L’hypothèse d’une théorie musicale du sujet postule que l’on peut éclairer certaines problématiques de l’existence humaine à la lumière de la fugue musicale, et inversement. A partir du sens technique et musical du «sujet» de fugue, nous opérons dans la première partie une relecture (étymologique, sémantique et historique) de la fugue et du fait musical en lien avec l’émergence de la conscience européenne moderne, au tournant du 16ème siècle. En retour, les enjeux culturels, psychologiques et sociaux de la fugue s’éclairent grâce à l’injonction éthique de faire de sa vie une œuvre d’art – une fugue, dans la vie comme dans l’art. Cette hypothèse, énoncée au terme de la première partie, est explorée dans la troisième partie. La deuxième partie est consacrée à une esthétique comparée des arts de la fugue visant à faire apparaître la transversalité des enjeux et des principes de cette forme particulière. La prégnance de ces manifestations artistiques renforce l’hypothèse selon laquelle la subjectivité de fugue peut fonctionner comme un modèle de compréhension du sujet humain. La troisième partie s’ouvre sur une analyse de la psychopathologie de fugue. Ainsi la description de l’Homo Fugiens, figure anthropologique de l’homme en fugue, s’adosse in fine à une axiologie du sujet : le sujet humain, aux sens psychologique, social et éthique, évolue entre le sens positif (esthétique) de la fugue (œuvre d’un sujet absolu, créateur, en quête de lui-même) et le sens passif (voire pathologique) de la fuite (appauvrissement du sujet, qui peut aller jusqu’à la perte). The hypothesis of a musical theory of the subject postulates that the musical fugue partly explains human existence, and conversely. Considering the technical and musical significations of the fugue «subject», in the first part we reassess the musical fugue (through etymology, semantics and history) in its relation to the emergence of modern consciousness in Europe, at the turn of the sixteenth century. On the other hand, what is at stake with the cultural, psychological and social aspects of the fugue can be explained through the ethical injunction of making your life a work of art – a fugue, in life, as in art. This hypothesis emerges at the end of the first part and is directly addressed in the third part. The second part is dedicated to a comparative aesthetics of the arts of the fugue aimed at underlining the transversality of the principles specific to this artform. The omnipresent manifestations of the fugue in art reinforce the idea that the subjectivity of / in the fugue can operate as a model of understanding of the human subject. The third part develops from an analysis of the psychopathology of fugue. Accordingly, we show that the description of the Homo Fugiens (the anthropological figure of « man in (the) fugue ») rests on an axiology of the subject : the human subject, psychological, social and ethical, evolves between the positive (aesthetic) meaning of the fugue (the human subject, absolute, in quest of himself, creating his life) and the passive meaning of fugue-as-flight (ranking from the impoverishment to the loss of the subject, which is the pathology of the fugue).

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Reproduction de : Thèse d'exercice : Médecine : Nancy 1 : 2005. / Titre provenant de l'écran-titre.

Analysis of Johann Sebastian Bach's (1685-1750) keyboard works and the study of fugue are often complemented by an understanding of Baroque rhetorical theory. In the Baroque Era, the principles of oration and argument established by Greek rhetoricians were thought of as analogous to musical ideas and forms. Notable Baroque theorists Joachim Burmeister (c. 1566-1629) and Johann Mattheson (1681-1764) related the fugal process to an active and elaborate discourse. They connected the basic parts of rhetorical disposition to fugue in an attempt to define and clarify its skeletal framework. While the concept of musico-rhetorical disposition schemes seems to be an attractive design for many Baroque theorists, it is difficult to apply such an analysis to stretto and double/triple fugues. This type of analysis sectionalizes the fugue in restrictive ways, linking particular musical techniques to different areas as would divide an oration. This document suggests that specific rhetorical figures do not need to be seen as fitting pre-set standard areas (e.g., propositio, confutatio, conclusio), but can derive from the context of each particular fugue, since they serve a prevailing musical function. Bach's stretto and double/triple fugues from The Art of the Fugue, BWV 1080 are particularly difficult masterpieces to comprehend, and there is little precedence for the application of rhetorical figures to fugues of these types. This document examines Contrapuncti V-XI from The Art of the Fugue, and can serve as a model for rhetorical analyses of complex fugal processes.

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1935. / Typescript. Title from title screen (viewed July 3, 2008). Includes bibliographical references. Online version of the print original.

Inaug.-Diss.--Frankfurt am Main. / Vita. Bibliography: p. 178-183.

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1935. / Typescript. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references.

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Paul Hindemith's compositions are, for the most part, contrapuntal; and since the construction of such a traditionally contrapuntal medium as the fugue was brought to such a high degree of musical expression in the fugal writing of J. S. Bach, it is the purpose of this thesis to compare Hindemith's fugal style with the standard set by J. S. Bach.

Este trabalho oferece um estudo dos padrões estilísticos definidos através da análise dos processos contrapontísticos encontrados no terceiro movimento da Sonata nº I, Fuga e Toccata e do movimento final de Duas peças Sérias da obra para piano de Bruno Kiefer. A fuga, uma das técnicas de composição linear mais estabelecidas na escrita musical, reflete as transformações estilísticas na música ocidental. Considerando a diversidade de possibilidades estéticas na música do século XX, faz-se mister investigar como Kiefer tratou uma técnica composicional consagrada, preservando de modo singular e consistente o estilo inovador atribuído às suas obras. O referencial teórico adotado para este estudo é Twentieth Century Fugue – A Handbook (1962) de William Graves, Jr.. A partir da análise dos padrões recorrentes nas fugas de Bruno Kiefer, verificou-se o distanciamento entre os parâmetros da fuga tradicional e o estilo da escrita contrapontística do compositor. / This study offers a view of the stylistic patterns defined by the analysis of the contrapuntal processes used in the third movement of Sonata I, Fuga e Toccata, and the final movement of Duas peças sérias [Two serious pieces], from the piano works of Bruno Kiefer. The fugue, one of the most well established linear techniques of musical writing, reflects the stylistic transformations in Western music. Considering the diversity of aesthetic possibilities in twentieth-century music, it is appropriate to investigate how Kiefer dealt with such a technique, preserving an innovating style in a consistent manner, which has always been attributed to his music. This study was guided by Twentieth Century Fugue – A Handbook (1962), by William Graves, Jr.. After the analysis of the recurrent patterns found in the fugues by Kiefer, a verification of how these patterns relate to traditional parameters of fugal writing was undertaken.