The diploma thesis "Suites for solo flute in French prints 1702-1722" deals with a complete set of printed collections with suites, which represent the first solo music for a transverse flute with basso continuo. The first part is devoted to the influences that made the flute a solo instrument and also to the composers who worked in the royal orchestras at the court of Louis XIV. and composed these collections (Michel de la Barre, Jacques Martin Hotteterre, Anne Danican Philidor, Pierre Danican Philidor and François Danican Philidor). The second part focuses on specific subtopics. First, it is a detailed description of the prints, followed by instrumentation, ornamentation, articulation and formal construction. The work concludes with a detailed explanatory dictionary of non - musical names that appear in some collections.

Please read the abstract in the section 00front of this document / Thesis (DMus)--University of Pretoria, 2007. / Music / unrestricted

This master thesis deals with the vocal compositions of rudolfine composer and organist Carl Luython. In his collection Selectissimarum sacrarum cantionum ... fasciculus primus, published in 1603 by the Prague printer Georg Nigrin, there are 29 sacred motets. Despite the partial knowledge about Luython's motets in the existing musicological literature is provided, a new revised view with regard to new findings concerning the genre of the motet is required. The master thesis is divided into four chapters. The first chapter is devoted to the preserved copies of Sacrae cantiones and provides their description and the historical outline of the sources and their probable use. In the second chapter, the problems related to the function of the motet in the second half of the sixteenth century are discussed. The third chapter deals with the collection itself. Criteria for selecting the repertoire, its inner structure and content are considered, which are subsequently analyzed in more detail. The fourth chapter is composed of four case studies concerning the current problems of research. The first case is a motet O domus luminosa, the paraphrase of the Augustine text. In the second case, Luyton's relationship with the Corpus Christi brotherhood is pointed out by the motet Pange lingua. In the latter case the...

The size of easily-accessible libraries of digital music recordings is growing every day, and people need new and more intuitive ways of managing them, searching through them and discovering new music. Musical emotion is a method of classification that people use without thinking and it therefore could be used for enriching music libraries to make them more user-friendly, evaluating new pieces or even for discovering meaningful features for automatic composition. The field of Emotion in Music is not new: there has been a lot of work done in musicology, psychology, and other fields. However, automatic emotion prediction in music is still at its infancy and often lacks that transfer of knowledge from the other fields surrounding it. This dissertation explores automatic continuous dimensional emotion prediction in music and shows how various findings from other areas of Emotion and Music and Affective Computing can be translated and used for this task. There are four main contributions. Firstly, I describe a study that I conducted which focused on evaluation metrics used to present the results of continuous emotion prediction. So far, the field lacks consensus on which metrics to use, making the comparison of different approaches near impossible. In this study, I investigated people’s intuitively preferred evaluation metric, and, on the basis of the results, suggested some guidelines for the analysis of the results of continuous emotion recognition algorithms. I discovered that root-mean-squared error (RMSE) is significantly preferable to the other metrics explored for the one dimensional case, and it has similar preference ratings to correlation coefficient in the two dimensional case. Secondly, I investigated how various findings from the field of Emotion in Music can be used when building feature vectors for machine learning solutions to the problem. I suggest some novel feature vector representation techniques, testing them on several datasets and several machine learning models, showing the advantage they can bring. Some of the suggested feature representations can reduce RMSE by up to 19% when compared to the standard feature representation, and up to 10-fold improvement for non-squared correlation coefficient. Thirdly, I describe Continuous Conditional Random Fields and Continuous Conditional Neural Fields (CCNF) and introduce their use for the problem of continuous dimensional emotion recognition in music, comparing them with Support Vector Regression. These two models incorporate some of the temporal information that the standard bag-of-frames approaches lack, and are therefore capable of improving the results. CCNF can reduce RMSE by up to 20% when compared to Support Vector Regression, and can increase squared correlation for the valence axis by up to 40%. Finally, I describe a novel multi-modal approach to continuous dimensional music emotion recognition. The field so far has focused solely on acoustic analysis of songs, while in this dissertation I show how the separation of vocals and music and the analysis of lyrics can be used to improve the performance of such systems. The separation of music and vocals can improve the results by up to 10% with a stronger impact on arousal, when compared to a system that uses only acoustic analysis of the whole signal, and the addition of the analysis of lyrics can provide a similar improvement to the results of the valence model.

Orientador: Claudiney Rodrigues Carrasco / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Artes / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-18T11:31:42Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Franco_CesarHenriqueRocha_D.pdf: 3052982 bytes, checksum: a83a06b9ef0319988ca875e92deb1155 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011 / Resumo: Inicialmente, este trabalho procura delinear algumas definições preliminares como convenção, gênero, gênero fílmico, melodrama e o melodrama romântico, enquanto filme, partindo dos pressupostos gerais sobre as convenções musicais dos gêneros fílmicos, estabelecidos por Mark Brownrigg. Em seguida, e feito um exame mais detalhado das convenções musicais do gênero fílmico Melodrama Romântico, observando mais detidamente as características musicais, o emprego, as origens e possíveis significados de cada convenção no repertorio tradicional Ocidental. Depois, a analise de partituras de musicas que acompanham cenas de amor, investiga os procedimentos composicionais utilizados em temas musicais relacionados a cenas de amor. Por fim, o levantamento das convenções melódicas utilizadas na representação musical que acompanham, enfatizando, cenas de amor na narrativa audiovisual / Abstract: Initially, this paper seeks to outline some preliminary definitions as convention, genre, genre film, melodrama and romantic melodrama, as a film, based on the general assumptions about the musical conventions of film genres established by Mark Brownrigg. Then we make a closer examination of the musical conventions of the genre film romantic melodrama, observing more closely the musical characteristics, employment, the origins and possible meanings of each convention in the traditional Western repertoire. After the analysis of music scores that accompany love scenes, investigating the compositional procedures used in topics related to music love scenes. Finally, the survey of the conventions used in representing melodic music that accompany it, emphasizing, love scenes in audiovisual narrative / Doutorado / Musica / Doutor em Música

Orientador: José Eduardo Fornari Novo Junior / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Artes / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-26T09:39:14Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Maior_GilberCesarSouto_M.pdf: 4570844 bytes, checksum: a39fee03bfd2e3d21d8559746a53d208 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014 / Resumo: A música armorial é à vertente musical do Movimento Armorial, termo cunhado por Ariano Suassuna que se refere ao fenômeno de origens e dimensões multiculturais, surgido na região Nordeste do Brasil e que promoveu a criação de um gênero musical singular, através da recriação de elementos da música popular e erudita, contidos nas músicas tradicionais ibéricas, dos cantos religiosos introduzidos por jesuítas, da influência africana e indígena. O Movimento apresentou uma sonoridade única que pode ser percebida tanto pelo ouvinte perito quanto pelo ouvinte leigo. Pretendeu-se, com este trabalho, por meio da análise musical e computacional, considerando a evolução histórica que culminou com o evento, identificar os aspectos que são característicos à música armorial mediados pelos princípios da Gestalt. A metodologia utilizada foi a análise musical de peças armoriais e a análise computacional de aspectos acústicos dessa sonoridade amparadas por princípios gestálticos. Os resultados obtidos permitem concluir que a utilização de tais princípios gestálticos correlacionando a análise musical com a computacional aponta para a possibilidade de novas investigações sobre aspectos musicais característicos onde a utilização de descritores musicais apresentam resultados interessantes que abriram perspectivas para novos meios de análise da sonoridade característica de gêneros musicais peculiares, como é o caso da música armorial / Abstract: The Armorial music refers to the musical aspect of the Armorial Movement, a term coined by Ariano Suassuna, which refers to the phenomenon of multicultural origins and dimensions, appeared in Northeastern Brazil and promoted the creation of a singular musical genre, by rebuilding elements of popular and classical music, contained in the Iberian traditional music, the hymns introduced by the Jesuits, the African and Indian influence. The Movement presented a unique sound that can be perceived both by the expert listeners as the lay listener. It was intended with this work, through musical and computational analysis, considering the historical developments that led to the event, identify the aspects that are characteristic to the music armorial mediated by Gestalt principles. The methodology used was the musical analysis of armorial pieces and a computational analysis, supported by the Gestalt principles studied. The results indicate that the use of these principles shows the possibility of new way of looking for musical aspects, and the use of computational descriptors gave us some satisfactory results and opened new perspectives for verifying means of audio files / Mestrado / Processos Criativos / Mestre em Música

Si la musique a participé au développement de la psychologie cognitive et de l'approche expérimentale de l'esthétique, la musicologie, et plus particulièrement sa branche analytique, n'a que très peu bénéficié des acquis de ce que François Delalande appelle « les sciences de la musique ». Cette situation est le résultat d'un l'éloignement ontologique entre les paradigmes sous-jacents des sciences cognitives, et ceux de la théorie et l'analyse musicologiques. La difficulté à assimiler une méthodologie transdisciplinaire – question épistémologique qui accompagne le développement des sciences cognitives –, est aussi responsable d'une forme de désintéressement chronique de la part des musicologues pour des disciplines scientifiques qui pourtant, permettent aujourd'hui de comprendre la musique en tant qu'objet façonné par une dynamique des contraintes perceptives et cognitives, ainsi que comme expérience esthétique vivante. Ce travail doctoral cherche à évaluer les raisons qui rendent pertinente et nécessaire l'ouverture de la musicologie analytique vers l'étude scientifique de la perception et de l'expérience esthétique, et propose une formulation des objectifs et des moyens qui pourraient être ceux d'une musicologie analytique qui reconnait et préserve sa place au sein de l’épistémè contemporain des sciences humaines et naturelles. / While music has contributed to the development of cognitive psychology and experimental aesthetics, musicology, and more particularly its analytical branch, has taken little benefit from the achievements of what has been called "the sciences of music ". This situation is the result of a growing ontological distance between the paradigms underlying the development of cognitive sciences and those on which musicological theory and analysis are grounded. The difficulty in assimilating a transdisciplinary methodology – a central epistemological question that accompanies the development of cognitive sciences – is also responsible for the chronic lack of interest on the part of musicologists for the scientific disciplines which have open the possibility to understand music as an object shaped both by perception and cognition, and as a living aesthetic experience. This research evaluates the reasons that prove the relevance and the necessity of building a straight relation between the analytical musicology and the scientific study of perception and aesthetics. It also leads a discussion in order to propose a definition of the aims and the means characterizing an analytical musicology that recognizes and preserves its place within the frame of the contemporary human and natural sciences.

Nocturnal op. 70 is one of the most important large-scale works written for guitar in the twentieth century. Brief biographical data and some background information on Nocturnal show how it exemplifies Britten's compositional approach. The focus of the analysis is on three structural aspects: the rhythmic, the intervallic, and the aspect of underlying pitch patterns. The rhythmic analysis discusses the distortion of rhythmic patterns by the use of compression, expansion, elisions, syncopation, and rhythmic dissonance. The pitch set analysis discusses the intervallic character of the work, identifying and correlating set types as they form networks of relationship. The reductive analysis discusses the underlying connections of focal pitches in the linear material of Nocturnal. The conclusion then correlates the results of the preceding analyses, discussing the large-scale unfolding of the form in Nocturnal.

Primarily the writer was interested in the relationship between technique and interpretation in the concept of pianism, especially in the music of Brahms, because of the technical difficulties thereof. In this study the truism that technique = interpretation is the focus point. After giving many different opinions about this, the writer brings it into context with Brahmsian pianism specifically. It is made clear how Brahms used certain techniques for certain soundworlds that he wanted to create, in order to reach a certain interpretation, and that there are recurring technical procedures in opus 34, 35, 56b and the 51 exercises. As an interface to these Brahmsian techniques, the writer selects a mixture of generic technical aspects from a wide scope of other musical minds. There is a definite inter-reaction between all these generic aspects and those of Brahms. The background and history of opus 34 is explained, plus a short section about Brahms aesthetics/ambiguity, and some philosophical opinions about the dimension of emotions and feelings in interpretation. However, the writer explains that this dimension is outside the scope of this thesis. A summary of schools of thought on technique and theories of interpretation is given to establish the links between them. Using available literature on quintets, ensembles, pianism, idiomaticism and timbre, the piano quintet specifically was explored for the uniqueness of its features. Brahms’s individualistic approach to pianism, as exemplified by his chamber music and his unique contributions to virtuoso technical routines, is examined against the background of sonorities of the piano and underpinned by appropriate technical skills. Against a template of pianistic criteria, appropriate examples, rich in context, are analysed both technically (objectively) and interpretatively (subjectively) to educe outcomes that establish that the two approaches have a holistic relationship and are ultimately inseparable and interdependent. The score examples show how technical difficulties escalate in combinations of complex movements in the “marriage” of technique and interpretation, and how interpretation relies primarily and fundamentally on the craft of technique, which is also an art in itself. / Thesis (DMus)--University of Pretoria, 2014. / gm2014 / Music / unrestricted

The lecture was given on September 25, 1989. The discussion dealt with the stylistic characteristics of music for clarinet by Ernesto Cavallini and included a performance of four romanzas: La Calma, Un Pensiero, L'Incudine, and Lontano dalla Patria. Cavallini was the foremost clarinet virtuoso of the nineteenth century as well as a prolific composer of music for his instrument. The works presented in the lecture represent Cavallini's proclivity for a performance style combining virtuosity with lyrical expression. Copies of the original publications of Cavallini's romanzas were obtained from the Biblioteca del Conservatory, "Giuseppi Verdi," Milan, Italy. In addition to the lecture recital, three other recitals for solo clarinet were given. The first recital was given on October 29, 1984, and included works by Carl Maria von Weber, Leslie Bassett, Halsey Stevens, and Carl Reinecke. The second recital was given on July 29, 1985, and included works by Bernard Heinrich Crusell, Halsey Stevens, and Johannes Brahms. The third recital was given on October 3, 1988, and included works by Saviero Mercadante, Eugene Bozza, and John Ireland. All four recitals were recorded on magnetic tape and are filed, along with the written version of the lecture materials, as a part of the dissertation.