A produção orquestral de Villa-Lobos é indubitavelmente grandiosa e exuberante, confrontando a nós músicos, desafios de ordem técnica e interpretativa. Este trabalho discutirá sobre algumas das partes destinadas aos metais graves e suas possíveis soluções técnicas. Escolheram-se oito peças sinfônicas de palco na intenção de se tabular uma amostra razoável dessa faceta composicional de Villa-Lobos. As sugestões interpretativas serão embasadas em análises de autógrafos e suas edições, visualizadas por meio de trechos das partes orquestrais e corroboradas por uma revisão atualizada da literatura, propondo que se busque uma compreensão maior sobre as ferramentas expressivas oferecidas ao intérprete de metal grave, inserindo-o dentro da dialética villalobiana. / The orchestral production of Villa-Lobos is certainly grand and lush. It is confronting us musicians in a technical and interpretive challenges order. This doctoral essay will discuss some of the parts composed for low brass and their possible technical solutions. It was chose eight symphonic pieces in order to major measure a reasonable sample of the compositional facet of Villa-Lobos. Interpretation suggestions are based on solid analysis from autograph and their issues, visualized by means of excerpts from the orchestral and supported by an updated literature review parts, proposing to seek a greater understanding of the expressive tools offered to low brass musician and inserting them inside of the villalobiana´s dialectic.

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A produção orquestral de Villa-Lobos é indubitavelmente grandiosa e exuberante, confrontando a nós músicos, desafios de ordem técnica e interpretativa. Este trabalho discutirá sobre algumas das partes destinadas aos metais graves e suas possíveis soluções técnicas. Escolheram-se oito peças sinfônicas de palco na intenção de se tabular uma amostra razoável dessa faceta composicional de Villa-Lobos. As sugestões interpretativas serão embasadas em análises de autógrafos e suas edições, visualizadas por meio de trechos das partes orquestrais e corroboradas por uma revisão atualizada da literatura, propondo que se busque uma compreensão maior sobre as ferramentas expressivas oferecidas ao intérprete de metal grave, inserindo-o dentro da dialética villalobiana. / The orchestral production of Villa-Lobos is certainly grand and lush. It is confronting us musicians in a technical and interpretive challenges order. This doctoral essay will discuss some of the parts composed for low brass and their possible technical solutions. It was chose eight symphonic pieces in order to major measure a reasonable sample of the compositional facet of Villa-Lobos. Interpretation suggestions are based on solid analysis from autograph and their issues, visualized by means of excerpts from the orchestral and supported by an updated literature review parts, proposing to seek a greater understanding of the expressive tools offered to low brass musician and inserting them inside of the villalobiana´s dialectic.

Submitted by Alexandre Silva Rosa null (alex7rosa@gmail.com) on 2017-05-25T20:38:37Z No. of bitstreams: 1 TESE VILLA-LOBOS - Alexandre Rosa versão pós defesa.pdf: 12613899 bytes, checksum: 91e0637f8a6616445d369729fceb900f (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Luiz Galeffi (luizgaleffi@gmail.com) on 2017-05-30T16:24:25Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 rosa_as_dr_ia.pdf: 12613899 bytes, checksum: 91e0637f8a6616445d369729fceb900f (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-05-30T16:24:25Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 rosa_as_dr_ia.pdf: 12613899 bytes, checksum: 91e0637f8a6616445d369729fceb900f (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-03-27 / O contexto e as especificidades do tratamento do contrabaixo nas obras orquestrais de Heitor Villa-Lobos são o objeto principal da investigação aqui apresentada. O estudo tem por objetivo geral discutir a abordagem idiomática empregada pelo compositor na escrita das partituras do contrabaixo na grade orquestral, para, a partir daí, propor a tese de que tais excertos possam ter relevância considerável para o estudo técnico-musical do instrumentista, no que se defende a pertinência de sua adoção por intérpretes, professores e estudantes de contrabaixo. A metodologia de pesquisa inclui extensa revisão de literatura, com visita a autores do século 18 aos dias atuais, seguida de identificação de equivalências idiomáticas no repertório orquestral tradicional, contextualização das influências na escrita para o contrabaixo de Villa-Lobos e concluindo, por fim, com a proposição de uma seleção de excertos para a prática pedagógica. A tese é desenvolvida em três capítulos centrais. O primeiro trata da revisão de literatura sobre estudos de excertos orquestrais para contrabaixo e traça um panorama atual de sua aplicação em instituições locais, pondo em discussão, particularmente, a escassez desses materiais no âmbito da produção orquestral brasileira. O segundo capítulo aborda as influências na escritura das linhas de contrabaixo de Villa-Lobos, com descrição de aspectos idiomáticos na escrita do compositor para o contrabaixo em obras orquestrais, ilustrados com exemplos musicais de sua linguagem composicional extraídos mais extensamente da integral de suas Sinfonias e de dois títulos seus em específico, o Choros nº 10 e a Bachianas nº 9. O terceiro capítulo apresenta uma seleção de excertos das obras destacadas, com ênfase em passagens relevantes para o estudo técnico e musical do instrumentista aqui organizadas por tipo de idiomatismo, quando também se expõem os critérios utilizados para a seleção dos excertos. A análise musical dos materiais demonstra que Villa-Lobos construiu uma escrita elaborada e idiomática para o contrabaixo, conferindo ao instrumento um tratamento de franco respeito à sua natureza grave, ao seu potencial melódico e à sua função de apoio rítmico e harmônico. Conclui-se que, além de propor novas sonoridades para o instrumento, as partituras de contrabaixo de Villa-Lobos constituem um material fundamental de estudo, coleção essa que merece figurar nas listas de excertos orquestrais destinados à preparação e profissionalização do contrabaixista, sobretudo no Brasil. / The context and the specificities of the Villa-Lobos’ treatment to the double bass in his orchestral works are the main object of the investigation hereby presented. The main goal is to discuss the idiomatic approach to the double bass on Villa-Lobos’ orchestral works as a way to present the thesis that the excerpts of such orchestral works are relevant to the technique musical study of the performer, as well as localizing and indicating its pertinence to double bass performers, professors and students. The methodology chosen was the review of the literature followed by an identification of idiomatic equivalences from the traditional orchestral repertoire, the contextualization of Villa-Lobos’ influences on its double bass writing and the selection of excerpts. The thesis is organized in three chapters, besides the introduction, conclusion and appendixes. The first chapter presents the review of the literature on orchestral excerpts for the double bass where today state of the art in Brazilians institutions is presented. The discussion is centered in the lack of material addressed to the studies of Brasilian orchestral works. The second chapter addresses the influences Villa-Lobos received while writing his double bass parts. Here idiomatic aspects of the composers writing for the instrument are described as well as a selection of works that better illustrate such writing and his symphonies, the Choros 10 and the Bachianas 9 are emphasized. The third chapter presents a excerpts selection for the double bass extracted from the works mentioned on chapter two, with emphasis on passages relevant for the technical study of the performer organized by type of idiomatism. The criteria for the selection of excerpts are also presented. At the end of this work it is possible to state that the composer had an elaborated and idiomatic writing for the double bass treating it with respect for its low range nature, its melodic potential, and its function as a rhythmic and harmonic support instrument in Villa-Lobos orchestral works. Villa-Lobos not only proposed new sonorities for the instrument but his bass parts also offer a material that deserves to be included in lists of orchestral excerpts addressed to preparatory studies for the double bassist professionalization, particularly in Brazil.

Act one of The Metamorphosis is based on the novella by Franza Kafka of the same title. In the writing of the act, George Benjamin's Into the Little Hill and Oliver Knussen's Where the Wild Things Are provide a model of using musical material as a storytelling device. Benjamin emphasizes the parallel nature of Crimp's text through the manipulation of similar music between the acts. Knussen uses form and color to emphasize Max's childlike energy and his desire to return home. In act one of The Metamorphosis these approaches are combined to enhance Kafka's absurd narrative through a rapid collage of texture and form that is influenced by both events and characters in the opera.

Con la reciente explosión cuantitativa de bibliotecas y colecciones de música en formatodigital, la descripción del contenido desempeña un papel fundamental para una gestión ybúsqueda eficientes de archivos de audio. La presente tesis doctoral pretende hacer unanálisis automático de la estructura de piezas musicales a partir del análisis de unagrabación, es decir, extraer una descripción estructural a partir de señales musicalespolifónicas. En la medida en que la repetición y transformación de la estructura de lamúsica genera una identificación única de una obra musical, extraer automáticamenteesta información puede vincular entre sí descripciones de bajo y alto nivel de una señalmusical y puede proporcionar al usuario una manera más efectiva de interactuar con uncontenido de audio. Para algunas aplicaciones basadas en contenido, encontrar los límitesde determinados segmentos de una grabación resulta indispensable. Así pues, también seinvestiga la segmentación temporal de audio a nivel semántico, al igual que laidentificación de extractos representativos de una señal musical que pueda servir comoresumen de la misma. Para ello se emplea una técnica de análisis a un nivel deabstracción más elevado que permite obtener una mejor división en segmentos. Tantodesde el punto de vista teórico como práctico, esta investigación no sólo ayuda aincrementar nuestro conocimiento respecto a la estructura musical, sino que tambiénproporciona una ayuda al examen y a la valoración musical. / With the recent explosion in the quantity of digital audio libraries and databases, contentdescriptions play an important role in efficiently managing and retrieving audio files.This doctoral research aims to discover and extract structural description frompolyphonic music signals. As repetition and transformations of music structure creates aunique identity of music itself, extracting such information can link low-level and higherleveldescriptions of music signal and provide better quality access plus powerful way ofinteracting with audio content. Finding appropriate boundary truncations is indispensablein certain content-based applications. Thus, temporal audio segmentation at the semanticlevel and the identification of representative excerpts from music audio signal are alsoinvestigated. We make use of higher-level analysis technique for better segmenttruncation. From both theoretical and practical points of view, this research not onlyhelps in increasing our knowledge of music structure but also facilitates in time-savingbrowsing and assessing of music.

Submitted by ISAÍAS LOPES FERREIRA null (zaza558@hotmail.com) on 2016-08-19T02:19:24Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertação de Mestrado Isaías Lopes Ferreira.pdf: 6370630 bytes, checksum: 117197a40437fa139f1d9d3235fcd79d (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Ana Paula Grisoto (grisotoana@reitoria.unesp.br) on 2016-08-19T20:33:52Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 ferreira_il_me_ia.pdf: 6370630 bytes, checksum: 117197a40437fa139f1d9d3235fcd79d (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-08-19T20:33:52Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 ferreira_il_me_ia.pdf: 6370630 bytes, checksum: 117197a40437fa139f1d9d3235fcd79d (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-06-25 / Este trabalho tem por objetivo investigar aspectos técnicos e interpretativos presentes em excertos orquestrais de violino e estudar o potencial de seu uso como ferramenta para o desenvolvimento do violinista. No primeiro capítulo, discorre-se sobre levantamento de material, em que se buscaram informações acerca de excertos orquestrais de violino, no que concerne tanto a seu uso em processos seletivos como a aspectos técnicos e estilísticos relativos a sua preparação e execução. Encontrou-se, além de material acadêmico usual – como dissertações, teses e artigos – vasta referência em sites, blogs, videoaulas e outros meios, com conteúdo substancial, divulgados na internet. São apresentados também os critérios que orientaram a escolha dos excertos investigados no capítulo seguinte. No segundo capítulo, investigam-se aspectos técnico-interpretativos significativos de cada excerto escolhido, e são feitas sugestões de possíveis abordagens interpretativas desses excertos. Por fim, no terceiro capítulo, procura-se estabelecer paralelo entre aspectos presentes no repertório tradicional do violino e nos excertos orquestrais investigados. A relação encontrada entre o material estudado no capítulo 2 e obras como sonatas e concertos – usualmente estudados por violinistas – é rica e evidencia as possibilidades de exploração dos excertos orquestrais como meio de aprendizagem do instrumento. O presente estudo é voltado para estudantes de violino em nível de graduação e, de modo mais amplo, para violinistas que tenham interesse em se aprofundar no assunto excertos orquestrais, destinando-se, inclusive, a auxiliar instrumentistas na preparação para audições de orquestra. / This work aims to investigate technical and interpretative aspects present in orchestral violin excerpts and to study the potential of its use as a tool for the violinist`s development. In the first chapter, we broached the material survey, in which information was sought about violin orchestral excerpts, with respect both to its use in orchestral auditions as well as in the technical and stylistic aspects regarding their preparation and execution. In addition to usual academic material - such as dissertations, theses and articles - it has been found extensive reference in websites, blogs, video lessons and other means, with substantial content released on the Internet. The paper also presents the criteria that guided the choice of excerpts investigated in the following chapter. In the second chapter technical and interpretative aspects of each significant excerpt chosen are scrutinized and suggestions are made for possible interpretative approaches to these excerpts. Finally, in the third chapter, we try to establish a parallel between aspects present in the traditional violin repertoire and orchestral excerpts investigated. The association between the material studied in Chapter 2 and works such as sonatas and concerts, usually studied by violinists, are rich and it highlights the exploration of possibilities of orchestral excerpts as a mean of learning the instrument. This study is aimed at violin students at the undergraduate level and, more broadly, for violinists who are interested in delving into the subject of orchestral excerpts for violin, including as support for preparation for orchestral auditions.

There is no abstract available for this dissertation. / School of Music

The master dissertation Electronic books at VSE is focused on analysing the opportunities of e-books in the environment of VSE. The aim is to describe the current state of different study materials used at VSE and to explore different ways of improving them using e-book technology. The dissertation briefly describes various attributes of e-books with stress on the relevant attributes -- the possibility of inserting notes, bookmarks, multimedia and interactive content. Also the possibility of editing the content and sharing resulting changes with other students is a key attribute. The dissertation then moves on to describe the different kinds of study materials that are in use at VSE. The second half of the dissertation builds on previous analysis of the study materials and introduces a hypothetical optimal state, which could result from implementing e-book technology. This state is the answers the question of what is actually possible to achieve. The next chapter in this half is the technical analysis, which answers the question of how is it possible to achieve the suggested hypothetical state. The conclusion of this dissertation answers the questions whether the proposed solution is a viable candidate for implementation. The results of this dissertation could be used as a guideline for the project of implementation of e-book technology in the environment of VSE.

This dissertation examines selected love lyrics composed during the 1930s by Cole Porter, whose witty and urbane music epitomized the Golden era of American light music. These lyrics present an interesting paradox – a man who longed for his music to be accepted by the American public, yet remained indifferent to the social mores of the time. Porter offered trenchant social commentary aimed at a society restricted by social taboos and cultural conventions. The argument develops systematically through a chronological and contextual study of the influences of people and events on a man and his music. The prosodic intonation and imagistic texture of the lyrics demonstrate an intimate correlation between personality and composition which, in turn, is supported by the biographical content. / English / M.A. (English)