This thesis addresses interpretative issues arising from notated music, particularly recent guitar music typifying progressive notational and aesthetic trends, from a perspective based on the concepts of mimesis and gesture. Drawing on Adorno’s theory of musical reproduction, scholarship on musical gesture and recent models of performers’ relationship to notation, I propose interpretative strategies aiming at the vindication of the role of the body in the discussion of musical works, while also examining the performing conventions challenged by recent developments in guitar notation. Artistic practice is fundamental to this thesis as it accounts for the exploration of various interpretative strategies and choices derived from the application of the aforementioned concepts. An accompanying folio of videos and recordings documents the impact of these theoretical concepts upon my performing practice. The starting point is a discussion of the performing issues of Brian Ferneyhough’s Kurze Schatten II, a peak of complexity in the guitar literature, and the relationship between musical gesture and the metaphorical domains to which this work alludes. Subsequently, the interpretative strategies proposed here are applied to aesthetic models differing from that of Ferneyhough as well as to music appealing to multi-parametric notation – here considered as a strand deriving from Ferneyhough’s aesthetics – requiring a paradigm shift in its interpretative approach.

Sailing on is an investigation into how light music has evolved from its origins into a style of music for the twenty-first century. I am a light music composer and a contemporary use of the style is explored in a portfolio of compositions, all in score form, substantiated by an autoethnographical commentary. Light as a term to describe music was first used in the nineteenth-century to label music that was created for the entertainment of the masses and it was sometimes used to explain the more accessible works of ‘serious’ composers. The music enjoyed a golden age of approximately one hundred years between 1870 and 1970 and this study contextualises light music in respect of the functions that it fulfils and the relationships it has undergone with serious and popular music during the period and to the present day. Entertainment and accessibility to mass markets are terms used more in relation to commercial music rather than art music and the thesis includes an exploration into the role of light music as part of the industrialised music businesses as well as being at the forefront of technological developments. The relationship between art and money has been difficult for some to reconcile and part of the reason for the criticism and neglect of light music by many in the music establishment and these aspects are considered as part of the contextualisation. I have identified a number of common musical and expressive elements in light music and an analysis of techniques is presented as a means to describe the characteristics of the style. The works surveyed have been selected from a period that embraces the golden age to the present with examples from records, radio, television, film, games and web based media. All these influences plus my own experiences in music have been considered during the composition of the portfolio of music that proffers my interpretation of light music for the twenty-first century.

Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Ciencias da Saude / Made available in DSpace on 2012-10-17T07:36:16Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0Bitstream added on 2016-01-09T00:10:31Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 149139.pdf: 2739659 bytes, checksum: 46fc430ff25c6b814901809f76192ea7 (MD5) / Análise do Modelo Tecnológico Psiquiátrico de Cuiabá no contexto das políticas de saúde mental brasileiras, a partir de sua identificação na história da assistência psiquiátrica de um doente mental / louco. Complementarmente, analisa a sobrevivência deste louco e do saber sobre a loucura, a psiquiatria. Utiliza o estudo de caso como opção metodológica e discute os dados numa perspectiva dialética. Constata que há divergências cronológicas e não conceituais entre o modelo de Cuiabá e as tendências nacionais e que estas divergências são coerentes com a história do desenvolvimento político e econômico do Estado de Mato Grosso.

Kuwait, post-oil (1932), invested heavily in educational development at all levels. A curriculum was developed which included music, both Eastern and Western. Initially the piano was adopted, but the curriculum was broadened to include other Western instruments, more recently the clarinet. A need for a programme of training to produce versatile clarinet teachers in Kuwait was therefore identified. In order to ensure that the curriculum to be designed met the specific needs of Kuwaiti clarinet students, an analysis was made of the social, historical and geographical situation of the country, Kuwaiti Folk Music, Music in Islam, and curriculum and instrumental music teaching in Kuwaiti schools. From these initial findings the specific needs of Kuwaiti clarinet students were identified. These include adult beginners, no aural model of the clarinet, little familiarity with the clarinet repertoire, and no transferable instrumental technical skills. In order to support these students in their learning, theories of motivation were analysed, and situation-specific teaching strategies have been identified and developed. Simultaneously an analysis was made of clarinet teaching, past and present in Kuwait. From these recommendations best practice was identified. These informed curriculum development. As a consequence the Ahmad Alderaiwaish Clarinet Curriculum (AACC) for the Public Authority for Applied Education and Training, Kuwait, was developed. Peer review and critical response followed. The AACC, which is in the form of five parts, delivers the clarinet teacher education element of the Bachelor of Arts programme. These parts are designed primarily for the student and include scales,arpeggios, exercises, pieces and recommended sources, both Eastern folk and classical, and Western music. The former have the additional benefit of preserving and promoting Kuwait’s cultural heritage. Complementary teaching equipment has been invented to introduce students to specific playing techniques with which they were not familiar, for example, breath control.

This study explores the popularity of lute instruction in late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century England and the ways in which this accomplishment was used in constructions of social status. The opening chapter outlines the functions of the lute in early modern English culture and surveys previous research on the instrument and its repertory. Chapter 2 provides an overview of the hierarchical structure of Elizabethan society, highlighting shifting conceptions of “gentle” status during the sixteenth century. The complex position of music within early modern discourses on elite identity is discussed, alongside the potential of lute-playing skills to contribute towards social advancement. Four case studies follow, each exploring the uses of lute-playing amongst practitioners located on the hazily defined boundaries between “gentle” and lower-class status. Chapter 3 uses the autobiography of Thomas Whythorne as a focal point in order to examine the ambiguous role of musicians in household service. By teaching coveted “courtly” skills to their social superiors, these music tutors were in an advantageous position to secure further rewards and enhance their status. Chapter 4 reassesses the Mynshall lutebook, highlighting the roles of music-making and literary production amongst a circle of mercantile-class men in provincial England. It reveals how lute-playing and poetic exchange facilitated social interaction and consolidated kinship bonds within this group as they sought to forge a collective identity grounded in the cultural practices of more elite circles. The role of recreational music-making amongst university men is examined in Chapter 5 through a reappraisal of the Dallis lutebook, showing how playing and collecting lute music could form a strand in the fashioning of a distinctively learned “scholarly” identity. My final case study assesses the printed tutor books marketed from the 1560s onwards, paying close attention to the material forms of extant copies (as evidence of their usage) and their paratextual materials. A close reading of Thomas Robinson’s Schoole of Musicke (1603) reveals how this publication was designed to appeal simultaneously to two very different markets: aspirant middle-class autodidacts, and wealthier “gentleman” readers who could provide further patronage and career advancement to the author.

This thesis tracks my journey through eight creative works which employ a broad range of methodologies to map the dynamic life of lines and that focus on concepts of ephemerality, gestural tracing, grains and swarms of sound, and temporal independence. My original contribution to knowledge in composition is led by my personal relationship to sound as mediated through physical gesture in performance. Drawing upon the work of anthropologist Tim Ingold, I have worked with video as a medium for my own sketch processes and as a scoring platform. Video is used to capture and document qualities of motion that bring choreographic and multimodal thinking into my music, propagating divergent approaches to structuring and determining parameters. Through this I have developed ways of thinking compositionally through the visual medium and worked with micro and macro qualities in timbre and movement to achieve effects that I term 'dynamic stasis'. Central to my thinking is an expanded concept of the line as gestalts of sound, video, bodily and mechanical movement, with form arising from a meshwork of such lines. The line as represented in video and musical action contributes to the tendencies and behaviours of precisely notated sound and physical movements in my music, that are reflected in irregular divisions of time and frequent fluctuations of sound characteristics. My discussion of the visual and choreographic perspectives of my notation and multimodal ways of thinking about composition is contextualised with examples from composers such as Jennifer Walshe, Simon Steen- Andersen and Stefan Prins, and the video scoring systems of Cat Hope.

A região do Cerrado representa uma significativa área de produção agrícola no Brasil, no entanto, no que concerne a sistemas de manejo voltados à pequena propriedade, poucas são as informações disponíveis. Com o objetivo de avaliar o impacto de diferentes sistemas de manejo da fertilidade na qualidade de um Latossolo Vermelho em Tangará da Serra-MT, foi utilizado um experimento com um sistema de manejo da fertilidade do solo tradicional da região, (i) adubação de alta reatividade, e três sistemas alternativos: (ii) adubação de baixa reatividade, (iii) misto (adubação de baixa reatividade e adubação orgânica) e (iv) adubação orgânica. Adjacente à área experimental, coletaram-se amostras de solo de duas áreas de referência: Cerrado (condição natural) e pastagem de braquiária (condição original da área anteriormente à instalação do experimento). Foram avaliados como indicadores de qualidade do solo os atributos de fertilidade (pH, Ca, Mg, K, CTC, C, N, P, B, Cu, Zn e Mn) nas subcamadas de 0-5, 5-10 e 10-20 cm, microbiológicos (C e N microbiano, C microbiano:C orgânico, N microbiano:N total, C:N microbiano, C orgânico dissolvido) na camada de 0-10 cm e macrofauna edáfica (número de indivíduos, riqueza de grupos, índices de Shannon e de Pielou e a abundância) em superfície. Os sistemas de manejo da fertilidade influenciaram de forma significativa o pH do solo e os teores de Ca, Mg, C, N, Cu, Zn, Mn, C microbiano, N microbiano, Cmicrobiano:Nmicrobiano e C orgânico dissolvido. O sistema de manejo da fertilidade misto foi a que apresentou melhor qualidade do solo comparado ao de alta reatividade, superando, inclusive, em alguns atributos, o solo sob pastagem de braquiária e de Cerrado. Nos atributos de macrofauna edáfica, não foi observada diferença significativa entre os tratamentos. / The Brazilian Savannah (Cerrado) region represents a significative area to agriculture production, however, information about management systems to small farms is rare. With the objective of evaluate the impact of different management systems on soil quality of an Oxisol in Tangará da Serra, Mato Grosso State, we used an experiment with one traditional management system in the region, (i) high reactivity fertilizer, and three ecologically-based systems: (ii) low reactivity fertilizer, (iii) combined (low reactivity and organic fertilizer) and (iv) organic fertilizer. Adjacent to experimental adjacent areas was sampled two reference areas: Cerrado (natural condition) and brachiaria pasture (origin area condition of the area before experiment installation). We evaluated as soil quality indicators fertility attributes (pH, Ca, Mg, K, CTC, C, N, P, B, Cu, Zn and Mn) in 0-5, 5-10 and 10-20 cm layers, microbiological attributes (microbial biomass-C and -N, microbial biomass-C:organic C, microbial biomass N/total N, microbial C/N ratio, organic dissolved C) in 0-10 cm layer and edaphic macrofauna (number of individuals, richness of groups, Shannon and Pielou index and abundance) in surface of soil. The fertility management systems influenced significantly the soil pH, and Ca, Mg, C, N, Cu, Zn, Mn, microbial biomass-C and –N, microbial C/N and dissolved organic C contents. The better soil quality was observed in combined fertilizer management compared to high reactivity system, and overcome Cerrado and pasture soil in some attributes. In edaphic macrofauna attributes no difference was observed between treatments.

Submitted by Julie_estagiaria Moraes (julie.moraes@fgv.br) on 2012-01-18T16:01:49Z No. of bitstreams: 1 000047284.pdf: 4920145 bytes, checksum: 16f5698f9ab889c863a6cd6f6d594065 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2012-01-18T16:02:09Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 000047284.pdf: 4920145 bytes, checksum: 16f5698f9ab889c863a6cd6f6d594065 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1982 / The present work presents a annalysis of the Brazilian preschool education according to the official proposals and its results untill 1981, defining as focus of interest the State of Mato Grosso and principally the Cuiabá district. It examines the government legislation and plans which define, model or orientate the preschool in a national level, as well as the evaluation of some studies already made. It appreciats the preschool situation within Mato Grosso State and Cuiabá district, grounded in station pertinent to this education modality. It introduces a description and analysis of the results abtained in a research made in Cuiabá, on schools pertaining to the State, for the obtention the from directors, teachers, and preschool students, of informations relatives to the preschool functioning in this district. The study shows that the Government proposal Íor preschool is contradictory, even from its theoretical presupposition and that the results of its establishing corresponds not to a garantee of good perÍormance but an anticipation of the discriminatory procedure in the school. It shows still that the results of the proposal established in Mato Grosso are not at all encouraging, and the Cuiabá preschool could be considered as a elucidative example: it identifies in these schools, an almost shortcoming in material, administrative, technical, and mainly pedagogic materials for attending the proposal 'Compensative Education'. It shows, at last, that a contact with 447 children said 'needed' or 'marginal' can point out the distance between its 'culture' and the school culture that the preschool pretends, in advance, impose to them. / No presente trabalho procede-se a uma análise da educação pré-escolar brasileira segundo as propostas oficiais e seus resultados até 1981, definindo-se como foco de interesse o Estado de Mato Grosso e, principalmente, o município de Cuiabá. Examina-se a legislação e planos do governo que definem, normatizam ou orientam a pré-escola, a nível nacional, bem como as avaliações, no mesmo nível, constantes em alguns estudos já realizados. Faz-se apreciações sobre a situação do pré-escolar no âmbito do Estado de Mato Grosso e do município de Cuiabá, com base em documentação pertinente a essa modalidade de ensino. Apresenta-se uma descrição e análise dos resultados obtidos numa pesquisa efetuada em Cuiabá, em estabelecimentos de ensino da rede estadual, para obtenção, junto a diretores, professores e pré-escolares, de informações relativas ao funcionamento da pré-escola nesse município. O estudo vem mostrar que a proposta oficial da pré-escola é contraditória, a partir mesmo de seus pressupostos teóricos, e que os resultados de sua implantação correspondem, não a uma garantia de bom desempenho escolar mas a uma antecipação do processo discriminatório da escola. Vem mostrar, ainda, que os resultados da implantação da proposta em Mato Grosso nao são nada animadores, podendo-se considerar a pré-escola cuiabana como um elucidativo exemplo: identifica-se uma quase absoluta deficiência dessas escolas em termos materiais, administrativos, técnicos e principalmente pedagógicos para atendimento à proposta de 'educação compensatória'. Vem mostrar, por fim, este estudo, que um contato com 447 crianças, ditas 'carentes' ou 'marginalizadas', po de apontar a distância havida entre sua 'cultura', de bases concretas e a cultura escolar que a pré-escola pretende, antecipadamente, lhes impor.

Submitted by Reginaldo Soares de Freitas (reginaldo.freitas@ufv.br) on 2016-12-01T18:37:45Z No. of bitstreams: 1 texto completo.pdf: 2798737 bytes, checksum: 71d9ae0cbcfd4e9cbb424ff216abab06 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-12-01T18:37:45Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 texto completo.pdf: 2798737 bytes, checksum: 71d9ae0cbcfd4e9cbb424ff216abab06 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-06-23 / Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico / Esta pesquisa buscou analisar a existência de territorialidades formadas durante os fluxos migratórios desde a década de 1940 no Vale do Araguaia, localizado no estado do Mato Grosso. O conceito de territorialidades explica que eles são formados a partir das relações de poder, da maneira que o indivíduo se apropria ou domina determinado espaço. A apropriação trata-se da simbologia, identidade e cultura inserida no local por seus habitantes, enquanto que a dominação refere-se ao modo como os atores sociais utilizam o território, de um ponto de vista econômico. Essas relações de poderes acabam por produzir identidades, que podem ser temporárias ou permanentes. Outro conceito destacado nesta pesquisa foi o entrelaçamento entre a migração e a formação de redes, pois o processo migratório para o Araguaia teve grande influência das redes familiares e contatos pessoais, que acabam por fornecer informações seguras sobre o local de destino. As redes também se destacaram pois formaram uma divisão cronológica e identitária dos fluxos migratórios, o que acabou gerando as territorialidades. O Araguaia também é conhecido por Vale dos Esquecidos devido aos seus problemas socioeconômicos como: conflitos fundiários e desigualdades regionais. A região é dividida em três sub-regiões o Alto, 0 Médio e o Baixo Araguaia, sendo que o Alto concentra os migrantes sulistas e apresenta os maiores índices de desenvolvimento e também a produção agrícola da região, 0 Médio concentra os migrantes do Sudeste e Centro-Oeste e a produção pecuária e o Baixo concentra os migrantes do nordeste e norte do país e os maiores índices de desigualdades e problemas relacionados a conflitos. A pesquisa pode ser caracterizada por explicativa-descritiva, com relação a abordagem do problema foi de natureza qualitativa e quantitativa. Quanto aos procedimentos metodológicos para a realização do estudo foi escolhido o município de Barra do Garças, por ter sido a base da colonização do Vale do Araguaia e pela maior diversidade de grupos de migrantes. A coleta de dados foi realizada a partir da narrativa de entrevistas em profundidade, que aproxima-se de uma conversa com os entrevistados, onde foi questionado aos migrantes sua história de vida referente a migração para o Araguaia. A amostra da pesquisa foi escolhida por seleção racional, ou seja, a partir dos objetivos e a hipótese da pesquisa. A população entrevistada caracterizou-se por migrantes idosos, das cinco regiões do Brasil sendo um total de trinta e cinco entrevistados. Os dados foram analisados a partir do software Alceste que realiza uma análise de discurso estatística através da distribuição das formas lexicais. Para a análise do estudo levou-se em consideração as dimensões socioeconômicas e socioeculturais. Conclui-se que ainda existem territorialides no Araraguaia, que são principalmente aquelas relacionados à atividade econômica. A partir da análise as características dos grupos de migrantes foi de que que quanto maior o capital social: as regras, normas, solidariedade e o sentimento de pertencimento desenvolvido por determinado grupo, maior será a tendência a formação de territorialidades, ainda que temporários, em um determinado espaço. / The concept of territorialities explains that they are formed from the power relations, the way that the individual appropriates or dominates certain space. The appropriation it is the symbolism, identity and culture inserted in place for its inhabitants, while the domination refers to how social actors use the territory, from an economic point of view. These power relations end up producing identities, which can be temporary or permanent. Another concept highlighted in this research was the intertwining of migration and the formation of networks in this process since the migration process for the Araguaia had great influence of family and personal contacts networks, which ultimately provide reliable information about the destination. Networks were also important because formed a chronological division and identity of migratory flows, which has generated the territorialities. The Araguaia is also known as Valley of the Forgotten because of their socio-economic problems such as land disputes and regional inequalities. The region is divided into three sub-regions Upper, Middle and Lower Araguaia. The Upper Araguaia presents a high concentration of southerners migrants and has the highest development indexes and also the agricultural production in the region, the Middle concentrates migrants from Southeast and Midwest and livestock production and Lower focuses northeast migrants and north of the country and the highest rates of inequality and problems related to conflicts. The research may be characterized by explanatory descriptive, regarding the problem of approach was qualitative and quantitative. Regarding the methodological procedures for the study was the city of Barra do Garças chosen because it was the basis for the colonization of the Araguaia Valley and the greater diversity of migrant groups. The Data collection was conducted from in-depth interviews narrative, approaching a conversation with respondents, which was asked to migrants your life story regarding coming to the Araguaia, from the narratives the questions are direcionadosbaseados with the research objectives. The survey sample was chosen by rational selection, based on the objectives and hypothesis of the research. The population interviewed was characterized by elderly migrants, from the five regions of Brazil with a total of 35 people. The data were analyzed using the software ALCESTE which performs a statistical analysis of speech through the lexical forms of the distribution. For the analysis of the study took into account the socioeconomic and socioeculturais dimensions. It was concluded that there are still territorialides in Araraguaia, which are mainly those related to economic activity. From the analysis of the characteristics of migrant groups was that the greater the social capital: rules, standards, solidarity and a sense of belonging developed by certain group, the greater the tendency to formation of territoriality, albeit temporary, in a given space.

Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro Tecnológico. Programa de Pós-Graduação em Arquitetura e Urbanismo / Made available in DSpace on 2013-06-25T18:29:42Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 310273.pdf: 6357247 bytes, checksum: 2bf396725e131f2f5bf94dc38b8f53a9 (MD5) / Ao longo da história, diferentes programas habitacionais tentaram suprir a necessidade de moradias e reduzir o alarmante déficit habitacional brasileiro. Infelizmente, a qualidade dos projetos parece não estar dentro das preocupações desses programas. Posto a necessidade de oferecerem uma grande quantidade de moradias a baixo custo, projetos de áreas mínimas e padronização excessiva são frequentes, se não regra. Nas plantas das unidades habitacionais é possível notar falhas graves de funcionalidade e a falta de flexibilidade, que dificulta a adaptação da casa pelas famílias beneficiadas, tanto no momento da entrada, quanto ao longo do tempo de uso. Desse modo, o objetivo do trabalho é avaliar os projetos habitacionais de interesse social que foram aprovados na cidade de Cuiabá-MT pelo programa habitacional em vigor, o Programa Minha Casa Minha Vida (PMCMV), sob o ponto de vista da qualidade do projeto arquitetônico. Buscando na literatura as definições dos conceitos de qualidade de projeto e qualidade habitacional, chegamos aos conceitos de funcionalidade e flexibilidade que, aplicados à habitação de interesse social, constituem-se nos atributos mínimos necessários de qualidade de projeto, em termos de atendimento às necessidades atuais e futuras de seus usuários. Feito isso, foi desenvolvido um método (Método QualiHabita) para ser utilizado na avaliação dos projetos em questão. Os resultados mostraram que todos eles possuem qualidade precária. Com soluções arquitetônicas muito parecidas, existem equívocos recorrentes de funcionalidade, e a flexibilidade é praticamente inexistente. A contribuição principal do trabalho é oferecer meios para a melhoria de projetos futuros: a disponibilização do material bibliográfico e do Método QualiHabita busca ser útil para os projetistas, no sentido de facilitar uma auto-avaliação de seus projetos, aproximando-os cada vez mais das soluções de maior qualidade. Dessa forma, entende-se que a ordenação do conhecimento no corpo da dissertação e os resultados obtidos na avaliação dos projetos do PMCMV de Cuiabá, podem trazer contribuições tanto para a área acadêmica quanto para os profissionais que atuam no setor imobiliário de habitação. / Throughout the history, different programs of social housing tried to meet the houses' needs and reduce the alarming Brazilian housing deficit. Unfortunately, the design quality seems not to be a concern of these programs. Since the need to provide a large amount of low-cost houses, standardizations and designs with minimum areas are frequent, if not the rule. In the units' plants is possible to note serious flaws of functionality and lack of flexibility, being difficult for the beneficiary families adapt the house, not only at the moment of the entry but over the time of use. Thus, the objective of this work is to evaluate the social housing designs approved in the city of Cuiabá-MT by the program "Minha Casa, Minha Vida", from the point of view of architectural design quality. In the literature search for the definitions of the concepts of design quality and housing quality, were found the concepts of functionality and flexibility which, applied to social housing, were the minimum requirements of design quality in terms of satisfying the current and future needs of its users. After that, a method (QualiHabita Method) was developed for evaluating the designs in question. The results showed that all of them have poor quality. With very similar architectural solutions, the designs had recurring errors of functionality, and the flexibility was almost nonexistent. The main contribution of this study is to provide conditions for improvement of future designs: the availability of bibliographic material and the QualiHabita method will be of great use for designers, in order to make a self-assessment of their designs, reaching, increasingly, better quality solutions. Thus, it is understood that the ordering of knowledge in the dissertation and the results obtained in the designs' evaluations may bring contributions to both academic and professionals working in the real estate.