The focus of this essay is a discussion of Libby Larsen's relationship with American vernacular musical expression in her piano chamber music works. This essay examines three works that are representative of the wide range of influences in her piano chamber music: Holy Roller for Alto Saxophone and Piano; Barn Dances for Flute, Clarinet, and Piano; and Trio for Piano and Strings for Violin, Cello, and Piano. They are inspired, respectively, by three different genres of American music: gospel, Western square dance, and jazz. In so doing, this essay discusses Larsen's use of musical quotations, idiomatic harmonic elements, and patterns of rhythm and melody drawn from these varied aspects of American culture. It is essential for musicians to understand how to play varying genres, and this essay offers suggestions on how to play the three different genres of gospel, Western square dance, and jazz within the context of Larsen's music. This essay will hopefully bring these works, and Larsen's larger body of works, to the greater attention of the musical community and introduce them to a wider audience.

This study is concerned with popular church music in Dar es Salaam and with changes in this music in relation to the concepts of temporality and spatiality. In part one, I argue that temporal change is experienced by human beings in relation to events or "stamps". Using selected stamps in the history of Tanzania from the 1980s to 2005, I discuss, on the one hand, how temporal events shaped various aspects of the music and people's experiences of the music and, on the other hand, how the music influenced people's experiences of various events and temporal rhythms. Various processes in the making ofpopular church music and various people involved in the creation of this music are considered to serve as stamps that mark the metamorphosis of the music. Likewise, the structural organization of the music and various musical elements imprint musical works and give them their identities thus causing them to be associated with other works that are organized in more or less similar ways. In part two, I use the theory of spatial trialectics to examine how popular church music is related to religious, national and gendered spaces. First, I discuss how the use of this music in religious spaces and the changes that have taken place in aspects of the music have been controversial, and I argue that the changes in the music led to changes in people's inner experiences of Christian spirituality. Second, I point out that the practice of African nationalism in this music has been aiming at liberating the national mental space through the use of traditional music materials and by addressing various national issues. The dynamics in this space involve the interaction between local and global music aesthetics. Third, I discuss the prominence ofwomen musicians in popular church music in recent years and the way in which this prominence has increased the focus on women's issues in the music. A close reading of selected songs reveals that individuals' experiences of gender problems are shaped by gendered mental space, which is informed by religious and other cultural norms. / Thesis (Ph.D.)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, 2006.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-08-03T12:21:03Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Joao Marcos da Silva.pdf: 3705791 bytes, checksum: fa0a02c9a478722c5d37cbbd1333075c (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010-03-04 / Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico / This paper analyzes sociologically in contemporary times the imagery field in gospel music and how it influences the changes of imagery-esthetic paradigms used by phonogram producers in their religious marketing to the commercialization of gospel music in the Brazilian evangelical music market, making it possible in this current model to enable a qualitative and quantitative increase of products aimed at the evangelical public. The research identifies in the dissemination of visual production and marketing of CDs, DVDs, websites of phonogram producers, fairs and music awards, the mechanisms used for the construction of a new imagery paradigm that provides, in the religious field, the emergence of a new evangelical imaginariness mimetically constructed to feed a gospel market supported by the social triad: spectacle, consumption and entertainment. Thus, the analysis has its cut in the paradigmatic changes that arise from the first singers of the 1950s culminating in the explosion of gospel music in the early 1990s. / Este trabalho analisa sociologicamente na contemporaneidade o campo imagético na música gospel e de que forma, este influencia na mudança dos paradigmas imagético - estéticos utilizados pelas produtoras fonográficas em seu marketing religioso para a comercialização da música gospel no mercado da música evangélica brasileira, proporcionando neste modelo atual um crescimento qualitativo e quantitativo dos produtos destinados ao público evangélico. A pesquisa identifica nas produções visuais de divulgação e comercialização de CDs, DVDs, sites das produtoras fonográficas, feiras e premiações musicais, os mecanismos utilizados para a construção de um novo paradigma imagético que proporciona no campo religioso, o surgimento de um novo imaginário evangélico mimeticamente construído para alimentar um mercado gospel fomentado pela tríade social: espetáculo, consumo e entretenimento. Desta forma, a analise tem o seu recorte nas mudanças paradigmáticas que surgem a partir dos primeiros cantores e cantoras da década de 1950 até culminar na explosão da música gospel no início da década de 1990.(AU)

Made available in DSpace on 2015-03-26T13:44:26Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 texto completo.pdf: 781649 bytes, checksum: 3c373fb0dd2ddd1ecd58b711d3b30149 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-03-07 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / Nowadays we can observe a new and increasing care given to emotion. It is the emotion seen under a discursive view. This conception has allowed several analyses of meaning effects that the announcer intends to cause through discourse on his interlocutors. Thus, based on such perspective, this study proposed to verify the pathemic character present in gospel music discourse, considering its evidence on the media as well as the phonographic market, in the last few years. In this way, our aim was to describe the lyrics of the gospel songs and relate their discursive organization to the pathemic effect that they aim at causing on the listener, as a captivation strategy of followers to the Protestantism. The analysis focused on songs and testimony by gospel singer and songwriter Lázaro, present in his album entitled Testemunho e Louvor , winner of several categories in the most prestigious gospel music event of 2009, the Troféu Talento award. As theoretical framework and for methodology it was used the Semiolinguistic Theory by Patrick Charaudeau, through the modes of discourse organization, which allowed us to describe the organization of the songs. Associated with this theory, we used others theories that approached emotion in discourse and religious discourse as well. / Atualmente podemos observar um novo e crescente tratamento dado à emoção. É a emoção vista sobre o viés discursivo. Esta concepção tem permitido várias análises de efeitos de sentidos que o locutor pretende causar através do discurso em seus interlocutores. Assim, baseados nessa perspectiva, esta pesquisa se propôs a verificar o caráter patêmico contido nos discursos da música gospel evangélica, levando em consideração a sua evidência na mídia bem como no mercado fonográfico, nos últimos anos. Desta forma, nosso objetivo foi descrever as letras das canções evangélicas e relacionar sua organização discursiva ao efeito patêmico que estas visam causar no ouvinte, como estratégia de captação do fiel ao protestantismo. A análise focalizou as canções e testemunhos do cantor e compositor gospel evangélico Lázaro que estão inseridos no disco Testemunho e louvor , vencedor em várias categorias do maior evento da música gospel de 2009, o Troféu Talento. Como aporte teórico e metodológico foi utilizada a Teoria Semiolinguística de Patrick Charaudeau, por meio dos Modos de organização do discurso que nos permitiu descrever a organização das canções. Associada a esta teoria, utilizamos algumas teorias que abordaram a emoção no discurso e o discurso religioso.

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Singing school teachers, who teach rural church congregations to sing from shape-note gospel songbooks, are still working in southcentral Kentucky, but the demand for them is smaller than it was in the first half of the twentieth century. The interdependence network in which singing school teachers, songbook publishers, and community singing events were key parts began to weaken in the 1940s as a result of the growth in popularity of professional gospel quartet concerts and gospel record albums. Many gospel music enthusiasts who once looked to songbooks as a major source for new material and for developing singing skills turned to albums and concerts in the 1940s. Singing school teachers began to be called on less frequently. The first three chapters of this thesis contain an overview of the gospel singing events, the songbook publishers, and the singing schools. The nature of the relationship between these three gospel music institutions is established. In the fourth chapter, I profile three singing school teachers of southcentral Kentucky. In the conclusion, the development of popular religious music since the early 1800s is summarized and the importance of researching Southern white gospel music as a step toward a greater understanding of Southern music traditions as a whole is examined.

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES / The research has as main problem to understand what characterizes, and how works in Brazil the process of generating value, in the market of evangelical cultural products, commonly called gospel. The cropped field is the Brazilian recorded music market and its ramifications, the object is the production chain of the music, analyzed through the work of artists, managers of Record Company, music streaming company and physical store of discs. The theoretical reference adopted is the Political Economy of Communication, through two central concepts: Cultural Industry and mediation. The expository method adopted is historical / dialectical materialism, through which one intends to think of the gospel market as a complex phenomenon, formed by the relation between the social and economic macrostructures and the historical and cultural particularities of a segment. The starting hypothesis is that the term gospel discriminates the evangelical music of the others in function of responding to a characteristic of the Brazilian evangelical culture; however, this does not hurt the generation of value in the production chain of music, nor does it prevent this segmented market from becoming another manifestation of the mediation role played by the cultural industry. The techniques used were bibliographical and documentary analysis, structured and semistructured interview with artist and managers, and the biographical method, through the narrative of the careers of some artists not interviewed. The hypothesis was confirmed, and more: the differentiation that the term gospel brings back does not depend on the music or the audience, but on the artist, and the other managers, and the faith they profess. Thus, the particularities of gospel music are also appropriate to the emergence of a cultural industry. / A pesquisa tem como problema central entender o que caracteriza e como funciona no Brasil o processo de geração de valor no mercado de produtos culturais evangélicos, comumente chamado gospel. O campo recortado é o mercado brasileiro de música gravada e suas ramificações, o objeto é a cadeia produtiva da música, analisada por meio do trabalho de artistas e executivos de gravadora, aplicativo de streaming de música e loja física de discos. O referencial teórico adotado é o da Economia Política da Comunicação, por meio de dois conceitos centrais: Indústria Cultural e mediação. O método expositivo adotado é o materialismo histórico/dialético, por meio do qual se pretende pensar o mercado gospel como um fenômeno complexo, formado pela relação entre as macroestruturas sociais e econômicas e pelas particularidades históricas e culturais de um segmento. A hipótese de partida é que o termo gospel discrimina a música evangélica das demais em função de responder a uma característica da cultura evangélica brasileira; porém, isso não fere a geração de valor na cadeia produtiva da música, nem impede que esse mercado segmentado se transforme em mais uma manifestação do papel de mediação cumprido pela indústria cultural. As técnicas empregadas foram análise bibliográfica e documental, entrevista estruturada e semiestruturada com artista e executivos, e o método biográfico, por meio da narrativa das carreiras de alguns artistas não entrevistados. A hipótese foi confirmada, e mais: a diferenciação que o termo gospel trás não depende da música ou do público, mas sim do artista, e dos demais executivos, e da fé que professam. Assim, as particularidades da música gospel também estão adequadas ao surgimento de uma indústria cultural. / São Cristóvão, SE

With a medium level of technical and interpretive difficulty, these arrangements of “Three Spirituals” are aimed at more advanced pianists. Lasting around 1½ to 2½ minutes each, the three movements are all fairly short and can be performed separately or – as recommended by the composer – in the order given here.:“Go Down, Moses” “Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child” “Nobody Knows The Trouble I’ve Seen” / Die Arrangements der hier vorliegenden Ausgabe von „Three Spirituals“ richten sich mit ihrem in spieltechnischer Hinsicht mittleren Schwierigkeitsgrad und ihren musikalischen Anforderungen an schon etwas fortgeschrittenere Klavierspieler. Mit einer Dauer von circa eineinhalb bis zweieinhalb Minuten haben alle drei Sätze eine überschaubare Länge und können sehr gern einzeln oder – empfehlenswerterweise – in der hier abgedruckten Reihenfolge vorgetragen werden.:“Go Down, Moses” “Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child” “Nobody Knows The Trouble I’ve Seen”

The research study, Caught between Christianity and the hard rock: A narrative study, presents, explores and discusses the stories of Christian hard rock musicians from a predetermined Christian hard rock band, comprising of four members. The study takes a narrative approach at exploring and discussing the participants’ stories, which comprise the qualitative data for the study. The stories were collected by means of four individual semi-structured interviews and a group unstructured interview. The interviews sought to ask the participants certain questions to hear and collect their stories pertaining to the various narratives interplaying in their lives as Christian hard rock musicians. Following collection and transcription of these stories, the stories were analysed according to interpretive narrative analysis, according to Riessman, with reference to Labov’s 6 elements of transcription. Such stories were subsequently reported and discussed within the research study from a narrative theoretical point of departure. This allows for the reader to gain an understanding of the various narratives interplaying in the lives of Christian hard rock musicians, and the significance of such narratives and their experiences, which ultimately is assumed to influence the participants’ daily lives. Ultimately, the study facilitates for the participants to tell their stories as they wished to tell them, in terms of how they may be “caught between Christianity and the hard rock” music genre. Subsequently the study also serves for the reader to gain a narrative understanding as to how the band members understand themselves and their band to be in the world. / Dissertation (MA)--University of Pretoria, 2013. / gm2014 / Psychology / unrestricted

This dissertation falls in line with work produced during the past fifteen years or so, aimed at improving our appreciation of late medieval/early Tudor English Drama. The approach is based especially on looking at the rapport likely to be achieved between audience and players (and via the players, with the playwrights), in actual performance. Attention is given to the permanent modes of human thought, that are unaffected by the ephemeralities of a particular period; attention is therefore drawn to the traps that may mislead the unwary twentieth-century critic, and some new insights are offered into the purposes of the playwrights. Several cycle plays are treated, together with two of the moralities and two interludes. The point is made that these playwrights showed a considerable mastery of the possibilities inherent in drama, as is demonstrated by the provision for achieving rapport with the audience / The reformed churches have theological and musicological criteria for their hymns, which, however, are not always unambiguous. After the introduction of the Jeugsangbundel (1984) an informal song, with informal accompaniment, entered the worship and forms a prominent part of the singing in Dutch Reformed Churches today. Some congregations compile their own volumes of songs. This study set out to identify these congregations by means of a questionnaire and evaluate the songs. Other relevant information was also required from congregations. 21 % of the respondent congregations sing unapproved songs. They have a larger percentage of young people than those singing official songs. Congregations prefer a balance of formal and informal hymns and both are sung with equal enthusiasm. The melody is the strongest characteristic of the informal song and edification the strongest of the formal hymn. The evaluation, however, shows that a considerable number of songs do not meet the required standard / Art History, Visual Arts & Musicology / M.A. (Musicology)