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Percy Grainger collected English folk song only for a short period between 1905 and 1909 as part of the revival of interest in all things English among antiquarians, folklorists, and nationalists. Grainger’s publication of his transcriptions and analysis in the Journal of the Folk Song Society in 1908 is considered one of the most insightful and groundbreaking examinations of English folk song of its time, far removed from the dilettante activities of many other collectors. His article was, however, harshly criticized by the Editorial Committee of the Journal, and Grainger subsequently never again published any significant transcriptions of English folk music. Grainger’s English folk song transcriptions have received their fair share of attention from ethnomusicologists. Thus far, however, no one has examined the connections between this aspect of his musical activities and his modernist philosophy of music. I contend that Grainger’s article contains the seeds of what would eventually become his mature, though never fully realized, musical aesthetic, and that it was this aesthetic that allowed him to examine English folk song in a manner never before imagined by other collectors. This dissertation follows the thread of his aesthetic throughout his numerous musical interests in order to demonstrate the potency of his philosophy as manifest in his examination of folk song in the Journal. To this end, I bring to bear a wide range of critical methodologies, including those of ethnomusicology, aesthetics, and critical theory. Grainger never spelled out with any clarity the fundamental tenets of his aesthetic, but I believe that such an aesthetic can be reconstructed through a broad examination of his writings and his music. Grainger shares his role in this dissertation with many other characters including Benjamin Britten, Evald Tang Kristensen, Cecil Sharp, Bela Bartok, Ferruccio Busoni, and even Jacques Derrida, often even ceding his place in the spotlight to them. This is, however, a crucial occurrence, for as my examination demonstrates, this fully realized version of his aesthetic means that Grainger emerges as a far more important and revolutionary thinker in the history of music than he has thus far been considered.

Thesis (Th. M.)--Calvin Theological Seminary, 1990. / Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 124-132).

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Hong Kong, 1999. / Includes bibliographical references. Also available in print.

Thesis (M.A.)--Guo li zheng zhi da xue, 1984. / Bibliography: p. 297-307.

Thesis (D.M.A.)--University of Texas at Austin, 2007. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references. Includes discography.

The thesis looks into the practice of song translation, which occupies a peripheral position in translation studies (TS) despite its commonplace occurrence and significant impact on the global spread of songs. Foreign songs enjoy enormous appeal in China, where different methods have been adopted to translate them with the aim of enhancing listeners’ full reception. In particular, the practice of writing Chinese lyrics anew and setting them to the foreign tunes regardless of the semantic relationship between the source text (ST) and the target text (TT) has proliferated over the past decades. Some translated songs capture the gist of the original lyrics omitting minor details whereas some sever their relations with the original. This blurs the boundaries between translation, adaptation and rewriting lyrics. Another noticeable phenomenon is the emergence of self-organising communities, whose involvement in translating song lyrics and circulating subtitled music videos (MVs) cannot be overlooked in today’s digital landscape. Song translation can be understood as a field with its own “rules of the game” and exchange of different forms of capital following a Bourdieusian perspective. Adopting a case study methodology, the thesis investigates the particular field of song translation with special reference to the translation practices of a veteran song translator named Xue Fan 薛范, online amateur translators, and a professional lyricist from Hong Kong called Albert Leung 林夕. These case studies have been conducted for providing an in-depth analysis of China’s song translation activities through time and the dynamics of the power relations in the field. To translate a song from one language and culture into another invariably involves the losses and gains of certain elements, given the song’s semiotic richness. Against this backdrop, the thesis attempts to examine how the interplay of different meaning-making modes in a song has been dealt with by different agents under various circumstances through close examination of the relationship between STs and TTs. This will allow a better understanding of the production, circulation and reception of song translations in respective historical, ideological and social contexts. It is hoped that the thesis can provide new insights into our understanding of ‘translation’ in relation to music, and further shed light on how translation evolves at the convergence of music and technology in the globalisation era.

Orientador: Martha Herr / Banca: Celso Loureiro Chaves / Banca: Giacomo Bartoloni / Resumo: Esta pesquisa aborda a íntegra das canções para voz aguda e piano do compositor Bruno Kiefer compostas em 1957/58 e 1978, sobre poesias de Mário Quintana, Fernando Pessoa, Lara de Lemos e José Santiago Naud. O foco deste trabalho consiste em fornecer subsídios para a performance das canões, oferecendo aos cantores informações sobre o modo como o compositor tratou a relação entre música e poesia nestas obras, dentro de uma perspectiva pós-moderna. Além do objetivo principal desta pesquisa, procuramos no decorrer do trabalho contextualizar o período de criação das canções que integram o corpus da pesquisa; conhecer os tipos de relações possíveis entre música e poesia, levantando questões teóricas, críticas e metodológicas a partir das idéias de músico, poeta e estudiosos do assunto; verificar a existência de gestos musicais e poéticos recorrentes e como eles se associam; identificar os processos de colocação de texto em música por Kiefer comuns às diferentes canções, num processo de autocitação, para conhecer o estilo do compositor. A coleta de dados para a contextualização de gênese das obras, focado na interação do compositor com o meio onde compunha, foi realizada por meio da pesquisa bibliográfica e documental. Procedimento adotado também na abordagem histórica do desenvolvimento da relação entre música e poesia, assim como de opiniões diversas sobre o temas incluindo as de Kiefer. O processo de análise lítero-musical flundamenta-se nas idéias de autores como Steim & Spillman e La Rue, considera os parâmetros que o próprio compositor registrou em seus estudos musicológicos e recorre ao conjunto de gestos identificados e nomeados por Cardassi. / Abstract: This study deals all the songs for high voice and piano bu the composer Bruno Kiefer composed in 1957/58and 1978,with texts by Mário Quintana, Fernando Pessoa, Lara de Lemos e José Santiago Naud. The focus of the study consists in providing linformation for the performance of these songs, principaly the manner in whichthe composer dealt with the relationship between music and poetry in these works, within a post modern perspective In addition to the principal objective of this study, we seek to put in context the period of composition of these songs; to discuss the possibile relationships between music and poetry, raising theoretical, critical and methodological question based on the ideas of musicians, poets and specialistas in the matter to verify the existence or musical and poetic gestures and how they ar associated; and to identify the composer's styles and methods of placling text in music, based on his own writings. The collection of information to contextualize creation of these works, cocussing on the interactio of the composer wlith the means of composition, is the result of bibliografic research and contact with personal documents of the composer. The same process was adopted in the historical treatment of the development of tlhe relationship betwenn mlusic and poetry and diverse opinions on the theme includling thos of Kiefer. The literary/musical analytical process is based on the ideas of authors such as Steim & Spillmanand La Rue and considers parameters which the composer registered lin his musicological studies using the set of gestures indentified and listed by Cardassi. / Mestre

I The Origins of A Song to David This chapter deals with the outlook of the poet, his re-dedication to the service of God, his Hymn to the Supreme Being (1756), his madness and confinement, Jubilate Agno, and references to the Psalms and A Song to , David in the Jubilate Agno. II (i) The Form and Structure of the Poem A Song to David is a poem of praise, a paean bringing in the whole of the cosmos. As such it takes its origin from the Psalms of David. Smart prepared himself for the triumph of the Song by writing his Seatonian poems on the attributes of the Supreme Being. The stanzaic pattern of the Song, romance-six, is used by other eighteenth-century poets, but its master is Smart. The basic structural device consists of repetition and the matching of parts of the poem. The description of the contents provided by the poet is not wholly to be trusted. (ii) An Explication of the Poem This section, the longest portion of the thesis, is a line by line commentary on the poem; the intent is to supply background for the reader. The meaning of ambiguous or obscure phrases is suggested; glosses for unfamiliar words are either supplied from the work of previous critics and editors or suggested by the study of biblical and other contemporary texts. The character of David, as drawn by Smart, is not the historical or biblical figure, though it has something in common with the medieval concept of David. Cross-references to Jubilate Agno are noted. The work of W. F. Stead, W. H. Bond, and J. B. Broadbent is correlated with some original study. The climactic nature of the final stanzas is discussed. III (i) Links with Other Poems by Smart The recurrence of similar themes and patterns in other works is pointed out. There is a definite relationship between the Song and Smart's later poems. (ii) Comparison with Some Other Poets Other poets of a similar bent utilize a biblical story in their work. Parallels and contrasts are found in the handling of a similar theme by Cowley, Prior, and Browning. A close resemblance exists between A Song to David and The Benedicite Paraphrased, a poem by James Merrick. (iii) A Song to David is Unique in its Aesthetic Achievement The achievement of A Song to David is defined. The effect upon the reader is discussed and the success of the poet commented upon. A place is claimed for A Song to David in the top rank of devotional poetry. / Arts, Faculty of / English, Department of / Graduate

Music’s allure lies in its power to stir the emotions. But the relation between the physical properties of an acoustic signal and its emotional impact remains an open area of research. This paper reports the results and possible implications of a pilot study and survey used to construct an emotion index for subjective ratings of music. The dimensions of pleasure and arousal exhibit high reliability. Eighty-five participants’ ratings of 100 song excerpts are used to benchmark the predictive accuracy of several combinations of acoustic preprocessing and statistical learning algorithms. The Euclidean distance between acoustic representations of an excerpt and corresponding emotionweighted visualizations of a corpus of music excerpts provided predictor variables for linear regression that resulted in the highest predictive accuracy of mean pleasure and arousal values of test songs. This new technique also generated visualizations that show how rhythm, pitch, and loudness interrelate to influence our appreciation of the emotional content of music.