XX amžiuje skirtingų tautų kultūros neišvengiamai sąveikauja tarpusavyje, daro įtaką viena kitai ir tuo pačiu viena kitą. Pagyvėjus kultūriniams mainams Europoje pradėta gana aktyviai domėtis Lotynų Amerikos kultūra ir, žinoma, viena iš domėjimąsi sukėlusių kultūros sričių yra muzika, kadangi ji yra labai plačiai paplitusi kultūros sritis, t.y. muzikinis ugdymas vyksta ne tik ugdymo institucijose, bet ir už jų ribų. Daugiausiai apie Lotynų Amerikos muziką išgirstame ir sužinome iš tokių informacjos šaltinių kaip televizija, radijas, internetas, kurių pagalba tapo labiau prieinami kitų šalių muzikos atlikėjų video ir audio įrašai. Jaunimo vertybinėms nuostatoms ir pasaulėjautai daro įtaką Vakarų Europos kultūra, vedinas madų jis klausosi Lotynų Amerikos muzikos, kuri greta kitos pramoginės muzikos, šiuo metu jau yra tapusi Lietuvos kultūros dalimi. Nežiūrint to, kad Lotynų Amerikos šalių muzikinę kultūrą sudaro labai įvairi, skirtingų laikmečių, stilių bei žanrų muziką, populiariausi ir plačiausiai paplitę yra popmuzikos žanrai. Šia muzika daugiausiai domisi jaunimas, kuriems dažniai masinė popkultūra yra neatsiejama laisvalaikio praleidimo dalis. Klubai, šokių studijos organizuoja įvairius koncertus, renginius, seminarus, kur susiburia įvairių profesijų žmonės besidomintys ne tik šokiu, bet ir apskritai Lotynų Amerikos šalių kultūra. Bendraminčiai dalyvauja muzikinėje veikloje, kurioje išreiškia save, dalinasi žiniomis ir įgyta patirtimi. Tyrimo objektas – Lotynų Amerikos... [toliau žr. visą tekstą] / Nations of different cultures in the 20th century are inevitably interacting and influencing each other, and act upon each other. At more lively cultural exchange in Europe, quite active interest in Latin American culture started to grow and, certainly, one of the fields causing the interest in culture is music because music is a very popular field of culture, i.e. the musical upbringing takes place not only in educational institutions but also outside them. Most of all we hear about the Latin American music and we find out the facts from such information sources as television, radio, internet, all of them helping to bring the video and audio records of the performers from other countries closer to us. The values and viewpoints of the youth are being influenced by the West European culture; guided by fashion trends. The youth is listening the Latin American music that, in line with other entertainment music, has already become an integral part of Lithuanian culture. Despite the fact that musical culture of Latin American countries is varied and rich by the diversity of styles, periods, and genres, the most popular and most widespread ones are the pop-genres. This music is a centerpiece of interests of young people for whom often the mass pop culture is an inseparable way of leisure. Clubs, dance studies organize different concerts, events, seminars where people of different professions interested not only in dancing but in the culture of Latin American countries in general... [to full text]

Esta pesquisa aborda a trajetória de Dércio Marques (1947-2012) a partir de uma corrente de pensamento disseminada na América Latina e refletida em um repertório pautado na defesa de valores humanistas. Tais ideários são o eixo do fazer artístico deste cantador brasileiro que deixou para a história da música um repertório significativo e que dá voz a um \"Brasil de Dentro\". A partir de narrativas oriundas de entrevistas feitas com outros artistas e pessoas de convívio próximo ao músico, assim como de materiais complementares, buscamos organizar conteúdos biográficos e discográficos em um recorte histórico específico, que perpassa seu encontro com a literatura e a música latino-americanas, suas escolhas de vida e a atuação no campo artístico dentro de um contexto nacional. Aliamos, ainda, a este percurso a escuta do cancioneiro presente em seus discos lançados entre 1977 e 1983, e apresentamos uma sucinta abordagem de cada canção em diálogo com notas biográficas, fatos históricos e temáticas específicas que as permeiam. Pretendemos assim, lançar luz sobre uma parte importante de nossa história musical, sobretudo aquela que ainda transita fora dos cânones. / This research covers the career of musician Dércio Marques (1947-2012), who was part of a current of thought widespread throughout Latin America, that reflected a repertoire characterized by the promotion of humanistic values. Such ideals are the axis of the artistic work of this Brazilian \'bard\' that left to the history of music a distinguished repertoire which gives voice to a Brasil \'from inside\'. Based upon narratives taken from interviews made with other artists and people who were in close contact with him, as well as complementary materials, we sought to organize both biographical and discographical contents from a period in which Dércio had a strong relationship with Latinamerican music and literature, his choices in life, and his acting in the artistic realm within the national context. In addition, we made hearings and discussed aspects of the \'cancioneiro\' present in his albums launched between 1977 and 1983 and for each of the songs we presented a summary that included biographical notes, historical facts and specific themes that relate to them. We intended, thus, to bring light to important aspects of our musical history, specially those that remain outside the official canons.

Astor Piazzolla (1921-1992) captivated Argentine and international audiences with his innovative works in a nuevo tango style and his bandoneón performances. Piazzolla?s success culminated during the 1980s with his second Quinteto, which performed remarkable concerts in venues such as the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires and the Central Park Bandshell in New York, in addition to the performances at the Montreal and Montreux Jazz Festivals. His music also grew popular with a plethora of internationally acclaimed classical and jazz artists as well as with Argentine musicians themselves. However, Piazzolla?s music poses a challenge today, because nuevo tango represents a synthesis of the composer?s musical and cultural backgrounds, conjoining the tango legacy of Buenos Aires, the jazz idioms that he absorbed in New York, and the international traditions of classical music. Many musicians, specifically those from the United States, perform and study nuevo tango without having sufficient prerequisite knowledge of these practices, causing the genre to lose its cultural substance. By considering the fusion of tango, jazz, and classical genres and incorporating a cross-cultural analysis, this thesis aims to illuminate the basis of Piazzolla?s performance practices. It seeks to identify the yeites (tango instrumental techniques) that define nuevo tango and to suggest ways that the modern performer can incorporate these stylistic features to produce culturally informed interpretations of Piazzolla?s works. This study focuses on the practices of Piazzolla?s second Quinteto, at the pinnacle of his career, and emphasizes a gestural analysis of the yeites to produce a well-grounded concept of nuevo tango sound. This study concludes that, even though Piazzolla?s compositions represented a fusion of genres, the performance practices (and specifically the gestures) of the second Quinteto are primarily associated with the tango traditions of previous eras. Such gestures embody Piazzolla?s music and thus allow contemporary performers to recreate the evocative and persuasive characteristics of nuevo tango practices today.

abstract: This DMA project (in piano performance) consists of a concerto composed for trumpet and piano duo with orchestra and an analytical document that accompanies it. The text portion of this paper discusses the different compositional aspects of Rapsodia Camaleónica, including instrumentation, form, influences and the performers' perspective. The work is scored for a medium-sized orchestra: 2 flutes (flute 2 double piccolo), 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, horn, trombone, bass trombone, 4 percussionists (timpani, snare drum, crash cymbals, suspended cymbal, castanets, güiro or carrasca, shekere, whip, xylophone, triangle, pandeiro, tam-tam, wood blocks, 2 congas, glockenspiel, 3 tom-toms, bass drum) and strings. It is written in one multi-sectional movement with a duration of approximately twenty-three minutes. The full score is attached as an appendix. The influences in Rapsodia Camaleónica range from the western classical tradition to world music to urban dance music, all of which fuse together in a work that blends this eclectic mix into a unified whole. This composition is intended as an addition to the piano concerto repertoire from Latin America, which includes compositions by Carlos Chávez, Manuel María Ponce (both Mexican), Alberto Ginastera (Argentinian), Camargo Guarnieri and Heitor Villa-Lobos (both Brazilian). It is the composer's desire to add a Colombian piece of universal appeal to this list. / Dissertation/Thesis / D.M.A. Music 2012

Esta pesquisa aborda a trajetória de Dércio Marques (1947-2012) a partir de uma corrente de pensamento disseminada na América Latina e refletida em um repertório pautado na defesa de valores humanistas. Tais ideários são o eixo do fazer artístico deste cantador brasileiro que deixou para a história da música um repertório significativo e que dá voz a um \"Brasil de Dentro\". A partir de narrativas oriundas de entrevistas feitas com outros artistas e pessoas de convívio próximo ao músico, assim como de materiais complementares, buscamos organizar conteúdos biográficos e discográficos em um recorte histórico específico, que perpassa seu encontro com a literatura e a música latino-americanas, suas escolhas de vida e a atuação no campo artístico dentro de um contexto nacional. Aliamos, ainda, a este percurso a escuta do cancioneiro presente em seus discos lançados entre 1977 e 1983, e apresentamos uma sucinta abordagem de cada canção em diálogo com notas biográficas, fatos históricos e temáticas específicas que as permeiam. Pretendemos assim, lançar luz sobre uma parte importante de nossa história musical, sobretudo aquela que ainda transita fora dos cânones. / This research covers the career of musician Dércio Marques (1947-2012), who was part of a current of thought widespread throughout Latin America, that reflected a repertoire characterized by the promotion of humanistic values. Such ideals are the axis of the artistic work of this Brazilian \'bard\' that left to the history of music a distinguished repertoire which gives voice to a Brasil \'from inside\'. Based upon narratives taken from interviews made with other artists and people who were in close contact with him, as well as complementary materials, we sought to organize both biographical and discographical contents from a period in which Dércio had a strong relationship with Latinamerican music and literature, his choices in life, and his acting in the artistic realm within the national context. In addition, we made hearings and discussed aspects of the \'cancioneiro\' present in his albums launched between 1977 and 1983 and for each of the songs we presented a summary that included biographical notes, historical facts and specific themes that relate to them. We intended, thus, to bring light to important aspects of our musical history, specially those that remain outside the official canons.

Premiering at the twilight of the gauchesco era and the dawn of Argentine musical Modernism, El matrero (1929) by Felipe Boero (1884-1958) remains underexplored in terms of its social milieu and artistic heritage. Instantly hailed as a masterpiece, the work retains a place in the local repertory, though it has never been performed internationally. The opera draws on myths of the gaucho and takes further inspiration from the energized intellectual environment surrounding the one-hundred-year anniversary of Argentine Independence. The most influential writers of the Centenary were Leopoldo Lugones (1874-1938), Ricardo Rojas (1882-1957), and Manuel Gálvez (1882-1962). Their times were marked by contradictions: xenophobia and the desire for foreign approbation; pride in an imaginary, "barbaric" yet noble ideal wiped out by the "civilizing" ambitions of revered nineteenth-century leaders. Krausism, a system of ideas following the teachings of Karl Friedrich Krause (1781-1832), had an impact on the period as exhibited in the political philosophy of Hipólito Yrigoyen (1852-1933), who served as president from 1916 to 1922 and 1928 to 1930 when he was deposed by a right-wing coup d'état. Uncritical applications of traditional understandings of nationalism have had a negative impact on Latin American music scholarship. A distillation of scholarly conceptions of Argentine nacionalismo, which address the meaning of the word as it was used in the early twentieth century, combined with an examination of major works of important literary figures of the Centenary provide a firmer ground for discussion. Gálvez paints a conservative portrait of a refined, well-traveled dilettante who finds true enlightenment only in his own rural, Argentine culture. A liberal, Rojas understands nationalism as devotion to the development of national institutions and local art. Lugones argues the foundation of national art should be the gaucho, and articulates the hierarchical sociabilities it should articulate. Boero adopts elements of Krausism and the nationalistic system of values advanced by the Centenary writers within an Occidentalist framework. Occidentalism describes cosmopolitan initiatives to incorporate the ideals of the West as structural to Argentine identity. It shares the liberal outlook of the central government that valued international openness and European and Anglo-American affinity. Boero wrote to satisfy the responsibilities of the various occupations he held as opera composer, pedagogue, and art musician, but was always dedicated to the strengthening of national institutions and development of what he perceived to be a native art. His pieces evince the Occidental ideal in their adoption of Impressionistic, Puccinian, and folkloric elements in varied ways, sometimes in individual pieces in isolation, other times all within the same work. The use of each of these styles is done in a thoroughly Eurocentric manner as even the "gaucho" elements are utilized according to traditional art music conventions. Boero demonstrates his mastery of a variety of techniques throughout his oeuvre and explores each of them in his magnum opus. The play El matrero, written by the contemporary Uruguayan playwright, Yamandú Rodríguez, draws on themes explored and celebrated by the Centenary writers and resonates with certain Krausist values. The libretto diverges from the play in a few significant ways that suggest a more conservative political outlook. More than simply a story told in the popular gauchesco style, the work is a kind of origin story with supposedly authentic depictions of rural life that present a model for contemporary sociabilities informed by the Krausism and liberalism of the era. Musical analysis of the opera confirms affinities with verismo and Impressionism, but also reveals a unique stamp, not only in the use of gauchesco topoi, but the harmonic language and interplay of styles. These styles are not blended into a single, cohesive unity but arise at key points within the heterogeneous work. A critical analysis allows the musical styles to be considered to articulate a social hierarchy marked by Krausist organicism already hinted at in the text. The various character groups of the opera have distinct voices that reveal separate classes. In line with current Argentine thought rooted in the nineteenth century and the Centenary, and due to the work's status as an origin story, the relationships between the groups may be seen to represent a model for contemporary society with the elite successfully managing the affairs of their underlings. The music helps articulate these relationships with moments of diegetic gauchesco music-making being relegated to the voices and bodies of the lower classes and the representatives of the upper class speaking with a mixture of art music styles and a sublimated folkloric style. The combined study of text and music reveals an Occidentalist perspective with the native Argentine elements subordinated to the European. In spite of their lower sociopolitical position, the folk are not despised but given a coherent musical language with which to express themselves, and the higher characters are musically united to their gaucho compatriots. The combination of musical styles creates an engaging, complex tapestry more than worthy of considered study and appreciation. Uncritical applications of traditional understandings of nationalism have had a negative impact on Latin American music scholarship. A distillation of scholarly conceptions of Argentine nacionalismo, which address the meaning of the word as it was used in the early twentieth century, combined with an examination of major works of important literary figures of the Centenary provide a firmer ground for discussion. Gálvez paints a conservative portrait of a refined, well-traveled dilettante who finds true enlightenment only in his own rural, Argentine culture. A liberal, Rojas understands nationalism as devotion to the development of national institutions and local art. Lugones argues the foundation of national art should be the gaucho, and articulates the hierarchical sociabilities it should articulate. Boero adopts elements of Krausism and the nationalistic system of values advanced by the Centenary writers within an Occidentalist framework. Occidentalism describes cosmopolitan initiatives to incorporate the ideals of the West as structural to Argentine identity. It shares the liberal outlook of the central government that valued international openness and European and Anglo-American affinity. Boero wrote to satisfy the responsibilities of the various occupations he held as opera composer, pedagogue, and art musician, but was always dedicated to the strengthening of national institutions and development of what he perceived to be a native art. His pieces evince the Occidental ideal in their adoption of Impressionistic, Puccinian, and folkloric elements in varied ways, sometimes in individual pieces in isolation, other times all within the same work. The use of each of these styles is done in a thoroughly Eurocentric manner as even the "gaucho" elements are utilized according to traditional art music conventions. Boero demonstrates his mastery of a variety of techniques throughout his oeuvre and explores each of them in his magnum opus. The play El matrero, written by the contemporary Uruguayan playwright, Yamandú Rodríguez, draws on themes explored and celebrated by the Centenary writers and resonates with certain Krausist values. The libretto diverges from the play in a few significant ways that suggest a more conservative political outlook. More than simply a story told in the popular gauchesco style, the work is a kind of origin story with supposedly authentic depictions of rural life that present a model for contemporary sociabilities informed by the Krausism and liberalism of the era. Musical analysis of the opera confirms affinities with verismo and Impressionism, but also reveals a unique stamp, not only in the use of gauchesco topoi, but the harmonic language and interplay of styles. These styles are not blended into a single, cohesive unity but arise at key points within the heterogeneous work. A critical analysis allows the musical styles to be considered to articulate a social hierarchy marked by Krausist organicism already hinted at in the text. The various character groups of the opera have distinct voices that reveal separate classes. In line with current Argentine thought rooted in the nineteenth century and the Centenary, and due to the work's status as an origin story, the relationships between the groups may be seen to represent a model for contemporary society with the elite successfully managing the affairs of their underlings. The music helps articulate these relationships with moments of diegetic gauchesco music-making being relegated to the voices and bodies of the lower classes and the representatives of the upper class speaking with a mixture of art music styles and a sublimated folkloric style. The combined study of text and music reveals an Occidentalist perspective with the native Argentine elements subordinated to the European. In spite of their lower sociopolitical position, the folk are not despised but given a coherent musical language with which to express themselves, and the higher characters are musically united to their gaucho compatriots. The combination of musical styles creates an engaging, complex tapestry more than worthy of considered study and appreciation.

This study aims to describe how the basic elements of music are synthesised and manipulated to create a composition in the musical style called Third stream music. This is done through a comprehensive description of the background of this musical style and a detailed analysis of a case study Third stream work, Invictus: Orchestral Prelude in 3 Movements, by the South African composer Noel Stockton and commissioned by the South African Music Rights rganisation. Copyright / Dissertation (MMus)--University of Pretoria, 2008. / Music / unrestricted

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This dissertation studies the musical activities of the Venezuelan pianist and composer Teresa Carreño (1853-1917) during her formative years in Caracas. It examines the sources that pertain to her musical environment, early piano training, and first compositions in the context of the growth in Caracas of the practices of recreational sociability, the increasing influence of virtuosic music, and the tradition of private concert-making sponsored by devoted music amateurs. This study argues that Teresa Carreño’s musical upbringing occurred in a social and cultural context in which Enlightenment-framed ideologies of civilization and social progress, shaped in fundamental ways the perceptions of the value of music and women in society, and their role in the newly-founded republic. This study is aimed at reconstructing Teresa Carreño’s musical activities in Caracas as a means for elucidating the values, aspirations, and contradictions of Caracas’s musical culture and how these were articulated within the broader context of the nation-building process that was shaped and promoted by the progressive intelligentsia since the early nineteenth-century.

This paper examines the linguistic qualities of reggaeton in order to determine to which extent the music represents the speech of the urban residents of Puerto Rico. The lyrics of this music are analyzed in order to see if they are used only within the context of reggaeton or if they are part of the Puerto Rican lexicon in general. The political context of Puerto Rico with respect to the United States is taken in to consideration with the formation of Anglicisms and the use of English. The paper summarizes the current knowledge of the Puerto Rican lexicon as well as two linguistic studies that focus on reggaeton as well as giving general background information on the genre. In the analysis section, 20 words that are commonly found in reggaeton songs are analyzed using two accredited dictionaries and three “urban dictionaries” in order to determine their meanings, uses and origins.