published_or_final_version / abstract / Music / Doctoral / Doctor of Philosophy

published_or_final_version / abstract / Music / Master / Master of Philosophy

This examination of my own works (presented largely in chronological order) and of related music by others, broadly concerns itself with appropriation and allusion on the part of twentieth and twenty-first century composers. It considers how the deliberate synthesis of existing works affects the responding composers' own output. To this end, whether surveying my own music or others', I do so within a four-pronged framework: 1. The philosophical premise and aesthetic of pieces which somehow appropriate existing composition (as claimed overtly by the composer, or inferred from available research). 2. The compositional procedure and techniques employed in the process of composing works which allude to or synthesise other pieces. 3. The product resulting from the interaction of the above two factors (naturally the latter is more concrete). 4. Critics' and scholars' responses: the basic phenomenology of the allusive element, synthesis, or stylistic appropriation, and the ethical problems surrounding any appropriation. My analyses address one or more of these connected points. They raise a number of significant questions. Is synthesis and re-composition (the latter taken to be more specifically referential) affective or effective? That is to say, is it aesthetically prescriptive? Can composers manage to quarantine 'Les objets trouvés' from their individual practice? Of interest are composers with individual credibility as innovators, whose craft is its own defence against criticism on dogmatic grounds. I consider what is to be gained, in terms of technique, and in terms of developing an aesthetic, from the process of specifically engaging with other pieces, and explore the effects of differing methods of synthesis as compared across compositional practices.

published_or_final_version / abstract / Humanities / Master / Master of Philosophy

published_or_final_version / Music / Master / Master of Philosophy

Orientadores: Jonatas Manzolli, Stelamaris Rolla Bertoli / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Artes / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-11T10:18:44Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Mannis_JoseAugusto_D.pdf: 7332479 bytes, checksum: c694f419a7ad3630d709d9c453b80cb7 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008 / Resumo: Este trabalho é dirigido a soluções de conforto acústico para escuta e performance musical, considerando sobretudo aspectos psicoacústicos da escuta subjetiva de músicos e especialistas nesta área. A partir de critérios de avaliação acústica de salas para música em Beranek e princípios de design e funcionamento dos difusores de Schroeder, a pesquisa apresenta soluções originais de concepção e design de difusores a partir da técnica de composição musical com 12 sons de Schoenberg, e pode ser qualificada como inovação tecnológica. A escuta técnica e de apreciação musicais são ao mesmo tempo base, guia e eixo deste trabalho, assim como a melhoria de condições permitindo escutas de boa qualidade é seu objetivo. Perguntas como: ¿O que acontece no som que é importante para os músicos em performance?¿, ¿Como e o que o músico ouve?¿ e ¿O que é importante para a escuta musical?¿ estão profundamente presentes tanto neste trabalho quanto nos trabalhos de Beranek que, por essa razão, foi, teoricamente, um dos pontos de partida adotados. A pesquisa aqui realizada, bem como este trabalho, situa-se na confluência de três grandes áreas do conhecimento: Artes e Humanidades (Música, Sonologia, Arquitetura), Ciência (Física: Acústica) e Tecnologia (Engenharia de áudio, Acústica aplicada, com alguns recursos de Engenharia Civil e Engenharia Mecânica). Na introdução é destacada a importância do som e do silêncio tanto na música quanto na acústica. Como fundamentação teórica há uma exposição ampla de princípios de acústica relacionados, tipologia das simetrias, elementos da técnica de composição musical serial, aspectos desejáveis e indesejáveis em auditórios, parâmetros de avaliação acústica de salas, princípios e funcionamento de difusores acústicos. São propostas três soluções para novos tipos de difusores, bem como apresentados dois projetos detalhados de adequação acústica de salas para música onde são aplicados, com medição de resultados em um dos casos. É apresentada e discutida uma simulação de desempenho das superfícies seriais através de análise modal, verificando a qualidade e desempenho esperados dos difusores concebidos / Abstract: This study is aimed at acoustic comfort solutions for music listening and performance by mainly considering psychoacoustic aspects related to subjective listening of musicians and specialists concerned with this field of knowledge. Starting from acoustic evaluation criteria of music rooms (opera houses and concert halls) in Beranek and principles of design and operation of Schroeder Diffusers, this piece of research presents original solutions and conception as well as design solutions for diffusers by taking Schoenberg¿s 12- sounds musical composition technique as a starting point. This research can be qualified as technological innovation. Simultaneously, both technical listening and music appreciation listening stand for a basis, a guide, and a main point for this work, as well as the improving conditions that allow good quality listenings makes up its objective. Questions such as: ¿What is important in the sound for performing musicians?¿, ¿How and what does the musician listen to?¿ and ¿What is important for music listening?¿ are deeply present either in this research or in Beranek¿s works, which therefore have been theoretically deemed as one of the starting points in use. The research undertaken ¿ as well as this work ¿ lays within the confluence of three major fields of knowledge: Arts and Humanities (Music, Sonology, Architecture), Science (Physics: Acoustics), and Technology (Audio Engineering, Applied Acoustics, in addition to a few resources from Civil Engineering and Mechanical Engineering). The introduction emphasizes the importance of sound and silence either in music or acoustics. The theoretical basis include an extensive exposition of related acoustic principles, symmetry types, elements of serial musical composition technique, desirable and undesirable aspects in auditoriums, acoustic evaluation parameters of rooms, principles and operation of acoustic diffusers. Three solutions are proposed for new types of diffusers. Two detailed projects of acoustic appropriateness are presented for music rooms and concert halls, where they are applied and, in one of the cases, results therefrom are measured. A simulation of the performance obtained in serial surfaces through modal analysis by checking both quality and performance expected from the conceived diffusers is presented and discussed. / Doutorado / Doutor em Música

"October 2003." / Includes bibliographical references / 592 leaves. : / Title page, contents and abstract only. The complete thesis in print form is available from the University Library. / Chiefly in English; some Polish text in pt. B. / Comprises three types of material: composition (pt. A); performance (pt. C); and, musicology (pt. B.), and is intended to reflect the author's professional activities as composer, pianist and writer. The various writings and texts all relate to the life and music of Witold Lutoslawski (1993-2003). Earlier publications have been excluded because they are referred to (and reflected in) the author's thesis: Pitch organisation in the music of Witold Lutoslawski since 1979 (Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Leeds, 1992) / Thesis (D.Mus.)--University of Adelaide, Elder School of Music, 2004?