Esta dissertação expõe uma investigação sobre como a música pode tocar o sujeito humano, sobretudo no Real da teoria lacaniana, em uma experiência denominada, pelo psicanalista francês Alain Didier-Weill, Nota Azul, e perscrutar elementos da música que atingem o sujeito ouvinte no que ele sente e pensa o traduzir e mobilizar identificações da ordem racional e da ordem inconsciente. O trabalho constitui-se de um levantamento teórico sobre o entendimento da música como linguagem, a partir dos olhares da Linguística e da Psicanálise, expondo a forma como a música pode falar sobre os mais diversos afetos humanos aquilo que se sabe dizer sobre o que se sente e também aquilo que escapa à linguagem. Atém-se à teoria da Nota Azul, que vem falar desse lugar inapreensível pelo entendimento. Apresenta a pesquisa qualitativa realizada, composta de entrevista com cinco sujeitos músicos em escuta sobre suas experiências como ouvintes de música e sobre como se sentem tocados por ela. A análise de dados seguiu as diretrizes da análise de conteúdo de Bardin (2016). Os resultados obtidos trouxeram dados significativos sobre como a música é uma importante via da arte que tenta dar conta de questões profundas do sujeito humano. / The present dissertation exposes an investigation about the way music can touch the human subject, especially in relation to the Real in lacanian theory, in an experience called the Blue Note by French psychoanalyst Alain Didier-Weill, and examines musical elements which touch the listener in what he/she feels and thinks translating and mobilizing identifications in rational and unconscious level. The work is a theoretical research about music as language, from the Linguistics and Psychoanalysis perspective, showing the way music can talk to a variety of human affections what it is possible to be said and also what escapes from language. The theory of Blue Note talks about this place which is inapprehensible. We use qualitative research, with interviews made with five musicians when they shared their experiencies as music listeners and how they feel touched by it. The data analysis followed the content analysis guidelines by Bardin (2016). The results brought significant data about how music is an aspect of art that tries to understand deep issues about the human subject.

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Jazz music is transmitted by aural and oral means. As recording and broadcast mediums became increasingly ubiquitous, starting in the mid twentieth-century, an ever greater proportion of jazz’s aural transmission would be mediated by these developing technologies. Many commentators address sound’s mediation from one state to another by identifying the resulting recording as an object. This object transcends temporal and spacial proximity, possessing inherent authority with implications for authorship, related work-concepts, and even issues of cultural assimilation. From a perspective informed by writings in musicology, philosophy, and sound studies, I examine recorded jazz music from the twentieth-century. I begin by positioning the history of jazz music in relation to the emergence of recording technologies to establish recordings as authoritative texts. I then translate (by transcription) primarily non-literate jazz recordings into the primarily literate discourse of musicology. In the course of examining music by James Moody, Eddie Jefferson, Bud Powell, Chick Corea, and others, I conclude that they all exemplify musical intertextuality. In some cases, technological mediation connects the texts. I then turn to an examination of recordings specifically. I begin by questioning musical notation as an adequate description of sound and move to developing a broader analytical framework. This thesis culminates with a comparison of Bud Powell’s 1949 recording of Bouncin’ With Bud and Chick Corea’s 1997 recording. Using the framework mentioned, disparate potentialities afforded by each recording’s mediation are connected to musical characteristics. / Graduate