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Th. Etat--Histoire de la musique et musicologie--Paris 4-Sorbonne, 2002. / Bibliogr. f. 327-335. Index.

Th. Etat--Histoire de la musique et musicologie--Paris 4, 2002. / Bibliogr. p. 327-336. Index.

This dissertation proposes that the Sonatine broadly unfolds a kinetic structure that stems from the traditional tension-relief model and, consequently, its dependence on tradition proves much deeper than Boulez would acknowledge.

L’œuvre musicale de Pierre Boulez est l’une des œuvres majeures de la seconde moitié du vingtième siècle. Celle-ci a évolué entre 1945 et 2008 conjointement avec les écrits de Boulez, dans lesquels sa réflexion traite, successivement, les différents aspects de son langage : la théorie entre 1948 et 1963, puis l’esthétique entre 1963 et 1995.Le premier livre de cette thèse traite des évolutions esthétiques de Boulez. Les deux analyses proposées dans le second livre, consacrées aux deux groupes d’œuvres Domaines/Dialogue de l’ombre double et Anthèmes/Anthèmes 2, ont pour objectif de démontrer la complexité toujours présente ainsi que la rigueur de la démarche compositionnelle de Boulez à la lumière des esquisses, nonobstant une simplicité apparente des éléments constitutifs. / Pierre Boulez’s musical compositions are one of the most important compositions in the second half of the twentieth century. They moved a lot between 1945 and 2008 together with his written works, in which his thought deals successively with the different aspects of his language : the theory between 1948 and 1963, then the esthetics between 1963 and 1995.The first part of this doctoral dissertation deals with Boulez’s esthetic evolutions. The two analyses in the second part – devoted to Domaines/Dialogue de l’ombre double and Anthèmes/Anthèmes 2 – aim at demonstrating in the light of the sketches the complexity and the rigour of Boulez’s reasoning when he composes, although the constituents seem apparently simple.

Texte remanié de: Dissertation--Philosophische Fakultät III--Berlin--Humboldt-Universität, 2000. / Bibliogr. p. 275-[294].

Thesis (M.A.)--University of California, San Diego, 2009. / Title from 1st page of PDF file (viewed Dec. 16, 2009). Available via ProQuest Digital Dissertations. Includes sound files of the thesis recital in 44K stereo. and 96K formats.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-02T11:16:51Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2014-08-27Bitstream added on 2014-12-02T11:21:20Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 000799740.pdf: 406073 bytes, checksum: 6aebdb82da008189d1c0c6c5c52629b4 (MD5) / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) / Dentro do âmbito artístico, os conceitos de cânone e tradição são basilares. São eles os responsáveis por orientar e restringir desde a prática até a concepção daquilo que tomamos por música clássica. Seus mecanismos moldam a prática e transformam a teoria. A partir do exame destes conceitos, tal como entendidos por uma seleção de abordagens advindas da musicologia, da filosofia e da teoria literária, investigaremos nesta dissertação como se formou um determinado cânone. Trata-se daquele pensado pelos compositores surgidos no pós-guerra europeu, sobretudo nos anos de 1946 a 1954. Encabeçados por Pierre Boulez, instituições musicais e compositores, publicações editoriais e programas de orquestra pareciam apontar apenas para um tipo de música: a música serial. Analisaremos aqui como Boulez a defendeu e mobilizou forças para que ela se tornasse a poética mais comentada e praticada nos anos seguintes à Segunda Guerra. Para tanto, analisaremos sobremaneira os textos contidos na sua coletânea de ensaiosApontamentos de Aprendiz. Como veremos, longe de ser uma postura arbitrária, a tentativa de manipulação do cânone levada a cabo por uma série de atores torna-se uma medida política, praticada por aqueles que possuem concepções e determinações do que a música, sua prática e o seu entendimento devem ser. / The concepts of Canon and Tradition are of the most importance inside the artistic debate. Not only they shape our understanding of what music should be but also what we take as being classical music. Their mechanisms help us shape practices and transform what we take as being theories. Through the investigation of the canon’s mechanisms, as exemplified by several notions ranging from musicology, philosophy and literary criticism, we will investigate in this dissertation how one particular canon took shape. It has to do with the music being created and played in the Post-war period, that is, serialism. Far from being the only music composed in those years, Pierre Boulez, among several musical institutions and publications, took every measure to guarantee its power among all the other artistic languages. We will analyze here how Boulez defended that music, being responsible for the dimension it has achieved in those years. In order to do that we will investigate more accurately Boulez’s essays collected in Stocktakings from an Apprenticeship. As we will see, far from being an arbitrary solution, the manipulation of the canon has political implications, responsible for what governs our ways of understanding and practicing music.

A partir da constatação dos diversos modos de formalização da experiência temporal na música do século 20, pretende-se analisar a consolidação do conceito de tempo musical no pensamento de Theodor W. Adorno. O escopo adotado será sua crítica ao serialismo pós- Webern, vinculada ao debate com os compositores da Escola de Darmstadt nas décadas de 1950 e 60, e sobre a qual operam seus conceitos de material e música informal. Um duplo propósito orienta a tese. Primeiramente, trata-se de esclarecer os referenciais do conceito de tempo que Adorno mobiliza em seus escritos musicais, tomando por base a reciprocidade entre categorias filosóficas e musicais que o filósofo sempre sustentou em seu percurso intelectual. História da filosofia e história da música constituem, para Adorno, campos para uma crítica convergente à progressiva espacialização e destemporalização do tempo. Nesse sentido, os Beethoven-Fragmente contribuem para uma primeira elucidação do conceito materialista. Já os ensaios sobre Stravinsky e sobre as relações entre música e pintura demonstram o potencial crítico e especulativo do conceito. Em um segundo momento, a tese procura descrever, em contraponto ao pensamento adorniano, as abordagens teóricas propostas por Pierre Boulez e Karlheinz Stockhausen sobre o problemática do tempo musical, com as quais Adorno teve contato. Identificamos, então, no encaminhamento programático de uma música informal o ponto culminante da crítica de Adorno às orientações teóricas e práticas da vanguarda serialista no pós-guerra. Notamos que sua intensa participação nos cursos de Darmstadt entre 1952 e 1966 (onde atuou como professor, crítico, conferencista e organizador de debates) esteve fortemente alinhada à sua produção ensaística e monográfica voltada à música no mesmo período. Nesse sentido, acreditamos que a confrontação com os compositores de Darmstadt viabilizou uma ocasião decisiva para que o filósofo expusesse criticamente e colocasse à prova os critérios de seu conceito de tempo musical. / This dissertation concerns the concept of musical time in Adornos philosophy and emphasizes his critique of post-Webern serialism, noticeable in his frequent interventions in the context of the Kranichstein-Darmstadt Summer Courses and the radio debates during the 1950s and 60s. These include controversial essays like Das Altern der neuen Musik, Die Funktion des Kontrapunkts in der neuen Musik, Kriterien der neuen Musik as well as his later related programmatic notion of informal music presented in the Darmstadt lecture Vers une musique informelle (1961). In these interventions, Adorno insists whether explicitly or not on the conservancy of a specific way of structuring inner temporal relationships between musical events. This type of formalization and perception of time became eluded with the advance of avant-garde compositional procedures. The dissertation has two parts and a dual purpose. First, it examines the references to the specific notion of time that Adorno develops in his musical thought, contemplating the reciprocity between philosophical and musical categories held by his historical-materialist approach. This philosophical framework ascribes a progressive rationalization or detemporalization of time in Western culture through the advance of Enlightenment, which would also be recognizable in the history of musical forms. Hence, for Adorno, detemporalization of time (title of an important sub-chapter of Negative Dialektik) in philosophy resulted from a symmetrical thrust that imposed a progressive spatialization of musical time (a central claim from Philosophie der neuen Musik). The late published Beethoven-Fragmente offers a great deal of elucidation about his concept of musical time; whereas his Stravinsky critique and the essays on the relationship between music and painting clearly shape the critical singularity of the concept. Secondly, this dissertation describes, as a counterpoint to Adornos concept, the theoretical approaches proposed by Pierre Boulez and Karlheinz Stockhausen on musical time. It is shown why the notion of informal music can be considered the epitome of Adornos musical reflection after Philosophie der neuen Musik (1949), considering his ambivalent criticism of these post-war avant-garde orientations. In short, one observes that Adornos regular attendance of the Darmstadt Summer Courses, from 1950 until 1966, is closely linked to his publications and thoughts on music aesthetics of the same period. We argue that these reflections on the directions of the avant-garde provided him the opportunity to better present and confront the elements of his concept of musical time.