The importance that Franz Schuberts music has on any classical musician is almost indisputable. His output stretches over all the important genres of his time and while he never wrote solo pieces specifically for the viola, one work has gained an essential status in the viola repertoire. That work being the sonata for arpeggione and piano, D. 821. Volumes have been written on Schubert, his style, early 19th century Vienna, romanticism, classicism and the formal development of the sonata form as well as the rise of the bourgeoise music scene. Perhaps less is written on the viola and especially the arpeggione. My aim in this paper is to answer the question,” why arpeggione?”. Why does this work hold such a high status in our repertoire? I shall approach this question by both presenting the sonata in question by drawing its background and generally the style and background of Schubert and early romantic Vienna, and also by introducing two alternative early romantic sonatas, both by esteemed composers and written originally for viola. Lastly, I shall dissect the mostly arrangement-related challenges of the arpeggione sonata and discuss different reasons for it having attained such an important role in spite of its problematic suitability for the viola.

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Detta är en studie om lärande- och skapandeprocesser. Mer specifikt innefattar studien en observation av hur jag arrangerar 3 låtar för olika instrument under en tidsbestämd period. De frågor som behandlas är vilka tekniker jag använder, vilka problem som uppstår och hur det fungerar att arrangera på tid. Slutsatsen av hela observationen har visat att det är en bredd av faktorer som samspelar i kompositionsprocessen. Det har visat sig att jag applicerar intuition, diskursivt tänkande, musikteoretisk teknik och erfarenhet i arrangeringen av musik. Observationen är till stor del belyst av det fenomenologiska perspektivet och fenomenologisk metod används i analysen av mitt observerade material. / This is a study about learning and creative processes. More specifically, the study contains an observation of how I arrange three songs for different instruments within a specific time limit. The questions that are accounted for in this study are what techniques I use, which problems arise and how the time limit affects the result. The result of this study shows that a variety of factors are present during my composition/arranging process. It shows that I apply intuition, discursive thinking, music theoretical techniques, and experience in the field of arranging music. The observation is, to some extent, analysed from phenomenological perspective.

I detta självständiga arbete utforskar jag, utifrån hermeneutiskt inriktad fenomenologi, mina processer i samband med komponerande och arrangerande för en septett bestående av elgitarr, elbas, trumset och fyra blåsare. Under två terminer förde jag loggbok över de olika moment där jag arbetade med denna kreativa process, moment som bestod av komponerande, lektioner med lärare samt repetition med ensemblen. Resultatet redovisas med hjälp av tematiseringarna Sökande efter ett kompositoriskt flöde, Frön som gror och växer samt Känslan av att hitta nya vägar. Dessa teman ställs i diskussionskapitlet mot tidigare forskning på området samt hermeneutiskt fenomenologiskt perspektiv. / I this thesis I have explored my processes when composing and arranging for an ensemble consisting of electric guitar, electric bass, drums and four wind instruments. During two semesters I kept a log over the different events in which I’ve been working with this creative process, events such as composing, lessons with teachers and rehearsals with the ensemble. The result is reported in the themes The search of a compositional flow, Seeds that germinate and grow and The feeling of finding new ways. These themes are in the last chapter discussed in relation to previous research on the subject and a hermeneutic phenomenological perspective.

This diploma thesis deals with the use of arranging plants in class at elementary schools. The theoretic part explains basic terms related to the floristy and gives some basic information on materials, tools and plant materials. Next chapters deal with characteristics of plants materials used in school lessons and brief characteristic styles of arranging. Next chapters are important because they deal with the creativity and esthetics and show the influence on students development. The pratical part uses the science didactis tests to find how effective the work of a teacher and teacher´s learning at an elementary school can be.

I detta arbete har jag undersökt huruvida min låtskrivningsprocess skiljer sig utifrån fem musikaliska element när den skrivs under tidspress. - Melodisk utveckling (omfång/register) - Rytmisk variation - Variation (låtens helhet) - Repetition - Hookar Jag har, utifrån tre bestämda tidsramar, skrivit fem låtar per tidsram, gjort demo-versioner på samtliga och fått de musikaliska elementen betygsatta av en lyssningsgrupp. Dessa betyg har jag sedan sammanställt för att se hur lyssningsgruppen har uppfattat låtarna utifrån elementen och om det då finns några skillnader när jag skriver utifrån de olika tidsramarna. Resultatet visar att det finns en tydlig olikhet mellan den kortaste och de längre tidsramarna, då det finns en påtaglig saknad av de musikaliska elementen vid den kortare tidsramen. Differensen mellan de längre tidsramarna är mer diffus men vid den längsta tidsramen är de musikaliska elementen mer närvarande, hos samtliga element, än vid den näst längsta tidsramen.

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This dissertation explores the themes of collaboration and creativity in the relationship between arranger Nelson Riddle and vocalists Frank Sinatra and Ella Fitzgerald. It examines the balance between structure and freedom as well as the specific musical results that emerge from collaboration between an arranger and vocalists who are considered among the greatest in their fields. An examination of their interactions, musical scores, and performances, reveals that the constraints that are present in a collaborative effort can lead the artists to find a shared process to make a creative, unified product.

This thesis discloses my exploration of non-isochronous meters through composition and practice. During my two-year studies at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm, I explored different unevenly divided time signatures by practicing them in various ways, producing transcriptions, compositions and arrangements.The main purpose of this project was to further my knowledge and skills within these time signatures and thereby expand my horizon on perceiving, conceptualizing, composing and playing them. My endeavors culminated in seven original compositions, arranged for a jazz sextet, which I rehearsed and performed with an ensemble. During the process of composing, arranging, practicing and rehearsing, I gained a lot of articulated knowledge as well as embodied knowledge of the idiosyncrasies of various non-isochronous meters and different ways to perceive and play them.

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