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The six piano suites of R. Nathaniel Dett (1882-1943) constitute a substantial body of piano music that illustrates the musical development of an important, but historically neglected American musician. Dett was a seminal figure in the preservation and study of spirituals, both as a writer and choral leader, and as a great teacher and inspirer of African-American musicians in the generations that followed him. Educated at Oberlin and Eastman, he was lauded as the first American composer to fuse Negro folk music with European art music tradition. The writing of a series of like-genre works over a composer's lifetime, reflecting stylistic changes and a deepening world view, is a special event in the history of keyboard music. Unfortunately, Dett's piano music is rarely performed except for the second of the suites, In the Bottoms. Although his importance to African-American musical history is generally acknowledged by musicologists, his works for piano have remained largely unexplored by performers. Dett's eclectic pursuits included poetry, the Rosicrucian Society, and religion. This study explores the connections between the suites and other musical styles and traditions, Dett's many extra-musical interests, and his performing life. It also offers some possible explanations for the relative lack of attention received by his piano music. This study incorporates research from readily-available sources, as well as the Nathaniel Dett archives at the Niagara Falls New York Public Library and Hampton University. The first three chapters give an overview of Dett's style and influences, as well as a description of how his musical language developed from his first suite, Magnolia (1912), to his last, Eight Bible Vignettes (1941-43), written at the end of his life. Each suite is examined individually in detail in the following six chapters. It is hoped that this work will stimulate appreciation of Dett's piano music and lead to more frequent performances. Its goal is to give to the reader the same sense of admiration and joy that the author's exploration of these works has given him. / Music Performance

O objetivo do presente trabalho é demonstrar como se estabeleceram as relações de gênero nos processos de criação musical ao longo da história, e a oposição das mulheres compositoras em relação à dominação masculina, termo cunhado por Pierre Bourdieu, trazendo à tona questões como a visão androcêntrica, legitimadora das práticas de submissão feminina, bem como a dominação simbólica, pela qual as mulheres incorporam as relações de poder e reconhecem a sua submissão a um agente dominante. Ao analisar os papéis sociais desempenhados pelas mulheres, identifica-se que suas práticas cotidianas estão calcadas na visão androcêntrica, e que a estrutura patriarcal está presente tanto na esfera social como na esfera política e econômica. Ao longo da dissertação, foram também abordadas questões relacionadas à temática de gênero, através da análise de literaturas em outros campos do conhecimento humano. Em face ao alijamento da mulher na criação musical, detectar as composições ditas do universo feminino traz uma grande contribuição para a história da música e análise musical. Partindo do referencial da nova história, cuja contribuição consiste em questionar as categorias de dominação a partir das quais a história foi constituída, surge a questão: como analisar o contexto histórico musical partindo da experiência composicional feminina? Sobre a questão, é oportuno mencionar o que Joan Scott ressalta: que, ao se incluir à história a versão feminina, tem-se um novo entendimento daquela que os historiadores apontavam como a verdade total. Nesse sentido, Pilar López e Lucy Green também defendem que a mulher teve uma trajetória de muita luta para compor gêneros musicais que não aqueles preestabelecidos pela sociedade dominadora, ou seja, para criar obras ditas complexas, atividade que era considerada própria do universo masculino. Apesar dos obstáculos que a mulher teve de enfrentar no âmbito da criação musical, e de muitas compositoras terem criado peças ligadas mais à educação musical ou canções para poucos instrumentos, como piano e canto, algumas delas conseguiram compor obras mais complexas. / The purpose of this work is to demonstrate how gender relations were established in the musical creation processes throughout history, as well as the opposition of women composers against male domination, a term dealt by Pierre Bourdieu, bringing up issues like androcentric view, legitimizing practices of female submission, as symbolic domination, in which women incorporate power relations and recognize their submission to a dominant agent. Investigating roles played by women, some identifies that their quotidian practices are grounded in this androcentric sight, and that the patriarchal structure is present as in social as in political and economical spheres. All over the text, issues related to the theme of gender were also approached, through the analysis of literature in other fields of human knowledge. In light of women\'s casting off in musical creation, detecting compositions said to be part of feminine universe brings up a great contribution to the History of Music and Musical Analysis. As from the referential of New History, whose contribution consists in objecting the domination categories from which history was built, the question arises: How to analyze historical and musical context from the female compositional experience? About the question, it\'s appropriate to mention what Joan Scott emphasize, that, by including the female version of the history, one has a new understanding in spite of that the historians pointed as the whole truth. In this way, Pilar López and Lucy Green also defend that women have had a trajectory of hard struggle to compose musical genres other than those predetermined by the domineering society, that is, to create works said complexes, an activity that was considered proper to male universe. Despite the obstacles that women faced under the musical creation, and many composers have created more connected parts to music education or songs for a few instruments such as piano and singing, some of them managed to compose more complex works.

O objetivo do presente trabalho é demonstrar como se estabeleceram as relações de gênero nos processos de criação musical ao longo da história, e a oposição das mulheres compositoras em relação à dominação masculina, termo cunhado por Pierre Bourdieu, trazendo à tona questões como a visão androcêntrica, legitimadora das práticas de submissão feminina, bem como a dominação simbólica, pela qual as mulheres incorporam as relações de poder e reconhecem a sua submissão a um agente dominante. Ao analisar os papéis sociais desempenhados pelas mulheres, identifica-se que suas práticas cotidianas estão calcadas na visão androcêntrica, e que a estrutura patriarcal está presente tanto na esfera social como na esfera política e econômica. Ao longo da dissertação, foram também abordadas questões relacionadas à temática de gênero, através da análise de literaturas em outros campos do conhecimento humano. Em face ao alijamento da mulher na criação musical, detectar as composições ditas do universo feminino traz uma grande contribuição para a história da música e análise musical. Partindo do referencial da nova história, cuja contribuição consiste em questionar as categorias de dominação a partir das quais a história foi constituída, surge a questão: como analisar o contexto histórico musical partindo da experiência composicional feminina? Sobre a questão, é oportuno mencionar o que Joan Scott ressalta: que, ao se incluir à história a versão feminina, tem-se um novo entendimento daquela que os historiadores apontavam como a verdade total. Nesse sentido, Pilar López e Lucy Green também defendem que a mulher teve uma trajetória de muita luta para compor gêneros musicais que não aqueles preestabelecidos pela sociedade dominadora, ou seja, para criar obras ditas complexas, atividade que era considerada própria do universo masculino. Apesar dos obstáculos que a mulher teve de enfrentar no âmbito da criação musical, e de muitas compositoras terem criado peças ligadas mais à educação musical ou canções para poucos instrumentos, como piano e canto, algumas delas conseguiram compor obras mais complexas. / The purpose of this work is to demonstrate how gender relations were established in the musical creation processes throughout history, as well as the opposition of women composers against male domination, a term dealt by Pierre Bourdieu, bringing up issues like androcentric view, legitimizing practices of female submission, as symbolic domination, in which women incorporate power relations and recognize their submission to a dominant agent. Investigating roles played by women, some identifies that their quotidian practices are grounded in this androcentric sight, and that the patriarchal structure is present as in social as in political and economical spheres. All over the text, issues related to the theme of gender were also approached, through the analysis of literature in other fields of human knowledge. In light of women\'s casting off in musical creation, detecting compositions said to be part of feminine universe brings up a great contribution to the History of Music and Musical Analysis. As from the referential of New History, whose contribution consists in objecting the domination categories from which history was built, the question arises: How to analyze historical and musical context from the female compositional experience? About the question, it\'s appropriate to mention what Joan Scott emphasize, that, by including the female version of the history, one has a new understanding in spite of that the historians pointed as the whole truth. In this way, Pilar López and Lucy Green also defend that women have had a trajectory of hard struggle to compose musical genres other than those predetermined by the domineering society, that is, to create works said complexes, an activity that was considered proper to male universe. Despite the obstacles that women faced under the musical creation, and many composers have created more connected parts to music education or songs for a few instruments such as piano and singing, some of them managed to compose more complex works.

This thesis contributes analyses of two works by Mexican composers: Rayo nocturnal (1989) by Victor Rasgado (b. 1959), and the Cuarteto da do (1988) by Juan Trigos (b. 1965). Although composed according to structuralist principles, a postmodern interpretation is offered. The analytical method applied is based on Allen Forte's set theory, including rhythmic and timbral dimensions that are integral to the conceptions of these works. A survey of modernism and postmodernism in twentieth-century Mexico serves to place these works in their cultural context.

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