Pieter C. van den Toorn has shown that one can label sections of Igor Stravinsky's Russian-period music based on two types of melodic-line (block) interactions: Type I and Type II. This paper analyzes Stravinsky's Rite of Spring and proposes the further classification of Type II sections of music into three categories. Organizing the music into these three categories depends on two aspects:1) the type of texture of the interacting blocks: melody and accompaniment or contrapuntal, and 2) the overall alignment of the interacting blocks' group-level rhythmic accents, which create either a unified or disunified metric accent. Furthermore, these three categories of Type II block structure also occur in other Stravinsky works, as well as works of minimalist composers. / School of Music

At the beginning of the twentieth century, the primitive played a crucial role in the emerging European modernist aesthetic. While art historians have been exploring the role of primitivism in modern art for decades, this area of research has received little attention in musicology. In this dissertation I examine how primitivism is constructed in modern French culture as manifest in three of the most important avant-garde stage works of the first part of the century: the Ballets Russes's Le Sacre du printemps (1913) and Les Noces (1923), and the Ballets Suedois's La Creation du monde (1923). Relying on primary sources such as reviews, other historically relevant documents, as well as the art historical literature, I trace the evolution of the cultural role of primitivism in pre- and post-World War 1 French culture. / French critics of Le Sacre viewed the work as a portrayal of Russian "Otherness" against which they could assert or question their own identity. Whereas the primitivism of Le Sacre was understood to be radical, excessive, even prophetic and apocalyptic, the primitivism of Les Noces was perceived as a manifestation of the classicist "call to order" and as an emblem of American-style mechanization. That it was also understood in terms of the post-war avant-garde's emphasis on classical ideals of austerity, dryness, and sobriety reflects the Purists' belief that machines heralded the new classicism. / Jazz was the ultimate symbol of both primitivism and modernity, and was initially hailed by the avant-garde as a revivifying source for the French tradition. In their attempt to neutralize the racial and political threats perceived to be inherent in jazz, the avant-garde emphasized its rationality, precision, and economy. La Creation du monde represents the avant-garde's complete assimilation of jazz and l'art negre into the French classical tradition.

Thesis (M.A.)--Memorial University of Newfoundland. / Restricted until October 1995. Typescript. Bibliography: leaves [146]-152. Also available online.

Thesis (D.M.A.)--University of Southern California. / Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M.M.)--Bowling Green State University, 2009. / Document formatted into pages; contains v, 70 p. : col. ill. Includes bibliographical references.

The trumpet has always maintained a central role in the jazz genre. However, throughout the history of chamber music the trumpet was overlooked until the mid-twentieth century when brass chamber music and mixed chamber ensembles rose to popularity. An infiltration of the popular American style, jazz, into classical chamber music changed composers' treatment of the trumpet. This thesis focuses on the role and treatment of the trumpet in selected jazz-influenced classical chamber works in order to highlight that the trumpet's prominence in jazz helped to establish its place in twentieth-century chamber music. A brief history of classical brass chamber music and the origins and development of jazz is given. Trumpet performance techniques and compositional practices idiomatic to the different jazz style periods, ranging from ragtime to cool jazz, are given. These techniques are then traced through selected chamber music works of Stravinsky, Martinu, Schuller, Babbitt, and Wilson. Selected works were chosen based on the degree of jazz influence and are representations of the jazz style period they emulate. A comparison of how classical composers in Europe and the United States viewed the trumpet in jazz, in regards to chamber music, is detailed over the course of the twentieth century.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:26:46Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2008Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T20:55:17Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 vazzoler_lf_me_ia.pdf: 661466 bytes, checksum: e1ad82c415da1b637531008c17b8ae99 (MD5) / Nesta pequisa estuda-se a fase neoclássica do compositor Igor Stravinsky, identificando procedimentos composicionais específicos presentes em tal fase do compositor russo. Tais procedimentos estão estreitamente conectados com modelos referenciais da música da tradição tonal e apontam para interessante e pertinente diálogo entre contextos musicais bastante contrastantes. O objetivo desta dissertação, a partir da constatação de possíveis relações entre a fase neoclássica e a fase russa de Stravinsky, é discutir e analisar os procedimentos técnicos composicionais presentes na música da fase neoclássica. Para identificar tais procedimentos serão analisadas duas peças neoclássicas de Stravinsky: a Sonata para piano (1924) e o Capriccio para piano e Orquestra (1929). / This research is a study of Stravinsky´s neoclassical period in order to identify specific compositional procedures. These procedures are closely connected with models of tonal reference and point to an interesting dialogue through contrasting musicals contexts. The objective of this dissertation is to investigate possible relationships between the neoclassical and the russian period of Stravinsky's music, discussing mainly the technical procedures found in the neoclassical phase. To identify these procedures it will be analyzed two pieces of Stravinsky: Sonata for piano (1924) and Capriccio for piano and Orchestra (1929).

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After considering Petrouchka's historical and compositional background and the orchestral revision of 1947, this thesis analyzes the composition, dealing specifically with formal, harmonic, and melodic aspects. The study's most important discovery is of a common formal design for all the scenes and the piece as a whole, where the outer thirds of ternary structures are equal in length. The thesis also examines Stravinsky's transcriptional procedures, cataloging and contrasting them with those of the nineteenth century. The solo transcription of Petrouchka is fully discussed in the light of Stravinsky's singular treatment of and writing for the piano. In addition to the recorded performance of Trois Mouvements de Petrouchka, this dissertation includes three tape recordings of selected piano works of J. P. Rameau, L. V. Beethoven, F. Chopin, F. Liszt, C. Franck, A. Scriabin, and G. Crumb.

Das Thema 'Cocteau und die Musik' wurde schon von André Maurois erschöpft, als er Jean Cocteau 'poète-orchestre' nannte. Diese Titulierung erwies sich als bedeutungsvoller, als sie ursprünglich gemeint war. Die Musik tritt in Cocteaus Texten unbefangen ein, sozusagen ohne Klopfen, sie klingt in seinen Aufsätzen ganz frisch, wie auf besondere Weise erneuert und arrangiert. Das war aber nicht immer so. Die Vorstellungen der Ballets Russes von Sergej Diaghilew ab 1909, besonders die Musik von Igor Strawinsky, hatten den Dichter erschüttert, gleichsam erweckt. Cocteau wurde schon als Zwanzigjähriger 'neu geboren', wie er selbst bemerkte. Alles was er vorher geschrieben und ediert hatte, wurde danach niemals mehr von ihm veröffentlicht. Vor 1909 bewegte sich seine Kühnheit im Bereich der Avantgarde noch 'moderato', danach 'allegro feroce', wenn nicht gar 'prestissimo'. Seit dieser Epoche war Clément Eugène Jean Maurice Cocteau als fantasievollster und erfndungsreichster Leiter der Pariser Avantgarde bekannt. Er war aufgestiegen wie eine Rakete, wie eine enorme Maschine aus Paradoxen, Metaphern und künstlerischen Überraschungen usw. Der hier skizzierten Vorstellung von Cocteau als jemandem, der nur Paradoxien produziert, hing auch ich früher (seit 1981) an. Sie stellte sich jedoch als oberflächlich und in mancher Hinsicht als komplett falsch heraus.