Thesis (M.M.)--Baylor University, 2006. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 150-152).

En 1955, Luciano Berio obtient de la R.A.I. l’autorisation de créer, dans les locaux milanais de la radio, le Studio di Fonologia, premier studio européen mêlant musique concrète et musique électronique. Ce lieu, dont il définira tout autant les statuts que les différents appareillages, va devenir pour lui durant six ans un lieu de production effrénée de radiodrames pour la R.A.I., mais également un laboratoire de recherches personnelles. Entouré par un cercle d’avant-garde, très au fait des publications scientifiques de son temps - notamment dans le domaine de la linguistique, de la théorie musicale, et du structuralisme - il va plonger de façon empirique au cœur la matière vocale. La situation acousmatique du studio, l’absence d’interprètes, la dimension poétique et théâtrale du langage vont l’amener à se questionner sur l’écoute, et, dans une pensée brechtienne, sur l’écoute de l’écoute. Nous tentons de dégager, dans notre travail, en partant de la réalité du travail en studio, les éléments qui ultérieurement ont fusionné pour devenir le style bérien et qui sont déjà en germe ou même parfaitement identifiables durant cette période qui va de Chamber Music à Laborintus II. / In 1955 the R.A.I. granted Luciano Berio permission to create the Studio di Fonologia in their Milan radio studios, the first European studio to combine “musique concrète” and purely electronic music. He was able to choose the equipment and define the usage of the studio so that it became a place where he would produce radio dramas for the R.A.I. at a furious pace for six years as well as a laboratory for personal research. Surrounded by a circle of avant-garde personalities, very aware of scientific publications of his time - notably in the domains of linguistics, musical theory and structuralism - he will dive in an empirical way into the heart of vocal material. The acousmatic nature of the studio, the absence of live performers, and the poetic and theatrical dimension of language will lead him to ask himself about the notion of listening, and in a Brechtian way, about listening to listening. We will attempt in our work to reveal - from his actual studio work - the elements which later merged to become the Berian style and which were already germinating or even perfectly recognizable during the period from Chamber Music to Laborintus II.

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The musical performer’s embodied experience is an aspect of the performing process that has yet to be adequately considered in music scholarship. The embodied experience is relegated to the realm of the inaccessible and subjective, rather than being considered a valuable source of information for both the music analyst and performer. This thesis contends that the performing body can provide deep insights into musical meaning and can act as a resource for developing musical understanding. The sensations and experiences of the performer’s body during the process of creating music can lead to the recognition of important moments and fundamental meanings within a musical work. Engaging with scholarly literature from a variety of disciplines, this thesis will explore the classical singer’s embodied experience from the three primary perspectives of phenomenology, ecological perceptual theory and body communication theory. Each perspective is explored in and through a comparative listening analysis of Luciano Berio’s work for solo voice Sequenza III per voce femminile (1966) in order to illuminate specific aspects of the singer’s embodied experience. This embodied approach to musical analysis considers the singer’s body as a contributor to not only the production of sound but also to the creation of musical meaning, and can thus offer rich insights into that which is discovered through traditional analysis.

Thesis (M.M.)--Bowling Green State University, 2009. / Document formatted into pages; contains x, 71 p. : music. Includes bibliographical references.

The musical performer’s embodied experience is an aspect of the performing process that has yet to be adequately considered in music scholarship. The embodied experience is relegated to the realm of the inaccessible and subjective, rather than being considered a valuable source of information for both the music analyst and performer. This thesis contends that the performing body can provide deep insights into musical meaning and can act as a resource for developing musical understanding. The sensations and experiences of the performer’s body during the process of creating music can lead to the recognition of important moments and fundamental meanings within a musical work. Engaging with scholarly literature from a variety of disciplines, this thesis will explore the classical singer’s embodied experience from the three primary perspectives of phenomenology, ecological perceptual theory and body communication theory. Each perspective is explored in and through a comparative listening analysis of Luciano Berio’s work for solo voice Sequenza III per voce femminile (1966) in order to illuminate specific aspects of the singer’s embodied experience. This embodied approach to musical analysis considers the singer’s body as a contributor to not only the production of sound but also to the creation of musical meaning, and can thus offer rich insights into that which is discovered through traditional analysis.

The musical performer’s embodied experience is an aspect of the performing process that has yet to be adequately considered in music scholarship. The embodied experience is relegated to the realm of the inaccessible and subjective, rather than being considered a valuable source of information for both the music analyst and performer. This thesis contends that the performing body can provide deep insights into musical meaning and can act as a resource for developing musical understanding. The sensations and experiences of the performer’s body during the process of creating music can lead to the recognition of important moments and fundamental meanings within a musical work. Engaging with scholarly literature from a variety of disciplines, this thesis will explore the classical singer’s embodied experience from the three primary perspectives of phenomenology, ecological perceptual theory and body communication theory. Each perspective is explored in and through a comparative listening analysis of Luciano Berio’s work for solo voice Sequenza III per voce femminile (1966) in order to illuminate specific aspects of the singer’s embodied experience. This embodied approach to musical analysis considers the singer’s body as a contributor to not only the production of sound but also to the creation of musical meaning, and can thus offer rich insights into that which is discovered through traditional analysis.

Luciano Berio (1925-2003) was one of the most innovative composers of vocal music in the European avant-garde. His composition for female voice, Circles (1960), marks an important stage in his collaboration with his wife, singer Cathy Berberian (1925-1983). Berio was attracted to Berberian's exceptional talents as a performer, and their work together created new avenues of expression for the solo voice, as Berio explored the relationship between music and language. Drawing upon archival documents, this thesis is a study of the materials and methods that make Circles one of Berio's pivotal works for voice. My interpretation of these sources engages with Berio's approach to pitch and setting a poetic text, as well as with the nature of his collaborations with Berberian.

Esta tese é dedicada ao estudo de processos composicionais que se desencadeiam a partir de obras musicais preexistentes e acabadas. Dentre a enorme variedade de possíveis abordagens criativas a materiais musicais preexistentes, o presente estudo se volta para o que, a exemplo de Berio, denominamos comentário composicional: processos que se caracterizam, grosso modo, por operações de cunho intrínseco, isto é, que buscam desdobrar uma obra preexistente através da exploração de potencialidades latentes na própria obra e nos processos formativos que lhe são inerentes. Para tanto, nossa abordagem orienta-se por uma dupla pergunta de faces complementares: pela abertura que (a) se pode reconhecer nas obras (em suas dobras) e que (b) emerge por meio de novos processos (nas redobras e desdobras). A fim de investigar de forma ampla as condições para que uma obra musical já consolidada possa vir a ser tomada como ponto de partida - e como objetoproblema - para um nova composição, a primeira etapa de nossa exposição - capítulo I - busca examinar um princípio de abertura composicional. Conforme a hipótese que assumimos, tal abertura seria imanente às obras e apreensível na forma de um excedente de potencialidades criativas que emerge do inacabamento e da não-univocidade dos processos que as formaram. As noções de atual e virtual elaboradas por Deleuze e o circuito dinâmico - de virtualizações e reatualizações - no qual elas interagem, servirão como chave conceitual que auxiliará o exame deste principio de abertura intrínseca em peças de autores diversos, entre eles Pergolesi, Bach, Schumann, Stravinsky, Berio e Andriessen. Os capítulos II e III se voltam para duas modalidades de reelaboração de obras preexistentes que, de modos distintos, acionam a tensão entre o acabamento da obra e o inacabamento de seus processos. No capítulo II, nos debruçamos sobre a prática da transcrição a fim de interrogar em que medida a operação básica que a caracteriza, a saber, a reconstrução de uma peça em um meio instrumental distinto daquele para o qual fora anteriormente concebida, pode implicar uma intervenção em níveis processuais, acessando e refazendo dimensões formativas da obra original. À luz das reflexões estéticas de Lévi-Strauss - em especial da noção de modelo reduzido -, e a partir da análise de transcrições de Bach, Stravinsky, Webern, Messiaen, Sciarrino e Kurtág, propomos que a transcrição possa ser entendida como um processo de reatualização, que traz à tona dimensões que se mantinham latentes na versão original e assegura o caráter composicionalmente aberto das obras. No capítulo III, examinamos uma variedade de exemplos - de Monteverdi aos Chemins de Berio - em que uma obra preexistente, tomada como objeto de um comentário composicional, é integralmente conservada em meio à expansão de seu efetivo instrumental e/ou o desdobramento, \'em tempo real\' e in loco, de seus processos formativos. O objetivo geral deste trabalho é fundamentar teoricamente, com base em uma diversidade de exemplos de diferentes períodos históricos, uma prática composicional que se desenvolva como um modo de reflexão explícita e direta sobre obras e processos musicais preexistentes. Ao final, complementamos este percurso relatando um conjunto de estratégias de comentário desenvolvidas em nossa própria prática composicional. / This thesis investigates compositional processes that are triggered out from preexisting and finished musical works. Among the wide variety of possible creative approaches to preexisting musical materials, the current study is interested in the practice of compositional commentary (as originally named by Luciano Berio): processes which are distinguished for operating intrinsically upon the work from which they stem, i.e., by endeavoring to unfold a preexisting work through the exploration of latent potentialities in the work itself and its inherent formative processes. For this, our approach is oriented by a twofold investigation of (a) the openness that can be identified within the works (on its folds), as well as (b) the openness that emerges by means of new compositional processes (through its refolding and unfolding). In order to widely investigate the conditions required for a preexisting musical work to be taken as the starting point - and as a problematic object - to a new composition, we initiate our exposition (Chapter I) by examining a principle of compositional openness which, accordingly to our hypothesis, would be immanent in the works and apprehensible as a surplus of potentialities that emerges from the incompleteness and the non-univocity of its inherent formative processes. The notions of actual and virtual as elaborated by Deleuze and the dynamic circuit of virtualization and re-actualization in which they interact are taken as a conceptual key for the examination of this principle of intrinsic openness in pieces by several composers, including Pergolesi, J.S. Bach, Schumann, Stravinsky, Berio and Andriessen. Chapters II and III are respectively focused on two modalities of reworking of preexisting works which activate in their own peculiar ways the tension between the completeness of the work and the incompleteness of the composition (i. e., of the compositional process). In Chapter II, we approach the practice of transcription in order to investigate to what extent its basic operation (namely, the reconstruction of a musical piece in a different instrumental medium) entails a compositional intromission which brings to question the completeness of the work by reactivating its incompleteness. Through the notion of reduced model elaborated by the anthropologist Lévi-Strauss, and based the analysis of transcriptions by J.S. Bach, Stravinsky, Webern, Messiaen, Sciarrino and Kurtág, we propose that transcription may be understood as a process of re-actualization, which brings up aspects which remained latent within the original version and thus assures its compositional openness. In Chapter III, we examine a variety of examples - including, among other works, a couple madrigals by Monteverdi as well as a few of Berio\'s Chemins - in which a preexisting work, taken as the object for a compositional commentary, is fully conserved within an expanded ensemble and/or amidst the unfolding of its formative processes. The general aim of this research is to provide theoretical ground - supported by musical examples from different historical periods - to a compositional practice which consists in an explicit and direct form of reflection on preexisting works and musical processes. At last we report a set of commentary strategies developed in our own compositional practice.

Esta tese é dedicada ao estudo de processos composicionais que se desencadeiam a partir de obras musicais preexistentes e acabadas. Dentre a enorme variedade de possíveis abordagens criativas a materiais musicais preexistentes, o presente estudo se volta para o que, a exemplo de Berio, denominamos comentário composicional: processos que se caracterizam, grosso modo, por operações de cunho intrínseco, isto é, que buscam desdobrar uma obra preexistente através da exploração de potencialidades latentes na própria obra e nos processos formativos que lhe são inerentes. Para tanto, nossa abordagem orienta-se por uma dupla pergunta de faces complementares: pela abertura que (a) se pode reconhecer nas obras (em suas dobras) e que (b) emerge por meio de novos processos (nas redobras e desdobras). A fim de investigar de forma ampla as condições para que uma obra musical já consolidada possa vir a ser tomada como ponto de partida - e como objetoproblema - para um nova composição, a primeira etapa de nossa exposição - capítulo I - busca examinar um princípio de abertura composicional. Conforme a hipótese que assumimos, tal abertura seria imanente às obras e apreensível na forma de um excedente de potencialidades criativas que emerge do inacabamento e da não-univocidade dos processos que as formaram. As noções de atual e virtual elaboradas por Deleuze e o circuito dinâmico - de virtualizações e reatualizações - no qual elas interagem, servirão como chave conceitual que auxiliará o exame deste principio de abertura intrínseca em peças de autores diversos, entre eles Pergolesi, Bach, Schumann, Stravinsky, Berio e Andriessen. Os capítulos II e III se voltam para duas modalidades de reelaboração de obras preexistentes que, de modos distintos, acionam a tensão entre o acabamento da obra e o inacabamento de seus processos. No capítulo II, nos debruçamos sobre a prática da transcrição a fim de interrogar em que medida a operação básica que a caracteriza, a saber, a reconstrução de uma peça em um meio instrumental distinto daquele para o qual fora anteriormente concebida, pode implicar uma intervenção em níveis processuais, acessando e refazendo dimensões formativas da obra original. À luz das reflexões estéticas de Lévi-Strauss - em especial da noção de modelo reduzido -, e a partir da análise de transcrições de Bach, Stravinsky, Webern, Messiaen, Sciarrino e Kurtág, propomos que a transcrição possa ser entendida como um processo de reatualização, que traz à tona dimensões que se mantinham latentes na versão original e assegura o caráter composicionalmente aberto das obras. No capítulo III, examinamos uma variedade de exemplos - de Monteverdi aos Chemins de Berio - em que uma obra preexistente, tomada como objeto de um comentário composicional, é integralmente conservada em meio à expansão de seu efetivo instrumental e/ou o desdobramento, \'em tempo real\' e in loco, de seus processos formativos. O objetivo geral deste trabalho é fundamentar teoricamente, com base em uma diversidade de exemplos de diferentes períodos históricos, uma prática composicional que se desenvolva como um modo de reflexão explícita e direta sobre obras e processos musicais preexistentes. Ao final, complementamos este percurso relatando um conjunto de estratégias de comentário desenvolvidas em nossa própria prática composicional. / This thesis investigates compositional processes that are triggered out from preexisting and finished musical works. Among the wide variety of possible creative approaches to preexisting musical materials, the current study is interested in the practice of compositional commentary (as originally named by Luciano Berio): processes which are distinguished for operating intrinsically upon the work from which they stem, i.e., by endeavoring to unfold a preexisting work through the exploration of latent potentialities in the work itself and its inherent formative processes. For this, our approach is oriented by a twofold investigation of (a) the openness that can be identified within the works (on its folds), as well as (b) the openness that emerges by means of new compositional processes (through its refolding and unfolding). In order to widely investigate the conditions required for a preexisting musical work to be taken as the starting point - and as a problematic object - to a new composition, we initiate our exposition (Chapter I) by examining a principle of compositional openness which, accordingly to our hypothesis, would be immanent in the works and apprehensible as a surplus of potentialities that emerges from the incompleteness and the non-univocity of its inherent formative processes. The notions of actual and virtual as elaborated by Deleuze and the dynamic circuit of virtualization and re-actualization in which they interact are taken as a conceptual key for the examination of this principle of intrinsic openness in pieces by several composers, including Pergolesi, J.S. Bach, Schumann, Stravinsky, Berio and Andriessen. Chapters II and III are respectively focused on two modalities of reworking of preexisting works which activate in their own peculiar ways the tension between the completeness of the work and the incompleteness of the composition (i. e., of the compositional process). In Chapter II, we approach the practice of transcription in order to investigate to what extent its basic operation (namely, the reconstruction of a musical piece in a different instrumental medium) entails a compositional intromission which brings to question the completeness of the work by reactivating its incompleteness. Through the notion of reduced model elaborated by the anthropologist Lévi-Strauss, and based the analysis of transcriptions by J.S. Bach, Stravinsky, Webern, Messiaen, Sciarrino and Kurtág, we propose that transcription may be understood as a process of re-actualization, which brings up aspects which remained latent within the original version and thus assures its compositional openness. In Chapter III, we examine a variety of examples - including, among other works, a couple madrigals by Monteverdi as well as a few of Berio\'s Chemins - in which a preexisting work, taken as the object for a compositional commentary, is fully conserved within an expanded ensemble and/or amidst the unfolding of its formative processes. The general aim of this research is to provide theoretical ground - supported by musical examples from different historical periods - to a compositional practice which consists in an explicit and direct form of reflection on preexisting works and musical processes. At last we report a set of commentary strategies developed in our own compositional practice.