Diss.--Boston, Mass., 1994. / Comporte des extraits de textes en français. Bibliogr. p. 197-212.

Thesis (D.M.A.)--University of Rochester, 1970. / Typescript. Vita. Bibliography: leaves 83-84. Digitized version available online via the Sibley Music Library, Eastman School of Music http://hdl.handle.net/1802/3038

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Louis Vierne indicated his 24 Pices en style libre as being for organ or harmonium and he provided separate registrations for each instrument. Nevertheless, several organists and authors have noted a disparity in the work's success on the two different instruments. This study begins with a look into the development of the harmonium and a consideration of sorne important traits of standard harmonium literature as exemplified by Franck and Guilmant. An examination of Vierne's pieces from this harmonium perspective reveals several problems, mostly in the areas of compositional texture, the harmonium's air supply; and Vierne's harmonium registrations, which often point in opposite directions from his verbal indications in the score and his organ registrations. This study concludes that Vierne's 24 Pices are genuine organ music and that Vierne made little attempt to conform to the musical capabilities and constraints of the harmonium, even as he hoped that indicating the harmonium would increase the market appeal of this volume. / Louis Vierne indiqua que ses 24 Pices en style libre taient crites pour orgue ou pour harmonium, et il fournit des indications de registration pour les deux instruments. Toutefois, plusieurs organistes et auteurs ont not une disparit entre le succs de l'oeuvre sur l'un ou l'autre des instruments. Cette tude s'intresse tout d'abord l'histoire de l'harmonium ainsi qu' la littrature pour harmonium, telle qu'illustre dans certaines oeuvres de Franck et Guilmant. Une analyse des pices de Vierne, du point de vue de l'harmonium, rvle plusieurs problmes, notamment en ce qui concerne la texture musicale et le systme de vent de l'harmonium, ainsi que les registrations pour harmonium, qui souvent indiquent le contraire de ce qu'indiquent les instructions verbales et les registrations pour orgue. Cette tude conclut que les 24 Pices de Vierne constituent une musique d'orgue vritable, et que Vierne ne fit que peu d'efforts pour les adapter aux capacits et limitations de l'harmonium, en esprant que l'harmonium permettrait ce recueil de trouver un public plus large.

The purpose of this research is to document how Claude Debussy’s compositional style was used in Louis Vierne’s organ music in the early twentieth century. In addition, this research seeks standard nineteenth-century practices in Vierne’s music. Vierne lived at the same time as Debussy, who largely influenced his music. Nevertheless, his practices were varied on the basis of Vierne’s own musical ideas and development, which were influenced by established nineteenth-century practices. This research focuses on the music of Louis Vierne’s Pièces de fantaisie, Opp. 51, 53, 54, and 55 (1926-1927). In order to examine Debussy’s practices and standard nineteenth-century practices, this project will concentrate on a stylistic analysis that demonstrates innovations in melody, harmony, and mode compared to the existing musical styles.

Thesis (D.M.A.)--University of Rochester, 1972. / Analysis of piano quintets by Anton Webern, Louis Vierne, Edward Elgar, Bohuslav Martinů, Nikolay Medtner, and Ross Lee Finney. Vita. Bibliography: leaves [269-272]. Digitized version available online via the Sibley Music Library, Eastman School of Music http://hdl.handle.net/1802/4819

Louis Vierne (1870–1937) var under början av 1900-talet verksam som en av världens mest framstående organister och kompositörer. Trots att han från födseln var nästintill blind innehade han under nästan 40 år den mycket prestigefulla tjänsten Organiste titulaire vid Frankrikes mest berömda katedral Notre Dame de Paris. Viernes verksamling 24 Pièces du Fantaisie räknas idag till standardrepertoaren för orgel och i detta arbete analyseras hur tonsättarens bakgrund påverkade och inspirerade hans komponerande av verket. I studien utreds också hur man interpreterar stycket så stiltroget som möjligt och således gör tonsättaren rättvisa i största möjliga mån. Undersökningens resultat påvisar att Vierne fick inspiration till verken från sin omvärld och att hans dåliga syn hade stor inverkan på hans komponerande. Den informationen, i kombination med en redovisning av interpretationsmässiga val från framföranden av Requiem aeternam och Toccata ur 24 Pièces du Fantaisie, hjälper organisten vid sitt gestaltande av verksamlingen. / Louis Vierne (1870–1937) was active during the early 20th century as one of the world's most prominent organists and composers. Despite being almost blind from birth, he held for almost 40 years the very prestigious position of Organiste titulaire at France's most famous cathedral, Notre Dame de Paris. Vierne's collection of pieces 24 Pièces du Fantaisie is today considered as standard repertoire for the organ and this study analyzes how the composer's background influenced and inspired the music. In the study, it is also investigated how to interpret the pieces as faithfully as possible and thus do the composer justice to the greatest extent possible. The results of the study indicate that Vierne got inspiration for his work from his surroundings and that his poor eyesight had a major impact on his composing. This information, in combination with a report of interpretational choices from performances of Requiem aeternam and Toccata from 24 Pièces du Fantaisie, helps the organist when playing the collection.

The alternatim practice is one of the oldest and longest observed liturgical practices in the French Catholic Church. With the gradual addition of the organ to the practice beginning in the fifteenth century, the organ came to play an important liturgical function that exists to this day. Organ improvisations in the liturgy gave rise to composed organ masses such as those of François Couperin (1668-1733). Composition of the Baroque organ mass continued through the Classical period and into the nineteenth century. Liturgical and musical changes through the decades of the nineteenth century, however, led to a gradual cessation of the composition of organ masses. These same changes gave birth to a new type of liturgical mass that, while not performed in the traditional alternatim style, displayed stylistic and liturgical influences from the Baroque organ masses of the preceding centuries. Messe, op. 4, of Camille Saint-Säens (1835-1921) was composed in 1856 in the midst of nineteenth-century changes and reforms. This mass is the pivotal event between the masses of the preceding generation and those that were to follow, notably those of Charles-Marie Widor (1844-1937) and Louis Vierne (1870-1937). Because the viva-voce presentation of this document featured a performance of Louis Vierne's Messe solennelle, op. 16 using a solo organ edition of the work, Appendix A includes considerations for the work as well as an overview of four solo editions.

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Cette thèse a pour objectif d’analyser Les enfants du capitaine Grant (1868) et Un capitaine de quinze ans (1878) de Jules Verne à l’aide de la théorie de l’initiation littéraire proposée par Simone Vierne, afin de comprendre les rouages du processus initiatique en fonction du lectorat ciblé. Un chapitre théorique, intitulé Théorie de l’initiation littéraire, propose une définition détaillée du concept d’initiation, autant dans son sens anthropologique que littéraire. Ce chapitre offre aussi une réflexion sur les effets de la violence dans la littérature pour la jeunesse – violence que Jules Verne, comme plusieurs autres auteurs et chercheurs – juge salutaire. Les deux chapitres suivants sont consacrés à l’analyse du contenu initiatique des Enfants du capitaine Grant et d’Un capitaine de quinze ans. Ces romans font pour la première fois l’objet d’une étude comparative approfondie qui s’attache à l’initiation sous ses trois principaux aspects : 1) les personnages, 2) les épreuves initiatiques, 3) la violence et la peur. En effet, ces deux romans à portée initiatique présentent plusieurs ressemblances au niveau des personnages, des univers diégétiques et de l’intrigue, mais on remarque néanmoins qu’Un capitaine de quinze ans, qui présente un novice adolescent, comporte des scènes beaucoup plus effrayantes et violentes que Les enfants du capitaine Grant, roman qui met en scène un héros enfant. Par la violence des épreuves et la variation de certaines données initiatiques, les deux romans s’adressent vraisemblablement à deux publics qui se distingueraient nettement dans l’esprit de Jules Verne : les enfants et les adolescents.