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Examines the use of vernacular, country guitar styles in an electro-acoustic environment. Special attention is given to performance practices and explanation of techniques. Electro-acoustic techniques-including sound design and spatialization-are given with sonogram analyses and excerpts from the score. Compositional considerations are contrasted with those of Mario Davidovsky and Jean-Claude Risset with special emphasis on electro-acoustic approaches. Contextualization of the piece in reference to other contemporary, electric guitar music is shown with reference to George Crumb and Chiel Meijering.

Tourniquet Mirage, a piece for orchestra and processed sound, is based on the recitation of a poem of the same name. Recitations are recorded and altered electronically through granulation and phase vocoding. Granular synthesis cuts audio up into "short sound grains" and combines them into a sequence of grains to form a longer final output. Phase vocoding uses Fourier analysis to analyze audio and represent it as a series of amplitudes, phases, and frequencies. The phase vocoder then uses this information to manipulate the audio without altering the overall structure of the waveform. / The processed sound part is closely linked to the music in the orchestra. This is as a result of developing the pitch-material of the orchestra by spectrally analyzing the processed audio. At certain times, the relationship between the electronics part and the sound of the orchestra is blurred. To accomplish this, the related formal sections of the orchestra are situated in a canonic relationship with respect to the processed-sound part. The thesis is in two parts: an analysis and an orchestral score.

This dissertation describes a compositional model rooted in cross-influential methodology between complementary musical compositions that share generative source material. In their simultaneous construction, two composition pairs presented challenges that influenced and mediated the other's development with respect to timbre, transposition, pitch material, effects processing, and form. A working prototype first provides a model that is later developed. The first work Thema is for piano alone, and the companion piece Am3ht is for piano and live computer processing via the graphical programming environment Max/MSP. Compositional processes used in the prototype solidify the cross-influential model, demanding flexibility and a dialectic approach. Ideas set forth in the prototype are then explored through a second pair of compositions rooted in cross-influential methodology. The first work Lusmore is scored for solo contrabass and Max/MSP. The second composition Knockgrafton is scored for string orchestra. The flexibility of the cross-influential model is revealed more fully through a discussion of each work's musical development. The utility of the cross-influential compositional model is discussed, particularly within higher academia.

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A radical transformation is taking place in today’s society with the rapid developments in digital technology. The digital dispersion of information occurs globally at an unprecedented speed, altering innumerable aspects of cultural memory to the extent that the experience of cyclical time of ritual culture is gradually replaced by the prevalence of linear time of progress and chaotic time of computerized processes. As a result, both formation and experience of meaning are changed. With that, an important question arises with regards to music: how does musical meaning transpire in contemporary culture? As a theoretical companion to my compositional work, this doctoral dissertation addresses this question from the perspective of memory. Based on the idea that musical meaning is informed through its contextualization within the manifold intersections of memory, cultural memory, and digital technology, its first three chapters explore the relationships between memory and identity, externalized memory and culture, time and meaning in music, and how these relationships can inform musical analysis. The fourth chapter provides analytical approaches to compositions by Luciano Berio, Helmut Lachenmann, John Cage, and Pierluigi Billone informed by the conclusions gained from the previous chapters. The last three chapters focus on the added complexity of the relationships between musical memory and cultural memory as impacted by digital technologies. It will be explored how digital processes affect various aspects of musical memory and musical time. Correspondingly, the final chapter offers musical analyses of compositions with live electronics by composers Brian Ferneyhough and Jonathan Harvey, and the dissertation will be concluded by an analysis of my dissertation composition #ffffff which is appended. Central to the investigation are the post-structuralist ideas of philosophers Bernard Stiegler, Jacques Derrida, Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, as well as theories regarding cultural memory brought forth by Jan and Aleida Assmann. In order to apply these concepts to an examination of music, they will be reconciled with the musical philosophy of Gunnar Hindrichs, the musical semiotics of Jean-Jacques Nattiez, the cultural semiotics of Roland Posner, and the critical media studies of Wolfgang Ernst. / Graduate / 0413 / annette.mailbox@gmx.net

Mass is written for large mixed choruswind ensemble consisting of woodwind quartet (flute, oboe, Bb clarinet, and bassoon), brass quintet (two Bb trumpets, F horn, trombone, bass trombone), and recorded digital synthesizer. This setting of the Ordinary is in Latin and includes the Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Sanctus, and Agnus Dei. The duration of the work is approximately twenty-seven minutes.

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Orientador: Florivaldo Menezes Filho / Banca: Silvio Ferraz / Banca: Lia Tomás / Resumo: A obra de Karlheinz Stockhausen (1928-2007) é contornada por uma série de questões que concernem tanto ao âmbito das especulações próprias do fenômeno musical, quanto àquelas que permeiam este discurso. Dentre estas está a relação entre os procedimentos composicionais seriais, tal como ocorre nas primeiras obras, e outros situados em um âmbito mais alargado de possibilidades, onde os primeiros preceitos são remodelados e estendidos. Sob estas asserções proponho diálogos que versem sobre os vários desdobramentos da organização do discurso musical de sua música eletrônica. Como exemplo utilizo sobretudo Gesang der Jünglinge (1955- 1956) e Hymnen (1966-1967), mas também perfaço algumas incursões em sua obra instrumental e em seus primeiros estudos eletrônicos. Desta forma busco auxílios para uma melhor compreensão dos procedimentos composicionais que percorrem seu labor entre os anos de 1950 e 1966, sob o viés compositivo e auditivo. / Abstract: The work of Karlheinz Stockhausen (1928-2007) is contoured by several approaches that concern the range of the explorations of the very musical phenomena, and some others that permeate the musical discourse. Among them there is the relation between the serial procedures, as in the early works, and the procedures within a wider range of possibilities, where the first concepts are reviewed and extended. On these assertions, I propose a dialog that verse on the several implications on the organization of musical discourse in Stockhausen's electronic music. I use Gesang der Jünglinge (1955-1956) and Hymnen (1966-1967) as main examples, but all the same I do some incursions in his instrumental works, as so as in his electronic studies. Thus I search for subsidies to a better understanding of the compositional procedures used along 1950 and 1966, through the compositional and aural aspects. / Mestre

Essa pesquisa faz um recorte da música eletrônica através de suas linguagens, práticas documentárias e processos informativos, estudados a partir de contextos socioculturais, para observar sua constituição como um gênero musical popular. A informatividade da música eletrônica foi compreendida em seus complexos de relações terminológicas e conjecturas diversas, ilustrando e identificando interrelações, propriedades estéticoformais, categorizações e características discursivas e linguísticas. Conceitos da Ciência da Informação e das humanidades foram utilizados para analisar como esse gênero irresoluto e fragmentado por muitas definições, processos anticategóricos e conflitos de distinção cultural, acaba por definir-se como um campo de intensa materialidade informativa e histórica, que segue tendo na ideia de \"música eletrônica\" seu universo simultaneamente amplo e circunscrito. Objetos, fenômenos, o devir musical, categorias e as linguagens dessa música foram estudados sob os vértices da informatividade, como proposta por Bernd Frohmann, conceito processual que surge a partir da ideia dos documentos como definidores e reveladores de contextos, problemáticas e discursos. Essa pesquisa conclui como a informatividade da música eletrônica logra documentá-la como tal: um gênero musical histórico, institucionalizado e documentado, coeso e problematizado por preponderantes aspectos informativos, referenciais e de categorização - um fenômeno da Cultura e da Informação. / This research outlines electronic music through its languages, documentary practices, informative processes and their sociocultural contexts, to observe its constituion as a popular music genre. The informativenesse of electronic music is seen from its complexes of terminology relations and several conjectures, that illustrate and identify interrelations, aesthetic and formal properties, categorizations, discursive and linguistic characteristics. Concepts from Information Science and other humanities have been used to analyze how this irresolute musical genre, fragmented by anti-categorical and cultural distinction conflits, ends up being defined as a field of intense informative and historical materiality. This music still relies this wide and also circumscribed universe on the idea of \"electronic music\". Objectos, phenomena, the music becoming, categories and languages of this music have been studied under the informativeness theorical vertices, as proposed by Bernd Frohmann, a procedural concept that arises from the ideia of documents as defining elements of contexts, discourses and problems. This research concludes how informativeness manages to document electronic music as such: a historical, institutionalized and documented musical genre, cohesive and also very problematized by its preponderant informative, referential and categorical aspects - a Cultural and Informative phenomenon.