nous nous proposons donc d’analyser, selon une méthode nominaliste et pragmatique, la « fable du favori » à l’âge baroque c’est-à-dire l’ensemble des discours afférents au favori entre 1610 à1664. Cette étude comprend deux versants : archéologique et poétique. Il s’agit d’abord de dégager la généalogie du favori en le confrontant à d’autres types de personnels politiques mieux attestés par la tradition historique et philosophique (le conseiller, le secrétaire, le flatteur, le mignon de cour notamment), puis d’explorer l’imaginaire politique ambivalent de la faveur avant d’examiner les différentes théories politiques qui, à l’âge baroque, utilisent la notion de favori comme pierre de touche. Nous parcourons ensuite, selon un continuum chronologique, les différents genres littéraires que le favori conquiert à mesure que s’écoulent les premières décennies du XVIIe siècle, pour montrer comment les contraintes poétiques propres à chaque genre modèlent le visage du favori. En prolongeant une hypothèse émise par Curtis Perry dans Literature and Favoritism in Early Modern England, nous avancerons que la « fable du favori » aura fourni aux contemporains de Louis XIII un langage commun pour traiter certaines « difficult but inevitable [questions] », pour explorer certaines « gray area[s] in the culture ». Ces questions ne relèvent cependant pas uniquement de la sphère politique. La fable du favori se déploie certes dans ces « années cardinales » où la pensée étatiste triomphe et bouleverse les références de la théorie ou de la pratique politiques, mais elle manifeste avant tout, sous une forme métaphorique et dramatisée, une interrogation sourde et obstinée sur les conditions et les limites de l’agir humain ; elle traduit un souci de comprendre l’individu aux prises avec le monde, la société et l’histoire. Comme parvenu, le favori manifeste la toute-puissance de l’action individuelle mue par la volonté et guidée par la réflexion. Cependant, la trajectoire personnelle du favori semble s’inscrire dans une destinée déterminée, qui trahit l’emprise inexpugnable de la Fortune sur les ambitions humaines. Figure bifrons, le favori incarne donc une allégorie de la prudence. La fable du favori interroge ainsi la pertinence et la relativité de valeurs fondamentales : le mérite personnel et la vertu, la faveur et la valeur. Elle implique une réflexion anthropologique et éthique puisqu’elle sonde les passions politiques, redessine les espaces de l’intimité, les formes de l’affectivité et les contours de l’identité personnelle à une époque où la distinction entre les sphères publique et privée n’est pas acquise. La fable du favori innerve enfin la réflexion historiographique sur « l’absolutisme » et sous-tend la construction du premier champ littéraire : au terme de sa carrière politique, le favori devient, sous l’égide de Mécène, une figure tutélaire de la culture galante. nsérer ici votre résumé en français / The purpose of this PhD thesis is to present the characteristics of the royal favourite as depicted in 17th-century literature. Although the term “favourite” entered the French language at the beginning of the 16th century, the favourite did not become an operating political concept and a topical literary figure until the beginning of the next century. Our intention is to analyse, according to a nominalist and pragmatic method, the “fable of the favourite” during the Baroque period, i.e. the collection of texts relating to favourites written between 1610 and 1664. This study comprises two parts: the first archaeological, the second poetic. It aims first at identifying the genealogy of the favourite by comparing him to other types of political character more present in historical and philosophical tradition – in particular, advisors, secretaries, flatterers and Mignons-, then at exploring the ambivalent political imagination of the favour, before examining the different political theories of the Baroque period that used this concept of the favourite as a touchstone. We will then review in chronological order the different literary genres in which the favourite appeared over the course of the opening decades of the 17th century, demonstrating how the poetic constraints of each genre have shaped the way the favourite is viewed. By extension of an assertion by Curtis Perry in “Literature and Favoritism in Early Modern England”, we suggest that the favourite’s story provided Louis XIII’s contemporaries with a common language in which to address certain “difficult but unavoidable [questions]” and to explore some “grey area[s] in the culture”. Nevertheless, those questions do not only revolve around politics. The “fable of the favourite” does indeed develop during those “cardinal years” where the statist spirit prevailed and upset all references to political theory or practice, however it above all reflected, in a metaphorical and dramatised form, a muffled and stubborn questioning of the conditions and limits of human acting. It marked a desire to understand individuals as they struggled with the world, society and history. As a parvenu, the favourite embodied the omnipotence of individual action driven by will and directed by thought. However, the personal journey of the favourite seems to encompass a determined fate which betrays the unassailable hold of Fortune on human ambitions. Being a dual figure, the favourite embodies an allegory of prudence. The fable of the favourite thus questions the relevance and relativity of fundamental values: personal merit and virtue, favour and value. It implies anthropological and ethical considerations, since it probes into political passions and redefines the limits of privacy, the forms of affection and the boundaries of personal identity at a time when the distinction between the public and private sphere was not yet clear. Finally, the fable of the favourite reinvigorates the historiographical examination of “absolutism” and underpins the assembly of the first literary field: at the end of his political career, the favourite became, under the aegis of Maecenas, a figurehead of the culture of gallantry.

This work is a study of the historical and social background, the life and the compositions of Heinrich Schutz.

An exploration of the various ephemeral sources of Bernini's Fountain of the Four Rivers. This thesis brings together other authors' observations of Baroque ephemera. Additional sources are proposed by the author to create a more complete discussion of the fountain and its relationship with Baroque ephemera.