La version intégrale de ce mémoire est disponible uniquement pour consultation individuelle à la Bibliothèque de musique de l’Université de Montréal (www.bib.umontreal.ca/MU). / Ce mémoire s’intéresse à la citation d’œuvres romantiques par le groupe rock britannique Muse, à partir d’une dizaine de chansons représentatives de son style. Bien qu’il ne soit pas rare qu’un groupe rock se base sur une œuvre antérieure pour écrire une nouvelle chanson, Muse constitue un cas particulier puisqu’il fait très peu usage de citations littérales. Cette étude s’inspire principalement des théories de Gérard Genette et de James Peter Burkholder et classe les emprunts en diverses catégories, dont l’allusion, la paraphrase, la citation programmatique, l’arrangement cumulatif et le modelage. Dans ce dernier cas, Muse assimile l’emprunt pour communiquer une coloration romantique à sa musique, à la manière d’un pastiche. Au moins cinq chansons du groupe évoquent le Deuxième Concerto pour piano de Rachmaninov, soit « Megalomania », « Ruled by Secrecy », « Space Dementia », « Butterflies and Hurricanes » et le prélude instrumental de « Survival ». Ce mémoire analyse aussi l’allusion au Premier Concerto pour piano de Tchaïkovski dans « Hoodoo », la paraphrase du thème de l’idée fixe de la Symphonie fantastique de Berlioz dans « Glorious » et la citation de l’opéra Samson et Dalila de Saint-Saëns dans « I Belong to You ». Ce procédé a un impact sur la réception des chansons. Ainsi, la coda de la chanson « United States of Eurasia » cherche à décrire l’état d’innocence menacé par la guerre en combinant des rires d’enfants au Nocturne op. 9 no 2 de Chopin, évoquant la nostalgie d’une époque révolue. / This thesis looks at the citation of Romantic works by the British rock group Muse, based on about ten songs representative of its style. While it is not uncommon for a rock band to use a previous work to write a new song, Muse constitutes a particular case since it makes very little use of literal citation. This study is based primarily on the theories of Gérard Genette and James Peter Burkholder and classifies the borrowings in various categories, including allusion, paraphrase, programmatic citation, cumulative arrangement and modeling. For example, with modeling, Muse assimilates the borrowing in order to communicate a Romantic dimension in its music, similar to a pastiche. At least five songs of the band evoke Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto no. 2 : “Megalomania”, “Ruled by Secrecy”, “Space Dementia”, “Butterflies and Hurricanes” and the instrumental prelude to “Survival”. This thesis also analyses the allusion to Tchaïkovski’s Piano Concerto no. 1 in “Hoodoo”, the paraphrase of the idée fixe from Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique in “Glorious” and the citation of Saint-Saëns’ opera Samson and Delilah in “I Belong to You”. This technique has an impact on the songs’ reception. For example, the coda of the song “United States of Eurasia” seeks to describe the state of innocence threatened by war, by combining children’s laughter with Chopin’s Nocturne op. 9 no 2, thus evoking nostalgia of a bygone era.

La musique du jeu MMORPG (« Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game ») World of Warcraft de la compagnie Blizzard Entertainment est prise comme modèle pour démontrer comment le timbre (instrumental et orchestral), en parallèle avec l’image, peut représenter des éléments de l’environnement virtuel. Dans un premier volet de l’analyse, une approche tripartite privilégiant l’observation des niveaux neutre, poïétique et esthésique est utilisée pour étudier les cas des trames musicales de trois régions du jeu : Dun Morogh (montagnes enneigées), Stranglethorn Vale (jungle tropicale) et Uldum (désert aride). L’instrumentation et l’orchestration de ces musiques sont étudiées pour déterminer en quoi le timbre peut se faire la représentation métaphorique de certaines caractéristiques d’un environnement naturel. Des entrevues menées auprès de compositeurs et un sondage soumis à des joueurs servent à vérifier la pertinence des résultats des analyses. Un autre volet de l’étude s’attarde à la manière avec laquelle le timbre, et plus particulièrement la symbolique qui lui est culturellement attribuée, est sollicité dans la construction de l’identité de peuples imaginaires. La musique représentative de quatre peuples de World of Warcraft est analysée en ce sens, soit celle des « Humans », des « Orcs », des « Tauren » et des « Blood Elves ». En conclusion, le timbre apparaît comme un important vecteur de signification s’inscrivant dans un processus d’amorçage qui, lui, contribue à ancrer la signification de l’image et à favoriser l’immersion du joueur en plus de stimuler son appréciation esthétique du jeu. / Music from Blizzard Entertainment’s infamous MMORPG (Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game) World of Warcraft is analyzed in order to illustrate how instrumental and orchestral timbre, along with image, can represent various elements of the virtual environment shown on screen. For the first part of the analysis, a tripartite approach requiring the study of the neutral, poietic, and esthesic levels is used. The music of three zones of the game is analyzed, namely that of Dun Morogh (snowy mountains), Stranglethorn Vale (tropical jungle), and Uldum (arid desert). Instrumentation and orchestration are the main aspects studied to determine how timbre can metaphorically illustrate certain characteristics of a natural environment. Interviews with video game music composers, and a survey submitted to World of Warcraft players helped to verify the relevance of our results. The second part of this study takes a look at how the symbolism culturally attributed to timbre intervenes in the construction of the identity of imaginary peoples. In this regard, the musical themes of four different peoples taken from the World of Warcraft universe are analyzed, namely that of the Humans, the Orcs, the Tauren, and the Blood Elves. In conclusion, timbre appears as an important source of meaning that, through a priming process, contributes to the anchoring of the image’s meaning. Moreover, it most likely facilitates the players’ immersion as well as their aesthetic appreciation of the game.

This dissertation explores a method of music analysis that is designed to reflect the phenomenology of the listening experience, specifically in regards to harmony. It is primarily inspired by the theoretical approaches of the music theorist Moritz Hauptmann and by the writings of philosopher Edmund Husserl.

Cette thèse montre que la musique participe activement à la production des identités et des valeurs dans la communication politique pour la conquête et la conservation du pouvoir. La musique, de par sa capacité à fédérer des émotions par des rituels, fait partie des outils symboliques privilégiés dans les stratégies de production et de légitimation de l’imaginaire, afin de produire et structurer les émotions (comme le sentiment d’appartenance, la sensation de « bien-être », l’identité sociale et politique, etc.). Or, aucune théorie en science politique n’a, à ce jour, vraiment expliqué en quoi la musique est constitutive d’idées et de valeurs politiques.Riche d’un corpus empirique original pour la science politique, composé de partitions musicales et d’une centaine d’archives audiovisuelles (clips et hymnes de campagne), cette thèse propose de faire une histoire des esthétiques musicales du pouvoir et de comprendre l’articulation entre les caractéristiques musicales intrinsèques (tonalité, rythme, timbre, hauteur, volume, etc.) et les finalités politiques du pouvoir. L’étude des invariants de la musique du pouvoir amène à questionner d’une part, l’héritage historique et les fondamentaux de la musique du pouvoir et, d’autre part, les stratégiesmusicales prises dans la communication politique contemporaines en régime pluraliste. / This thesis shows that music actively contributes to the production of identities and values in political communication for the conquest and preservation of power. Music, through its ability to federate emotions using rituals, is an important symbolic tool in strategies of production and legitimization of an imaginary, to produce and structure emotions (such as the feeling of belonging, the feeling of « wellbeing », social and political identity, etc.). Yet, to this day, no theory in political science has really explained how music is constituent of ideas and political values.Filled with an empirical corpus that is original for political science, which consists of musical scores and hundreds of audio-visual archives (videoclips and campaign songs), this thesis offers to tell a story of power’s musical aesthetics, and to understand the link between intrinsic musical characteristics (tonality, rhythm, timbre, pitch, volume, etc) and the political goals of power. The study of the constants in music for/from power leads us to question firstly its foundations and historical legacy, and secondly the musical strategies used in political communication of the contemporary pluralist system.

The American composer Charles Ives is well known for musical quotation/borrowing: composing music with or from pre-existing musical sources, such as folk tunes, hymns, chants, or other composers' works. His Third Violin Sonata is one of few works that used his unique technique of cumulative setting with only hymn tunes. For analysis of his instrumental music, the text of the hymn tunes is generally disregarded, as the compositions are for instruments. Ives' Third Violin Sonata is challenging to understand in comparison with other violin sonatas, because it lacks information such as titles and subtitles. Even though Ives never mentioned the piece's meanings or extramusical meanings, almost all the elements of the piece indicate hope as a common theme. This dissertation examines which hymn tunes were quoted in the piece, gives the meanings of the hymn tunes, and discusses how Ives uses these tunes as themes with textual meanings. The study includes a brief life of Ives and his historical circumstances and presents a brief musical analysis. The research should give a better understanding of the piece to performers and others curious about it.

This study investigates the possibility of applying Hatten’s theory of musical gesture to a formal system of musical analysis. Using historical antecedents and established musicological practice as a guide, a range of musical parameters in a motive length span of music are incorporated into a single gesture. This gesture forms the basic semantic unit upon which an analytical tableau structure is built, and a syntax is developed to allow derivations of new gestures; a large scale structure displaying fractal-like self-similarity is then proposed. The completed system is applied to the analysis of the ‘Adagio’ of Mozart’s Flute Quartet K.285 to test whether it can consistently be implemented and whether it produces falsifiable results while maintaining predictive power. It is found that these requirements are indeed met and that a set of inference rules can be derived suggesting that the proposed system has ample scope for further development. / Art History, Visual Arts & Musicology / M. Mus.

This study investigates the possibility of applying Hatten’s theory of musical gesture to a formal system of musical analysis. Using historical antecedents and established musicological practice as a guide, a range of musical parameters in a motive length span of music are incorporated into a single gesture. This gesture forms the basic semantic unit upon which an analytical tableau structure is built, and a syntax is developed to allow derivations of new gestures; a large scale structure displaying fractal-like self-similarity is then proposed. The completed system is applied to the analysis of the ‘Adagio’ of Mozart’s Flute Quartet K.285 to test whether it can consistently be implemented and whether it produces falsifiable results while maintaining predictive power. It is found that these requirements are indeed met and that a set of inference rules can be derived suggesting that the proposed system has ample scope for further development. / Art History, Visual Arts and Musicology / M. Mus.

In text linguistics coherence is seen as one of the key factors in communication and textual interpretation. Text linguistics, as an inter-disciplinary field of study concerning the textuality of texts in conjunction with coherence, can probably be of great importance in current musicology, especially as the problem concerning musical meaning, is still an ongoing debate. The design of a musical model of coherence relations is a new field of study and can not be connected to present day language models, therefore a new model should be invented. It should be kept in mind that adaptations in text linguistics can be of great influence in musicology today and on music in its relation to language. Musical interlocution forms the basis for musical coherence relations as method of musical communication. Musical communication has its origin in the top/cohesive surface of the musical text and disseminates to the lower/coherensive surface of the musical text. Although there is an interaction between musical cohesion and coherence, coherence relations are more concentrated on the lower level. Musical illocution and musical blended perlocution function within the coherensive musical and word texts. The listener plays a big role in this process, because musical coherence is the platform for musical interpretation. As listeners design a word text around the music text, musical blended perlocution through association results. The addition of associative meaning to the musical text has the result that the linguistic perlocution and the musical perlocution intermix with one another. One must keep in mind that perlocution differs in language and music. It will be indicated that musical coherence relations have a dual character. It will be argued here that the principles of musical textuality, adjusted from those text linguistically practised by De Beaugrande&Dressler (1981) and Carstens (1997, 2000, 2009), as well as the three musical functions, adapted from Austin's (1962) determination in language, figure strongly in J.S. Bach's Schübler Chorales. / Thesis (DMus)--University of Pretoria, 2009. / Music / unrestricted

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