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Although music publishing in Italy was on the decline around the turn of the seventeenth century, Venice emerged as one of the most prolific publishing centers of secular song in Italy throughout the first three decades of the 1600s. Many Venetian song collections were printed with alfabeto, a chordal tablature designed to facilitate even the most untrained of musicians with the necessary tools for accompanying singers on the fashionable five-course Spanish guitar. Carlo Milanuzzi's Quarto Scherzo (1624) stands out among its contemporary Venetian song collections with alfabeto as an anthology of Venetian secular songs, including compositions by Miniscalchi, Berti, and Claudio and Francesco Monteverdi. Issues surrounding its publication, instrumentation, and musical and poetic style not only contribute to the understanding of Venetian Baroque monody, but also help to construe a repertory of vocal music with defining characteristics usually associated with popular music of the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries.

In Victorian Britain, music circulating libraries libraries operated by music publishers Novello & Co. and Augener & Co. supported upper- and upper-middle-class patrons in their pursuit of cultural capital that would help them perform their socioeconomic status. Studying these libraries in the context of domestic music-making reveals the economic and social impact of these libraries in the lives of amateur musicians and in the music publishing industry. An analysis of the account books in the Novello Business Archives demonstrates that the direct income that Novello & Co., Ltd.'s Universal Circulating Musical Library generated was negligible at best. Yet the fact that the library continued to be part of the business for over forty years indicates that Novello & Co., Ltd. found it to be profitable in some way. In this case, the library could have helped the publisher to attract customers through branding and advertising, in addition to informing publishing decisions by tracking demand. Catalogs for music circulating libraries, as well as for the publishers who owned them, contain lists of library and publisher inventory and pricing. Studying changes in these catalogs reveals how patrons' tastes changed over time. A case study of violin-piano duets in multiple catalogs confirms a continued preference for continental composers over British composers, and another case study of violin-piano duets by Felix Mendelssohn shows a growing taste for arrangements of pieces originally composed for large ensemble. Changing tastes had an effect not only on what music Victorians performed, but also on what pieces publishers offered, and, ultimately, on works' places in the canon.

A specific account of bonding in creative circumstances – a study of releasing music is a scientific essay which examines the relationship between will, context and creativity in the process of releasing music.  The focus for the examination is the process of finalizing musical works in a release format. This passage in the publishing process is understood as a collective creative management consisting of the publishing artist, the record company and their intended target group of users. An act of work by many where different ideas and values meet and are measured towards the actual realization of the release. The purpose of releasing music is understood as reaching a target group of users. The method to optimize the musical works and use other creative modalities to optimize the publishing of the release as a whole for a maximization of possible bonds to targeted users.  The process of contextual optimization is understood as an event of both conditionality and construction of room for maneuver. The process can either redeem or inhibit creativity depending on how relationships are constructed in the processes. The creative outcome of a publishing process is seen as dependent on how the connection of different bonds between artist and record company is constructed through a recognition of purpose and goal for a release, the participants’ experience of room for maneuver and care and respect for other participants’ room for maneuver. The theoretical reflection is based on Giordano Bruno's concepts of bonds and binding. The essay examines in a hermeneutical manner Brunos account of binding as a concept for understanding action as sprung from a collective faculty of different wills. Bruno's theory of how action is led by bonds between people and his understanding of emotions as a genus of knowledge is tested as a theory in understanding practical knowledge.  The essay intends to contribute with an experience-based reflection to continued scientific research on professional knowledge in creativity and music publishing. / Bindandets betydelse för det kreativa sammanhanget – en studie av musikutgivning är en vetenskaplig essä vilken undersöker relationen mellan vilja, sammanhang och kreativitet i musikaliska utgivningsprocesser. Utgångspunkten är det formatarbete som äger rum i utgivningsprocesser, när idéer kring en utgivnings värden möts och måttas mot en realisering. Syftet med en utgivning förstås som att nå en målgrupp. I formatarbetet anpassas och paketeras en artists verk därför för ett optimalt potentiellt bindande utgivningsformat.  Utgivningsprocessen förstås som ett skeende där framförda tankar och handlingar av de i konstnärlig ledning resulterar i en slutgiltig utgivning. Ett skeende av både villkorande och konstruerande av handlingsutrymme. I arbetet mot detta slutgiltiga format kan kreativitet både förlösas och hämmas beroende av hur relationer är konstruerade och konstrueras i processen.  Uppsatsen undersöker därmed utgivningsprocessen som en kollektiv, kreativ handling av den utgivande artisten, skivbolaget och deras tänkta målgrupp av brukare. Utifrån denna position förstås sammanhanget för en utgivning konstruerat av olika relativa band av mening byggda av känslor för verken, upplevd förståelse för verk och deltagarnas viljor med verkens utgivning. Uppsatsen skriver fram en förståelse för hur en utgivningsprocess utfall är avhängigt hur sammanhang av olika band mellan artist och skivbolag är konstruerat och konstrueras genom ett inkännande av syfte och mål, upplevt eget handlingsutrymme samt omsorg och respekt för den andres handlingsutrymme.     Essäns teoretiska reflektion utgår till stor del från Giordano Brunos begrepp band och bindande. Band och bindande testas som ett koncept för att förstå handling som sprungen ur en kollektiv tankepraktik av olika viljor. För vidgad förståelse av kunskap i handling, praktisk kunskap testas Brunos teori om hur handling leds av band mellan människor och kännande som en kunskapspraktik. Bruno beskriver känsla som en praktisk form av kunskap. En praktisk kunskap vilken påverkar hur vi tillsammans med andra och i olika skeenden gradvis leder och leds i och till handling. Essäns metod är delvis den vetenskapliga essän som skrivform i sig. Ett dialektiskt pendlande mellan erfarenhetsbaserat och teoretiskt understött reflekterande. Reflektionen utgår i grunden från modern hermeneutisk filosofi och dess syn på förståelse som sammansmältningar av förståelsehorisonter vilket sker genom framläggning och främmandegörande av tidigare förståelse. Skrivande, läsning och teoretisk analys har i uppsatsarbetet använts för att främmandegöra den förförståelse kring exempelvis kreativitet som skrivits fram i subjektivt gestaltade skeenden och i den tidigare forskning uppsatsen utgår från.  Essän avser att bidra med en erfarenhetsbaserad reflektion till fortsatt vetenskaplig forskning kring yrkeskunskap inom kreativitet och musikutgivning.

This, the first study at doctoral level of any white female jazz instrumentalist, provides an overview to the long, active and enduring musical career of British-born, New York-based jazz pianist, Marian McPartland (born 1918). For over six decades, besides being a pianist and a composer, she has been prominent in the professional roles of educator, writer, record producer and recording artist, radio broadcaster and advocate. The scope and impact of this multi-layered career are conveyed through the medium of a Website profiling significant aspects of her professional life through textual, aural and visual presentation. Although not claiming to be exhaustive, this Website brings together a comprehensive collection of data covering all aspects of Marian McPartland's career. Data have been gathered and collated from material in the public domain, and all such sources are acknowledged and referenced. The Website is navigable through three links at the bottom of the Home Page - 1) Historical Perspective; 2) Selected Analyses; and 3) Marian McPartland In Context. Part One of the Website provides access to Marian McPartland's various professional roles in jazz, as well as public profiles, and is consolidated by listings of support material. Part Two of the Website contains formal analyses of four of her compositions, each preceded by a short introduction. The analyses are based on scores transcribed from her recorded improvisations. A discussion of her stylistic approach follows the analyses. Part Three of the Website contextualizes Marian McPartland as a woman in jazz during its major historical and stylistic movements. An Introduction and a Conclusion provide the academic framework for this study. The Introduction outlines the rationale for the study, the dimensions of the study, the methodologies used, and the research process. The Conclusion provides critical commentary on Marian McPartland's musical career, and deductions are made about her significance in and contribution to jazz, based on the evidence presented in the Website. A CD of the entire Website completes the presentation of this thesis, included under Supplementary Material in the back pocket of the thesis. This overview of Marian McPartland's entire career makes an original contribution to knowledge on this jazz artist, and, in a broader sense, provides an important resource for future research in the area of jazz music and musicians.

Doctorat en philosophie et lettres / info:eu-repo/semantics/nonPublished

Les opéras de Jean-Baptiste de Lully (1632-1687) ont joui d’une diffusion européenne tant de son vivant que de manière posthume. Parmi les pays où ses opéras suscitèrent un véritable engouement, la Hollande bénéficiait d’une situation particulière. En effet, les opéras ont paru aussi bien dans les théâtres que dans l’édition musicale. Concernant l’édition musicale, la ville d’Amsterdam occupa un rôle primordial, où les opéras de Lully furent publiés non seulement en partitions générales et réduites, mais aussi en extraits vocaux et instrumentaux, dont les derniers ont pu être considérés comme les suites instrumentales. Celles-ci constituent un corpus exceptionnel dans la diffusion de l’opéra de Lully, car elles sont arrangées en 4 parties au lieu des 5 originairement présentées et ont joué un rôle intermédiaire entre l’opéra français et la suite d’orchestre allemande. Parmi les éditeurs contribuant à ce phénomène, il faut notamment distinguer un éditeur ayant exercé le commerce extensif : Estienne Roger (1665/66 - 1722). Au sein des recherches sur Roger, la publication de la musique instrumentale italienne et le commerce international représentaient deux enjeux majeurs. Pourtant, la place de la musique française dans ses éditions n’a pas suffisamment été évaluée, bien qu’elle ait atteint jusqu’à un tiers. Cette thèse traite de la particularité commerciale et éditoriale de ce domaine, en se focalisant sur les suites provenant des opéras de Lully. Trois points seront mis en examen : avantage de Roger en tant que libraire huguenot, son utilisation des catalogues lors de la vente des œuvres de Lully, caractéristiques musicales des suites par le biais de l’arrangement. / The operas of Jean-Baptiste de Lully (1632-1687) enjoyed a European diffusion both during his lifetime and posthumously. Among the countries where his operas aroused a real enthusiasm, Holland enjoyed a special situation. Indeed, the operas appeared both in theaters and in music publishing. Concerning musical publishing, the city of Amsterdam occupied a primordial role, where Lully's operas were published not only in scores, but also in vocal and instrumental extracts, the last of which could be considered as the instrumental suites. These suites constitute an exceptional corpus in the diffusion of Lully's opera, as they are arranged in 4 parts instead of the 5 originally presented and played an intermediate role between the French opera and the German orchestra suite. Among the publishers contributing to this phenomenon, we must distinguish a publisher who has carried out the extensive marketing: Estienne Roger (1665/66 - 1722). In the researches about Roger, the publication of Italian instrumental music and international trade were two major issues. Yet the place of French music in his editions has not been sufficiently evaluated, although it has reached as much as a third. This thesis deals with the commercial and editorial character of this field, focusing on the suites resulting from the Lully’s operas. Three points will be examined: Roger's advantage as a Huguenot bookseller, his use of catalogs in the sale of Lully's works, musical features of the suites through the arrangement.

The years 1815 to 1867 marked the first protracted period of peace in Nova Scotia’s colonial history. While the immediate effects of peace were nearly disastrous, these years ultimately marked a formative period for the province. By the eve of Confederation, various social, cultural, political, economic, and technological developments had enabled Nova Scotia to become a mature province with a distinct identity. One of the manifestations of this era of community formation was the emergence of a cosmopolitan-oriented music culture. Although Atlantic trade routes ensured that Nova Scotia was never isolated, the colonial progress of the pre-Confederation era reinforced and entrenched Nova Scotia’s membership within the Atlantic World. The same trade routes that brought imported goods to the province also introduced Nova Scotians to British and American culture. Immigration, importation, and developments to transportation and communication systems strengthened Nova Scotia’s connections to its cultural arbiters – and made possible the importation and naturalization of metropolitan music practices. This dissertation examines the processes of cultural exchange operating between Nova Scotia and the rest of the Atlantic World, and the resultant musical life to which they gave rise. The topic of music-making in nineteenth-century Nova Scotia has seldom been addressed, so one of the immediate aims of my research is to document an important but little-known aspect of the province’s cultural history. In doing so, I situate Nova Scotia’s musical life within a transatlantic context and provide a lens through which to view Nova Scotia’s connectivity to a vast network of culture and ideas. After establishing and contextualizing the musical practices introduced to Nova Scotia by a diverse group of musicians and entrepreneurs, I explore how this imported music culture was both a response to and an agent of the formative developments of the pre-Confederation era. I argue that, as Nova Scotia joined the Victorian march of progress, its musicians, music institutions, and music-making were among the many socio-cultural forces that helped to transform a colonial backwater into the civilized province that on 1 July 1867 joined the new nation of Canada.

The years 1815 to 1867 marked the first protracted period of peace in Nova Scotia’s colonial history. While the immediate effects of peace were nearly disastrous, these years ultimately marked a formative period for the province. By the eve of Confederation, various social, cultural, political, economic, and technological developments had enabled Nova Scotia to become a mature province with a distinct identity. One of the manifestations of this era of community formation was the emergence of a cosmopolitan-oriented music culture. Although Atlantic trade routes ensured that Nova Scotia was never isolated, the colonial progress of the pre-Confederation era reinforced and entrenched Nova Scotia’s membership within the Atlantic World. The same trade routes that brought imported goods to the province also introduced Nova Scotians to British and American culture. Immigration, importation, and developments to transportation and communication systems strengthened Nova Scotia’s connections to its cultural arbiters – and made possible the importation and naturalization of metropolitan music practices. This dissertation examines the processes of cultural exchange operating between Nova Scotia and the rest of the Atlantic World, and the resultant musical life to which they gave rise. The topic of music-making in nineteenth-century Nova Scotia has seldom been addressed, so one of the immediate aims of my research is to document an important but little-known aspect of the province’s cultural history. In doing so, I situate Nova Scotia’s musical life within a transatlantic context and provide a lens through which to view Nova Scotia’s connectivity to a vast network of culture and ideas. After establishing and contextualizing the musical practices introduced to Nova Scotia by a diverse group of musicians and entrepreneurs, I explore how this imported music culture was both a response to and an agent of the formative developments of the pre-Confederation era. I argue that, as Nova Scotia joined the Victorian march of progress, its musicians, music institutions, and music-making were among the many socio-cultural forces that helped to transform a colonial backwater into the civilized province that on 1 July 1867 joined the new nation of Canada.

Cette thèse retrace l'histoire de l'édition musicale, depuis la création artistique jusqu'à sa consommation, en passant par toutes les étapes de sa confection et de sa distribution. Une époque :la première moitié du XIXe siècle. Un lieu :Bruxelles. Des acteurs, les éditeurs eux-mêmes, mais aussi l’ensemble de leurs collaborateurs, à commencer par les compositeurs, mais aussi les graveurs et lithographes, les imprimeurs, les commissionnaires et autres marchands de musique qui ont participé à ce commerce spécifique. Un support physique enfin :la partition imprimée devenue un nouveau produit commercialisable et consommable. <p>Seuls les éditeurs de musique les plus importants de cette période ont été envisagés ici. Ils sont au nombre sept dont un domine largement les six autres. Il s’agit de la maison Schott frères. Tous ces éditeurs ont été traités avec le même soin et de la même manière, autour de trois axes de recherche :la production, la diffusion et la consommation de la musique. <p> / Doctorat en Histoire, art et archéologie / info:eu-repo/semantics/nonPublished