Juan Francisco Acosta (1890-1968) was a prolific composer, band conductor, and educator from Puerto Rico who created 1,256 original compositions. Even though his activities and influence were integral to the musical life of Puerto Rico in the twentieth century, many details of his life and works remain unknown. This project centers on Acosta’s contribution to the Puerto Rican tradition of the danza—a dance-based genre originating in the nineteenth century—through the study and arrangement of five of Acosta's danzas. Although Acosta composed most danzas for piano, he adapted them for performances by the municipal bands that he led in various towns. This practice of modifying his works for different instruments, as well as the importance of the guitar in Latin America, underpins the author’s choice to arrange his piano music for varied types of guitar combinations, including solo, duo, trio, and quartet. The five works are Bajo la sombra de un pino, Mercedes, Eres una santa, Dulce María, and In memoriam. The guitar arrangements of these five danzas are preceded by important information on the composer within the Puerto Rican music world, with emphasis on the intersections of the band and danza traditions. To enhance the study of these works, this document discusses basic stylistic features, including a comparison of forms, rhythms, and dance characters, and relates Acosta's treatment of the danza puertorriqueña to approaches of his Puerto Rican contemporaries. This document also includes performance guidelines to introduce Acosta's danza style to student and professional players. Based on primary biographical and musical sources, this study presents a foundation for a clearer understanding of the life and works of Acosta upon which further research, analysis, and criticism can be conducted. The arrangements offer a fresh look at new guitar repertoire using the peculiarities of rhythms and traditions of Puerto Rican and Carribean heritage. The arrangements also serve a pedagogical purpose by adding to the existing repertoire of ensemble music for the classical guitar.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:27:26Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2004Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T18:56:13Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 apro_f_me_ia.pdf: 5394884 bytes, checksum: ab3182b478b63c8ccb06bc8e169bc9b5 (MD5) / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) / Esta dissertação aborda alguns fundamentos teóricos da interpretação musical e sua aplicação nos 12 estudos para violão de Francisco Mignone. A estrutura geral desta pesquisa está desenvolvida em dois segmentos, sendo que o primeiro focaliza os fundamentos teóricos sobre interpretação musical, suas principais tendências, a teoria da Formatividade de Luigi Pareyson e alguns conceitos complementares de Unberto Eco a propósito dos limites da interpretação. No segundo, apresentamos uma revisão bibliográfica do que já foi pesquisado sobre a literatura violonística do compositor, um panorama geral de sua produção violonística na década de 1970, alguns comentários sobre a gênese dos 12 Estudos, aspectos documentais dos Estudos de Mignone e considerações gerais sobre as diferentes versões dessa obra. Apresentamos também um modelo de aplicação dos conceitos teóricos discutidos no primeiro capítulo, abordando as contribuições técnicas desses Estudos, incluindo soluções para trechos problemáticos e diretrizes interpretativas para essa obra. As considerações finais procuram responder aos questionamentos formulados na introdução, porém de forma não conclusiva, por considerarmos que o modelo de interpretação apresentado é apenas uma possibilidade entre muitas. Os anexos incluem uma Edição Aberta dos 12 estudos de Mignone (fac-símile e urtext), entrevistas e um CD contendo nossa interpretação dos estudos, como resultado prático de uma pesquisa orientada pala sua conjugação com a reflexão teórica. / This dissertation deals with musical interpretation and discussses the practical application of theorical principles in Francisco Mignone's Twelve Studies for Guitar.The body of this paper is sstrucstured in two sections. The first focuses on the theoretical foundations of the musical interpretarion, in main trends, Luigi Pareyson's theory of formativity, as well as some complementary concepts by Umberto Eco on the limits of interpretarion. The second section contains a bibliographic revision about researches on the Mignone's guitar output, an overview of this compositions for guitar on the seventies, and commemtaries about de genesis of his Twelve Studies, philological aspacts and general considerations about the different versions of this work. There is also apractical application of the concepts discussed in the first chapter, presenting the didactic contribuitions of Mignone's Studies, including some solutions fo difficult passages and some interpretative suggestions for this work. The final considerations are an attempt to answer the questions presented in the introduction, but nor in a conclusive way, since we consider that the model of interpretation presented here inonlu one amongst many others. The annexes contain a Double Edition of Mignone's Twelve Studies (the original version and our Urtext), complete interviews, and a CD with our interpretation of this work, a a practical result of a research which was guided by the theoretical reflection.

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The seventeenth century in England produced a large and historically significant body of music for the viola da gamba played "lyra-way." Broadly defined, playing "lyra-way" on the viol meant playing from tablature notation in a polyphonic style. Most players of plucked strings such as lute and guitar are familiar with tablature and, as a result, have a decisive advantage when attempting to explore this music. Other factors that make lyra viol repertory potentially attractive to the modern guitarist are its chordal textures, similarities in physical properties of the instruments, and many points of connection regarding the principles of left hand technique. The purpose of this study is two-fold: 1) to illuminate the historical and cultural context of the seventeenth-century English lyra viol music in general and that of Tobias Hume (c. 1579-1645) in particular; and 2) to present an idiomatic transcription for the modern guitar of four representative pieces from Hume's 1605 collection Musicall Humours. Musicall Humours, published in London in 1605, is one of the first and most significant collections of music for the lyra viol. The collection is both ambitious and groundbreaking, being the largest repertory of solo music for the lyra viol by a single composer in the early seventeenth century. Since the modern guitar, although not as contrapuntally facile as the keyboard, is nevertheless capable of executing two- or three-voice polyphony, reconstruction of the polyphonic implications of solo lyra viol music becomes the first step in creating an idiomatic arrangement. The differences in acoustical properties and technical capabilities between the viol and the modern guitar have to be taken into consideration when deciding on the degree to which harmony must be filled in. Generally, thinner textures of the lyra viol music, when transferred directly to the guitar, tend to sound incomplete. The arranger's musical sensitivity and intimate familiarity with both instruments must guide the final stages of the transcription process.

Syftet med mitt konstnärliga examensarbete är att som klassisk gitarrist utveckla mitt musikskapande. Det har i studien implementerats genom att fördjupa mig i kompositören och gitarristen Roland Dyens (1955-2016) verk Libra Sonatine med särskilt fokus på första satsen I. India (1986). Därigenom har jag undersökt och utvärderat metoder för att tillämpa gitarren som kompositionsverktyg. Min egna komposition har jag baserat på berättelsen om Dr Jekyll och Mr Hyde (1886), en kortroman skriven av den brittiske författaren Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894). Stycket jag skrivit är för gitarr och violin och framförs på min examenskonsert den 1a juni 2023 i Nathan Milstein-salen på Kungl. Musikhögskolan i Stockholm. Roland Dyens är en stor inspirationskälla för gitarrister likaså kompositörer. Hans klangfilosofi och förmåga att med fria tyglar skapa ett musikaliskt verk där bara fantasin begränsar honom blir mycket tydlig i hans stycke Libra Sonatine där rytmik, harmonik och melodik delar lika stor betydelse. / The purpose of my artistic degree project is to develop my music making as a classical guitarist. It has been implemented in the study by immersing myself in composer and guitarist Roland Dyens’ (1955-2016) work Libra Sonatine with a particular focus on the first movement I. India (1986). In doing so, I have researched and evaluated methods for applying the guitar as a compositional tool. I have based my own composition on the story of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886), a short novel written by the british author Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894). The piece I’ve written is for guitar and violin and is being performed at my graduation concert on the 1st of June 2023 in the Nathan Milstein-hall at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm. I consider Roland Dyens a great source of inspiration for guitarists as well composers. His sound-philosophy and ability to paint a musical piece with only his fantasy as a limit becomes clear in his piece Libra Sonatine, where rhythm, harmony and melody share equal importance. / <p>Due Canzoni Lidie, 1. Espressivo - Nuccio D'Angelo</p><p>Nocturne - Mathias Duplessy </p><p>Valseana - Sergio Assad </p><p>Dr. Jekyll &amp; Mr. Hyde (a strange case) - Loella Marcimain Klintberg </p><p>Libra Sonatine - Roland Dyens </p><p>God Only Knows - Beach Boys (arr. Loella Marcimain Klintberg) </p><p></p><p>Medverkande: </p><p>Loella Marcimain Klintberg - gitarr</p><p>Kevin Huang - violin</p>

The main purpose of this dissertation is to offer classical guitarists an additional analytical technique for interpreting and performing the music of Johann Sebastian Bach. While this mode of analysis can be successfully applied to any of the instrumental works by Bach frequently transcribed and performed by guitarists, I have chosen for this study my recent transcription of the Partita in A minor for solo flute traverso, BWV 1013. With a continuo-based, harmonic realization of the Partita, I contribute to the existing guitar repertoire by offering a new transcription of this work, while demonstrating how historical concepts of rhetorical structure and aesthetics found in relevant primary source material can inspire a new approach to analysis, transcription, and performance practice. In this way, my investigations create additional perspectives for classical guitarists regarding the analysis and performance of this work, while complementing traditional harmonic analysis and subject labeling. Although it is my hope that this new transcription of the Partita will serve as an important contribution to the existing literature, the main purpose of this dissertation resides in the musico-rhetorical analytical technique and its implications on performance practice for classical guitarists.

La version intégrale de cette thèse est disponible uniquement pour consultation individuelle à la Bibliothèque de musique de l’Université de Montréal (www.bib.umontreal.ca/MU). / La problématique de cette thèse concerne le lexique descripteur de timbre, ses définitions, ainsi que les stratégies d’enseignement de la production sonore à la guitare classique. Notre méthodologie est issue de la recherche par les méthodes mixtes, en ce sens qu’elle combine à la fois des données qualitatives et quantitatives, tandis que nos méthodes relèvent de différentes disciplines. En effet, la présente recherche est ancrée dans le domaine de la musicologie de l’interprétation, alors qu’elle porte plus exactement sur la conceptualisation des nuances de timbre à la guitare classique par les guitaristes classiques. La construction de cette recherche repose sur trois études distinctes. La première de ces études porte sur l’analyse d’adjectifs employés pour décrire les nuances de timbre ainsi que leurs définitions d’après des guitaristes classiques. Les résultats démontrent que la construction du lexique descripteur de timbre se rapporte principalement à la matière, renforçant ainsi la conception du timbre en tant que matière sonore. En ce qui concerne l’interaction entre le timbre et les autres paramètres sonores, une analyse du discours et des thèmes émergents a dévoilé l’importance du registre, de l’intensité et de la durée dans la définition du timbre. La mise en place d’un second questionnaire a permis de mieux définir encore les caractéristiques du vocabulaire descripteur du timbre de la guitare classique. En l’occurrence, la distribution des catégories lexicales a démontré que les adjectifs renvoient à une description souvent métaphorique du timbre alors que les substantifs rendent essentiellement compte de la technique instrumentale. Pour définir les nuances de timbre, les guitaristes classiques ont communément recours aux paramètres sonores, aux modes de production ainsi qu’à d’autres descripteurs de timbre. Notre analyse a par ailleurs mené à la construction d’un dictionnaire terminologique de huit nuances de timbre (métallique, rond, brillant, mince, sec, velouté, sombre et sourd). Finalement, l’élaboration d’un espace sémantique du timbre à partir de l’évaluation de la proximité sémantique de ces huit descripteurs de timbre révèle deux axes principaux, le premier est défini par la présence de l’attaque et le point de pincement, alors que le second se rapporte à la résonance, à la projection ainsi qu’aux jugements de valeur. La troisième et dernière étude porte sur les stratégies de communication employées dans le cadre de deux classes de maître. Les résultats de notre analyse mettent en évidence l’exploitation de trois modalités principales visant à expliciter la production sonore ainsi qu’à caractériser le rendement musical. Les professeurs analysés ont ainsi recours à l’explication verbale, à la démonstration instrumentale ainsi qu’à la vocalisation, voire à l’imitation. En définitive, notre recherche a permis d’illustrer que la conceptualisation des nuances de timbre se rapporte à la matière, aux paramètres sonores, à la description métaphorique, ainsi qu’aux modes de production. Une conceptualisation aussi inclusive permettrait d’accéder à toutes les subtilités de la production et de la perception sonore. En ce qui a trait à la communication, les nuances de timbre s’explicitent à travers la verbalisation, l’exécution ainsi que la vocalisation ou encore l’imitation. / This thesis is about the lexicon of timbre descriptors, its definitions, and teaching strategies regarding sound production of the classical guitar. Our methodology is based on mixed methods research, in that it combines both qualitative and quantitative data, while our methods are derived from different disciplines. This research is grounded in musicology of performance and focuses more specifically on the conceptualization of classical guitar timbral nuances by classical guitar players. The design of this research is based on three separate studies. The first study focuses on the analysis of adjectives used to describe timbral nuances and their definitions from classical guitarists. The results demonstrate that the construction of the lexicon of timbre descriptors relates primarily to matter, thus reinforcing the concept of timbre as sound matter. Regarding the interaction between timbre and other sound parameters, a discourse and emergent themes analysis has revealed the importance of register, intensity and duration in the definition of timbre. The implementation of a second questionnaire helped to define further the characteristics of the timbre descriptor vocabulary of the classical guitar. The distribution of lexical categories showed that adjectives often refer to a metaphorical timbre description while nouns essentially give an account of the instrumental technique. To define timbral nuances, classical guitarists commonly use sound parameters, production modes and other descriptors of timbre. Following those results, a terminological dictionary of 8 timbral nuances (metallic, round, bright, thin, dry, velvety, dark and dull) was also proposed. Finally, the development of a semantic space of timbre from the evaluation of semantic proximity between those 8 timbre descriptors reveals two main axis, the first is defined by the presence of the attack and the plucking position, while the second refers to the resonance, the projection and the value judgment. The third and final study examines the communication strategies used in the context of two master classes. The results of our analysis highlight the use of three main ways to explain the sound production and to characterize the musical performance. The participating professors have recourse to verbal explanation, instrumental demonstration as well as vocalization or imitation. Our research has demonstrated that the conceptualization of timbre nuances refers to matter, sound parameters, metaphorical descriptions, as well as production modes. Such an inclusive conceptualization allows access to all the subtleties of the production and perception of classical guitar. In regards to communication, timbral nuances are expressed by verbalization, performance as well as vocalization or imitation.

Este trabalho visa abordar conceitos estéticos, musicais e históricos (relacionados à época do Iluminismo) que envolvem as transcrições para violão \"Six Airs Choisis de l\'Opéra de Mozart: \"Il flauto magico, arrangés pour guitare\" Op. 19 do compositor e violonista espanhol Fernando Sor (1778-1839), publicadas entre os anos de 1823 a 1825, em Londres, e baseadas em árias de A flauta mágica k620 (1791) de Mozart. O processo de transcrição empreendido por Fernando Sor exigiu, inclusive por necessidades históricas (aproximadamente 35 anos separam essas obras), uma mudança de concepção da escritura instrumental, pois, para Sor, tratava-se de verter a essência de um pensamento musical concebido no meio operático e apresentá-lo sob o conceito sonoro de um instrumento solo emergente, como foi o caso do violão no final do século XVIII e primeiras décadas do século XIX. Assim, do ponto de vista instrumental, elementos como textura, estilo de acompanhamento e conceito de condução de vozes, para citar apenas alguns aspectos, sofreram mudanças de concepção, resultando muitas vezes quase em uma nova composição e, até mesmo, outra percepção da forma musical, porque, acima de tudo, o elemento dramáticoliterário está ausente. / This paper aims at addressing the aesthetic, musical and historical concepts (related to the Enlightenment) that involve the guitar transcriptions \"Six Airs Choisis de l\'Opéra de Mozart: \"Il flauto magico, arrangés pour guitare\" Op. 19 by Spanish composer and guitarist Fernando Sor (1778-1839), published between the years 1823 to 1825, in London, and based in Mozart\'s Die Zauberflöte k620 (The Magic Flute). The transcription\'s process undertaken by Fernando Sor required, even for historical purposes (the compositions were created 35 years apart), a change in the concept of instrumental writing. For Sor, it was a question of translating the essence of the musical thought conceived in an operatic way and presenting it under a sonorous concept of an emerging, solo instrument as had been the case of the guitar in the late 18th century and in the first decades of the 19th century. From the instrumental perspective, therefore, elements such as texture, style of accompaniment and the voice leading concept, to name but a few, have undergone conceptual changes, often resulting almost in a new composition and even a different perception of the musical form since, above all, the elements of drama and literature are absent.

Este trabalho visa abordar conceitos estéticos, musicais e históricos (relacionados à época do Iluminismo) que envolvem as transcrições para violão \"Six Airs Choisis de l\'Opéra de Mozart: \"Il flauto magico, arrangés pour guitare\" Op. 19 do compositor e violonista espanhol Fernando Sor (1778-1839), publicadas entre os anos de 1823 a 1825, em Londres, e baseadas em árias de A flauta mágica k620 (1791) de Mozart. O processo de transcrição empreendido por Fernando Sor exigiu, inclusive por necessidades históricas (aproximadamente 35 anos separam essas obras), uma mudança de concepção da escritura instrumental, pois, para Sor, tratava-se de verter a essência de um pensamento musical concebido no meio operático e apresentá-lo sob o conceito sonoro de um instrumento solo emergente, como foi o caso do violão no final do século XVIII e primeiras décadas do século XIX. Assim, do ponto de vista instrumental, elementos como textura, estilo de acompanhamento e conceito de condução de vozes, para citar apenas alguns aspectos, sofreram mudanças de concepção, resultando muitas vezes quase em uma nova composição e, até mesmo, outra percepção da forma musical, porque, acima de tudo, o elemento dramáticoliterário está ausente. / This paper aims at addressing the aesthetic, musical and historical concepts (related to the Enlightenment) that involve the guitar transcriptions \"Six Airs Choisis de l\'Opéra de Mozart: \"Il flauto magico, arrangés pour guitare\" Op. 19 by Spanish composer and guitarist Fernando Sor (1778-1839), published between the years 1823 to 1825, in London, and based in Mozart\'s Die Zauberflöte k620 (The Magic Flute). The transcription\'s process undertaken by Fernando Sor required, even for historical purposes (the compositions were created 35 years apart), a change in the concept of instrumental writing. For Sor, it was a question of translating the essence of the musical thought conceived in an operatic way and presenting it under a sonorous concept of an emerging, solo instrument as had been the case of the guitar in the late 18th century and in the first decades of the 19th century. From the instrumental perspective, therefore, elements such as texture, style of accompaniment and the voice leading concept, to name but a few, have undergone conceptual changes, often resulting almost in a new composition and even a different perception of the musical form since, above all, the elements of drama and literature are absent.

Este trabalho trata da investigação dos princípios metodológicos necessários ao processo de digitação ao violão. Para tal, parâmetros digitacionais são convertidos em um protocolo de instâncias (exposição dos casos, aplicação dos comandos, avaliação das circunstâncias, gerenciamento das consequências e julgamento das condições), as quais são mediadas por princípios e circundadas por perspectivas, formando, assim, um cenário digitacional. Por meio de um processo de inferências, concluímos que a fluência sonora, independentemente de posicionamentos estéticos, é uma condição básica para uma execução satisfatória ao violão; por dedução, vimos que a capacidade de se tocar legato é o principal elemento desse ideal. Verificamos, também, que a digitação é, em termos, pessoal, pois todas as suas instâncias são de interação dialética entre sujeito e objeto; mas não completamente, pois cada instância é regida por princípios que não dizem respeito, exclusivamente, ao indivíduo. Observamos, por fim, que a construção de um cenário digitacional não é um meio de se encontrar a melhor digitação, mas sim, de buscá-la, pois o princípio básico em que ela se opera é a organização dos saberes que o executante mobiliza em seu processo. / This work deals with the investigation of the methodological principles necessary to the process of elaborating guitar fingerings. To this end, fingering parameters are converted into a protocol of instances (exposure of the cases, application of the commands, assessment of the circumstances, management of the consequences and judgment of the conditions), which are mediated by principles and surrounded by perspectives, thus forming a fingering scenario. Through a process of inference, we conclude that the sound fluency, independently of aesthetic positioning, is a basic condition for a satisfactory performance on guitar; by deduction, we have seen that the ability to play legato is the main element of this ideal. We also verified that fingering is, in terms, a matter of personal choice because all its instances are dialectical interaction between subject and object; but not completely so, because each instance is governed by principles which do not concern exclusively the individual. We note, finally, that the construction of a fingering scenario is not a way to find the best fingering, but, to seek it, because the basic principle on which it operates is the organization of acknowledgments that the performer mobilizes in his process. / Este trabajo se ocupa de la investigación de los principios metodológicos necesarios para el proceso de elaboración de la digitación en la guitarra. Con este fin, parámetros de digitación se convierten en un protocolo de instancias (la exposición de los casos, la aplicación de los comandos, la evaluación de las circunstancias, la administración de las consecuencias y el juicio de las condiciones), que están mediadas por principios y rodeadas de perspectivas, formando así un escenario de digitación. A través de un proceso de inferencia, llegamos a la conclusión de que la fluidez del sonido, independientemente de las posiciones estéticas, es una condición básica para una ejecución satisfactoria en la guitarra; por deducción, hemos visto que la capacidad de tocar legato es el elemento principal de este ideal. También verificamos que la digitación es, en términos, personal, porque todas las instancias son una interacción dialéctica entre el sujeto y el objeto; pero no completamente, porque cada instancia se rige por principios que no se refieren exclusivamente a la persona. Observamos, por último, que la construcción de un escenario de digitación no es una manera de encontrar la mejor digitación, sino buscarla, porque el principio básico en el que opera es la organización de los conocimientos que el intérprete moviliza en su proceso.