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More accurate and authentic performances of Sérgio Assad's (b. 1952) Aquarelle and his Fantasia Carioca can be obtained through insights provided by formal analysis of those pieces, study of the performing traditions of Brazilian traditional music, and the composer's reflections and comments. This document guides readers in recognizing the subtleties that characterize Assad's style and its Brazilian traditional music influences. A select group of styles has been chosen based on their relevance in Assad's work. Characterized by unique accent patterns and melodic/harmonic "clichés," the influences of each Brazilian music genre can be identified in specific measures of the two Assad's pieces included in this study. The correlation between measures and genres provides specific stylistic features that the performer can apply toward an authentic execution.

This monograph provides an in-depth examination of the background, musical, and performance issues related to Duke Ellington’s wordless melodies, as well as epigrammatic biographies of Ellington and three female vocalists whose voices he employed as instruments: Adelaide Hall, Kay Davis, and Alice Babs. As early as the twenties, Ellington innovatively used the voice as a wordless instrumental color—an idea he extended into both his secular and sacred works. His iconoclastic instrumentalization of the soprano voice in compositions such as “Creole Love Call”, “Minnehaha”, “Transblucency”, “On a Turquoise Cloud”, and “T.G.G.T.” merits consideration by scholars and performers alike; these artistically complex melodies offer valuable insights into Ellington’s organic and collaborative compositional process. Although Ellington’s wordless melodies for the soprano voice have fallen on the periphery of discussions on twentieth-century American music, perhaps out of sheer obscurity, the need for alternative teaching and performance materials gives rise to a host of topics for further study regarding these pieces. Assimilating Ellington’s programmatic and mood pieces for the instrumentalized soprano voice into the canon of chamber repertoire opens a new arena of scholarly and artistic endeavor for the trained singer. Therefore, central to this study are the following considerations: context, pedagogical challenges (range, tessitura, vowels, phrase length, etc.) nature of accompaniment and instrumentation, form, and the nature of Ellington’s vocal writing as it pertains to the wordless obbligato and concert works featuring the wordless voice including, “Minnehaha,” “Transblucency,” “On A Turquoise Cloud,” and “T.G.T.T.” aka “Too Good To Title.” This study evaluates Ellington’s technique of casting the wordless female voice in unique musical contexts via musical analysis, as well as pedagogical and interpretive assessments of selected Ellington pieces,. The resultant amalgam of musical identities, both instrumental and vocal, fostered creative polyphony and epitomized the coined “Ellington Effect.” The following analysis centers on a chronological survey of Ellington’s wordless melodies performed and recorded by Adelaide Hall, Kay Davis, and Alice Babs. The goal of this project is to present a study in historical context and significance, style, device, and pedagogical/performance considerations of those works that employ the flexibility, technique, and aural training of the studied singer with instrumental jazz idioms in a cross-genre context.

The main objective of this thesis is to define the rights of performer as complexly as possible and to describe the tools of their legal protection in general and in more detail to describe the tools of their legal protection in the realm of internet and social media. The topic of this thesis is systematically divided into six chapters, which are further subdivided into subchapters. The first chapter provides an overview of formal sources of law regulating the rights of performers and affecting the Internet and social media. The second chapter provides a general characteristic of copyright and rights of performers. This chapter also places these rights into the context of intellectual property law and defines the term intangible asset. In the third chapter, attention is paid to defining the concepts of the author's work, artistic performance and the difference between them, including differences between the author and the performer. The fourth chapter deals with the rights of the performer. It deals with their nature, conditions of origin and extinction and contains their comprehensive list. Part of this chapter is a subchapter on collective management or license agreement. The fifth chapter defines the concepts of the Internet and the social media. Attention is also paid to the definition of...

In his song cycle, Chansons madécasses (1926), a chamber work for voice, piano, flute, and cello, Maurice Ravel combines twentieth-century musical experimentation and exoticism with the late nineteenth-century style characteristics present in the vocal elements and instrumentation. Because early twentieth-century music appears to be closely connected to modern concerns, performers may tend to dismiss the style and technique of the early twentieth century as simply "old-fashioned" rather than examine and consider those elements as resources and valuable tools for interpreting and presenting authentic performances. The focus of this research includes a discussion of the historical, social, and textual implications of the music and poetry; a formal musical analysis of the work, including comparisons of an early twentieth-century, mid-century, and late twentieth-century recordings with regard to the use of vibrato and portamento in the voice, cello, and flute; and an examination of Chansons madécasses for elements of authentic Malagasy music and poetry. The paper also suggests methodologies for performance practice which reflect the results of these analyses. The beginnings of the rejection of traditional form - harmonic, rhythmic, and melodic structures - found in the early part of the century began to free composers and performers to explore musical presentations that gain their power not only from startling and unexpected elements of exoticism and interpretation but also from their romantic roots, which spurred the desire for a raw, even melodramatic, emotionalism. Ravel, without sacrificing the integrity of his native language, is able to blend his text with his accompaniment in a way that uses both the poem and the music to advance the "plot" and emotion of the narration, producing what might be described as a near perfect union of form and theme, structure and idea.

La question du croisement entre pratique et réflexion sur la pratique se trouve actuellement au centre de l’analyse théâtrale. Pour l’étudier, il est important de souligner que la réflexion que les artistes peuvent développer sur leur œuvre ne ferme en aucune manière le sens de l’œuvre en soi. Tout matériel scénique possède une pensée qui lui est inhérente, c’est pourquoi ces réflexions (de l’artiste sur son œuvre et de l’œuvre en tant que telle) cohabitent avec d’autres (celles que peuvent apporter les critiques, les chercheurs, les historiens etc.). Pour cette présente recherche, nous prétendons mettre au centre la réflexion des artistes quant à leurs pratiques car nous considérons que, dans de nombreux cas, ces réflexions sont de réelles théories non formalisées. Nous considérons comme clé le fait de hiérarchiser cette pensée et lui donner un espace spécifique, en prenant en compte que pour le réaliser, il n’en suffit pas seulement de le transcrire mais de le systématiser et pour cela, il est nécessaire que nous puissions avoir des catégories qui soient externes à celui-ci. En suivant cette méthode, nous prétendons échapper aux deux espaces traditionnels dans lesquels se situent habituellement les chercheurs ou les critiques pour travailler avec la matérialité réflexive de l’artiste : ceux qui croient que ce que dit l’artiste est une vérité définitive et ceux qui oublient cet apport car le considèrent comme une médiation inutile entre sa production critique et l’œuvre en soi.L’intention du présent travail sera donc de favoriser un développement théorique qui contemple ces théories et ces cadres d’articulation avec ce que nous avons trouvé au cours de notre parcours et qui, en association avec nos propres concepts, activent un espace de réflexion à partir de la confrontation avec le théâtre de Buenos Aires, duquel nous provenons. / The idea from where we start our research for this dissertation is that there is a strong thinking in Argentine scenic tradition that theory emerges from a reflexive scenic practice (and in most cases not in a systematic manner.) This phenomenon we analyze in several case studies becomes visible through the theoretical problematization of three thematic axes (poetic creed, poetic subjectivity and resistance.) To do so, we take a group we acknowledge as national renowned artists in the field of thought generation about acting practices, considering those practices as a liaison between body and resistance. We intend to work on a certain discursive materiality, focusing on the theory that is generated specially from the scenic practice. By doing it -and through the study of six case studies: Alberto Ure, Eduardo Pavlovsky, Ricardo Bartís, Alejandro Catalán, Bernardo Cappa and Analía Couceyro- we aim to stress that the thought generation about acting practices in Argentine Theater is in force for several years. / Para esta investigación de tesis partimos de la idea de que en la tradición teatral argentina hay un profuso pensamiento emanado de la práctica escénica que puede ser concebido en términos de teoría (en la mayoría de los casos no sistemática). Es desde la problematización teórica de tres ejes (credo poético, subjetividad poética y resistencia) que este fenómeno que analizamos en diversos casos testigo se vuelve visible: nos referimos puntualmente a un grupo de artistas que pensamos como referentes nacionales en lo que a reflexión acerca de la praxis de actuación respecta y que tienden a concebir esa praxis como confluencia entre cuerpo y resistencia. Se pretende trabajar sobre determinadas materialidades discursivas, haciendo foco especialmente en el pensamiento que se produce desde la escena. Al hacerlo, buscaremos evidenciar, a través del estudio de seis casos ejemplares (Alberto Ure, Eduardo Pavlovsky, Ricardo Bartís, Alejandro Catalán, Bernardo Cappa y Analía Couceyro) que la reflexión en torno a las prácticas de actuación en el teatro argentino está vigente desde hace años.

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The purpose of this study is to create a performer's guide for three separate pieces written by David Sampson. The first piece, Breakaway, is written for two trumpets and electronic accompaniment. The second piece is entitled Passage, and is written for muted flugelhorn and viola. The final piece for examination is the Sonata for trumpet entitled Triptych, a commission from the International Trumpet Guild in 1991. Although the number of compositions for trumpet has increased in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, guides for the performer regarding pieces with unique instrumentation and internationally commissioned works extremely limited. Included in this study is an examination of the specific challenges found in Breakaway, Passage, and Triptych, with detailed consideration regarding the methods with which to execute the unique performance elements of each composition. In addition, the information found in this study will expand the number of twentieth and twenty-first century trumpet works that have been investigated in a formal research capacity.