This dissertation is an extended study of how representations of violence inhabit operatic works, on a literary as well as musical level. Employing recent critical and theoretical developments in philosophy, psychoanalysis, linguistics and feminist theory, this study probes into issues surrounding gender/alterity and subject formation, as well as the aesthetics of violence within fin-de-siecle culture. The main goals of the dissertation are (1) to analyze from a philosophical and psychoanalytical point of view the notion of the feminine and its persistent conjunction with death, eroticism and music; (2) to explore various theoretical interpretations of violence within aesthetic production and the potential such violence holds for a negativity that is not only destructive but may also be considered affirmative; and (3) to offer a new interpretive approach to reading violence in opera, one that is modeled after the poststructuralist theories of the "semiotic" as developed by Julia Kristeva. The first section of the dissertation establishes the theoretical groundwork, exploring the writings of Nietzsche, Derrida, Lacan, Bronfen and Kristeva (chapters 1 and 2). An examination of expressionist poetics of negation (chapter 3) leads into the second section which comprises three case studies. Each of the operas under consideration engage issues concerning violence, representation and the feminine, and reveal three very different paths toward semiotic destabilization and negativity. "Morder, Hoffnung der Frauen, or, Overcoming the m/Other" (chapter 4) explores semiotic pulsions as "structural disjunction" both within Kokoschka's radical text and Hindemith's score, and critiques the appropriation of woman in the name of creative innovation. "The Voice of Lulu" (chapter 5) analyzes semiotic eruptions through the materiality and excessive sonority of voice, and explores its subversive effects both on subjectivity and characterization. The fmal case study, "Musical Eroticism

This study contributes to the discourse of the body and the voice in feminist psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic film theory by exploring the currently under-theorised notion of the singing body in particular, as this notion finds manifestation in Disney's Singing Princess. Analyses of musical coding and other filmic tropes follow the trajectory of the Singing Princess across thirteen Disney Princess films - from her first appearance in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) through to her most recent manifestation as Elsa in Frozen (2013) - to reveal deeper insight into what she sings, how she sings and why she sings.

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Orientadores: Jônatas Manzolli, Willem F. G. Haselager / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Artes / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-16T18:04:05Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Oliveira_LuisFelipe_D.pdf: 3719548 bytes, checksum: fa35cf5b80f4277f08a5ebe3b1baf89d (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010 / Resumo: O objetivo desta tese é apresentar um modelo fenomenológico e semiótico dos processos de significação em música, tendo como apoio conceitual e teórico a filosofia de C.S. Peirce. O conceito de significado musical ou o entendimento de como a música se torna significativa envolve questões que perpassam a história da filosofia da música, da antiguidade à atualidade, assim como são consideradas também nas área da psicologia ou da neurociência aplicada à música, mais recentemente. Em um certo sentido, as perspectivas sobre o que é música e sobre como a entendemos, sobre seu papel dentro do universo do conhecimento humano e dentro das investigações metafísicas e cosmológicas, acompanham as mudanças paradigmáticas do pensamento ocidental. O primeiro capítulo apresenta uma visão panorâmica e sucinta das transformações do entendimento de música e de seus significados, a partir de três enfoques: (i) música enquanto imitação; (ii) música enquanto forma; (iii) música enquanto coletividade. O segundo capítulo adentra à área da psicologia, trazendo à discussão a teoria de Leonard Meyer do significado musical. O pioneiro trabalho de Meyer sobre essa questão dentro da psicologia da música estabelece um interessante contraponto às visões apresentadas no capítulo primeiro, e com especial correlação com a abordagem formalista de Eduard Hanslick. O terceiro capítulo continua a investigação dos processos de significação em música dentro da área da psicologia, a partir da teoria da expectativa musical de David Huron. A teoria de Huron pode ser tomada como uma proposta derivada da teoria meyeriana do significado musical, porém focando-se mais sobre evidências experimentais e sobre aspectos biológicos e neurológicos do fenômeno da antecipação. No quarto capítulo deixamos de lado a questão específica do significado musical para nos lançarmos à instigante tarefa de uma descrição do pensamento peirceano, em algum dos seus aspectos: (i) a classificação das ciências; (ii) a fenomenologia: (iii) a lógica-semiótica; (iv) as ciências normativas; (v) a lógica da descoberta; e (vi) o pragmatismo. Essa incursão ao pensamento de Peirce nos possibilitará voltar às questões específicas do significado e da significação musicais, no quinto e último capítulo desta tese. Nesse capítulo estabelecemos uma correspondência entre essa visão peirceana da significação em música e aquelas apresentadas nos três primeiros capítulos, tanto em termos lógico-semióticos, quanto em termos normativos, como também em termos pragmáticos. Apresentamos, em tal descrição peirceana da significação em música, uma correspondência dessa abordagem com conceitos atuais dos estudos da mente, como: (i) emergência; (ii) auto-organização; (iii) criatividade. O encerramento da tese leva ao diálogo, portanto, do modelo peirceano de significação musical tanto com atualidade das pequisas sobre cognição quanto com a tradição do pensamento ocidental sobre música e seus significados / Abstract: This thesis intends to provide a phenomenological and semiotic model of the process of signification in music, bearing itself conceptually and theoretically on the philosophy of C.S. Peirce. The concept of meaning in music or the understanding of how music becomes meaningful involve questions that spread over the history of the philosophy of music, from ancient times to modernity, as well as they are also considered in the field of music psychology or neuroscience of music, more recently. In a sense, the perspectives about what is music and how we do understand it, about its role within the universe of human knowledge and within the metaphysical and cosmological investigations, reflect paradigmatic changes in the history of western thought. The first chapter presents a panoramic and brief view of the shifting in the understanding of music and its meanings, from three perspectives: (i) music as imitation; (ii) music as form; (iii) music as collectiveness. The second chapter goes into the area of psychology, bringing forth the theory of musical meaning proposed by Leonard Meyer. The pioneer work of Meyer on musical meaning in psychology establishes a interesting counterpoint to those views discussed in the first chapter, with a special correlation with the formalist approach of Eduard Hanslick. The third chapter goes on in investigating the process of music signification in the field of psychology, describing the theory of musical expectancy advocated by David Huron. Huron¿s theory can be taken as derived from Meyer¿s point of view on musical meaning, but it is more focused over experimental evidences and on biological and neurological aspects of anticipation. In the fourth chapter we take aside the specific question of musical meaning to launch ourselves in the instigating task of describing some aspects of the peircean thought: (i) the classification of science; (ii) the phenomenology; (iii) the logic-semiotics; (iv) the normative sciences; (v) the logic of discovery, and (vi) the pragmatism. Such incursion in the Peirce¿s thought would lead us back to the especific questions about musical meaning and signification, in the fifth chapter of this thesis. In such chapter we establish a correspondence between this peircean perspective of musical signification and those presented in the first three chapters, in logic-semiotic, normative and pragmatic terms. We also propose a correspondence of this approach with recent concepts in the studies of mind , as: (i) emergence; (ii) self-organization; (iii) creativity. In the thesis¿s finishing takes to a dialog, thus, between the peircean model of musical signification with both the the actuality of the recent researches on human cognition and the western tradition of thinking about music and its meanings / Doutorado / Doutor em Música

Die neunte Nummer des Almanachs "Baltos lankos" ist der Musiksemiotik gewidmet. Der Almanach "Baltos lankos" wurde von dem der Gründer der französischen Semiologieschule, dem Litauer Algirdas Julius Greimas, ins Leben gerufen.

Thesis / ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The aim of this study is to contribute to the investigation of the methods in which serial technique expresses meaning in the first movement of Arnold Schoenberg's Third Quartet, Op.30. It aims to add to the debate concerning Schoenberg's use of conventional formsparticularly sonata form-in his serial music, by investigating how he manipulates the row to playa narrative function, seemingly in opposition to its homogeneous nature. The analytical section consists of a semiotic analysis based on the work of Jean- Jacques Nattiez. It incorporates a narratological analysis which infers from the semiotic data that Schoenberg's "idea", which is associated with notions of unity, is brought towards fulfilment through his narrativization of the row in the context of sonata form. / AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Die doel van hierdie studie is om by te dra tot die ondersoek na die metodes met behulp waarvan seriële tegniek "betekenis" tot uitdrukking bring in Arnold Schoenberg se derde strykkwartet, op. 30. Dit poog om 'n bydrae te lewer tot die debat oor Schoenberg se gebruik van konvensionele vorms-in besonder sonatevorm-in sy seriële musiek te ondersoek, deur middel van manipulasies van die reeks in diens van 'n narratiewe funksie, oënskynlik in teenstelling met die homogene aard van die reeks. Die analitiese gedeelte van die studie bestaan uit 'n semiotiese analise gebaseer op die werk van Jean-Jacques Nattiez. Hierby word ingesluit 'n narratologiese analise waarin vanuit die semiotiese data afgelei word dat Schoenberg se "idee", wat geassosieer word met opvattings van eenheid, tot 'n slotsom gebring word deur middel van sy narrativering van die reeks in die konteks van sonatevorm.

This study's thesis is that instances of pastoralism in the works of Frank Bridge from 1914 to 1930 demonstrate a gradual darkening of his pastoral vision, and evince his increasingly complex relationship with the genre of pastoral music that flourished in English music in the early twentieth century (referred to in this study as 'the English pastoral tradition'). The study traces the change from the sensual and romantic idyll of Summer (1914-15), through progressively more ambiguous and darker manifestations of pastoral, and eventually to a bleak anti-pastoral vision in Oration (1930). This trend reflects Bridge's increasingly ambivalent relationship with the English musical establishment, his own radical change of musical language during these years, and significant changes in his personal circumstances. It also reflects the decline of romanticism and the rise of modernism in English music, a paradigm-shift that happened around the time of World War I, considerably later than in the music, literature and visual art of continental Europe. Chapters 1 to 3 examine the English pastoral tradition from three different contexts. Chapter 1 suggests that the English pastoral tradition may be understood as a genre, and describes a number of 'family resemblances' that run through and characterise it. Second, the English pastoral tradition is placed in the context of pastoral art from Classical times to the twentieth century, with a focus on pastoral in English literature. Finally, chapter 3 examines the social and cultural context of the English pastoral tradition and explores resonances between English society in the early twentieth century and the meaningstructures that underpin pastoral. The remaining chapters comprise a series of analytical discussions of six of Frank Bridge's works: Summer (1914-5), the first of the Two Poems (1915), Enter Spring (1926-7), There is a willow grows aslant a brook (1927), Rhapsody-Trio (1928) and Oration (1930). While a variety of analytical techniques are employed, the approach is broadly semiotic and focussed on musical meaning. Each analysis traces the relationships between signifying structures in the works and various musical and non-musical strands of the contextualising cultural discourse. As a result the works become the starting points for relatively wide-ranging discussions in which pastoralism in the music of Frank Bridge is understood as a site at which ideas of English nationalism and international modernism engaged with one another. Frank Bridge's place in this discourse, as revealed in the analyses of his works, becomes increasingly ambivalent and modernist.

Noted for both vocal and symphonic output, Gustav Mahler's musical sophistication constantly puzzled scholars in the past decades. In his symphonic works, the mixed forms and styles in combination with the vocal influence make it abstruse for listeners to detect the meaning of the use of traditional instruments. The solo violin, which has an extensive history of appearing in symphonic compositions since the Baroque era, is an instance of a traditional instrument given an unusual function. For instance, Mahler's violin solos do not tend to showcase the virtuosity of the instrument as they normally do in orchestral music. In order to closely examine the role of the solo violin, I rely on aspects relating to introversive semiosis such as harmonies, rhythms, textures, phrase structures, and forms; then my focus shifts to extroversive semiosis, specifically to topics and contextual factors. By considering the violin as a musical sign, listeners can comprehend the instrument's structure, syntax, and ultimately the complex logic of Mahler's musical discourse.

This dissertation aims to examine the motivic voice leading of the first two movements of Korngold's Violin Concerto, Op. 35 to illuminate the interwoven motives within the underlying structures of the movements. The analysis principally concentrates on two main motives: the motivic tritone and rising-third motives. Moreover, the analysis of Korngold's motivic writing further investigates the semantics that are evoked by the technical aspects. With his exceptional ability to interconnect music to narratives both in operas and films, Korngold never ceased to express the recurring themes of love and revival also in his instrumental music. It is noteworthy that he borrowed only the "love themes" from his film scores for the first two movements of the violin concerto. The violin concerto was the first work written after Korngold returned to absolute music after a decade of composing for films to ensure his and his family's survival during the war. After the Anschluss, during his exile in California as a Jewish refugee, Korngold's love for his homeland Austria, his philanthropic concern for humanity, and longing for peace became his primary focus; these concerns are reflected in his Violin Concerto through his use of specific motives. By researching the historical and biographical materials, as well as employing linear analysis, this study seeks to explore the meanings of the linear motives in Korngold's music; more specifically, it attempts to show how particular motivic figures and tonal structures express the composer's ideas of transcendental "love." It argues that an in-depth understanding of both the technical and semantic aspects is also the first and foremost requirement for performing this piece.

This Masters thesis is an attempt to analyse the significance of rhythm in electronic dance music. The purpose of this thesis is to investigate whether rhythm can create meaning within electronic dance music, and to analyse its effect on the structure of the genre. The thesis is divided into two parts. In the theoretical part we will define the theories of music semiotics with regard to the structuralist approach and the traditional approach of CH. S. Peirce. We will describe the ways rhythm can operate and define what the term electronic dance music means. In the second part we will analyze rhythmic structures of individual sub-genres by comparing and contrasting basic elements of the rhythmic pattern.