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Poetry in music is the main discussion in this essay. There are three ways to connect music and poem. First, represent the emotion of poems through music; second, parallel the syllables and linguistic intonation to rhythm and pitches; third, transform the methods of writing poems into the methods of composing music. ¡§Remember¡¨ and ¡§The Magic Carousal¡¨ are used as examples in this essay. In ¡§Remember,¡¨ the composer semantically transfers the poetry into his/her music by directly borrowing and engaging the linguistic syntax and formal construction into musical composition. Such method is based on the eight different techniques mentioned in ¡§Looming Imagery,¡¨ a chapter from Yong Wu Huang¡¦s Design of Chinese Poetry, as a means to create musical structures. ¡§The Magic Carousal¡¨ adopts the application of musical tone-painting. A composer creates a tone-poem that expresses the poetic imagery and atmosphere. Based on the concept of musical rhetoric, the words are assigned with particular musical contour or gesture that illustrates the poem even more comprehensively.

This thesis examines the genre of epic, and particularly Milton’s Paradise Lost. It argues that it is only in attending to the contextual interactions within Paradise Lost that its full meaning can be comprehended. It demonstrates that the poem not only narrates the Fall, but actively performs its consequences in its thematic and linguistic structures, which continually stress the impossibility of approaching perfect (divine) totality. Chapter one outlines the theoretical response to epic, read as a petrified genre in contrast to the newness, openness and linguistic flexibility of the novel. It then challenges these assumptions through a reading of the invocation to book III of Paradise Lost. The chapter closes by examining seventeenth-century writings on epic, demonstrating that Milton’s contemporaries saw the epic as defined by the possibility of didactic intervention into its context. Chapter two examines the forms of the epic metaphor, which serve as a temporal link between the ‘mythic’ past of epic and contemporary events. It then shows that the nationalistic impulse of epic was a method by which the mythic past of a country was deployed as an exemplary narrative for the present. The chapter closes by considering the ways in which shifts in national conception were mapped onto the epic. Chapter three outlines Paradise Lost’s thematic engagement with the concept of representation. It focuses on the twin images of the music of the spheres and the Tower of Babel, used in Paradise Lost to represent man’s relationship with God. It argues that the poem uses these tropes to explore the linguistic effects of the Fall. Both these images are deployed to suggest that postlapsarian expression is too open and ambiguous to properly portray divinity. Chapter four moves that discussion to a linguistic level, arguing that the poem is characterised by indeterminacy. It argues that Paradise Lost calls into question the possibility of expressing perfect truth in fractured, postlapsarian language. It shows that punning is the mark of fallen creatures in the poem, and suggests that the poem’s own puns exploit this category to linguistically question its own status as representation through performances of ambiguity. The conclusion synthesises these local readings of Paradise Lost into a reading of the poem as a whole. It argues that these individual instances demonstrate the poem’s continual reflexive concern over its theodicean project. By continually expressing ambiguity, at the level of imagery and language, Paradise Lost draws attention to its status as postlapsarian art, and the consequent impossibility of approaching the divine perfection exemplified by the celestial music or prelapsarian language.

Because of the nature of the poetry, the interpretation of Banalites in this study has involved certain subjective decisions. These deductions were, nevertheless, colored by statements of the poet, the composer, and authorities on each. This is not to imply, however, that this is the only interpretation. Both poet and composer have given evidence that their creation requires a subjective response on the part of the interpreter. This is perhaps the greatest challenge offered by the work.

Auteur de nombreux recueils poétiques depuis 1978, Jean-Michel Maulpoix apparaît comme l’un des poètes majeurs de sa génération, dont il est également un défenseur et un théoricien. Si sa poésie se veut pleinement de son temps, dont elle partage les doutes, les inquiétudes et les malaises, elle tente cependant, sans pour autant effacer toute marque personnelle, de porter ceux-ci à une dimension universelle, tout en se montrant tendue vers un idéal d’apaisement. Cette étude, qui conjugue une analyse thématique à des commentaires stylistiques parfois appuyés sur des décomptes statistiques, tente ainsi de montrer que cette tension entre dissonance et apaisement travaille profondément l’écriture des différents recueils, dans leurs thèmes comme dans leur forme, leur énonciation et leur rythme. Elle emprunte à la musique les notions de « basse obstinée » et de « basse continue », non pour suggérer que la poésie soit analysable en termes musicaux, mais en tant que métaphores d’une écriture elle-même obstinée, qui privilégie la continuité plutôt que les ruptures, et une continuité qui n’exclut pas la variation, jusque dans le rythme des phrases et des poèmes. / Author of many collections of poems since 1978, Jean-Michel Maulpoix is one of the most important poets of his generation. He is also known as a theoretician. His poetry is influenced by our times, and it shares its doubts and uneasiness. But the poet also gives an universal dimension to his poems, even if all marks of subjectivity are not erased. The poems often seem to search an ideal of appeasement. This dissertation analyses both themes and style : it aims at showing that this tension between uneasiness and appeasement is very important in many collections of poems by Jean-Michel Maulpoix, in their themes, form, enunciation, and rhythm. It uses the musical concepts of “basso ostinato” and “basso continuo”, not to suggest a confusion between poetry and music, but as metaphors of the obstinacy of the writing itself. The poems by Jean-Michel Maulpoix prefer continuity to ruptures, a kind of continuity that does not exclude variation, even into the rhythm of sentences and poems.

According to James Mulholland, choral works in which the composer begins by using the text to inspire creativity evolve in three stages. First, the poet carefully chooses words and expressions as a vehicle for thoughts and emotions. The composer, in the second stage, enhances the artistic impact of the poem by setting it to music. In the final stage, conductor and performers give voice to the poet's work and to the composer's musical expression of it in a live performance.Choral conductors serve two art forms, language and music. In this study, I will investigate the compositional process and musical style of James Mulholland in five of his choral works, focusing on the composer's use of scansion (measurement of metrical patterns in each line of poetry), vocalization, imagery, and Leitmotif to express the text. The choral works to be studied include Heart, we will forget him! (Emily Dickinson), Fulfillment (Anonymous), The Wild Honeysuckle (Philip Freneau), What lips my lips have kissed (Edna St. Vincent Millay), and If love should count you worthy (attributed to Sidney Royse Lysaght). These pieces were chosen in consultation with the composer to represent his general style. My desire to survey a variety of poets was an additional consideration.Although the focus of my study lies in the second stage of the evolution of a choral work (the setting of the text by the composer), I suggest rehearsal considerations based upon my research. To provide historical context highlighting the circumstances under which each poem was written, poets' biographies (where applicable) are included. Additionally, a synopsis of each poem will provide a cursory understanding of its meaning. Familiarity with the poem's historical context and basic vocabulary is essential to the performance in order to clearly communicate the emotion of the text to a live audience.

This thesis focuses on verification of specific didactic processes which aim to closer introduce poetry to students of primary and secondary schools in an unconventional way. This goal is to be achieved with the use of music. The subject of research is the topic of musicalized poetry and mainly its didactic use in pedagogic practice. This work combined knowledge across subjects of czech grammar/literature and music and arts. The first chapter describes general principles of musicalising poetry, the process of musicalisation and common traits of musicalised poems. The core of the work consists of a reserach probe for which I have prepared several lecture preparation materials. These materials utilise various methods and processes for work with musicalised poetry - specifically I focused on texts of czech poets from the 20th century. Prepared lectures are applied in pedagogic practice by using the method of expetimental teaching. All the didactic outputs are accompanied by one or more reflections. In the end the results are summarized and learned facts are formulated for practical use.

Master of Music / Department of Music, Theatre, and Dance / Amy Underwood / The following report is extended program notes that focus on the expression of love in various ways. These songs were presented on a graduate recital March 31, 2015 in All Faiths Chapel at Kansas State University. It is in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Master of Music degree in vocal performance. The works included are by Bellini, Bernstein, Hahn, Koechlin, Obradors, Saint-Saëns, Schumann, and Sullivan. Below is a detailed description explaining the focus of the report. Many musicians discuss the musical elements including key signatures, time signatures, harmony, rhythm, and melody. They may also discuss the understanding of the music through the viewpoint of the vocal text. The musical elements and how the subject matter connects the two together is important to understand when giving a recital. It makes the music come alive for the audience and it is a true interpretation of how it should be performed. Love is a topic which many composers explore because of the natural emotion people feel about its perception. Different feelings and emotions conjured in the hearts and minds of humankind. Love is a personal feeling, and after studying the poetry and music, I assigned an adjective or verb to each song that describes a more specific facet of love’s emotional spectrum. These adjectives and their portrayal by various composers will comprise the focus of this paper.

Este trabalho tem como objetivo a investigação analítica do sistema expressivo de cinco obras para Coro a cappella do compositor Osvaldo Lacerda com poemas de Carlos Drummond de Andrade, salientando as relações que a música estabelece com a arte poética e investigando as técnicas composicionais adotadas pelo compositor de acordo com a extração musical que este faz do poema para construção do seu discurso poético-musical. As obras corais são: Quadrilha (1967), Romaria (1967), Poema da Necessidade (1967), Céu Vazio (1968) e Uníssono (primeira peça dos Quatro Estudos para Coro de 1971). A partir desta Análise para o Intérprete são oferecidas sugestões para a realização musical das referidas obras,apontando aspectos relevantes da interpretação coral. / The focus of this dissertation is the analytical investigation of the expressive system of five pieces for a cappella choir written by composer Osvaldo Lacerda on poems by Carlos Drummond de Andrade, pointing out the relations that music establishes with poetic art and investigating compositional techniques adopted by the composer in accordance with the musical extraction he makes from the poem to construct his musical-poetic meanings. The choral works are: Quadrilha (1967), Romaria (1967), Poema da Necessidade (1967), Céu Vazio (1968) e Uníssono (first part fo Quatro Estudos para Coro, 1971). From this analysis, suggestions about the performance of these pieces are offered to the interpreter, pointing to relevant aspects of choral interpretation.

Este trabalho tem como objetivo a investigação analítica do sistema expressivo de cinco obras para Coro a cappella do compositor Osvaldo Lacerda com poemas de Carlos Drummond de Andrade, salientando as relações que a música estabelece com a arte poética e investigando as técnicas composicionais adotadas pelo compositor de acordo com a extração musical que este faz do poema para construção do seu discurso poético-musical. As obras corais são: Quadrilha (1967), Romaria (1967), Poema da Necessidade (1967), Céu Vazio (1968) e Uníssono (primeira peça dos Quatro Estudos para Coro de 1971). A partir desta Análise para o Intérprete são oferecidas sugestões para a realização musical das referidas obras,apontando aspectos relevantes da interpretação coral. / The focus of this dissertation is the analytical investigation of the expressive system of five pieces for a cappella choir written by composer Osvaldo Lacerda on poems by Carlos Drummond de Andrade, pointing out the relations that music establishes with poetic art and investigating compositional techniques adopted by the composer in accordance with the musical extraction he makes from the poem to construct his musical-poetic meanings. The choral works are: Quadrilha (1967), Romaria (1967), Poema da Necessidade (1967), Céu Vazio (1968) e Uníssono (first part fo Quatro Estudos para Coro, 1971). From this analysis, suggestions about the performance of these pieces are offered to the interpreter, pointing to relevant aspects of choral interpretation.