Syftet med denna studie var att utforska hur resultatet skulle utforma sig inom en musikalisk improvisation där inspirationsmaterialet även skulle härstamma från mig i form av poesi och hur jag som musiker eventuellt kunde utvecklas utifrån detta. En ytterligare aspekt av detta som jag har velat utforska har varit huruvida min egen roll som lyssnares uppfattning och känsla av dikten och dess budskap kan förändras utifrån hur min musikaliska improvisation utformar sig. Denna studie har hjälpt mig att utvecklas i mitt förhållningssätt till improvisation och dess förmåga att emotionellt beröra människor i kombination med poesi. Det har även hjälpt mig att på ett mer självständigt sätt förhålla mig musikaliskt till min egen poesi och hur den kan presenteras för potentiella lyssnare och publik.

This thesis addresses critical strategies that have been used, or might be used, to approach Pärt's tintinnabuli music. It has three main objectives: to question prevalent narratives drawn around the tintinnabuli concept, to suggest interpretative frameworks that could yield fresh insights into that concept's 'meaning', and to introduce new and neglected materials to anglophone Pärt discourse. In studying the mediating role of the tintinnabuli scholar, I also confront some of the ethical challenges associated with research on living composers. This project places special emphasis on localised narratives of production and influence in Pärt's music, and draws extensively on Estonian primary source material. A major hermeneutic guide has been the composer's 1994 description of seeking 'the appropriate system for the gesture', and this idea figures in each of the four main chapters. Chapter 1 describes and questions existing knowledge around tintinnabuli, approaching this task through a study of "Wenn Bach Bienen Gezüchtet Hätte ...", a work chosen for its critically fertile 'cusp' status. Chapter 2 concentrates on Pärt's explorations of 'Soviet serialism' from 1960-3, engaging with withdrawn and film scores in addition to the well-known "Nekrolog". I discuss this music in terms of a complex freedom-constraint interplay, and suggest links to the tintinnabuli style. Taking "Sarah Was Ninety Years Old" as a case study, Chapter 3 turns to listener-oriented frameworks of musical meaning. I offer an experiential reading of the piece that places tintinnabuli in dialogue with body-based theories of cognition. Lastly, Chapter 4 addresses texted tintinnabuli. I build up a reading of "Miserere" in terms of 'musical rhetoric', comparing Pärt's compositional strategies to those used by Josquin des Prez in the 1503 motet "Miserere Mei, Deus". I also consider the implications of music-rhetorical analogy for wider understandings of the 'tintinnabuli' concept.

Orientador: Denise Hortencia Lopes Garcia / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Arte / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-14T23:08:27Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 VottaJunior_Alfredo_M.pdf: 13778431 bytes, checksum: cbba6684483b3568f6d78a26e474efea (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009 / Resumo: O compositor estoniano Arvo Pärt, nascido em 1935 e radicado na Alemanha desde os anos 1980, tem sido objeto de atenção do mundo musical por sua peculiar linguagem modal baseada na técnica tintinnabuli, formulada e nomeada pelo próprio Pärt. Esta técnica se baseia na ideia de utilização exclusiva das três notas de uma tríade em ao menos uma das vozes da textura musical. Esta técnica tem sido utilizada por Pärt desde meados dos anos 1970. Sua obra apresenta também numerosas afinidades com a música medieval, arte estudada por Pärt nos anos de interrupção de seu trabalho composicional que se prolongaram de 1968 até 1976. O canto gregoriano ocupou lugar de destaque nestes estudos, sendo por esta razão importante para a compreensão de sua obra. São apontados também, por inúmeras fontes (trabalhos acadêmicos, encartes de gravações e textos críticos jornalísticos), vínculos da obra de Pärt com o minimalismo, que se manifestam sobretudo no ideal de stasis, nos processos aditivos e nos ciclos. As técnicas desenvolvidas por Pärt, bem como aquelas que se podem relacionar a ele, são fértil campo para a formulação de novas ideias composicionais e mesmo para o reencontro com ideias antigas que podem fertilizar a expressão musical atual. / Abstract: Estonian composer Arvo Pärt, born in 1935 and living in Germany since the 1980s, has been the object of close attention by the musical world due to his peculiar modal language based on his own tintinnabuli technique. This technique builds upon the exclusive use of the three notes of a triad in at least one of the voices of a given musical texture. Pärt has been using this method since the mid-seventies. His work displays great affinity with medieval music as well. The music of the Middle Ages was studied by Pärt during his period of compositional silence from 1968 to 1976. Since that includes especially Gregorian chant, this genre is crucial for proper understanding of Pärt's work. Numerous sources (academic papers, recordings' booklets and press writings) have also pointed resemblance of Pärt's compositions with minimalism chiefly due to the ideal of stasis, additive processes and cycles. Pärt-developed and -related techniques are a fertile environment for the creation of new compositional ideas and a new approach towards ancient ideas as a means to contribute with current musical expression. / Mestrado / Mestre em Música