Thesis (Ph. D.)--Lehigh University, 2005. / Includes vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 225-238).

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:32:07Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2011-05-31Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T19:02:24Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 rossi_ad_dr_arafcl.pdf: 1612665 bytes, checksum: 053b9c4cd5ce5c33933f4a76fcbed737 (MD5) / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) / A presente tese de doutorado tem por objetivo investigar as questões do Feminismo e da escritura (écriture) na obra Kate Chopin (1850 – 1904), importante nome do Realismo norteamericano, com especial ênfase em seus contos. Em prévia pesquisa de mestrado [A desarticulação do universo patriarcal em The Awakening, de Kate Chopin (2006)] observou-se que o multiverso literário da autora se articula a partir de uma simultânea construção e desarticulação de significações, as quais vão além e ao mesmo tempo se utilizam das estruturas narrativas presentes em cada texto. Assim, Kate Chopin joga com a competência linguística, cultural e ideológica de seu leitor; joga com suas convicções mais profundas, instaurando uma textualidade que transborda as estruturas narrativas, chega ao leitor e o ultrapassa abarcando também o universo social e político. Há nas obras de Chopin, portanto, um trabalho textual que engloba instâncias textuais e sócio-políticas, em um movimento de significação que se encaminha em direção ao que teóricos e filósofos pósestruturalistas chamarão, sobretudo a partir da década de 1960, de escritura (écriture), processo aberto e infinito, ao mesmo tempo gerador e subversor de significados. Recorrendo ao Feminismo anglo-americano, brasileiro e francês, bem como aos pensamentos de Jacques Derrida, Roland Barthes e de demais teóricos da escritura como interfaces teóricas, a proposta fundamental desta tese é demonstrar a ilimitada produtividade significativa desse trabalho escritural presente na obra da autora, trabalho este pouco estudado pela crítica especializada em suas obras. Dentro desta perspectiva, o corpus que será objeto de investigação limita-se à contística da autora / This doctorate thesis intends to investigate Feminism and the concept of writing (écriture) in the works of Kate Chopin (1850 – 1904), an important American Realist writer, with especial attention to her short stories. In a previous Master degree research [A desarticulação do universo patriarcal em The Awakening, de Kate Chopin (2006)] it was concluded that the writer’s literary multiverse is carefully crafted in order to simultaneously build and disarticulate significations which go beyond and at the same time make use of the narrative structures in each text. Thus, Kate Chopin plays with the reader’s linguistic, cultural, and ideological competences as well as with his deepest convictions to establish a textuality that overflows the narrative structures, reaches the reader and oversteps him also affecting the social and political universes. In doing so, Chopin’s works present a textual fabric that weaves textual and sociopolitical instances in a meaning production process that can be understood as what poststructuralist theoreticians and philosophers call, mainly from the 1960s on, writing (écriture), an open and infinite process both meaning-generating and meaning-subverting. Having the Anglo-American, Brazilian, and French Feminisms and the thoughts of Jacques Derrida, Roland Barthes and others writing theoreticians as analysis interface, this thesis aims to demonstrate the unlimited signifying productivity of Chopin’s fictional work, an aspect mostly unstudied by her critics. Under this perspective, the research corpus that will be investigated is composed especifically by the writer’s short stories

Master of Music / Music, Theatre, and Dance / Slawomir Dobrzanski / This Master’s report analyzes four piano compositions performed on April 9, 2015 at the author’s Master’s recital. The works under consideration are Johann Sebastian Bach’s Partita in B flat major, BWV 825; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Piano Sonata in D major, K.576; Fryderyk Chopin’s Four Mazurkas, Opus 17; and Aram Khachaturian’s Toccata. This analysis includes the discussion of the theoretical, stylistic, and historical background of each composition.

Orientadores: Mauricy Matos Martin, Silvio Ricardo Baroni / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Artes / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-18T01:58:25Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Grosso_HideraldoLuiz_D.pdf: 55265405 bytes, checksum: b67dc8d1db8dd26287ba5547b685f411 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2006 / Resumo: Este trabalho estabelece uma relação entre os Prelúdios para Piano de Almeida Prado e o Opus 28, de Frederic Chopin, através da comparação de aspectos técnicos de execução, em ambas as coleções, tendo em vista a concepção de uma interpretação a mais criteriosa possível. A metodologia utilizada parte de nossa experiência como intérprete, da leitura dos textos originais, da anotação de dedilhados, assim como da segmentação de cada Prelúdio em seções ou partes, permitindo a apreensão de componentes estruturais selecionados como o espaço, a linguagem, o tempo e o timbre, além da dinâmica, andamento, fraseado e pedalização, com sugestões de recursos técnicos à execução. O caminho percorrido é o da performance para a análise e as ferramentas utilizadas são primeiro as do intérprete e depois as do teórico ou analista. Complementa o trabalho os dois cadernos de Prelúdios para Piano, de Almeida Prado e uma bibliografia reunindo obras a partir das quais nos embasamos. A conclusão revela a interação entre os recursos de execução, exigidos pela linguagem de Chopin e de Almeida Prado, apresentando a possibilidade de um intercâmbio de procedimentos tanto para um como para outro compositor / Abstract: The purpose of this work is to study a possible relationship between the Preludes for Piano by the Brazilian composer Almeida Prado and Op. 28, by Frederic Chopin through the comparison of technical aspects of performance and a critical interpretation. The methodology is based on my experience as a performer, from readings of the original scores, fingering notations, as well as the segmentation of each Prelude. This permitted the comprehension of structural components such as space, musical language, time, timbre, dynamics, tempo, phrasing and pedaling indications. This study departs from performance to analysis and the tools employed thus began with the performer's resources, then those of the theorist or analyst. In this manner, technical resources for interpretation were suggested to obtain a refined performance. Besides, this study was also complemented by both volumes of Preludes for the Piano by Almeida Prado, followed by a bibliography. The conclusion reveals the possibility of interaction between the performance resources required by the musical language presented by Chopin, as well as by Prado. It demonstrates the possibility of an inter-exchange of procedures for either composer / Doutorado / Doutor em Música

I detta kandidatarbete belyses historisk uppförandepraxis av Frédéric Chopins pianomusik. Uppsatsen går igenom musikens olika parametrar såsom tempo, dynamik och ornamentering, för att betrakta alla ur ett perspektiv av historisk uppförandepraxis. Till exempel så ansåg Chopin själv det tredje fingret vara en "stor sångare", och att det att spela med ett och samma finger flera gånger i rad bara förhöjde uttrycket. Särskilt fokus hamnar på tempo rubato som ett av de viktigaste kännetecken i Chopins musik. Termen betecknar en agogiskt fri melodilinje över ett stadigt pulserande ackompanjemang, som ett medel att ge musiken uttryck. Slutligen kompletteras de rent konkreta, handfasta interpretationsriktlinjer med större frågor kring Chopins notering, musikaliska stil och samtid. Det diskuteras även att historisk uppförandepraxis inte är vägen till den rätta interpretationen, utan snarare ett verktyg för att närma sig musik som är 150 år gammal.

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This dissertation unites two contrasting phenomena, musical theorizing as practiced on YouTube and dreamlike experiences involving music, under a single rubric: virtual space. While the two phenomena are disconnected in time, geography, and culture, they are nonetheless similar in that they are spatialized in ways that contravene how we typically experience physical space, So, I develop the concept of virtual space as a means of approaching the commonalities underlying these phenomena. Building on a definition of space as a medium in which entities are positionally related, I propose a framework for analyzing virtual spaces that emphasizes a phenomenon’s subjective immersivity and objective relationality. In order to bring out the human dimension of these virtual spaces, I concentrate on the discursive, instrumental, experiential, and generative aspects of embodied virtual spaces that are entangled in social, cultural, and political networks. To that end, in the first half of the dissertation, I discuss how a community of YouTube content creators has carved out a place for practicing, teaching, and learning music theory. I detail YouTube’s affordances as a space for theorizing music and a medium of communication, showing how content creators have leveraged these to great effect in their theorizing of game music. Flitting between the general and the particular, I balance case studies of content creators and close readings of audiovisual content with sociological approaches. In spite of the platform’s self-image and the community’s political positioning, I contend that YouTube’s egalitarian promise has been left unfulfilled in the English-language, Western-centric field of YouTube music theory, which replicates or even exacerbates some of the epistemological issues and unjust social structures that pervade academia and Western society more broadly. The other half of the dissertation concerns the analytical interpretation and precise differentiation of dreamlike experiences centered on music. I demonstrate that much of the discourse on this topic comes from close readings of music as dream. As this perspective locates dreaming in an object, I argue for counterbalancing this discourse towards a dreaming subject, and thus I propose a framework with three interrelated components. First, I carefully distinguish dreaming, as a virtual and spatialized experience, from standard waking consciousness through recourse to neuroscience and phenomenology. After that, I set forth a tripartite scheme that articulates the many permutations of how we might position ourselves, other subjects, and music in this non-dreamer–dreamer dynamic. Last, I classify the various interactions between music, dreamlike experience, and analytical interpretation. Using the music of Fryderyk Chopin as my example, I show that, though this music has accrued much historical and cultural meaning through being read as dreamlike, we have much to gain from the analytical insights unique to our subjective, dreamlike experiences with this music.

<p>This study is an examination of the developing self-consciousness of three female protagonists in three different novels. Chapter One is a discussion of the detrimental social factors that hinder the complete selfdevelopment of Hester Prynne in the seventeenth-century New England environment of Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter. Chapter Two investigates the emerging consciousness of self of Edna Pontellier and her subsequent failure to achieve an autonomy that permits her to integrate into the confining, social climate of Chopin's nineteenth-century Creole environment in The Awakening. Chapter three is the examination of the repressive forces in the futuristic society of Gilead that serve as a barrier to the development of a unified self for Offred in Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale. In all three chapters of the thesis, I argue that each female protagonist's struggle to successfully assert the self, and to extend the self toward genuine relationships with others, is not actualized. This study attempts to show the precarious hold of the self that the female protagonist demonstrates in each of these three works of fiction. Throughout the body of the text, an abbreviated form iii iv will be used for the three primary novels examined. The reference consists of the underlined initials of the title of the novel followed by the page number, all contained within parentheses. The abbreviations are as follows: TSL for Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, TA for Chopin's The Awakening, and THT for Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale.</p> / Master of English

Cette recherche a pour but d’identifier une personnalité féminine révisionniste dans le modernisme littéraire américain. Cette personnalité révisionniste a pour nom «American Eve» et défie le «American Adam» qui est un personnage mythique patriarcal de R.W.B. Lewis provenant du dix-neuvième siècle. Cette conceptualisation est accomplie à l’aide d’une analyse socio-critique et comparative des trois protagonistes féminins dans les romans modernes The Awakening (1899) de Kate Chopin, The Sun Also Rises (1926) d’Ernest Hemingway, et The Great Gatsby (1925) de F. Scott Fitzgerald. Ma construction de cette personnalité féminine est divisée en trois chapitres, chacun étant dédié à un protagoniste en particulier. En comparant ces personnages littéraires sur un plan socio-critique et féministe, je permets à mon étude d’établir en quoi les personnages en question contribuent ou ne contribuent pas à la personnalité de «American Eve». Cette approche comparative est un excellent moyen d’évaluer l’évolution du potentiel révisionniste de la femme au vingtième siècle et les différentes façons par lesquelles elle emploie ce pouvoir.

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