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Dans cette thèse, nous étudions les opéras de Pierre Bartholomée composés d'après les romans d'Henry Bauchau à partir de la thématisation de la voix qu'ils proposent. Ce schème narratif, décliné tantôt sous la forme d'un chant épique, tantôt comme musique pure, est isolé pour devenir le sujet des livrets. C'est un sujet problématique car la voix révèle le ratage irréductible de la rencontre d'un texte et d'une musique. Or, depuis la fondation du genre, l'opéra a pensé leurs rapports en termes de fusion du sens et du son. Au contraire, l'étude comparative des opéras de Bartholomée, du livret à la scénographie en passant par la partition, met en évidence ce nouage en forme de déliaison. En effet, les différences repérées entre ces deux opus permettent de dégager les modes de représentation de cette rencontre toujours manquée. La musique et le texte ne s'additionnent pas pour former un objet homogène mais s'accolent le long de leur commun littoral, la voix, ce reste de la langue à laquelle on a retranché le signifié des mots. Sur le mode narratif, poétique et musical, le diptyque bauchalien de Bartholomée raconte le renoncement au leurre d'une conception de l'opéra comme lieu de la coïncidence entre un texte et une musique au profit de la reconnaissance de leur hétérogénéité. La description comparée des scénographies corrobore cette affirmation dans la mesure où l'estompe grandissante du réalisme neutralise progressivement l'illusion théâtrale. Le choix de faire des visages la pierre de touche des mises en scène successives offre ainsi un prolongement visuel à la voix. Visage et voix deviennent le paradigme d'une altérité valorisée dont Antigone est le héraut. Réclamant pour son frère et la femme qu'elle est le droit de cité, elle s'oppose à la réduction de l'autre au même / In this dissertation, Pierre Bartholomée's operas composed after Henry Bauchau's novels are studied through the theme of voice. This narrative pattern, sometimes as epic singing, sometimes as pure music, becomes the subject of the librettos. It is a problematic issue because the voice reveals the missed encounter between text and music. &et, since the foundation of the genre, opera has described their relations as a melting of meaning and sound. But a comparative study of Bartholomée's operas, from the libretto to the stage design including the score, underlines a de-linkage. Indeed, the differences between the two opuses allow to highlight how this disconnection is represented. The reunion of music and text don't mount up to a homogeneous object. Theyjoin and share a border, the voice, which remains after the removal of the meaning from the language. The diptych tells the forsaking of the irrelevant conception of the opera as a coïncidence between text and music in favour of its heterogeneous nature. Comparative descriptions of the stagings reinforce this idea. In fact, realism fades gradually out and neutralises the theatrical illusion. Faces are the core of the stagecrafts and provide a visible extension of the voice. Thus, face and voice are the epitom of a positive alterity which is embodied by Antigone. She begs for her brother and herself as a woman the right to be part of the city-state. In other words, she sets against the incorporation of the otherinto the same.

The main aim of this thesis is to provide the reader with the overview of the work of female authors of lyrics and show the topics they are mainly interested in. The partial aim is to find out if some specific female topics and specific female expression and language exist. The core of the work is commented antology of texts. There are included texts of authors who are authors of music and interprets concurrently, who have been working in ten last years and released at least one CD. I come to the conclusion that women are writing mostly about partner relationships, love as a special kind of emotion, family and maternity and also their own position in world, faith and sexuality. Typical of female authors is that they view at the things as if men could not understand the same topics. Specific is also language of female authors and motives they use as the means of expression: they are particulary delicate and tender images and metaphores, intuitive and playful puns. In some texts women try to oppose the stereotype of women putting the text into typicaly mens ambience and using "mens" dictionary.

This master thesis is an autoethnographic study, wherein the author presents and analyzes her approach to composition practice through intertextuality. Drawing on previous research in literary and musical studies, she aims to identify and/or define the types of intertextuality that she uses in her compositional practice, and their interaction within compositions. She also investigates, in which ways different musical and literary texts can mutually influence and enhance each other, as well as how these forms of intertextuality function in specific performance settings. Finally, the author contemplates on the question how intertextual elements might mediate in translating the author’s intentions to the audience, at least from the perspective of the composer. After a quick overview of ten of Astar’s musical works, making use of intertextuality as a composition strategy, the study focuses on a detailed analysis of two pieces, Escape and The Checkered Flag Villanelle, that rely upon contrasting ways of building cross-textual relationships. The analysis utilizes, among others, the topologies found in the works by Genette, Burkholder and Kawamoto. The author also makes an attempt at extending the existing terminology by suggesting such new terms as concept borrowing, interpermeating intertextuality, imposed intertextuality, transverbal prosodization and some other. This terminology is applied in the work to describe the types of cross-textual strategies used in Astar’s classical compositions that do not appear to be covered by any of the aforementioned topologies. The work also offers a first-person perspective at a close collaboration of a composer and a poet, where the result is a variety of artistic works, all of which employ multi-layered intertextuality and an intermedial approach.

This study explores text and music relations in Canadian composer Violet Archer’s “The Twenty-Third Psalm” by analysing the text of Psalm 23, Fibonacci numbers, melodic contours, motives, and the role of the accompaniment. The text focuses on David’s faith in God and his acceptance of God as his shepherd on earth. The four other approaches allow us to examine the work on three different structural levels: background through Fibonacci numbers, middleground through melodic contour analysis, and foreground through motivic analysis and the role of the accompaniment. The measure numbers that align with Fibonacci numbers overlap with some of the melodic contour phrases, which are demarcated by rests, as well as with the most important moments at the surface level, such as the emphasis on the word “death” through recurring and symbolic motives. The piano accompaniment further supports these moments in the text.

This study explores text and music relations in Canadian composer Violet Archer’s “The Twenty-Third Psalm” by analysing the text of Psalm 23, Fibonacci numbers, melodic contours, motives, and the role of the accompaniment. The text focuses on David’s faith in God and his acceptance of God as his shepherd on earth. The four other approaches allow us to examine the work on three different structural levels: background through Fibonacci numbers, middleground through melodic contour analysis, and foreground through motivic analysis and the role of the accompaniment. The measure numbers that align with Fibonacci numbers overlap with some of the melodic contour phrases, which are demarcated by rests, as well as with the most important moments at the surface level, such as the emphasis on the word “death” through recurring and symbolic motives. The piano accompaniment further supports these moments in the text.

Les motets du XIIIe siècle chantés sur le répons Stirps Jesse forment l'apogée d'une tradition exégétique, iconographique et musicale plus connue sous le nom d'« arbre de Jessé ». Le répons, attribué à Fulbert de Chartres (mort en 1028), évoque de façon métaphorique les liens entre Marie et son Fils. Il rappelle ainsi un des fondements du dogme chrétien : l'Incarnation charnelle de Dieu par l'intermédiaire de la Vierge. Son utilisation dans les motets n'est donc pas anodine. Le Stirps Jesse, ou plus fréquemment la seconde partie de son verset FLOS FILIUS EJUS, a été repris et ordonné de façon rythmique pour servir à la création d'une polyphonie textuelle et musicale. La voix empruntée ou teneur détermine ainsi la mélodie, la longueur des phrases mélodiques et des vers du double. Pourtant, malgré ces contraintes et les nombreux contrafacta, l'étude démontre l'existence de liens structurels entre texte et musique dans les motets à deux voix sur FLOS FILIUS EJUS conservés dans le manuscrit W2. Les relations entre texte et musique reposent ainsi le plus souvent sur la coïncidence entre la disposition des poèmes et l'organisation des répétitions motiviques (colores), des registres et des rythmes / Thirteenth-Century motets composed on the response Stirps Jesse belong to a great exegetical, iconographical and musical tradition well-known as the « Tree of Jesse ». The response, which is possibly composed by Fulbert of Chartres (d. 1028), express the relationships between Mary and her Son. It calls to mind one of the most important Christian believes as the flesh Embodiment of God thanks to the Virgin which is one of the most important Christian dogmas. The Stirps Jesse, or more often the second part of the verse FLOS FILIUS EJUS, is rhythmically organized in order to create a textual and musical polyphony. The melody, the lengths of musical phrases and of the line of the upper part depend intimately on this quotation or tenor. Even if the tenor is of great influence on the polyphony, this study demonstrates that the textual structure of the upper part corresponds to the musical organization in the two-part motets on FLOS FILIUS EJUS in the manuscript W2. The relationships between poem and melody are built on the close connection between the structural organization of the text and of the melody thanks to the melodic patterns (colores), register and rhythms

This study explores text and music relations in Canadian composer Violet Archer’s “The Twenty-Third Psalm” by analysing the text of Psalm 23, Fibonacci numbers, melodic contours, motives, and the role of the accompaniment. The text focuses on David’s faith in God and his acceptance of God as his shepherd on earth. The four other approaches allow us to examine the work on three different structural levels: background through Fibonacci numbers, middleground through melodic contour analysis, and foreground through motivic analysis and the role of the accompaniment. The measure numbers that align with Fibonacci numbers overlap with some of the melodic contour phrases, which are demarcated by rests, as well as with the most important moments at the surface level, such as the emphasis on the word “death” through recurring and symbolic motives. The piano accompaniment further supports these moments in the text.

Ce mémoire est une étude de cas sur Le voyage d’hiver (2013) de Keith Kouna. Réalisée par René Lussier, cette œuvre de musique enregistrée est une transposition musicolittéraire d’après Winterreise (1828) de Franz Schubert. Malgré la réécriture d’un texte en français et les transformations musicales notables qui caractérisent Le voyage d’hiver, les fondements mélodiques et harmoniques qu’il reproduit génèrent un effet de reconnaissance qui ne cesse de renvoyer Kouna vers Schubert. Plutôt que de les tenir pour inséparables l’un de l’autre, cette étude propose une réflexion sur la distance qui les sépare. On se demandera si Le voyage d’hiver peut constituer une œuvre avec le caractère propre de ce qui la rendrait autonome et originale. Considérant que la réécriture textuelle dont il procède s’enracine dans l’écoute musicale, la recherche pose d’abord que le Voyage d’hiver s’établit comme la trace d’une écoute de Winterreise. À partir du rapport entre texte et musique qui s’y déploie, il s’agit ensuite de suivre cette écoute à travers les médiations de la musique enregistrée en studio qui en ont constitué l’inscription. L’établissement de ce tracé permettra d’évaluer l’ampleur des transformations qui donnent lieu au Voyage d’hiver afin de mettre en perspective la distance qui le sépare et le distingue de l’œuvre de Schubert. / This master’s thesis is a case study of Keith Kouna’s music recording Le voyage d’hiver (2013). Produced by René Lussier, this album is a literary and musical transposition based on Franz Schubert’s Winterreise (1828). Although the text was rewritten in French and the music underwent significant transformations, the melodic and harmonic foundations of Le voyage d’hiver create a recognition effect that constantly hearken Kouna’s work back to Schubert. Instead of viewing both works as inseparable, this study will examine the distance that separates them. One may ask if Le voyage d’hiver possesses the distinctive traits to be considered an original, free-standing musical work. Given that the rewriting of the text is rooted in music listening, this research posits that Le voyage d’hiver takes form as the result of listening to Schubert’s Winterreise. Based on the relationship that unfolds between the text and music, the research is then a matter of following this listening through the mediations of the resulting music that was created and recorded in the studio. Establishing this path will make it possible to assess the extent of the transformations that led to Le voyage d’hiver in order to put into perspective the distance that separates and distinguishes it from Schubert’s work.

In the emerging field of audio generation using diffusion models, this project pioneers the adaptation of the AudioLDM model framework, initially designed for text-to-daily sounds generation, towards text-to-music audio generation. This shift addresses a gap in the current scope of audio diffusion models, predominantly focused on everyday sounds. The motivation for this thesis stems from AudioLDM’s remarkable generative capabilities in producing daily sounds from text descriptions. However, its application in music audio generation remains underexplored. The thesis aims to modify AudioLDM’s architecture and training objectives to cater to the unique nuances of musical audio. The re-engineering process involved two primary methods. First, a dataset was constructed by sourcing a variety of music audio samples from the A Dataset For Music Analysis (FMA) [1] and generating pseudo captions using a Large Language Model specified in music captioning. This dataset served as the foundation for training the adapted model. Second, the model’s diffusion backbone, a UNet architecture, was revised in its text conditioning approach by incorporating both the CLAP encoder and the T5 text encoder. This dualencoding method, coupled with a shift from the traditional noise prediction objective to the V-objective, aimed to enhance the model’s performance in generating coherent and musically relevant audio. The effectiveness of these adaptations was validated through both subjective and objective evaluations. Compared to the original AudioLDM model, the adapted version demonstrated superior quality in the audio output and a higher relevance between text prompts and generated music. This advancement not only proves the feasibility of transforming AudioLDM for music generation but also opens new avenues for research and application in text-to-music audio synthesis / Inom det framväxande området för ljudgenerering med användning av diffusionsmodeller, banar detta projekt för anpassningen av AudioLDMmodellramverket, som ursprungligen utformades för generering av text-tilldagliga ljud, mot ljudgenerering av text-till-musik. Denna förändring tar itu med en lucka i den nuvarande omfattningen av ljuddiffusionsmodeller, främst inriktade på vardagliga ljud. Motivationen för denna avhandling kommer från AudioLDM:s anmärkningsvärda generativa förmåga att producera dagliga ljud från textbeskrivningar. Dock är dess tillämpning i musikljudgenerering fortfarande underutforskad. Avhandlingen syftar till att modifiera AudioLDM:s arkitektur och utbildningsmål för att tillgodose de unika nyanserna av musikaliskt ljud. Omarbetningsprocessen involverade två primära metoder. Först konstruerades en datauppsättning genom att hämta en mängd olika musikljudprover från A Dataset For Music Analysis (FMA) [1] och generera pseudotexter med hjälp av en Large Language Model specificerad i musiktextning. Denna datauppsättning fungerade som grunden för att träna den anpassade modellen. För det andra reviderades modellens diffusionsryggrad, en UNet-arkitektur, i sin textkonditioneringsmetod genom att inkludera både CLAP-kodaren och T5-textkodaren. Denna dubbelkodningsmetod, i kombination med en övergång från det traditionella brusförutsägelsemålet till V-målet, syftade till att förbättra modellens prestanda för att generera sammanhängande och musikaliskt relevant ljud. Effektiviteten av dessa anpassningar validerades genom både subjektiva och objektiva utvärderingar. Jämfört med den ursprungliga AudioLDMmodellen visade den anpassade versionen överlägsen kvalitet i ljudutgången och en högre relevans mellan textmeddelanden och genererad musik. Detta framsteg bevisar inte bara möjligheten att transformera AudioLDM för musikgenerering utan öppnar också nya vägar för forskning och tillämpning inom text-till-musik ljudsyntes.