La version intégrale de ce mémoire est disponible uniquement pour consultation individuelle à la Bibliothèque de musique de l’Université de Montréal (http://www.bib.umontreal.ca/MU) / Utiliser les caractéristiques du langage musical folklorique d’Europe de l’Est, principalement de la Hongrie, la Serbie et la Bulgarie, comme source d’inspiration à mon propre langage. / Integrating language features of folk music of Eastern Europe, mainly from Hungary, Serbia and Bulgaria, as a source of inspiration in my own language.

Du métro parisien aux festivals de musiques dites du monde les plus connus, sur les trottoirs des grandes villes et dans des salles de concert de tailles et de projections diverses, des ensembles jouant des musiques « des Andes » ont réussi à se produire en France depuis plus d’un demi-siècle. L'image d'une certaine "andinité" s'est ainsi forgée autour de ces groupes, vérifiable aussi bien dans le répertoire diffusé que dans le discours qui a accompagné la commercialisation de ces musiques. Néanmoins, l’activité de ces ensembles s'est enracinée pour l'essentiel dans l’espace géographique et social du pays qui les a hébergés : non seulement leurs musiques ont été proposées à un public composé pour l’essentiel de Français, mais en fait la plupart de ces ensembles sont nés à Paris et ont développé leurs carrières en France.En étudiant la popularisation de ces musiques à la lumière des représentations sociales associées à l'univers "andin", cette thèse propose une relecture de la problématique de l'altérité incarnée par des manifestations musicales "autres" dans la société française. Notre analyse s'appuie sur la complémentarité de trois axes d'étude : l'imaginaire construit en France autour des peuples appartenant aux aires culturelles andines, l’émergence et le succès de ces musiques entre les années 1950 et 1970, et une enquête de terrain menée à l'occasion d'une série de concerts de musiques "des Andes" proposés en Île-de-France en 2004. L'hypothèse repose sur l'idée que le bon accueil de ces musiques en France a été facilité par une prédisposition particulièrement favorable à l'univers latino-américain, dans une logique d'échanges culturels marquée par l'absence de conflits identitaires ou symboliques profonds. / In the Parisian subway and in the most known World Music festivals, in the streets of big cities or in the concert halls, the "Andean Music" is played in France for more than half a century. The popularization of this music in France was associated to the construction of an "andeanity", as well in the repertory as in the discourse which accompanied their commercial distribution. Nevertheless, the activity of these ensembles was founded in the social French space: not only their "Andean" music was proposed to a French audience, but in fact most of these ensembles were born in Paris and developed their careers in France. By studying the popularization of this music in the light of the social representations of the "Andean" universe, our thesis proposes a second reading of the Otherness of the not European music in France. Our analysis if support on three axes: the social representations of the Andean cultures in France, the emergence and the success of the "Andean Music " between 1950s and 1970, and a survey research concerning the concerts proposed in Ile-de-France by the well-known ensemble Los Calchakis (2004). The hypothesis is founded on the idea that the success of this music in France was facilitated by a particularly receptive French audience to the Latin-American universe

The thesis describes a new database of uzun havas, a non-metered structured improvisation form in Turkish folk music, and a system, which uses Variable-Length Markov Models (VLMMs) to predict the melody in the uzun hava form. The database consists of 77 songs, encompassing 10849 notes, and it is used to train multiple viewpoints, where each event in a musical sequence are represented by parallel descriptors such as Durations and Notes. The thesis also introduces pitch-related viewpoints that are specifically aimed to model the unique melodic properties of makam music. The predictability of the system is quantitatively evaluated by an entropy based scheme. In the experiments, the results from the pitch-related viewpoints mapping 12-tone-scale of Western classical theory and 17 tone-scale of Turkish folk music are compared. It is shown that VLMMs are highly predictive in the note progressions of the transcriptions of uzun havas. This suggests that VLMMs may be applied to makam-based and non-metered musical forms, in addition to Western musical styles. To the best of knowledge, the work presents the first symbolic, machine-readable database and the first application of computational modeling in Turkish folk music.

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Syftet med denna studie är att undersöka om det finns grundläggande skillnader i undervisningsmetoder och pedagogiska förhållningssätt mellan fiolpedagoger inom genren svensk folkmusik. Jämförelsen fokuserar på lärare med respektive utan formell musiklärarexamen inom genren. Fyra kvalitativa telefonintervjuer har legat till grund för undersökningen där de med respektive utan examen representerats av två personer var. Den teoretiska utgångspunkten för studien har varit det sociokulturella perspektivet. Studiens resultat visar att det är mer som förbinder än som skiljer de fyra pedagogerna åt. Här finns ett betonande av gehörsundervisning, spelglädje och musikalisk funktion, vilket hör till traditionen i den svenska folkmusikgenren. Detta är en stor del av det sociokulturella perspektivet där tradition, sociala sammanhang och fysiska artefakter är centralt. Dock är det möjligt att se ett tydligare inslag av institutionaliserade kunskaper bland de med formell lärarexamen. Här finns ett större användande av noter och en något mer uttalad progression i pedagogiken. Här finns också en större öppenhet för genrebredd, medan de utan musiklärarexamen mer renodlat inriktar sig på svensk folkmusik och vad genrens historik grundas på. / The purpose of this study is to investigate whether there are fundamental differences in methodologies and pedagogical approach between violin pedagogues of the genre of Swedish folk music. The comparison focuses on teachers with and without formal music teacher education in the genre. Four qualitative telephone interviews were the basis for the study, where two people each represented those with and without a degree. The theoretical starting point for the study has been the socio-cultural perspective. The results demonstrate that there is more connecting than separating the four teachers ate. Here is an emphasis on ear training teaching, joy and musical function, which belongs to the tradition of the Swedish folk music genre. This way of working is connected to the socio-cultural perspective, where tradition, social context, and physical artefacts are in focus. However, it is possible to see a clearer part of institutionalized knowledge among the teachers with formal teaching qualification. These teachers have a greater use of notes and a slightly more pronounced progression in education. They also have a greater openness to all music, while those without a music teacher education more purely focuses on Swedish folk music and what the genre's history is based on.

This study has investigated the influence of Central Italian folk music in select compositions of Ottorino Respighi, Peter Tchaikovsky, Felix Mendelssohn, and Jean Sibelius. Through the titles of these pieces, one can infer that they were influenced by the composer living in Italy, or visiting, on holiday. This study also includes a brief history of the serenade, from the traditional Italian folk practice to Antonín Dvořák’s treatment of the more modern 19th-century genre. A review of the evolution of the state of ethnomusicology in Italy, including discussion of art and folk-music instruments, poetry, carnevale, and processions within the region of Italy is included. Further, I provide information on tonal and instrumental characteristics and specific folk dances to aid in the investigation of the treatment of folk melodies within 19th-century pieces. The result of this research not only provides a more accurate interpretation of stylistic issues when 19th-century works containing Italian folk-music attributes are performed, but also the knowledge that the title of a piece does not necessarily indicate a musical significance. Some works exhibit a direct musical influence while others are “Italian” in name only. / School of Music

Dissertation (D.M.A.)--The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 2008. / Directed by Andrew Willis; submitted to the School of Music. Title from PDF t.p. (viewed Aug. 11, 2009). Includes bibliographical references (p. 108-113).

This thesis is an investigation of the significance of Mhande song-dance in two performance contexts: the Mutoro ritual of the Karanga and the Chibuku Neshamwari Traditional Dance Competition. In addition, I undertake comparative analysis of the structure of Mhande music in relation to the structure of selected genres of Shona indigenous music. The position of Mhande in the larger context of Shona music is determined through analysis of transcriptions of the rhythmic, melodic and harmonic elements of chizambi mouth bow, karimba mbira, ngororombe panpipes, ngano story songs, game, hunting, war, and love songs. Mhande is an indigenous song-dance performed for the mutoro ceremony, the annual rain ritual of the Karanga. The Mhande repertoire consists of distinctive songs and rhythms used for communicating with the majukwa rain spirits. The rain spirits in turn communicate with God (Mwari) the provider of rain, on behalf of the Karanga. Mhande song-dance is performed exactly the same way in the annual Chibuku Neshamwari Traditional Dance Competitions as in the ritual context of the mutoro ceremony. However, in the context of the Competition, it is used for the expression of joy and as a form of cultural identity. The Competition is a forum in which Karanga songdance traditions such as Mhande, compete with other Shona song-dance traditions such as mbakumba, shangara and chinyambera. I contextualize and analyse Mhande song-dance by using the ‘Matonjeni Model’, which in terms of Karanga epistemology, is culture specific. This Model is grounded in description, interpretation and analysis; the primary methods in my research process.

Text in English and some in Sesotho / This thesis examined how masculinity develops among the Basotho accordion music artists of the period 1980-2015 with an intention to propose the reshaping of masculinity conducive for a human society. Different factors that influence masculinity among the Basotho as represented by Basotho accordion music artists are scrutinized to find out how masculinity as a thematic aspect in the development of Basotho accordion music has been manifested over a period of thirty-five years. Psycho-masculinity is employed in the present study to find out the impact of the existing form of masculinity among the Basotho. The study concludes that the present form of masculinity among the Basotho is precarious, not only to women and to children, but also to men in their two categories: those who exhibit masculinity as well as those who do not show evidence of it. Therefore, the study recommends that the Basotho masculinity should pay attention to the limitations of masculinity in order to minimize and consequently eradicate its negative side while simultaneously promoting its positive side towards men, women and children at large. / Linguistics and Modern Languages / D. Phil. (Language, Linguistics and Literature)

Submitted by Maike Costa (maiksebas@gmail.com) on 2017-03-10T13:59:34Z No. of bitstreams: 1 arquivototal.pdf: 8953311 bytes, checksum: 11a1725cde889b19a5c091731e42b037 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-03-10T13:59:35Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 arquivototal.pdf: 8953311 bytes, checksum: 11a1725cde889b19a5c091731e42b037 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-03-31 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES / Miklós Rózsa claimed to keep a "double life": composer of concert music versus composer of films soundtrack. In this paper, we sought to answer questions such as: would have the composer really a "double life" articulated this way? His work would have a consistent poetic of music, common to both genres to which the composer had dedicated himself? It is known that Rózsa had the Hungarian folk music as basis for his music. To better understand them was made a profound bibliographic research on the subject, in which several articles of Hungarian musicologists were used in order to give more consistency to it. With the aim of to see if Rózsa maintained the same musical poetic in both genres, were realized several comparative analyzes of the composer's works, both in his movies soundtracks as in his concert music, to cover all productive periods of the composer (opus 1-1927 to opus 45- 1989), period which he also worked in several companies and composed for various filmic genres (drama, fantasy, comedy, noir, thriller, epic, among others). Prior to the preparation of this work, there was the assumption that the composer would have a consistent musical poetics in the two musical genres to which he was dedicated. Thus, another question would arise: Did Rózsa innovate the Hollywood filmic music or did he adapt himself to it? To answer this question, it was necessary also to investigate the characteristics of the soundtracks of Hollywood movies before the arrival of the Hungarian composer to the Californian district. / Miklós Rózsa afirmava possuir uma “vida dupla”: compositor de música de concerto versus compositor de trilha sonora de filmes. No presente trabalho, buscamos responder a questões como: teria mesmo o compositor uma “vida dupla” articulada dessa maneira? Sua obra teria uma consistente poética musical, comum a ambos os gêneros aos quais o compositor se dedicara? Sabe-se que Rózsa tinha a música folclórica húngara como base para as suas músicas. Para melhor compreendê-las foi feita uma profunda pesquisa bibliográfica sobre o assunto, na qual foram utilizados diversos artigos de musicólogos húngaros, a fim de dar mais consistência à pesquisa. Com o intuito de comprovar se Rózsa mantinha a mesma poética musical em ambos os gêneros, foram realizadas diversas análises comparativas de obras do compositor, tanto de suas trilhas sonoras para filmes quanto de suas músicas de concerto, de modo a cobrir todos os períodos produtivos do compositor (do Opus 1 - 1927 ao Opus 45 - 1989), período em que trabalhou também em diversas produtoras e compôs para diversos gêneros fílmicos (drama, fantasia, comédia, noir, suspense, épicos, entre outros). Antes da elaboração do presente trabalho, havia a hipótese de que o compositor teria, sim, uma poética musical consistente nos dois gêneros musicais aos quais se dedicou. Sendo assim, surgiria outra questão: Rózsa inovou a música fílmica hollywoodiana ou adaptou-se a ela? Para responder a esta pergunta, foi necessário também investigar as características das trilhas sonoras dos filmes de Hollywood antes da chegada do compositor húngaro ao distrito californiano.