<p> I (Andrew Jamieson) discuss my creative process, centered around the transcendence of structures, or the dialogue between them. I define structures broadly, from musical meter and texture to political structures and life circumstances. My core inspiration is black Pentecostal worship. I illustrate black Pentecostalism with examples from City of Refuge United Church of Christ in San Francisco. Visiting this church, I experienced music and communal interaction with a clear structure that facilitated presence of the Holy Spirit and even the ability challenge oppressive circumstances. In a similar way, experimental musicians, such as Sun Ra and John Oswald, present and challenge established structures, from jazz grooves to preexisting recorded music and the institutional structure it represents.</p><p> My own work, <i>Where Perhaps It's Worse,</i> presents structures from preexisting musical material against which musicians perform their own material and express my own ideas. The primary structural backdrop is the third movement of Luciano Berio's Sinfonia, itself a quote collage. I explore the various ways my work challenges both musical and extramusical structures.</p>

<p>Two churches were studied through observations and interviews to examine the role of music in their worship services. One of the churches was a Pentecostal church that was predominantly Caucasian and the other was a nondenominational church that was predominantly African-American. The interviews determined that despite cultural differences, including musical style, the perceived role of the music was basically the same in both churches. The role of the music is to create an environment that encourages and enhances high levels of praise. Both churches were consistent in the belief that God is actually present in some form if there are high levels of praise. </p>

Thesis (A.M.L.S.)--University of Michigan, 1951-52. / "Library Science 391."

Seventeenth-century England witnessed profound historical, theological, and musical changes. A king was overthrown and executed; religion was practiced fervently and disputed hotly; and English musicians fell under the influence of the Italian stile nuovo. Many devotional songs were printed, among them those which reveal influences of this style. These English-texted sacred songs for one to three solo voices with continuo--not based upon a previously- composed hymn or psalm tune—are emphasized in this dissertation. Chapter One treats definitions, past neglect of the genre by scholars, and the problem of ambiguous terminology. Chapter Two is an examination of how religion and politics affected musical life, the hiatus from liturgical music from 1644 to 1660 causing composers to contribute to the flourishing of devotional music for home worship and recreation. Different modes of seventeenth-century devotional life are discussed in Chapter Three. Chapter Four provides documentation for use of devotional music, diaries and memoirs of the period revealing the use of several publications considered in this study. Baroque musical aesthetics applied to devotional song and its raising of the affections towards God are discussed in Chapter Five. Chapter Six traces the influence of Italian monody and sacred concerto on English devotional song. The earliest compositions by an Englishman working in the stile nuovo are Henry Lawes' 1638 hymn tunes with continuo. Collections of two- and three-voice compositions by Child, the Lawes brothers, Wilson, and Porter, published from 1639 to 1657, comprise Chapter Seven, as well as early devotional works of Locke. Chapter Eight treats Restoration devotional song-- compositions for one to three voices and continuo, mostly of a more secular and dramatic style than works discussed in earlier. The outstanding English Baroque composers--Locke, Humfrey, Blow, and Purcell--are represented, and the apex of this style is found in the latest seventeenth-century publication of devotional song, Henry Playford's Harmonia sacra, (1688, 1693).

Orientador: Jose Roberto Zan / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Artes / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-16T05:04:38Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Vasconcelos_JorgeLuizRibeirode_D.pdf: 5777216 bytes, checksum: 03fbda25a0dfc159d82cc9a112ea165a (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010 / Resumo: Através deste estudo pretendo trazer à discussão alguns elementos da relação entre música e ritual no candomblé queto. Tal estudo foi centrado na manifestação desta religião em casas de culto da Baixada Santista, principalmente no Ilé Asè Alaketú Omo Oyá Asè Osun, localizado na cidade de São Vicente. O enfoque na relação citada foi principalmente efetuado na maneira como ela se apresenta nas festas públicas desta religião afro-brasileira, cuja teologia se baseia nos conceitos de orixá - suas divindades; e de axé - seu fundamento principal, princípio dinâmico que estrutura a religião. Para tanto, uma das bases teóricas é a etnomusicologia e, desdobrando as relações entre antropologia e etnografia com o enfoque musicológico, propõe-se que esta base se articule com a antropologia interpretativista de Clifford Geertz, encaminhando-se para uma etnomusicologia interpretativista em que a base é a transcrição densa. Além disso, busca-se suporte na antropologia da performance para estudar estas manifestações culturais em que ritual, expressões sonoras e musicais articulam-se com narrativas míticas, gerando vívidas exteriorizações de conteúdos cujos significados são vividos religiosamente pelos devotos. Com base nestes aportes pode-se concluir que os sons são utilizados no candomblé queto como um conjunto de elementos significativos que se articulam em discurso no fluxo da performance, incorporando sonoridades múltiplas de forma integrada à totalidade ritual e mítica. Dessa maneira, busco contribuir para demonstração da existência de uma linguagem de sonoridades, através da descrição de algumas formas em que ela se efetua em discurso ritual, com base na proposta de Cardoso (2006) de estudar a música ritual como linguagem / Abstract: By means of this study, I intent to bring to discussion some elements found in the interaction between music and ritual in the afro-Brazilian religion called candomblé queto. The study was carried focusing forms of such religiosity in cult places in the region of São Paulo state called Baixada Santista, mainly in the religious house Ilè Asè Alaketú Omo Oyá Asè Osun, in the city of São Vicente. The approach to the relations of music and religiosity was mainly carried on the way they appear in the public ceremonies of a long cycle of "parties" that make part of the religion, whose theology is based on the concepts of "orixá" - their deities - and of "axé" - the fundamental and dynamic principle that structures the religion. For this, one of the basic theoretical lines is ethnomusicology. Unfolding the relation between Anthropology and Ethnography with the musicological approach, we propose an articulation of this basis with Clifford Geertz Interpretative Anthropology in such a way we go for an Interpretative Ethnomusicology, whose basis is the thick transcription. One more support to study these cultural manifestations was found in the Anthropology of Performance, for their traces in which ritual, sound and musical expressions are articulated with mythical narratives, showing vivid contents whose meanings are lived religiously by the believers, called "povo-de-santo". Based on these approaches we can conclude that sounds are used in the candomblé queto as a set of meaning elements that articulate themselves in the flow of discourse during performances, embodying multiple sonorities in an integrated way to the ritual and mythic totality. This is an attempt to contribute for the demonstration of the existence of an articulate language of multiple sounds in that form of religion, by the description of forms of realizations of a "musical grammar" in ritual discourse, based on the proposals of Cardoso (2006) when studding ritual music as a language / Doutorado / Doutor em Música