O presente trabalho fornece ferramentas técnico-interpretativas para a construção de uma performance da suíte Imágenes para violão do compositor argentino Carlos Aguirre. Através de uma análise estrutural das obras que compõem essa suíte e sua relação com os gêneros da música popular em que se baseiam, assim como dados biográficos e estilísticos do compositor e suas obras para violão, apresentamos material para uma maior compreensão das peças. Na segunda parte do trabalho, expomos sugestões de digitação de mão direita e mão esquerda como alternativas às indicadas na edição. Versões gravadas pelo compositor com outros instrumentos de duas peças dessa suíte foram analisadas como fonte para ideias interpretativas no violão. Para a resolução das dificuldades técnicas presentes em Imágenes, propõem-se exercícios embasados principalmente no conceito de versão zero de Fernández (2000). / This work offers interpretative and technical tools for the construction of a performance of the suite Imágenes for guitar, by the Argentinian composer Carlos Aguirre. Through a structural analysis of the pieces that form the suite and its relation with other genders of folk music on which they are based, as well as biographic and stylistic information of the composer and his works for guitar, we present relevant material for a better comprehension of these pieces. In the second section of this work, we present fingering suggestions for both hands as alternatives to those indicated in the original edition. Versions recorded by the composer with other instruments of two pieces of the suite were analyzed as sources for interpretative ideas for the guitar. To resolve technical difficulties in Imágenes, we propose exercises, mainly based on Fernández’ (2000) concept of version zero.

Orientador: Marcos Fernandes Pupo Nogueira / Banca: Abel Luis Bernardo da Rocha / Banca: Sidney José Molina Júnior / Resumo: Esse trabalho tem como foco a versão de "Quadros de uma Exposição" de Modest Musorgsky feita para violão solo por Kazuhito Yamashita. Através de uma contextualização histórica e estética, insere essa obra no cânone do repertório para violão e estuda os impactos causados pela gravação desta e por sua performance. Comparando-a com o original para piano e com a orquestração feita por Maurice Ravel, analisa as técnicas violonísticas empregadas de maneira incomum. Discute as formas de escrita para o violão, seus efeitos e possibilidades de execução / Abstract: This work is about the guitar version of Modest Musorgsky's "Pictures at an Exhibition" made by Kazuhito Yamashita. By an esthetic and historical context, analyses the insertion of this piece in the classical guitar repertoire and studies the impacts by the recording and performance of it. Making a comparison with the original piano piece and with the orchestration made by Maurice Ravel, makes an analysis about the guitar techniques used in an unusual way. Debates the guitar writing, his effects and the performance possibilities / Mestre

Esta tese aborda o Concerto para Violão e Orquestra de Francisco Mignone, ainda pouco conhecido do público e violonistas de modo geral, apesar de seu retorno gradativo aos programas de concerto durante a última década. Nosso trabalho abrangeu duas frentes: a revisão da obra como um todo e o estudo das sugestões de Sérgio Abreu para a parte solista, concebida como apoio às primeiras apresentações brasileiras. A revisão da parte orquestral, a partir do confronto entre fontes primárias, seguiu ideias centrais de James Grier em seu conceito do intérprete-editor, que intervém para prover uma partitura alinhada às suas fontes históricas, ao mesmo tempo de fácil leitura e realização. Contextualizamos as proposições violonísticas de Sérgio Abreu em meio a revisões representativas de outros repertórios por personagens referenciais do instrumento, com as análises iniciais balizadas em princípios gerais do estruturalismo de Arnold Schönberg e William Caplin. Posteriormente as confrontamos também com as fontes primárias do violão solista e contexto orquestral. Embora nossa meta principal tenha sido a revisão crítica deste Concerto, nossa dupla abordagem propiciou uma reflexão em torno de suas características centrais, com desfecho das análises em nossas considerações finais. Os resultados podem ser resumidos na ideia geral de que a revisão crítica se torna progressivamente um hábito do intérprete violonista a partir do século XX e, especificamente, na elaboração de nossa partitura crítica do Concerto, com proposições também de nossa parte. / This thesis addresses the Concerto para Violão e Orquestra (Concerto for Guitar and Orchestra) by Francisco Mignone, who is still little known to the public and guitarists in general despite his increasing presence in concert programs during the last decade. Our research involved two fronts: the review of the work as a whole and the study of Sergio Abreu\'s suggestions regarding the soloist part, which were conceived as support to the first Brazilian presentations. The review of the orchestral part, based on the confrontation between primary sources, followed the central ideas of James Grier\'s concept about the interpreter-editor, who intervenes in the work in order to provide a score that is in line with the historical sources, and that is also easy to read and perform. We contextualize Sérgio Abreu\'s suggestions for the guitar amid representative revisions of other repertoires by referential interpreters with initial analyzes based on the general principles of Arnold Schönberg\'s and William Caplin\'s structuralism. Subsequently, we also confront Abreu\'s suggestions with the primary sources of the soloist guitar and with the orchestral context. Although our main goal was the critical review of this Concerto, our dual approach provided a reflection on its core characteristics, and the outcome of the analysis is in our final considerations. The results can be summarized in the general idea that, from the twentieth century, the critical review progressively becomes a habit of the interpreter guitarist and that it is specifically present in the elaboration of our critical score of the Concerto, which also incorporate suggestions given by us.

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abstract: This work explores the blurring and eradication of boundaries – whether the boundaries are musical, social, cultural, linguistical, or political. I wanted to create a work that would explore the boundaries of my own dual identities, such as Mexican or American, or masculine or feminine, and that of my varied interests, such as popular, jazz, and European art music. After half a year of work, Sueño-Vibrant is the dazzling, whirlwind of a result (“vibrant” is pronounced just as it is in English). I worked with poet Marco Piña because we share many similarities in our artistic philosophies, owing to our mutual identities as bilingual Chicanxs. Considering the poems themselves, for me, “Bastardized Spanglish Translations” reveals an individual recovering from the end of a romantic relationship, whereas “Night Song” is about the self-discovery of one’s identity. By pairing these two poems, I create a polarity between the texts themselves, to highlight that the shaping of identity is both an internal and external process. In the cantata, we travel from the mourning and mysterious “Do My Eyes Lie” to the Mexican folk-styled “Ya me voy;” the arduous and painful “Ban Me From Balancing;” the indie- and jazz-inspired “Soon I’ll Be Home;” the introspective choral work “Night Song;” and the dissonant and disoriented “This Song Keeps Skipping.” I complete the work with “Adiós, Amor,” where these seemingly disparate feelings, genres, ideas, and identities are tied together and explored to fruition through a variety of styles and genres, from the salsa, to the opera chorus. With this work, I invite audiences to consider their own identities and those of others, and to embrace the social dissonances that happen both within us and around us. / Dissertation/Thesis / Masters Thesis Composition 2019

Since the release of ‘Kind of Blue’ in 1959 by Miles Davis, various approaches to jazz improvisation have become more modal. Scales and their various modes has become a well-documented topic in music education. Through my own teaching I have noticed that learners do understand the theory and various applications of chord scales on harmonic structures but often fall short in the practical implementation on their instrument during improvisation. Lack of quick visualization of the various scale patterns by learners has proved to be more of a physical than musical issue. This leads to the research question: How do kinetically efficient actions and patterns interact to enable an improvising guitarist to navigate the fretboard most effectively? Pat Martino (1983) introduced a reduction concept where five master areas of activity based around minor patterns across the fretboard were identified. These five minor patterns were moved through various keys with slight fingering variations. Through my studies with John Fourie we explored the Martino reduction concept from a Dorian point of view. By recycling these Dorian patterns and application of a set of formulas, all seven modes of the major scale could be implemented in any key on the fretboard. Martino’s minor concept provided the foundation for this project, as well as further exploration under guidance of Johnny Fourie from 1998-2007. Five skilled participants performed various tasks from memory in the practical execution of master scale patterns and their intervallic formulas. Economy and efficiency were tested through vertical as well as horizontal movement across the fretboard by means of IPA, video recordings of semi-structured interviews and active research. This project finds that the standard tuning system of the guitar bids affordance to the improviser through implementation of a reduction concept with chunking of master scale patterns and their various intervallic applications. Through effective practice, repetition and practical application of these master scale patterns and intervallic formulas, effectivities become available during improvisation. It was found that the affordances of the instrument remain the same for various participants in the research undertaking, but their effectivities are variable and directly influenced by the participants’ individual perceptions and practical competencies. / Art History, Visual Arts and Musicology

Agustin Barrios's guitar music has become increasingly popular over the last forty years. After his death, a revival of interest in his compositions began in the 1970s, motivated by a series of publications and recordings of his music by important guitar performers at that time. The most important of these recordings came from the Australian guitar performer John Williams, who was interviewed in 1976 by ABC Television Australia for a film about the Paraguayan composer. The next year, Williams recorded a collection of fifteen works in his album John Williams-Barrios: John Williams Plays the Music of Agustín Barrios Mangoré. After this, the published editions of Barrios's works have proliferated, many of these transcriptions of the composer's own recordings. However, the publication of differing transcriptions has led to a lack of authoritative editions, creating a confusing situation for performers. Therefore, this research intends to highlight the importance of making critical editions of Barrios's works based on folk music, using the Cueca as an example. This research offers an analysis and comparison of Chilean cuecas from the first half of the twentieth-century--the timeframe in which Barrios was in contact with this genre--to Barrios's Cueca. Second, it proposes a critical/performance edition of Barrios's work taking into account both the performance practice of traditional Chilean cuecas, and the two primary sources of this work: a handwritten manuscript and the composer's own recording. This research does not analyze nor compares the Argentinian and Bolivian versions of the cueca.

Orientador(a): Achille Guido Picchi / Banca: Wladimir Fatto Contesini de Mattos / Banca: Humberto Amorim Neto / Resumo: Neste trabalho buscamos compreender a relação que o violão estabelece com a voz e o texto na canção de câmara brasileira do século XX, e a maneira como essa relação constrói uma unidade discursiva indivisível. A forma como o violão atua nesta tridimensionalidade traz consigo um lastro histórico-sócio-cultural, e transcende o idiomático do violão. Essa categoria de atuação, a qual chamamos de violonismo, passa por processos de simbolização e representação, e permite certas atribuições de sentido. Para amparar esta discussão buscamos, no primeiro capítulo, traçar um percurso histórico dos instrumentos de cordas dedilhadas com ênfase na sua relação com a voz. Veremos no segundo capítulo que tal percurso levou o violão a um posicionamento, no qual seu repertório escrito para voz e violão, evidencia um uso específico e exclusivo do instrumento. As implicações deste uso são discutidas no terceiro e último capítulo, no qual, sem buscar respostas definitivas, descortina questionamentos fundamentais acerca das possibilidades do violonismo / Abstract: In this work, we seek to understand the relationship that the guitar establishes with the voice and text of Brazilian chamber song of the 20th century and the way in which this relationship builds an indivisible discursive unit. The way in which the guitar acts in this three-dimensionality brings with it historical and sociocultural weight and transcends the idiomatic characteristic of the guitar. This type of action which we call guitarism, goes through processes of symbolization and representation, and allows certain sense assignments. To support this discussion we seek, in the first chapter, to trace a historical trajectory of plucked string instruments, emphasising in their relationship with the voice. In the second chapter we will observe that this trajectory has taken the guitar to a position in which its repertoire written for voice and guitar, demonstrates a specific and exclusive usage of the instrument. The implications of this usage are discussed in the third and last chapter, which without seeking definitive answers, unveils fundamental questions about the possibilities of guitarism / Mestre

<p>In this essay, I want to achieve an accessible and applicable entrance to Alexander Technique as a method for learning to use the body in such a way as to allow emotional expression in music. It is necessary to see the real need of Alexander Technique for the active musician, and therefore important components of music-making will be presented. These components are presented from an Alexander-perspective in order to produce a clear picture of the method of application.The prerequisite for emotional expression in music is musicians and music listeners with the ability to generate, and respond after emotional impressions. Alexander Technique provides an approach to make it easier for musicians, especially guitarists, to express emotions in a performance situation.After years of practice and obtaining musical knowledge and practical skills at the instrument, it is common that muscle tension and ingrained patterns contribute to limited expression. Muscle tensions arising from pressured situations such as auditions, competitions and concerts. Repetitive movements contribute to this, and lays the foundation for an insufficient technique. It is clear that traditional learning methods need to be complemented with an approach that treats body awareness as an essential part of musical performances. The notion that the use of the body affects mental states is now a truism, and one can see an opening towards new approaches that facilitate learning as well as performance of musical works. The emotional expression is in focus here, and this study deals with musical production based on the philosophy that music should be driven by decisions involving emotional expression.</p>

<p>What amount of knowledge of guitar playing can be expected after completing upper compulsory school? A qualitative research involving three different music teachers provides their view of knowledge. Their expectations have been compared to a quantitative research involving 58 upper secondary students from the social sciences programme. The idea is to compare their pedagogic intentions to the pedagogic realities of music teachings.</p><p>The study shows a clear advantage for students who has attended some form of external music tuition as well as for those students who have someone in their families who play an instrument</p><p>If the knowledge primarily is due to extracurricular activities perhaps there is time for a reformation of the music subject so that all may enjoy the education, not merely those who already possesses a curtain amount of knowledge...</p><p>The experience must not be allowed to submit to the vast forests of chords, by doing so one misses the purpose entirely</p>