Nosso trabalho consiste na análise das indicações de pedal encontradas nos Prelúdios op. 28 de F. Chopin. A ideia desta pesquisa surgiu através de comparações entre diferentes edições das obras do compositor, onde encontramos grande incompatibilidade referente às indicações de utilização do pedal de Chopin com as de alguns editores. Percebemos que sua pedalização foi ignorada ou alterada por muitos revisores, que optaram por empregar uma indicação padrão de pedal. O nosso trabalho está divido em três capítulos. No primeiro faremos um breve histórico do emprego e escrita para o pedal desde os seus primórdios até os dias de hoje. No segundo capítulo trataremos da escrita para pedal de Chopin, onde abordaremos a linguagem adotada pelo compositor e suas especificidades. O terceiro capítulo será dedicado à análise das indicações de pedal dos 24 Prelúdios op. 28 encontradas no manuscrito autógrafo. / This study consists of a research about the pedal indications by F. Chopin and more specifically those founds in his Preludes op. 28. The idea for this research came through the comparisons of different editions of the composer\'s work, where we found great inconsistency regarding indications of Chopin on using the pedal. Chopin\'s pedaling was ignored or altered by many reviewers, who often chose to employ a standard indication. The work is divided into three chapters. The first presents a brief history of employment and notation for the pedal from its beginnings until the present day. The second deals with how Chopin wrote his pedaling, where we discuss the language adopted by the composer and their specificities. The third chapter is devoted to the analysis of the indications of the pedal found in the autograph manuscript of the 24 Preludes op. 28. These statements seek to be understood not only by the intrinsic characteristics of each musical excerpt, but also through comparison with other editions of the work and based on the literature on the subject.

Nosso trabalho consiste na análise das indicações de pedal encontradas nos Prelúdios op. 28 de F. Chopin. A ideia desta pesquisa surgiu através de comparações entre diferentes edições das obras do compositor, onde encontramos grande incompatibilidade referente às indicações de utilização do pedal de Chopin com as de alguns editores. Percebemos que sua pedalização foi ignorada ou alterada por muitos revisores, que optaram por empregar uma indicação padrão de pedal. O nosso trabalho está divido em três capítulos. No primeiro faremos um breve histórico do emprego e escrita para o pedal desde os seus primórdios até os dias de hoje. No segundo capítulo trataremos da escrita para pedal de Chopin, onde abordaremos a linguagem adotada pelo compositor e suas especificidades. O terceiro capítulo será dedicado à análise das indicações de pedal dos 24 Prelúdios op. 28 encontradas no manuscrito autógrafo. / This study consists of a research about the pedal indications by F. Chopin and more specifically those founds in his Preludes op. 28. The idea for this research came through the comparisons of different editions of the composer\'s work, where we found great inconsistency regarding indications of Chopin on using the pedal. Chopin\'s pedaling was ignored or altered by many reviewers, who often chose to employ a standard indication. The work is divided into three chapters. The first presents a brief history of employment and notation for the pedal from its beginnings until the present day. The second deals with how Chopin wrote his pedaling, where we discuss the language adopted by the composer and their specificities. The third chapter is devoted to the analysis of the indications of the pedal found in the autograph manuscript of the 24 Preludes op. 28. These statements seek to be understood not only by the intrinsic characteristics of each musical excerpt, but also through comparison with other editions of the work and based on the literature on the subject.

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The Non-Measured Preludes for Horn, Op. 27, Nos. 21 -40, by Jacques-Francois Gallay are important tools for teaching advanced horn students to make music - not just by playing the right notes and right rhythms, but by requiring students to make musical decisions based on the contours of melodic lines and the characters implicit in the work. There has been no single synthesis, however, of the issues performers face when trying to interpret non-measured music. This study determines the most accurate published edition and corrects or clarifies several items in that text, presents appropriate questions regarding the interpretation of non-measured preludes through historical and contextual analyses, and presents a sample of modern pedagogical opinions regarding performance of Gallay's Non-Measured Preludes.I compared four published editions to the earliest available edition (published by Gallet in 1933) and noted all differences. I then synthesized research from a wide range of historical and pedagogical materials so as to provide a single source of information regarding performance practice and interpretative issues. In addition, I took lessons on the Gallay Preludes with three major horn teachers in order to collect and document a sample of current pedagogical opinion.Of the four later published editions, the Sansone edition of 1960 seems to be the most accurate; the study includes a table of twenty-five corrections or clarifications to the Sansone edition. The historical evidence points to the improvisatory nature of the original non-measured preludes as one of the most important considerations in developing a conceptual framework for interpretation. Other important considerations include hand horn technique and the overall character of each prelude. The Non-Measured Preludes are used to introduce advanced students to the more refined analytical and musical skills required of professional-level playing. / School of Music

abstract: This research paper aims to understand Frank Martin’s Huit préludes pour le piano (1948) as a summary of his compositional styles, by demonstrating common elements between the preludes and Martin’s compositions of other genres. Swiss musician Frank Martin (1890-1974) composed in many genres, from theatrical and symphonic works to vocal, chamber, and solo works. Huit préludes pour le piano, his best-known piece for solo piano, merits more recognition in the modern repertoire than it currently receives, as it encompasses a wide range of pianistic techniques, colors, and atmospheres to challenge the mature pianist. This set of preludes represents Martin’s unique compositional sound and style, in which Martin retains a sense of tonal functions despite the intense chromaticism in his music. Featured elements in the Huit préludes include the use of the B-A-C-H motive and its alterations, chromatic yet triadic writing, gliding tonality, baroque elements, dodecaphony, stratification, extreme range and registral shifts, octave doublings and displacements, percussive rhythmic drive, large-scale crescendi, and hidden cyclicism. Martin also uses the 12-tone row as a chromatic tool, but rejects atonality and applies the concept without strict enforcement. Influences of music from past eras are evident in the Huit préludes through various compositional techniques and practices such as contrapuntal lines, chant-like declamatory melodies, imitation, toccata, and pedal-points. This research project explores these various techniques within and between the preludes and his works of other genres, and thus identifies the Huit préludes as a consolidation of Martin’s mature sound and style. / Dissertation/Thesis / Frank Martin, Prelude No. 1 / Frank Martin, Prelude No. 2 / Frank Martin, Prelude No. 3 / Frank Martin, Prelude No. 4 / Frank Martin, Prelude No. 5 / Frank Martin, Prelude No. 6 / Frank Martin, Prelude No. 7 / Frank Martin, Prelude No. 8 / Doctoral Dissertation Music 2017

Johann Sebastian Bach used his own organ compositions when teaching his students. Seeking to understand and learn from Bach's organ pedagogy, many scholars have sought to establish a list of Bach's organ works according to difficulty. These arranged lists are briefly summarized in chapter two of the present thesis, and it is shown that none of them have sufficiently explained the rationale for deciding difficulty. Chapter three establishes and describes criteria according to which Bach's organ works can be analyzed. Chapter four demonstrates how these criteria are to be applied within a selected corpus of J.S. Bach's organ works, the Leipzig versions of the Great Eighteen Chorale Preludes. The criteria and resulting arrangement according to difficulty answer a problem within Bach scholarship by providing an objective standard by which teachers and students can select level-appropriate works for purposes of learning and performance.

Frank Martin, while assimilating many of the features of serial technique, found other of its features incompatible to his temperament. The Eight Preludes for Piano mark a point of decision regarding these features. While rejecting the twelve-tone row, he extracted prime cells from the octatonic scale and subjected them to the serial approach. One of these cells, G-flat - F - A - A-flat, evokes the B-A-C-H motive. In view of Martin's admiration for Bach, this similarity is probably not accidental. In any event, this four-note motive permeates the preludes and binds them into a coherent and unified set. Along with some evidence of partial form in the preludes, the concept of continuous variation is the compelling force molding the overall form. Martin disdained atonality on personal and artistic premises. Despite their contemporary textural qualities, the listener perceives c-sharp as a tonal center for the set. Tempo, rhythm, and texture contrasts and complementation between the preludes reveal an obviously preplanned format for the fulfillment of set unity. The consummate knowledge of pianism demonstrated in the preludes places them as a major contribution to twentieth-century piano literature.

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This thesis proposes a methodology for understanding the form of a Baroque prelude, particularly the preludes to the Six Suites for Unaccompanied Violoncello written by Johann Sebastian Bach. Four musical dimensions, tonal structure, motive, texture, and the potential implications of a piece’s genre, parse the preludes in different ways. As the features of these musical dimensions undergo either an evolution or a dramatic change over the course of each prelude, they each suggest a different form. Points of change in each dimension delineate segments in the music. When aligned, these changes create significant formal junctures and suggest an overall form for the movement. Analysis of the interplay among the musical dimensions clarifies the form of each piece and suggests formal norms for the prelude as a genre.

The chorale Wie schðn leuchtet der Morgenstern was popular from its very outset in 1589. That it has retained its popularity down to the present day is evident by its continually appearing in hymnbooks and being used as a cantus in organ compositions as well as forming the basis for other media of musical composition. The treatment of organ compositions based on this single chorale not only exemplifies the curiously novel attraction that this tune has held for composers, but also supplies a common denominator by which the history of the organ chorale can be generally stated.