abstract: Emily Dickinson is a well-known American poet of the nineteenth century, and her oeuvre consists of nearly 2,000 posthumously published poems. Written largely in hymn form with unique ideas of punctuation and grammar, her poetry attracts composers with its inherent musicality. The twentieth-century American composers Aaron Copland, Ernst Bacon, Lee Hoiby, and Gordon Getty have created song settings of Dickinson's poetry. Copland's song cycle Twelve Poems of Emily Dickinson (1949-50) is admired by many as an illustration of poetry; however, the Dickinson cycles by Bacon, Hoiby, and Getty are also valuable, lesser-known representations of her writing. Settings of one poem, "There came a Wind like a Bugle--", are common among Copland's Twelve Poems, Bacon's cycle Songs from Emily Dickinson: Nature, Time, and Space (1930), Hoiby's Four Dickinson Songs (1988), and Getty's The White Election (1982). These latter three settings have previously undergone some theoretical analysis; however, this paper considers a performance analysis of these songs from a singer's point of view. Chapter 1 provides background for this study. Chapter 2 consists of a biographical overview of Dickinson's life and writing style, as well as a brief literary analysis of "There came a Wind like a Bugle--". Chapters 3, 4, and 5 discuss Ernst Bacon, Lee Hoiby, and Gordon Getty, respectively; each chapter consists of a short biography of the composer and a discussion of his writing style, a brief theoretical analysis of his song setting, and commentary on the merits of his setting from the point of view of a singer. Observations of the depiction of mood in the song and challenges for the singer are also noted. This paper provides a comparative analysis of three solo vocal settings of one Emily Dickinson poem as a guide for singers who wish to begin studying song settings of this poem. The Bacon and Hoiby settings were found to be lyrical, tonal representations of the imagery presented in "There came a Wind like a Bugle--". The Getty setting was found to be a musically starker representation of the poem's atmosphere. These settings are distinctive and worthy of study and performance. / Dissertation/Thesis / D.M.A. Music 2011

[pt] Esta tese realiza análise crítica da Getty Images a fim de compreender atualizações de procedimentos de vigilância e controle perpetrados no campo da publicidade. Parte-se da arqueologia das mídias em busca por especificidades do banco de dados audiovisual para compreender protocolos próprios do ambiente virtual organizados a partir da lógica da invisibilidade. Através da análise semiótica de cinco filmes publicitários produzidos para marca pela agência publicitária brasileira, AlmapBBDO, é possível identificar de forma mais aprofundada estratégias de comunicação de valores e princípios da Getty Images. Em consonância com técnicas de montagem, diálogo com linguagem fragmentada e a partir da reapropriação de conteúdo audiovisual são produzidos pequenos vídeos-ensaios que visam revisitar e explorar paradigmas da imagem, bem como contribuir na reflexão do potencial latente dos bancos de dados audiovisual. Concomitantemente, é apresentada a perspectiva de construção criativa de monstros como estratégia publicitária cada vez mais recorrente como etapa da produção audiovisual. Além disso, é desenvolvida uma aproximação entre técnicas cinematográficas e publicitárias que busca sublinhar hibridismos e possíveis interconexões entre as duas áreas. Por fim, são apresentados exemplos que apontam possíveis utilizações da publicidade como forma de resistência e promotora de reflexão crítica diante de conjunturas norteadas por preceitos exclusivamente capitalistas. / [en] This thesis conducts a critical analysis of Getty Images to understand updates to surveillance and control procedures carried out in the field of advertising. It starts from the media archeology in search of specificities of the audiovisual database to understand protocols proper to the virtual environment that are often organized based on the logic of invisibility. Through the semiotic analysis of five advertising films produced for the brand by the Brazilian advertising agency, AlmapBBDO, it is possible to identify in more depth strategies for communicating Getty Images values and principles. In line with montage techniques, dialogue with fragmented language and from the re-appropriation of audiovisual content, small video-essays are produced that aim to revisit and explore paradigms of the image, as well as contribute to the reflection of the latent potential of audiovisual databases. Concomitantly, the prospect of creative construction of monsters is presented as an increasingly recurring advertising strategy as a stage of audiovisual production. Also, an approach is developed between cinematographic and advertising techniques that seeks to underline hybridism and possible interconnections between the two areas. Finally, examples are presented that point to potential uses of advertising as a form of resistance and to promote critical reflection in front of circumstances exclusively guided by capitalist precepts.

Thesis (M.A.)--Baylor University, 2008. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 52-55)

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