Einojuhani Rautavaara's oeuvre is characterised by four distinctive creative periods, each demonstrating a remarkable variety of compositional idioms and styles. His application of multifaceted elements, often within a single work leading to notions of postmodernism, is derived from multifarious sources, such as (Finnish) folklore, Orthodox mysticism and a wide variety of standard twentieth century compositional techniques. Furthermore, Rautavaara regularly quotes from his own material, thus creating elements of auto-allusions within his oeuvre; a predisposition which forms an essential part of his compositional aesthetic. Analyses of eight piano works (1952-2007) provide a cross-section of Rautavaara's output which, together with a consideration of biographical factors and analytical focus on the intertextual elements of his writing, offers a rationale for determining the development of his musical identity. The analyses conclude that intertextual elements, which appear through a diverse array of expressive modes (such as mysticism, nationalism and constructivism) are an essential part of Rautavaara's eclectic compositional style and contribute to an understanding of the on-going development of his musical identity.

This thesis investigates the design and implementation of an object-oriented toolkit for music notation. It considers whether object-oriented technology provides features that are desirable for representing music notation. The ability to sympathetically represent the conventions of music notation provides software tools that are flexible to use, and easily extended to represent less common features of music notation. The design and implementation of an object-oriented class hierarchy that captures the structural and semantic relationships of music notation symbols is described. Functions that search for symbols, and update symbol positions are also implemented. Traditional context-sensitive and spatial relationships between music symbols may be maintained, or extended to provide notational features found in modern music. MIDI functionality includes the ability to play music notation and to allow step-recording of MIDI events. The toolkit has been designed to simplify the creation of applications that make use of music notation; example applications are created to demonstrate its capabilities. / Microsoft Word / Adobe Acrobat 9.46 Paper Capture Plug-in

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:28:20Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2013-06-24Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T20:57:54Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 franco_lj_me_ia.pdf: 1858255 bytes, checksum: 7073124a61dd78b45b49278de09a7755 (MD5) / O presente trabalho disserta sobre hibridismos em música, sobretudo na obra violonística do cubano Leo Brouwer. Foi feita uma discussão de caráter geral sobre os diversos usos de hibridismos presentes em algumas músicas de compositores latinoamericanos. Para tanto foram abordados alguns autores dos chamados estudos culturais, por tratarem especificamente desse tema, ainda que usem outros termos ou palavras. Com isso pretende-se dar aos intérpretes de violão subsídios baseados na diversidade cultural, trazendo a interpretação como um campo de possibilidades. Por fim, a pesquisa apresentou elementos diversificados presentes na música de Brouwer, o que a caracteriza como uma prática híbrida / This dissertation is about hybridity in music, focusing on the work of the Cuban guitarist Leo Brouwer. The various ways hybridity is present in some songs of Latin American composers were discussed here. Therefore, some authors from what is called cultural studies were addressed, by specifically refer to this topic, albeit using other terms or words. This is intended to provide subsidies to guitar interpreters based on cultural diversity, bringing interpretation as a field of possibilities. Lastly, the research presented several elements found in Brouwer’s music that characterizes it as a hybrid practice

Orientador: Paulo Mugayar Kuhl / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Artes / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-17T10:52:09Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 DiGiorgi_CamiloHernandez_M.pdf: 24336856 bytes, checksum: 4ffd57df4b4ac5b042834952ae1a899c (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010 / Resumo: Neste estudo, o duo formado pela flauta e tambor tocados pela mesma pessoa, conhecido também como tamboril, é abordado morfológica e historicamente em sua trajetória e situação atual na Europa e América Latina. Discute-se aspectos relativos à sua acústica, aos seus usos sócio-musicais e à sua representação na iconografia. Realiza-se também um levantamento e exame de informações sobre este conjunto em alguns dos tratados e obras enciclopédicas dos séculos XVI, XVII e XVII / Abstract: The tabor pipe duo, also known as tamboril, is approched morfologically and historically in its trajectory and present state in Europe and Latin America. Aspects relative to acustics, socialmusical uses and iconography are discussed. Issues about this ensemble in the XVI, XVII and XVIII centuries treatises and encyclopedical works are also raised, examined and discussed / Mestrado / Fundamentos Teoricos / Mestre em Música

Orientador: Esdras Rodrigues Silva / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Artes / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-26T00:34:41Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Santos_JulianoBuosidos_M.pdf: 5944297 bytes, checksum: 6493cd8b9254b752c233881a86712f71 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014 / Resumo: Esta pesquisa tem o propósito de divulgar um repertório pouco conhecido e interpretado atualmente: a música germânica escrita para consort de violinos para mais de quatro vozes, na segunda metade do século XVII. Um estudo histórico e estilístico nos possibilita aproximar desse repertório, identificando as influências que recebeu, seus antecedentes e seu desenvolvimento. Constataremos que a composição para este tipo de ensemble não foi um movimento isolado e nem raro, mas sim uma forma de instrumentação e escrita musical explorada em sua época, dada a sua rica e sofisticada possibilidade inventiva / Abstract: This research wishes to unveil a repertoire, which is little known and very seldom played nowadays: the music written for consort of more than four violins in the seventeenth-century in germanic lands. An historical and stylistic study shall allow us to improve our knowledge of this repertoire, identifying its origins, its influences and development. We will realize that this type of music was neither a peculiar nor a remote one, but rather that it was a particular form of instrumentation, customarily used by composers in that period, given its beautiful and sophisticated aesthetics / Mestrado / Praticas Interpretativas / Mestre em Música

This lecture-recital paper deals with some of the music of the early 1900's, examining both original xylophone solos and piano rags arranged for the xylophone. An attempt is made to identify the role of the xylophone in ragtime music and its implications for the present day xylophonist. In this investigation a brief history of ragtime music is presented along with the history of the xylophone. The history of ragtime is traced from its beginnings around 1890 to its decline during the 1930's, developing from cakewalks and folk rags into its various styles of Classic rags, Popular rags, Advanced rags, and Novelty rags. The history of the xylophone is traced from the middle ages to its emergence as an orchestral instrument, popularized by a Polish Jew named Michael Josef Gusikov during the early 1800"s. The popularity of the xylophone in the United States increased along with that of ragtime music; from approximately 1890 to 1935 the xylophone experienced what most refer to as its "golden age." Many solos for the instrument, both original and transcribed, were published toward the end of this era. As the popularity of the xylophone declined, these solos went out of print.

This thesis explores the genesis of black choralism in late-nineteenth-century colonial South Africa, attending specifically to its dialectic with metropolitan Victorian choralism. In two introductory historiographic chapters I outline the political-narrative strategies by which both Victorian and black South African choralism have been elided from music histories. Part 1 gives an account of the "structures" within and through which choralism functioned as a practice of colonisation, as "internal colonialism" in Britain and evangelical colonialism in the eastern Cape Colony. In chapter 1 I suggest that the religious contexts within which choralism operated, including the music theoretical construction of the tonic sol-fa notation and method as "natural", and the "scientific" musicalisation of race, constituted conditions for the foreign mission's embrace of choralism. The second chapter explores further such affinities, tracing sol-fa choralism's institutional affiliations with nineteenth-century "reform" movements, and suggesting that sol-fa's practices worked in fulfilment of core reformist concerns such as "industry" and literacy. Throughout, the thesis explores how the categories of class and race functioned interchangeably in the colonial imagination. Chapter 3 charts this relationship in the terrain of music education; notations, for instance, which were classed in Britain, became racialised in colonial South Africa. In particular I show that black music education operated within colonial racial discourses. Chapter 4 is a reading of Victorian choralism as a "discipline", interpreting choral performance practice and choral music itself as disciplinary acts which complemented the political contexts in which choralism operated. Part 1, in short, explores how popular choralism operated within and as dominant politicking. In part 2 I turn to the black reception of Victorian choralism in composition and performance. The fifth chapter examines the compositional discourse of early black choral music, focussing on the work of John Knox Bokwe (1855-1922). Through a detailed account of several of Bokwe's works and their metropolitan sources, particularly late-nineteenth century gospel hymnody, I show that Bokwe's compositional practice enacted a politics that became anticolonial, and that early black choral music became "black" in its reception. I conclude that ethno/musicological claims that early black choral music contains "African" musical content conflate "race" and culture under a double imperative: in the names of a decolonising politics and a postcolonial epistemology in which hybridity as resistance is racialised. The final chapter explores how "the voice" was crucial to identity politics in the Victorian world, an object that was classed and racialised. Proceeding from the black reception of choral voice training, I attempt to outline the beginnings of a social history of the black choral voice, as well as analyse the sonic content of that voice through an approach I call a "phonetics of timbre".

This study is an ethnomusicological analysis of Scottish competition bagpiping, examining three fundamental aspects of performance: sound aesthetics, performance aesthetics and the modal complex of the core repertoire. Through a mixture of discussions, modal analysis and reflections upon performance, it deconstructs the music of the 2/4 competition pipe march and the aesthetics surrounding competition performance. Focussing on a small number of the world's leading Highland bagpipers, this research demonstrates how overall sound combined with the individual choices about repertoire and how to play it, results in the maintenance of individual identity. In chapter three, analysis of the ‘modal complex', comprising pitch sets, hierarchies, phrasing-structure, the double-tonic, structural tones, melodic motifs and rhythm-contour motifs reveal the characteristics of various modes in the 2/4 competition pipe march. As an insider of this music-culture, I offer a definition of mode based upon motivic content rather than pitch set. The modal complex is framed by an understanding of how pipers themselves think about their competitive tradition. Understanding the concepts presented in this thesis provides an original and holistic picture of how Scottish bagpipe competition performance sounds the way it does.

This study of large-scale closure in Mozart's sonata-form first movements focusses on the structure and function of the closing section in these works, the section that brings the exposition and recapitulation sections to an end. Also taken into account are closural effects of the coda (when present) and the subordinate theme area. Because sonata form in the 18th-century involves a variety of differently-functioning sections such as themes and transitions, the analytical approach adopted centers on matters of form—the ways in which all the various channels of musical structure (primarily rhythm, melody, and harmony) interact to shape a particular piece—and in particular on the form of the closing section. The study is limited to one composer's use of one section in one formal type, thereby reaching highly specific conclusions about this facet of sonata form at a particular stage in music history. Since each section of sonata form has a distinct, unique structure and function, the study aims at identifying these in the closing section, and at contrasting them with the other sections of the form. If closure is primarily generated in the closing section, then there must be particular structures found mainly in that section that are responsible for closure. The majority of Mozart's closing sections are based on a model which can be simplified to aabbcc, where each letter symbolizes one group. The second, fourth, and sixth entries may be either exact repeats or variants of the first, third, and fifth entries respectively. The most common lengths in measures are (4 + 4) + (2 + 2) + (1+1). An example is the Sonata for Violin and Piano in B-flat Major, K. 454, mm. 50-65. Chapter 1 is primarily a survey of previous writing on the subject of closure. Chapter 2 presents a theory that accounts for structure at various levels of Mozart's sonata form. Chapters 3 through 6 contain discussion and analysis of different types of closing sections and movements. Chapter 7 includes a summary of the research undertaken. / Arts, Faculty of / Music, School of / Graduate

This thesis presents an historical and technical analysis of the Mozart horn concerti.