O presente trabalho é uma reflexão sobre os aspectos técnicos e estéticos do processo de criação de um portfolio de composições. Esta reflexão está fundamentada nos trabalhos de Leonard B. Meyer (1973), Étienne Souriau (1999) e Ilza Nogueira (2003). Os aspectos técnicos estão ligados aos procedimentos composicionais “paródia” e “relações de correspondência” e os aspectos estéticos referem-se às categorias estéticas “bizarro”, “cômico”, “fantástico” e “insólito”. Em todas as composições deste portfolio ocorrem esses procedimentos composicionais e categorias estéticas, em algumas composições mais, em outras menos. São realizadas reflexões sobre o processo composicional de cada uma das peças, individualmente, e, em seguida, considerações sobre como a “paródia”, as “relações de correspondência” e as categorias estéticas atuam em cada uma das composições. / This work is a discussion on the technical and aesthetic aspects of the composition of a group of pieces. The discussion is based on works by Leonard B. Meyer (1973), Étienne Souriau (1999) and Ilza Nogueira (2003). The technical aspects of the composition are related to the compositional procedures "parody" and "conformant relationships"; its aesthetic aspects are related to the aesthetic categories to it "bizarre", "comical", "fantastic" and "uncommon". Such procedures and aesthetic categories occur in the entire group of pieces, to various degrees of importance. A discussion is made on the composicional process of each individual piece followed by considerations on how "parody", "the conformant relationships" and aesthetical categories are integrated throughout the group of pieces.

Esta dissertação é um estudo de dois processos de criação na música contemporânea, nos quais atuei junto com dois colegas: Dario Rodrigues Silva (pianista) e Lauro Pecktor (compositor). O primeiro processo foi a preparação da estreia da peça Doppelgänger, e o segundo foi a construção e apresentação da peça espaços submersos entre prédios. Em ambos os processos investiguei a função e os significados da partitura, avaliando a atuação dos músicos e suas ideias. As análises foram realizadas tendo como referencial teórico o Conceito de Obra Musical (GOEHR, 1992), o questionamento sobre a ênfase demasiada que a cultura ocidental de concerto coloca na escrita, um conjunto de investigações sobre colaborações entre performers e compositores e o conceito de Campo da Obra Musical (ÖSTERSJÖ, 2008). Como métodos, considerei os princípios da Pesquisa Artística (BORGDORFF, 2012; COESSENS, CRISPIN, DOUGLAS, 2009) da Autoetnografia Analítica (ANDERSON, 2006) e dos Estudos de Caso. Os dois processos foram descritos para em seguida serem analisados. Os principais recursos utilizados nas análises foram as gravações dos ensaios, a minha memória de pesquisador participante e as entrevistas realizadas com meus colegas. Como conclusão, observei que as partituras foram consideradas pontos de partida, textos em torno do quais foram criados campos textuais que emergiram da interação e do trabalho em grupo, confirmando que a atuação dos músicos (performers e compositor) é mais bem entendida como ciclos de criação e interpretação, conforme é proposto no conceito de Campo da Obra Musical. / This dissertation is a study of two creative processes in contemporary music in which I have worked with two colleagues: Dario Rodrigues Silva (pianist) and Lauro Pecktor (composer). The first process was the preparation of the premiere of Doppelgänger, and the second was the construction and presentation of the piece espaços submersos entre prédios. In both processes I have investigated the function and meaning of the score, evaluating the musicians’ agency and ideas. The analyses were conducted under theoretical references of the Musical Work Concept (GOEHR, 1992), the questioning of super estimated role of score in the Western Concert Culture, a set of investigations about collaborations between composers and performers and the concept of The Field of the Musical Work (ÖSTERSJÖ, 2008). As methods, I have considered the principles of Artistic Research (BORGDORFF, 2012; COESSENS, CRISPIN, DOUGLAS, 2009), Analytic Autoethnography (ANDERSON, 2006) and Case Studies. Both processes have been described and then analyzed. Rehearsals recordings, my memory as participant researcher and interviews with my colleagues were the main resources used in the analysis. In conclusion, I observed that the score was considered a starting point, texts around which were created text fields through interaction and group work, confirming that the work of musicians (performers and composer) is best understood as creation and interpretation cycles, as proposed in The Field of the Musical Work.

Orientador: Emerson Luiz de Biaggi / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Artes / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-13T23:06:52Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Presgrave_FabioSoren_D.pdf: 5223568 bytes, checksum: 5a010cfbb3491bc89109b7d40c80aeb4 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009 / Resumo: Este trabalho teve por finalidade o estudo de peças recentes, escritas para violoncelo, por compositores brasileiros que utilizam técnicas expandidas, a fim de proporcionar um detalhamento dessas técnicas para facilitar o contato dos violoncelistas e compositores com a escrita contemporânea para violoncelo. Para isso foram analisados os motivos que afastam o violoncelista da performance dessas peças, com a apresentação de sugestões de exercícios para facilitar a execução dos diferentes aspectos da música nova. Como resultado, foram obtidos exercícios que pretendem preencher a lacuna que há no material de estudo de técnicas expandidas, novas composições para violoncelo - compiladas no apêndice - e entrevistas com renomados violoncelistas, intérpretes de música contemporânea. Palavras-chave: violoncelo; música nova; interpretação; técnicas expandidas / Abstract: The goal of this work was the study of new pieces for violoncello written by Brazilian Composers that use expanded techniques, in order to detail these techniques to facilitate the work of cellists and composers. This research analised the reasons that drive performers away from these pieces, and isolated different aspects of Contemporary Music performance with study suggestions. The results of this work were exercises that start to fill the absence of study material for extended techniques, new compositions - compiled in the appendix - and interviews with leading performers in the contemporary music field. Key Words: violoncello; contemporary music; interpretation; extended techniques / Doutorado / Musica / Doutor em Música

Orientador: Silvio Ferraz Mello Filho / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Artes / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-08T08:43:08Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Afonso_LuisAntonioEugenio_D.pdf: 4378446 bytes, checksum: 6e099355d88b059fe281e3f02bbad006 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2006 / Resumo: O presente trabalho tem como intenção fundamental a realização musical da obra ¿Dialogue de L¿Ombre Double¿, de Pierre Boulez, composta para clarinete solo ao vivo, clarinete pré-gravado e Live Electronics. O projeto investiga o processo que o intérprete percorre para vencer os recursos técnicos exigidos pela escrita musical do compositor, com momentos de reflexão interpretativa a respeito dessas exigências estilísticas e técnicas que a linguagem da música contemporânea requer, apresentando algumas visões técnico-interpretativas usadas pelo intérprete na realização progressiva da obra em questão. São apresentadas também discussões entre o intérprete e alguns compositores brasileiros convidados, sobre essas especificidades técnico-interpretativas em trechos desta obra, bem como uma breve descrição das técnicas utilizadas por Boulez tanto para a realização dos trechos pré-gravados, realizados em estúdio, como para a sonorização e a espacialização do som na sala de concerto, no momento da performance / Abstract: The fundamental intention of the present work is the musical realization of the oeuvre ¿Dialogue de L¿Ombre Double¿, from Pierre Boulez, composed for live solo clarinet, together with pre-recorded clarinet and Live Electronics. The project relates the investigation of the process that the performer goes through in order to master the technical resources demanded by the musical writing of the composer, with moments of interpretative reflections regarding the challenges and types of language that contemporary music requires, presenting a few technical-interpretative points of view used by the performer throughout the progressive realization of the researched oeuvre. Discussions between the performer and some invited Brazilian composers regarding the technical-interpretative specificities used in parts of the work are also presented, as well as a brief description of the techniques employed by Boulez for the sonorization and specialization of the sound in the concert hall during the performance / Doutorado / Doutor em Música

Orientador: Suzi Frankl Sperber / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Artes / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-20T08:02:13Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Bittar_Valeria_D.pdf: 3915851 bytes, checksum: 3bdc67b5e7298b895d1d4e6d7c1d2681 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012 / Resumo: O presente trabalho é divido em três partes. A primeira é uma exposição crítica da formação do músico intérprete, forjada na metodologia do Conservatório pós-Revolução Francesa e estabelecida no Romantismo. Compara-se essa "mentalidade" à noção da "sociedade disciplinar", "sociedade dos corpos dóceis", desenvolvida por Michel Foucault (2007), como estrutura da formação musical, geradora de uma interpretação "transparente" (HAYNES, 2007), denominada nesta tese de "interpretação neutra". O eixo dessa formação concentra-se no texto musical como valor absoluto, na autoria do texto e na decodificação lógico-abstrata feita pelo intérprete neutro, através de um treinamento técnico automatizado. A segunda parte desta tese considerará que a Performance da Música Historicamente Informada HIP (Historically Informed Performance) e, ao mesmo tempo, o contato do músico intérprete com composições que contêm escrita de contornos "móveis" de autores contemporâneos, foram os principais fatores que desviaram o músico da interpretação musical "canonicista" consolidada no Romantismo e que ainda hoje, paradoxalmente, formata a performance musical. Ambos os fatores conduziram o performador musical a deslocar o eixo da interpretação textocêntrica, na qual o performador assumia o posto do "embaixador da vontade do autor da obra" (DUNSBY, 1995) e a musicologia assumia a função reguladora da performance. Sem desvalorizar o texto musical (seja escrito ou de transmissão oral), este deslocamento aciona a noção da performance como uma operação de ordem perceptiva, e não lógica, que ocorrerá no espaço de performance, no instante da performance, cujo eixo é o intérprete e a audiência. Na terceira parte deste trabalho propõe-se primeiramente intensificar a vivência do performador através do conceito de "movência" do texto, termo cunhado pelo medievalista Paul Zumthor (1993), perante a "intervocalidade" que estrutura os textos da Idade Média, denotando a mobilidade e os "contornos frouxos" do texto. Propõe-se a aplicação do conceito de "movência" para a leitura /interpretação de qualquer texto. Partindo da conscientização da mobilidade do texto é considerada a abertura de um diálogo, por parte do performador musical, com outras artes performáticas, o teatro e a dança contemporâneos. Sugere-se o encontro de denominadores comuns entre estas artes - em especial o encontro com os conceitos fundamentados no teatro de Jerzy Grotowski, na antropologia teatral de Eugenio Barba e na Técnica Klauss Vianna de "Escuta do Corpo". Neste diálogo é proposta como estruturação do performador para a performance musical perceptiva, a inclusão de fundamentos trazidos por este teatro e pela Técnica Klauss Vianna: acionamento da atenção que parte da desautomatização do corpo cotidiano e a consequente geração da dilatação e da presença do corpo do atuante no momento do Ato musical. Expõe-se a experiência da autora como flautista doce no trabalho com o Grupo ANIMA, como síntese das propostas trazidas nesta tese, que caminham para a vivificação do Ato musical através da presença viva do músico atuante e de seu corpo em comunhão com a audiência / Abstract: The present work is divided into three parts. The first is a critical exposition of the formation of the music performer, forged in the methodology of the Conservatory after the French Revolution and settled in Romanticism. Here it will be compare this "mentality" to the notion of "disciplinary society", "society of docile bodies", developed by Michel Foucault (2007), as the structure of musical training, giving rise to an "transparent" interpretation (HAYNES, 2007), called here "neutral interpretation". The axis of this training focuses on the musical text as an absolute value, the authorship of the text and the decoding logic abstraction made by the neutral interpreter, through an automated technical training. The second part will consider the Historically Informed Performance of music (HIP) and at the same time, the contact of performers with interpretation of compositions of contemporary authors containing instable contours, the main factors that deviated the musician from "canonical" interpretation settled in Romanticism and consolidated today. Both factors led the musical performer to shift the axis of 'textcentrical' interpretation, in which the performer took the post of "Ambassador of the will of the author" (DUNSBY, 1995) and musicology assumed the function of regulatory performance. Without detriment to the musical text (whether written or oral transmission), this displacement drives the notion of performance as an operation of perceptual order, not logical, which occur in the space of performance, at the moment of performance, whose axis is the interpreter and audience. In the third part of this study aims primarily to intensify the experience of the performer through the concept of 'mouvence' of the text, a term coined by medievalist Paul Zumthor (1993), facing the 'intervocalicality' which structures the texts of the Middle Ages, showing mobility and 'flexible edges' of the text. It is proposed to apply the concept of 'mouvence' for reading / interpretation of any text. Starting from the awareness of the mobility of the text, in the present work it will be considered the opening of a dialogue, by the musical performer, with other performing arts, contemporary theater and contemporary dance. It is suggested that the finding of common denominators between these arts - especially the meeting with the fundamental concepts in the theater of Jerzy Grotowski, the Theater Anthropology of Eugenio Barba and the KlaussVianna Technique of "Body Hearing." This dialogue will propose that the structure of the performer, for musical perceptive performance, should be based on the inclusion of the concepts developed in Grotowski and Barba's theater and in the principles of the KlaussVianna Technique as: drive the attention of the body through deautomatization of everyday body and the consequent generation of dilation of the body and the presence of the body in the musical Act. It will be exposed the author's experience as recorder player together with Grupo ANIMA, as a synthesis of the proposals brought in this theses, that conduce to a lively musical Act through the living presence of the musician and its body in communion with the audience / Doutorado / Artes Cenicas / Doutor em Artes

This selective investigation of contemporary solo violoncello works written between 1980 and 2010 consists of 1075 works, listed in alphabetical order of country and in alphabetical order of composers of each relevant country. Due to the extensive nature of this field, this research only includes works by composers from eight European countries (Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Spain and the United Kingdom), as well as Australia, Canada, New Zealand and South Africa. In my considered opinion, the European countries that have been selected are those with a very high musical culture and where composers are very active in this field. The musical life of the United States of America is so huge that it deserves a study of its own. Relevant information of each entry are added, including the approximate duration of each piece, the dedicatee, dates of first performances, recordings and addresses of websites of individual composers. The catalogue is followed by two appendices: one that lists the dedicatee in alphabetical order and the other that lists the works by their approximate duration. The study did not aim to examine the qualitative merits of every piece listed. The catalogue only includes original works for solo violoncello, and music exclusively written for beginner and intermediate levels has not been included. Works written for violoncello and piano, violoncello and orchestra and an amplified violoncello together with tape or electronic accompaniment are not included in this catalogue. These are subjects for further investigation and catalogue compilation. / Thesis (DMus)--University of Pretoria, 2013. / gm2014 / Music / unrestricted

The purpose of this study is to examine Kaija Saariaho's song cycle Quatre Instants for soprano and piano and to present a possible interpretation of it. I have made an analysis of the song cycle, which focuses mainly on the relation between the song text and the piano part. This has led to forming a detailed interpretation of the song cycle. The study contains also Saariaho's biography in order to support the analysis with background information. Both the background information and the analysis have immensely influenced upon my interpretation of the song cycle. / <p>The sounding part of the work consists of the following recording: ljud. The Corona virus situation spring semester 2020 has caused limitations in the recording possibilities. The recording is archived and may be supplemented. </p>

Karlheinz Stockhausen’s Kathinkas Gesang als Luzifers Requiem presents mental, physical, and musical challenges that go beyond the usual expectations of an instrumentalist, extending and redefining the traditional idea of virtuosity. Using firsthand performance experience, score and recording study, and flutist interviews, this document explores the effects of some of these heightened demands and argues that the particular performance situation presented by Kathinkas Gesang brings up critical questions about the performer’s role, the nature of performance and of the musical work, and the existence of an authoritatively “authentic” interpretation. Employing an expanded definition of virtuosity that includes interpretation and encompasses both choices and actions, the document discusses the extensions of virtuosity into two main areas: first, memory; and second, staging and movement, covering both practical suggestions and larger implications. Finally, it examines how the performer’s negotiation of these challenges relates to questions about authenticity and agency. Performance is defined here as a creative and collaborative act, not attempting to duplicate previous performances or recordings, but rather to give the best realization of the piece possible in the given circumstances, according to the individual’s interpretation of the score’s directions. There is no single “authentic” interpretation, but rather a rich multiplicity of possibilities, and the performer’s creative agency and personal authenticity are necessary for the full realization of the work.

This paper presents a discussion of functional silence in contemporary classical music with a particular focus on the music of Salvatore Sciarrino and Jürg Frey, two composers whose drastically-contrasting bodies of work both occupy the interstitial space between the audible and inaudible. To begin, I address three main questions: what are the functions of silence in a musical context, how do the characteristics of a work affect our perception of these silences, and how do these functions relate to our perception of music on the edge of silence. In answering these first two questions, I discuss three categories of silence---temporal, spatial, and gestural---which I use in a silence-centric analyses of Sciarrino's Let me die before I wake, Allegoria della notte, and Infinito Nero, as well as Frey's Streichquarttet III. To further apply these concepts to music on the edge of silence, I provide a fourth category---timbral silence---which describes the perception of absence or silence within the presence of sound and allows for the application of existing functional principles of silence to sounding events. In turn, this allows us to understand the music of Sciarrino and Frey in terms of timbral completion and timbral dissolution, respectively. Having established a theoretical framework for understanding the function of silence, the second half of this paper discusses the composition of A Moment on the In-between, my 2018 work for string quartet, with a focus on the intentional application of these principles of functional silence within the piece.

Michael Daugherty has created his niche in the music world by composing works inspired by icons of American popular culture. Red Cape Tango is the final movement of his Metropolis Symphony, a work inspired by the life and times of the comic book character Superman. This movement in particular deals with the death of the superhero through the use of musical elements, most notably the Latin Sequence of the Mass for the Dead, Dies irae. Daugherty's ingenuity in blending profoundly dark subjects with humor is particularly evident in this work. Death is personified as a temptress and lures Superman through the power of a seductive tango. This study concentrates on Daugherty's compositional style and its impact in musical circles. A transcription for wind orchestra was created by another composer/conductor precisely because of the need to bring such an important work to another medium, thus making it accessible to a wider audience. In addition, this study looks at the changes in instrumentation necessary to create a second, equally formidable version of the work.