Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Washington. / Bibliography: l. [255]-261.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Pennsylvania, 1938. / "Bücherverzeichnis": p. 159-163.

Thesis (D.Mus.)-University of Pretoria, 2005. / Abstract in English. Includes bibliographical references. Available on the Internet via the World Wide Web.

This thesis explores the musical world and the song compositions of eighteenth-century Sutherland Gaelic bard Rob Donn MacKay (1714-1778). The principal focus is musical rather than literary, aimed at developing an analytical model to reconstruct how a non-literate Gaelic song-maker chose and composed the music for his songs. In that regard, the thesis breaks new ground in at least two ways: as the first full-length study of the musical work of Rob Donn, and as the first full-length musical study of any eighteenth-century Scottish Gaelic poet. Among other things, it demonstrates that a critical assessment of Rob Donn merely as a “poet” seriously underestimates his achievement in combining words and music to create a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts. The study also illustrates how widely melodic material circulated in eighteenth-century Scotland through aural transmission, easily crossing between languages and between instrumental and vocal music. The thesis includes a musical biography, a review of sources and commentary on Rob Donn, an introduction to relevant theoretical concepts in ethnomusicology and related fields, and a survey of eighteenth-century Scottish music, followed by several chapters analyzing the music of one hundred songs by topic (elegies; social and political commentary; love, courtship and weddings; satire and humor; and praise, nature and sea songs). The study shows that Rob Donn borrowed tunes for 67 of these songs from earlier sources (45% from Gaelic song, 25% from Scots song, 12% from English or Irish song, and 18% from instrumental tunes). It then provides evidence that he composed the melodies of 33 songs, examining in detail how he adapted earlier musical models and created musical settings to reinforce aspects of his poetic message. It also analyzes the musical features of all 100 songs, providing charts summarizing their vocal range, musical meter, scales and tonality. The thesis is accompanied by two appendices, one containing 121 musical settings of the 100 songs, and the other containing their complete texts with English translations (most translated here for the first time).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2006. / Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 344-363). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-28T19:58:39Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Elisangela Maria Ozorio.pdf: 998959 bytes, checksum: 8abbf9d81395338f98466e306cf0d73a (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011-05-12 / This dissertation is based on the result of reflexions obtained during the research about poetry manifestation on Brazilian music. Among the diverse poetic movements present in songbooks of our country, the one who is the main poet-singer is Renato Russo. Such selection did not happen in a misunderstanding way, but from readings, that demonstrated that the poetry is an art not prisoner to paper, or writing, but to language form, established in sound and metaphoric meaning of material-word. Therefore, writers and theorists, like Paul Zumthor, Octavio Paz, Paul Valéry and Décio Pignatari, integrated dissertation readings, and guided all the research as well. In Paul Zumthor‟s works, the meeting of oral poetry indicated that rock and roll is a poetic manifestation that recovers the vocalized poetry from primitive man. The view that, the dissertation started with the attempt to understand of the musical gender as a poetic and performative language, that rummages, above all, the resistence, the revolution and the liberation of human being from ethical and moral concepts of (post)modern society. In Brazil, the rock poetry becomes more expressive when it receives poetic lyrics that, linked to abrupt achords from musical style, they (re)create and present the reality of the big urban centers, exploring the two faces of: concrete reality and, hence, repetitive, discouraged, with no major attractions, and the possible reality, challenger, based on Utopian ideals. Thus, this dissertation tried to understand how rock and roll graded in poetic manifestation, and how russiana work, closely tied to music, worked verbal sign, joining poetic word to discordant and decanted melody, that units vocalized poetry with tunelesness and minimalist achords of punk rock, from rock and roll / Esta dissertação tem por base o resultado de reflexões obtidas durante a pesquisa realizada sobre a manifestação da poesia na canção brasileira. Dentre os diversos movimentos poéticos presentes no cancioneiro de nosso país, teve por centro o poeta-cantor Renato Russo. Tal seleção não se deu de maneira equivocada, mas a partir de leituras que demonstravam que a poesia é uma arte não presa ao papel, ou à escrita, e, sim a uma forma de linguagem, estabelecida no som e na imagem metafórica da palavra-matéria. Diante disso, escritores e teóricos, como Paul Zumthor, Octavio Paz, Paul Valéry e Décio Pignatari, integraram as leituras da dissertação, bem como nortearam toda a pesquisa. Nas obras de Paul Zumthor, o encontro da poesia oral indicou que o rock and roll é uma manifestação poética, que retoma a poesia vocalizada do homem primitivo. À vista disso, a dissertação iniciou com a tentativa de entender o gênero musical como uma linguagem poética e performática, que busca, acima de tudo, a resistência, a revolução e a libertação do ser humano dos conceitos morais e éticos da sociedade (pós)moderna. No Brasil, a poesia do rock torna-se mais expressiva ao receber composições poéticas que, unidas aos acordes abruptos do estilo musical, (re)criam e presentificam a realidade dos grandes centros urbanos, explorando os dois lados: a realidade concreta e, portanto, repetitiva, desestimulante, sem maiores atrativos, e a realidade possível, desafiante, baseada em ideais utópicos. Assim, esta dissertação procurou entender como o rock and roll se transformou numa manifestação poética, e como a obra russiana, estreitamente presa à música, trabalhou o signo verbal, a ponto de associar a palavra poética ao canto dissonante e decantado, que une a poesia vocalizada aos acordes desarmônicos e minimalistas do punk rock, vertente do rock and roll

This master thesis is an autoethnographic study, wherein the author presents and analyzes her approach to composition practice through intertextuality. Drawing on previous research in literary and musical studies, she aims to identify and/or define the types of intertextuality that she uses in her compositional practice, and their interaction within compositions. She also investigates, in which ways different musical and literary texts can mutually influence and enhance each other, as well as how these forms of intertextuality function in specific performance settings. Finally, the author contemplates on the question how intertextual elements might mediate in translating the author’s intentions to the audience, at least from the perspective of the composer. After a quick overview of ten of Astar’s musical works, making use of intertextuality as a composition strategy, the study focuses on a detailed analysis of two pieces, Escape and The Checkered Flag Villanelle, that rely upon contrasting ways of building cross-textual relationships. The analysis utilizes, among others, the topologies found in the works by Genette, Burkholder and Kawamoto. The author also makes an attempt at extending the existing terminology by suggesting such new terms as concept borrowing, interpermeating intertextuality, imposed intertextuality, transverbal prosodization and some other. This terminology is applied in the work to describe the types of cross-textual strategies used in Astar’s classical compositions that do not appear to be covered by any of the aforementioned topologies. The work also offers a first-person perspective at a close collaboration of a composer and a poet, where the result is a variety of artistic works, all of which employ multi-layered intertextuality and an intermedial approach.

A tese investiga possíveis funções históricas da formulação e do uso de categorias poéticas relacionadas à música na poesia modernista hispano-americana, a partir da leitura e análise de poemas selecionados principalmente de Rubén Darío (1867-1916) e Julio Herrera y Reissig (1875-1910) e de textos críticos, teóricos, programáticos e narrativos que participam da primeira recepção histórica do modernismo. Divide-se em cinco capítulos que organizam os resultados de cinco frentes de investigação: aspectos da relação entre os poetas modernistas e a arte musical; papel da musicalidade na modernização do idioma poético castelhano; técnicas rítmicas e harmônicas e funções do efeito musical em diversos poemas modernistas; relação entre a música do modernismo e a ascensão oitocentista da música à condição de meta e metáfora da poesia; particularidades do aporte à música na poesia de Herrera y Reissig. / This PhD dissertation investigates the possible historical functions of the formulation and use of poetical categories related to music in the Hispanic-American Modernist poetry, beginning with the reading and analyses of selected poems mainly those of Rubén Darío (1867-1916) and Julio Herrera y Reissig (1875-1910) and of critical, theoretical, programmatic and narrative texts that participate in the first historical reception of Modernism. The dissertation is divided into five chapters that organize the results of five domains of investigation: specific aspects of the relation between the Modernist poets and musical art; the role of musicality in the modernization of the Spanish poetic idiom; rhythmical and harmonic techniques and functions of the musical effects in diverse Modernist poems; the relation between the music of Modernism and the rise of music, in the 19th century, to the condition both of goal and metaphor for poetry; the particularities of the recourse to music in the poetry of Herrera y Reissig.

Figure essentielle de la Génération de 1927, Gerardo Diego (Santander, 1896 - Madrid, 1987), une des voix les plus singulières de la poésie espagnole du XXe siècle, est aussi musicien. Familiarisé depuis son enfance à la pratique du piano, il cultive tout au long de sa vie une exceptionnelle passion musicale, maintient des rapports étroits avec d’importants compositeurs et interprètes, et consacre à l’art des sons une partie essentielle de ses poèmes, articles, essais, chroniques, notes, conférences et collaborations radiophoniques. Ce travail de recherche a pour objet l’étude de ses écrits poétiques et en prose sur Fauré, Debussy, Ravel, Falla et Esplá, les cinq compositeurs les plus représentatifs de la “musique de son temps”, au sens à la fois chronologique et esthétique de l’expression. Une fois la personnalité musicale du poète étudiée, l’auteur s’interroge depuis les perspectives croisées de la musicologie, l’esthétique et l’analyse littéraire sur le contenu et la valeur de cette partie encore inexplorée de son œuvre, et dévoile les interférences musicales contenues au sein d’un discours poétique peuplé par les sons. / Gerardo Diego (Santander, 1896 - Madrid, 1987), an essential figure of the Generation of 1927 and one of the most original voices of Spanish poetry in the 20th Century, was also a musician. Brought up on the piano, this poet had an exceptional musical passion his entire life and kept close relationships with important composers and performers. He also dedicated to music a very significant part of his poems, articles, essays, chronicles, notes, conferences and radio collaborations. This investigation focuses particularly on his writings about Fauré, Debussy, Ravel, Falla and Esplá, the five most representative composers of the so-called “music of his time”, both in chronologic and aesthetic sense. After carefully studying the musical personality of Diego, the author analyses from musicological, aesthetic and poetical perspectives this unexplored part of his work and brings to light the musical influences hidden behind the different levels of his poetic writings.

A tese investiga possíveis funções históricas da formulação e do uso de categorias poéticas relacionadas à música na poesia modernista hispano-americana, a partir da leitura e análise de poemas selecionados principalmente de Rubén Darío (1867-1916) e Julio Herrera y Reissig (1875-1910) e de textos críticos, teóricos, programáticos e narrativos que participam da primeira recepção histórica do modernismo. Divide-se em cinco capítulos que organizam os resultados de cinco frentes de investigação: aspectos da relação entre os poetas modernistas e a arte musical; papel da musicalidade na modernização do idioma poético castelhano; técnicas rítmicas e harmônicas e funções do efeito musical em diversos poemas modernistas; relação entre a música do modernismo e a ascensão oitocentista da música à condição de meta e metáfora da poesia; particularidades do aporte à música na poesia de Herrera y Reissig. / This PhD dissertation investigates the possible historical functions of the formulation and use of poetical categories related to music in the Hispanic-American Modernist poetry, beginning with the reading and analyses of selected poems mainly those of Rubén Darío (1867-1916) and Julio Herrera y Reissig (1875-1910) and of critical, theoretical, programmatic and narrative texts that participate in the first historical reception of Modernism. The dissertation is divided into five chapters that organize the results of five domains of investigation: specific aspects of the relation between the Modernist poets and musical art; the role of musicality in the modernization of the Spanish poetic idiom; rhythmical and harmonic techniques and functions of the musical effects in diverse Modernist poems; the relation between the music of Modernism and the rise of music, in the 19th century, to the condition both of goal and metaphor for poetry; the particularities of the recourse to music in the poetry of Herrera y Reissig.