Thesis (M.A.)--University of California, Santa Cruz, 1994. / Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 152-155).

Thesis (D. Mus. Arts)--University of Washington, 2005. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 94-106).

Thesis (D.M.A.)--University of North Texas, 2006. / System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Accompanied by 4 recitals, recorded Apr. 3, 2000, Sept. 17, 2001, Oct. 13, 2003, and Oct. 24, 2006. Includes bibliographical references (p. 84-89).

This dissertation focuses on a previously unexplored aspect of music-making in the English parish church during the 1760s to 1860s, namely its local development in response to inter-related episcopal, elite, clerical and economic influences. The historiography suggests ineffectual episcopal leadership and little gentry engagement with parochial church music-making during this period. By contrast, this study presents evidence of their influence, particularly during the late eighteenth to early nineteenth centuries. Elite support for Sunday and charity schools was allied with a desire to improve congregational psalmody, and church organs and barrel-organs were given with this objective in mind. Gentry involvement with amateur military bands of music also influenced the instrumentation of choir-bands. These actions were mirrored by those further down the social scale, and formed part of a complex pattern of support for church music-making. This dissertation argues that methods adopted to improve congregational singing in one generation were reviled in the next. The suggestion that teaching charity school children to sing would result in a congregation of singing adults became a recurring theme, yet time and again it met with little success. Nineteenth-century reform of church music-making has often been presented as a clear-cut progression, with the replacement of choir-bands by a barrel-organ or harmonium, but this dissertation argues that these phases were sometimes parallel rather than sequential, with no inevitable outcome. Furthermore, new evidence reveals that nineteenth-century church rate disputes had a profound effect on church music-making, an area of research neglected in modern literature. Lack of available seating became a significant problem in parish churches owing to the often compulsory attendance of schoolchildren, which opens up another new area of research. This dissertation argues that attempts to reform music-making contributed to alterations in the church fabric long before ecclesiological reorderings, and had long-lasting repercussions.

From Introduction: The first recorded Church of England service at the Cape took place in 1749, but for almost a century after that date Anglicans had no place of worship of their own. From about 1807 onwards the Groote Kerk in Adderley Street was regularly lent to the Chaplain on Sundays and the Kerkraad even allowed their bells to be rung to inform 'the British that it was time for their service'. In October 1827, for the first time in history, a bishop of the Church of England visited Cape Town. This was Dr. J.T. James, Bishop of Calcutta, who landed for a few days on his first voyage to India and was met by the Governor and his staff in great state. A meeting was held at which Bishop James was present and the eighteen gentlemen discussed proposals for the building of an English Church in Cape Town. "It was proposed that the building should hold at least 1,000 people. The Bishop said that the Home Government would grant ground and half the expenses... He reminded them of their obligation to the Dutch Church, who for so many years had allowed them to use their sanctuary, and he exhorted them to be active and persevering and remain attached to the doctrine and discipline of the Church of their forefathers, that venerable Church based on the foundation of Christ and His Apostles." As a result of t his meeting the Governor gave the site in the Gardens (at the foot of the Avenue) on which St . George's Cathedral now stands, and the site was consecrated by Bishop James on October 23rd, just before he sailed for Calcutta . "But after his departure the glow faded away, difficulties and quarrels appeared... and the scheme was shelved for two years." However, on St. George's Day, 23rd April 1830, the foundation stone of St. George's Church was laid by the Governor, Sir Lowry Cole,with military and Masonic honours. A triumphal arch was erected and troops lined the streets through which the procession was to pass. The name of the street at the head of which the Cathedral stands was changed from Bergh Street to St. George' s Street, and the contract was exclusive of enclosure, gates, bells and organ, but including pulpit, reading and clerk 's desks and all the work of the altar."

Orientador: Dorotéa Kerr / Banca: Ney de Souza / Banca: Leonildo Campos / Banca: Nahim Marun Filho / Banca: Lutero Rodrigues / Resumo: Esta pesquisa tem por objetivo entender a forma de construção da atividade organística como uma cultura do cristianismo. Procura-se delinear os conteúdos dessa cultura e demonstrar como ela teve seus princípios geradores duradouros por tantos séculos. Em um segundo momento analisa a atividade organística no Brasil traçando seu perfil e analisando sua situação atual e suas problemática diante das novas religiosidades. Esta pesquisa procurou analisar a atividade organística no Brasil a partir dos estudos culturais tendo como principais autores teóricos Clifford Geerts, Jan Assmann e Zygmunt Bauman" / Abstract: The objective of this research is to understand how the construction to perform organ music has been historically generated in Christian culture. In the first part, this thesis proposes to outline how Christian principles that have lasted for centuries were instrumental in this cultural activity.The second portion of the thesis outlines the historical trajectory of the activities and compositions of organ music in Brazil, and notes the current problems resulting from the influence of new religious beliefs on this cultural endeavor.This research and analysis of the cultural studies of organ music in Brazil follow the theoretical propositions of authors Clifford Geerts, Jan Assman, and Zygmunt Bauman. / Doutor

Orientador: Eduardo Augusto Ostergren / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Artes / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-17T08:09:14Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Theoro_JaquelinedePaula_M.pdf: 36298604 bytes, checksum: 01c942b426e99e3195f815a54b7a21b7 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010 / Resumo: Verificando a importância dos Quintetos de Sopro de Anton Reicha, no repertório camerístico dos trompistas, esta pesquisa tem como finalidade apresentar um estudo analítico e interpretativo das obras "Quinteto em Mi bemol Maior opus 88 nº1" e "Quinteto em Si bemol Maior opus 100 nº 24", ambos para flauta, oboé, clarinete, fagote e trompa, tendo como parâmetros os tratados: Traite de Melodie (1814), o Cours de Composition Musicale ou Traité Complet et Raisonné d?Harmonie Pratique (1818) e o Traité de Haute Composition Musicale (1824-26) do próprio compositor. Na época de composição das obras, Reicha já tinha um amplo conhecimento da trompa natural e por isso, as análises interpretativas foram direcionadas tanto à performance na trompa natural, como na trompa moderna, e desta forma, o trompista atual, mesmo sem utilizar a trompa natural ou a técnica de mão, poderá utilizar na trompa moderna, as informações e observações referentes ao resultado sonoro, exclusivamente característico à técnica de mão, enriquecendo sua interpretação com nuances e características timbrísticas, que antes só poderiam ser percebidas com a performance na trompa natural. Assim, este trabalho além de proporcionar o resgate aos tratados teóricos, amplamente utilizados como referência na época, promove um enriquecimento interpretativo aos trompistas / Abstract: Upon examining the importance of the Woodwind Quintets by Anton Reicha for the chamber music literature and as important repertoire for french horn players, this study has as its main purpose to present an analytical and interpretive study of Woodwind Quintets in E flat major, op. 88 n.1 and Quintet in B flat major op. 100 n. 24. Scored both for flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon and french horn, this author used as parameters Anton Reicha's own theoretical treatises namely "Traité de Mélodie (1814)" , "Cours de Composition Musicale ou Traité Complet et Raisonné d'Harmonie Pratique (1818)" and "Traité de Haute Composition Musicale (1824-26)" .The dates of these compositions can very well indicate that Reicha had a thorough knowledge of the natural horn. The interpretive analysis here presented are aimed at either the performance of the historical natural horn or the modern french horn. In this way the modern player, even without having access to the natural instrument or the utilization of hand technique, can apply on the modern french horn the information offered here regarding the sound qualities that are a characteristic of hand technique which helps enrich timbristic nuances that can only be perceived on the natural horn. This work, besides offering an insight into the composers theoretical treatises widely used by his contemporaries also offers interpretive suggestions to the modern players of the french horn / Mestrado / Fundamentos Teoricos / Mestre em Música

Orientador: Emerson Luiz de Biaggi / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Artes / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-26T15:09:14Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Khattar_AlbertSavino_M.pdf: 35481142 bytes, checksum: 30bc95a83eabe06894751c98c804b86f (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014 / Resumo: A presente dissertação trata da história e desenvolvimento da tuba, ilustrando suas principais modificações. Fornece o primeiro relato histórico da tuba no Brasil, além de abranger o repertório brasileiro originalmente composto para tuba como instrumento solista, independente da instrumentação, de obras para tuba solo a obras para tuba e orquestra. Constam, neste trabalho, um catálogo desse repertório e sugestões interpretativas, pertinentes à técnica tubística, de três obras selecionadas / Abstract: This dissertation deals with the history and development of the tuba, illustrating its main modifications. Provides the first historical account of the tuba in Brazil, besides covering the Brazilian repertoire originally composed for tuba as a solo instrument, regardless of the instrumentation, from works for tuba solo to works for tuba and orchestra. We also include in this work, a catalog of this repertoire and interpretive suggestions, relevant to the tuba technique, of three selected works / Mestrado / Praticas Interpretativas / Mestre em Música

A powerful and efficient algorithm has been designed to deal with the critical timing problem of the MIDI messages. This algorithm can convert note events stored in a natural way to MIDI messages dynamically. Only limited memory space (the buffer) is required to finish the conversion work, and the size of the buffer is independent of the size of the original sequence (notes). This algorithm's real-time variable properties suggest not only the flexible real-time controls in the use of musical aspects, but also the expandability to interactive multi-media applications. A compositional environment called MusicSculptor has been implemented in terms of this algorithm.

This report details the creation of a new dataset named the Gunnlod dataset (after the Norse giantess who guarded the mead of poetry) for use in research in the field of machine learning as applied to music creation, particularly multi-modal music in the MIDI format of symbolic music representation. The dataset is based on a subset of approximately four fifths of the Lakh MIDI dataset. Each of the selected files has been processed to create an array representation of the file intended for easy use with machine learning models, as well as a taggram - a matrix of values specifying the degree to which the music exhibits certain traits at different points in time. These traits include genres (such as ”rock”, ”pop” and ”country”), instrumentation (such as ”flute”, ”vocals” and ”guitar”) as well as other more general descriptors (such as ”catchy”, ”quiet” and ”weird”). The trait values are generated by a preexisting machine learning model, circumventing the need for intense human labour. The dataset is intended to enable future researchers to create tools to aid in h‘uman creative tasks, such as a virtual ”composer’s assistant” capable of offering suggestions for melodies or drum beats based on the user’s requests. The code used to create Gunnlod can be found at https://gits-15.sys.kth.se/joeli/midiPipe. The report also includes an ethical analysis of the dataset rooted in the seven guidelines for ethical AI outlined in the framework Ethics guidelines for trustworthy AI commissioned by the European Commission. It concludes that the creation of Gunnlod raises concerns regarding Privacy and data governance and Diversity, non-discrimination and fairness, which are to some degree alleviated by its Transparency, and suggests ways to perform future research in ethical ways. / Denna rapport beskriver skapandet av ett nytt dataset namngivet Gunnlod (efter den jättinna som vaktade skaldemjödet) för bruk inom forskning inom maskininlärning applicerat på musikskapande, med särskilt fokus på multiinstrumental musik på MIDI-format. Datsetet är baserat på cirka fyra femtedelar av Lakh MIDI-datasetet. Varje utvald fil har använts för att skapa en matrisrepresentation därav avsett för enkelt bruk i maskinlärningsmodeller, samt ett taggram - en matris av värden på hur mycket musiken visar på specifika drag vid specifika tidpunkter. Dessa drag inkluderar genrer (såsom ”rock”, ”pop” och ”country”), instrumentation (såsom ”flute”, ”vocals” och ”guitar”) samt mer generellt beskrivande ord (såsom ”catchy”, ”quiet” och ”weird”). Dessa värden genereras av en förexisterande maskininlärningsmodell, vilket kringgår behovet av intensivt mänskligt arbete. Detta dataset är avsett att möjliggöra framtida forskare att skapa verktyg som hjälper människors kreativa processer, såsom en virtuell ”kompositörsassistent” som kan förse förslag på melodier eller trumkomp utifrån en användares förfrågan. Koden som användes för att skapa datasetet går att finna på https://gits-15.sys.kth.se/ joeli/midiPipe. Rapporten innehåller också en etisk analys av datasetet rotad i de sju riktlinjer som ges i ramverket Ethics guidelines for trustworthy AI, skapat på uppdrag av Europeiska kommissionen. Analysen visar på farhågor med Gunnlods skapelse inom områdena Privacy and data governance och Diversity, non-discrimination and fairness, som till viss grad avhjälps av dess höga grad av Transparency, och förslag framläggs på hur framtida forskning ska genomföras på ett etiskt sätt.