Esta dissertação expõe uma investigação sobre como a música pode tocar o sujeito humano, sobretudo no Real da teoria lacaniana, em uma experiência denominada, pelo psicanalista francês Alain Didier-Weill, Nota Azul, e perscrutar elementos da música que atingem o sujeito ouvinte no que ele sente e pensa o traduzir e mobilizar identificações da ordem racional e da ordem inconsciente. O trabalho constitui-se de um levantamento teórico sobre o entendimento da música como linguagem, a partir dos olhares da Linguística e da Psicanálise, expondo a forma como a música pode falar sobre os mais diversos afetos humanos aquilo que se sabe dizer sobre o que se sente e também aquilo que escapa à linguagem. Atém-se à teoria da Nota Azul, que vem falar desse lugar inapreensível pelo entendimento. Apresenta a pesquisa qualitativa realizada, composta de entrevista com cinco sujeitos músicos em escuta sobre suas experiências como ouvintes de música e sobre como se sentem tocados por ela. A análise de dados seguiu as diretrizes da análise de conteúdo de Bardin (2016). Os resultados obtidos trouxeram dados significativos sobre como a música é uma importante via da arte que tenta dar conta de questões profundas do sujeito humano. / The present dissertation exposes an investigation about the way music can touch the human subject, especially in relation to the Real in lacanian theory, in an experience called the Blue Note by French psychoanalyst Alain Didier-Weill, and examines musical elements which touch the listener in what he/she feels and thinks translating and mobilizing identifications in rational and unconscious level. The work is a theoretical research about music as language, from the Linguistics and Psychoanalysis perspective, showing the way music can talk to a variety of human affections what it is possible to be said and also what escapes from language. The theory of Blue Note talks about this place which is inapprehensible. We use qualitative research, with interviews made with five musicians when they shared their experiencies as music listeners and how they feel touched by it. The data analysis followed the content analysis guidelines by Bardin (2016). The results brought significant data about how music is an aspect of art that tries to understand deep issues about the human subject.

Cette thèse propose une investigation musicologique du troisième album pour Blue Note Records du pianiste étatsunien Herbie Hancock: Inventions and Dimensions (1964). Si, d’une part, l’analyse de cet enregistrement permet d’envisager le processus d’expansion du langage musical qui agite le jazz au début des années 1960, de l’autre, cette entreprise jette un éclairage sur l’évolution de la poétique hancockienne. Négligé par les études sur le jazz, Inventions and Dimensions constitue un véritable manifeste de la pensée musicale du pianiste, dont la production reste jusqu’à aujourd’hui peu étudiée, en dépit de son importance dans le développement du jazz moderne. Ainsi, l’examen de Inventions and Dimensions comble-t-il une lacune musicologique sur la production hancockienne, mais en plus, il invite à réfléchir sur des questions de portée plus large, comme la pertinence des catégories historiographiques de « free jazz » et « jazz modal » et l’impact des traditions musicales afro-caribéennes sur le jazz des années 1960. Afin de situer Inventions and Dimensions dans le processus de transformation du langage jazz des années 1960 et d’évaluer son rôle dans le développement de la poétique hancockienne, la thèse s’appuie sur des transcriptions réalisées par son auteur. Cela impose quelques considérations préliminaires sur la pratique de transcription en jazz, sur sa signification corporelle, et sur les limites intrinsèques de son produit scriptural. Ensuite, la thèse se concentre sur l’analyse structurelle, motivique et rythmique du discours pianistique hancockien dans Inventions and Dimensions, en établissant un dialogue constant avec les autres enregistrements du pianiste de la première moitié des années 1960. Ce faisant, les caractéristiques de la poétique musicale de Hancock peuvent être efficacement illustrées, à la fois dans leur évolution au cours des années 1960 et dans la réalisation particulière qu’elles trouvent dans Inventions and Dimensions. Toutefois, pour encadrer l’album du point de vue historico-musical, il faut aussi en examiner le contenu à la lumière des catégories de « jazz modal » et « free jazz ». Cela amène à souligner le caractère fragmentaire et, par conséquent, problématique de ces enveloppes sémantiques. Inventions and Dimensions exploite aussi des rythmes religieux afro-cubains dont les pérégrinations dévoilent une autre dimension de l’album qui, en plus de traverser les significations musicales et extramusicales associées au « jazz modal » et au « free jazz », façonne autant le langage rythmique hancockien que l’imaginaire musical des années 1960. À l’exemple d’autres enregistrements liminaires de l’époque, Inventions and Dimensions démontre en conclusion comment la variété de langages qui fleurissent au début de la décennie peut être repensée comme le paradigme d’une koinè tournée vers l’affranchissement de canons désormais dépassés. / This dissertation proposes a musicological investigation of Herbie Hancock’s third album for Blue Note Records: Inventions and Dimensions (1964). The analysis of the recording allows us to address how jazz language was transformed in the 1960s, while also shedding light on the evolution of Hancock’s personal style. Inventions and Dimensions represents a true manifesto of Hancock’s early production, which has been overlooked by scholars despite its importance for the development of modern jazz. Thus, this dissertation addresses a gap in musicological scholarship on Hancock’s work and encourages the development of broader reflections on issues such as the use of categories such as “free jazz” and “modal jazz”, and the impact of Afro-Caribbean traditions on jazz in the 1960s. In order to situate Inventions and Dimensions in the process of the transformation of the jazz language in the 1960s and to evaluate its role in the development of Hancock’s style, the dissertation relies on the author’s (my own) transcriptions of the album, introduced by some preliminary considerations about the practice of transcription in jazz, its corporal meaning and its intrinsic limitations as a finished written product. The dissertation then focuses on the structural, motivic and rhythmic analysis of Hancock’s piano improvisations in Inventions and Dimensions, drawing a relationship between the musical content of the album and other Hancock recordings from the early 1960s. This allows us to illustrate how the main features of Hancock’s style developed during the 1960s and how they manifest specifically in Inventions and Dimensions. However, in an effort to frame the album from a historical perspective, the dissertation also examines the musical content of the record through the lenses of the categories of “modal” and “free” jazz, underscoring the fragmentary and problematic nature of such semantic envelopes. Finally, this work traces the routes of the Afro-Cuban religious rhythms incorporated into Inventions and Dimensions to determine how they shape both Hancock’s rhythmic language and the musical imaginary of the 1960s, and how do they permeate the musical and extra-musical meanings associated with “modal” and “free” jazz. In conclusion, Inventions and Dimensions, like other liminal recordings of the period, demonstrates how the diversity of idioms that flourished in the early 1960s should be reconsidered as the paradigm of a koinè that breaks away from outdated standards.

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Jazz music is transmitted by aural and oral means. As recording and broadcast mediums became increasingly ubiquitous, starting in the mid twentieth-century, an ever greater proportion of jazz’s aural transmission would be mediated by these developing technologies. Many commentators address sound’s mediation from one state to another by identifying the resulting recording as an object. This object transcends temporal and spacial proximity, possessing inherent authority with implications for authorship, related work-concepts, and even issues of cultural assimilation. From a perspective informed by writings in musicology, philosophy, and sound studies, I examine recorded jazz music from the twentieth-century. I begin by positioning the history of jazz music in relation to the emergence of recording technologies to establish recordings as authoritative texts. I then translate (by transcription) primarily non-literate jazz recordings into the primarily literate discourse of musicology. In the course of examining music by James Moody, Eddie Jefferson, Bud Powell, Chick Corea, and others, I conclude that they all exemplify musical intertextuality. In some cases, technological mediation connects the texts. I then turn to an examination of recordings specifically. I begin by questioning musical notation as an adequate description of sound and move to developing a broader analytical framework. This thesis culminates with a comparison of Bud Powell’s 1949 recording of Bouncin’ With Bud and Chick Corea’s 1997 recording. Using the framework mentioned, disparate potentialities afforded by each recording’s mediation are connected to musical characteristics. / Graduate