Preface: This thesis presents perspectives on Bruckner's compositional approach with regard to theme and harmony in the first and final movements of his symphonies one to nine. It must be realised that a fully systematic and comprehensive discussion along these lines would run into volumes. So, salient examples and common tendencies have been extracted as representative of the overall approach. However, Bruckner being the composer he is, is not dogmatic in his approach to composition and so the reader must at all times see for himself how the general technique is adapted to the individual usage in those parts not referred to in this thesis. The thesis presents the subject features of the expositions, first movements, as these are found in various adaptations in all other movements: it also aims to present a comparative study of the structural tonal principles of the works, showing how these influence the thematic forms. Whenever necessary, in the text, definitions are repeated in their original format to avoid cumbersome cross references. The most immediate source is the scores themselves, issued by the International Bruckner Society of Vienna, compiled by Dr. Leopold Nowak. All the analysis is based on these editions except for the third symphony which is based on the 2. Edition of 1878 (Wiesbaden G.M.B .H.)

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In order to investigate the stylistic transformation that occured before Bruckner abandoned the composition of Masses, this paper analyzes the Credo settings in his last three great Masses, with special attention to the treatment of the text. The relationship between the text and specific musical techniques is also considered. The trends found in these three works, especially in the last setting in F minor, confirm the assumption that Bruckner's Mass composition served as a transition to the composition of his symphonies.

Bibliography: p. 726-753. / 2 v. (753 p. ; [551] p.) : music ; 30 cm. / Title page, contents and abstract only. The complete thesis in print form is available from the University Library. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Adelaide, Elder School of Music

Orientador: José Augusto Mannis / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Artes / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-26T00:23:48Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Corilow_Ivan_M.pdf: 12476534 bytes, checksum: 04886bc4e8590f06b40b437ed7ea3eab (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014 / Resumo: A proposta deste estudo cujo foco é a obra Arcos sonoros da catedral Anton Bruckner ¿ meditação sinfônica (1996) do compositor Almeida Prado é apresentar uma reflexão norteada por três tipos de análises: a estrutural, onde materiais e técnicas composicionais são investigados; a semiótica, que trata da compreensão e interpretação de significados expressivos presentes no texto musical e a comparativa, com a função de identificar semelhanças e aproximações entre esta obra de Almeida Prado e as sinfonias de Bruckner. Após breves exposições sobre Almeida Prado e sobre a obra sinfônica de Bruckner, bem como a apresentação da fundamentação teórica, o estudo se centraliza nos gestos empregados por Almeida Prado ao longo da peça. Na medida em que as análises vão sendo efetuadas, a integração das três vertentes analíticas é constantemente buscada, na intenção de que os resultados alcançados possam proporcionar uma visão o mais integral possível de cada gesto presente. A edição digitalizada da obra, baseada no manuscrito de Almeida Prado e a composição de uma obra com base neste estudo fazem parte do trabalho / Abstract: The purpose of this research on Arcos Sonoros da Catedral Anton Bruckner - meditação sinfônica (1996) by the composer Almeida Prado is to present a reflection that is guided by three types of analysis: ¿ Structural: investigating materials and compositional techniques. ¿ Semiotic: understanding and interpreting expressive meanings present in the musical text. ¿ Comparative analysis: identifying similarities and approaches between this work of Almeida Prado and Bruckner symphonies. After a brief presentation about Almeida Prado and Bruckner¿s symphonies, as well as a review of the related literature, the research focuses on the gestures used by Almeida Prado throughout the work. The integration of the three analytical lines is constantly done so that the achieved results may provide wide view of each gesture present in the piece. Attached to this research are the digitalized edition of Almeida Prado¿s Arcos Sonoros, based on his manuscript and the composition of a work based on this study / Mestrado / Processos Criativos / Mestre em Música

As brass instruments evolved from crude instruments limited to only a few notes into instruments that could play melodic passages within the vocal range, they began to be paired with the voice. The development traced in this paper will focus primarily on the addition of brass instruments with a choral ensemble from the late Renaissance period through the Modern period. Insight into the historical use of brass and the evolution of choral and brass music allows us to better understand the genre and how subject matter, text, and/or the occasion for which the compositions were composed often influenced the composer’s decision to add brass. Four representative pieces will be studied: In Ecclesiis by Giovanni Gabrieli (c.1554-1612); Herr, unser Herscher by Heinrich Schütz (1585-1672); Ecce Sacerdos by Anton Bruckner (1824- 1896); and Ode a la Musique by Frank Martin (1890-1974).

The present study develops a dynamic model of strict and free composition that views them as relative to a specific historical context. The dynamic view espoused here regards free embellishments of an earlier compositional generation as becoming the models for a strict compositional theory in a later one. From the newly established strict compositional models, succeeding generations of composers produce new free embellishments. The first part of the study develops the dynamic conception of a continuously emerging strict composition as the context necessary for understanding Anton Bruckner's compositional methodology with respect to the harmonic instruction of his teacher, Simon Sechter. In other words, I view Sechter's harmonic theories as a strict compositional platform for Bruckner's free compositional applications. Many theoretical treatises of the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries such as those by Christoph Bernhard, Johann Philipp Kirnberger and Sechter acknowledged that strict composition must provide the structural framework for free composition. The above procedure becomes a manner of justifying a free embellishment since a "theorist" can demonstrate or assert the steps necessary to connect it with an accepted model from a contrapuntal or harmonic theory. The present study demonstrates that the justification relationship is a necessary component for understanding any theory as a strict/free one. By examining Sechter as a strict methodology for Bruckner, we can view the free applications that the latter develops. Bruckner's own theoretical documents-the marginalia in his personal copy of Sechter's Die Grundsätze der musikalischen Komposition and his lecture notes, Vorlesungen über Harmonie und Kontrapunkt an der Universität Wien, taken by Ernst Schwanzara-provide extensions and elaborations to Sechter's theories. In addition, theorists sympathetic to Sechter's approach and Bruckner's personal students provide further material for understanding Bruckner's free application of Sechter's strict harmonic perspective. The study uses my own observations, as well as the extensions indicated above, to generate the transformations used by Bruckner to elaborate the Sechterian harmonic structure.