Thesis (M.M.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1966. / eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Queensland, 2001. / Includes bibliographical references.

This essay concerns the traditional view of the function of music in film. It’s a study of the existing theories within the research area of modern film music and their applicability on film music in general. Is the function of film music always the same or is it depending on the film itself? The objects of my studies are The Piano, a film written and directed by Jane Campion, and the soundtrack composed by Michael Nyman. The central issue is to determine whether the main characters muteness has an impact on the music’s significance and if so, in which way? The purpose of this essay is foremost to broaden the traditional view of film music as being added to, instead of being a part of, a film as a whole. The intention is also to give film music and all its composers the acknowledgement of being a part of a unique art form.

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L'étude des ressorts de l'intertextualité et de l'intermédialité dans l'œuvre de Jane Campion met en relief les enjeux d'un métacinéma postmoderne, tout d'abord à travers la question de l'adaptation. Illustrant le processus de novellisation, le roman Holy Smoke (1999) se clôt avec une mise en abyme fictionnelle qui, en proposant une fin alternative au roman au carrefour entre fiction policière et pastiche de texte biblique, place la question de l'écriture au centre de l'œuvre. Dans In the Cut [2001], les multiples citations littéraires du récit constituent des points névralgiques qui remettent régulièrement en question le devenir de l'œuvre et de l'héroïne. Enfin, dans An Angel at my Table [1991], le leitmotiv du cheminement et les fuites répétées d'une insaisissable protagoniste, combinés à l'utilisation d'une caméra aérienne dans le prologue et l'épilogue filmiques, se rapportent à une dimension réflexive du projet biographique. Dans le droit prolongement de ces dispositifs métatextuels, la mise en abyme des modes d'expression artistique permet à la fiction campionienne de faire retour sur elle-même. Le flash de dessin animé illustre la force de l'hypotypose en déployant des micro-fictions enchâssées, tandis que l'utilisation du tableau comme instrument métatextuel, l'allusion au conte ou encore la mise en scène du geste créatif transcendant donnent au film les moyens de se sonder lui-même. Pour finir, dans une démarche typiquement lacanienne qui distingue irrémédiablement le réel de sa représentation symbolique, Campion place sur un même plan fiction et documentaire. L'insert du documentaire botanique, du reportage sur les sectes ou des images d'archives dans la fiction dessinent des formes spécifiques de rencontres médiatiques, à travers lesquelles peuvent être identifiées l'anamorphose, la métalepse ou l'homologie intermédiales. Dans ce jeu permanent avec la frontière, l'iconographie fictionnelle emprunte les codes de représentation du réel comme avec Peel [1982], le biopic réalistico-magique, Passionless Moments [1984], le pastiche de documentaire, ou encore l'imitation d'images d'archives associées à des motifs surréalistes dans le travelogue de Portrait of a Lady. Dans cette confrontation des images documentaires et fictionnelles, le film engage à nouveau une réflexion métafilmique où le réel se donne comme l'impossible horizon de toute représentation. / The study of intertextuality and intermediality in Jane Campion’s artistic creations casts light upon the mechanism of postmodern metacinema, an issue that is raised first through the question of adaptation. Holy Smoke (1999) ends with a mise en abyme through which the writing process is put at the core of the novel. With In the Cut [2001], the literary quotations are landmarks that regularly put into question the destiny and destination of the heroïn and of the fiction. Finally, in An Angel at my Table [1991], the recurrent images of Janet’s itinerary and the use of aerian tracking shots can be viewed as autoreferential devices. The embedding of other artistic genres within the movie also allows the fiction to comment on itself. The cartoon sequences bring about the essence of hypotyposis. The use of paintings as referential material, the allusions to fairy tales and the shooting of transcending creative moments give to the movie the tools to speak about itself. Lastly, in a typically lacanian approach, Campion puts fictions and documentaries on the same level when contrasted to the real. The botanical documentary footage, the report on sects or the archives shed light upon specific types of intermediality : the anamorphosis, the metalepsis and the homological structure. Moreover, the fiction borrows the codes of representation to the informational genres with the magical-realistic biopic, the imitation of the documentary footage or archives sometimes combined with surrealistic developments. In contrasting the fictional and the informational, the movie leads to a metafilmic reflection, in which the Real stands for the unreachable horizon of any form of representation.

This dissertation is the first study of François Campion’s (1686-1747) Avantures Pastorales Op.3 (1719), a collection of airs, interspersed within a connecting narrative. The story is a retelling of the myth of Damon and Philis, while the fifty-two interspersed airs are typical for the genre in the early-eighteenth century and provide emotional depth and commentary on the protagonists’ relationship. The dissertation features a critical analysis of the music, context and plot, alongside a critical edition. I will argue that although the Ballard firm held monopoly over the air publishing business, Campion found a market niche in the wealthy Parisian salons by publishing Avantures Pastorales in an innovative and creative format. He repackaged a very familiar product by adding a continuous, connecting narrative based on an ancient love myth to a collection of airs. In my guide for staging and performance, I argue that this collection would have had great appeal and most likely could have been performed at one of the Parisian salons, or in another intimate domestic context. The air had a central place during salon gatherings, as its performance allowed participants to express emotions of passionate love and courting that were socially prohibited in conversation. I also provide incipits and annotations that reveal the airs to be stylistically generic. Analyzing the expressed affects, however, showed that a rich representation of emotions complement and enhance the story, while also compensating for the overall quality of the music. I argue that the collection takes approximately three hours to perform and can be staged with a minimum of four singers, one narrator, and a harpsichord. In the Appendices, I provide a transcription, translation and a critical performing edition of Avantures Pastorales. This dissertation fills an important gap in the literature on François Campion and contributes to a complete picture of the history of the French air. / Graduate

The main purpose of this dissertation is to offer a modern transcription and critical edition of François Campion's Sonatina in D Major, found in his Piéces de Guitare du S.r Campion from 1748. Since it is not a common practice for the modern classical guitarist to study the baroque guitar and all its idiosyncrasies, this transcription from French tablature into modern notation will make this piece accessible to all classical guitar players. Using his sonatina as an example, this dissertation covers the process of transcribing baroque guitar French tablature while emphasizing a practical performance approach that suits the classical guitar. This approach includes examining tuning differences, suggested transposed notes, ornamental interpretation, and the overall differences in performance practice between both instruments. Not much is known about Campion's life (c1685-1747), but his importance as a musician in France during the early eighteenth century is evidenced by his publications and his accounts as a theorbo and baroque guitar player for the orchestra of the opera company L'Académie Royale de Musique, for which he was employed from 1703 until 1719. Unfortunately, while this music is fairly known and usually performed by early music specialists, it is ignored by modern guitarists, mainly because of the lack of modern transcriptions. This sonatina serves as an original critical edition adaptation for the classical guitar.

This thesis is a study of female authorship that examines the feature films of Jane Campion in order to determine how her preoccupation with the cinematic articulation of 'female experience' is expressed in her films-whether female experience can be aestheticised, and to discover whether her gender can be discerned through the films of a woman director. The exploration of these ideas entails a review of the feminist thinking, methodologies and epistemologies that are relevant to cinema, and that examine relevant theoretical positions within feminism and theories of cinematic authorship. The key lens employed here for theorising Campion's cinema is that of postmodern-feminism. As an approach, this allows an understanding of difference rather than 'Otherness', and an enquiry into gender that is neither essentialist nor constructionist, but facilitates critical thinking about both positions. The central argument of this thesis is that Campion's film practice functions as an investigation into gender difference, how women and men live together in the world-experience that world, and are engendered as female through historic, psychological and cultural experiences. This thesis therefore argues that Campion's aesthetic and perspective is not only feminist, but also, female, and feminine, and her work a cinematic articulation of female experience.

Recently, musicologists Linda Austern and Suzanne Cusick have examined the socio-cultural implications of gender issues in Renaissance music. Drawing on Cusick's research on gender-based binary oppositions in Italy and Austern's studies of women and music in England, I propose a related set of gender binary oppositions in English society. I apply these oppositions in detail to two specific works from the Elizabethan madrigal and lute song repertoire, then examine the remaining pieces from these collections as a whole and find that an overlap of four particular oppositions better captures the contradictory nature of the music. Examining pieces that fall into each category, I observe how the composer manipulates each to complicate the piece's gender character. I conclude that while binary oppositions grasp the artistic and political trends of an era, a closer look at the tensions at work between them provides a more nuanced view of the music's gender character.

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