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  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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Rachmaninoff's Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini, Op.43; Analysis and Discourse

Kang, Heejung 05 1900 (has links)
This dissertation on Rachmaninoff's Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini, Op.43 is divided into four parts: 1) historical background and the state of the sources, 2) analysis, 3) semantic issues related to analysis (discourse), and 4) performance and analysis. The analytical study, which constitutes the main body of this research, demonstrates how Rachmaninoff organically produces the variations in relation to the theme, designs the large-scale tonal and formal organization, and unifies the theme and variations as a whole. The selected analytical approach is linear in orientation - that is, Schenkerian. In the course of the analysis, close attention is paid to motivic detail; the analytical chapter carefully examines how the tonal structure and motivic elements in the theme are transformed, repeated, concealed, and expanded throughout the variations. As documented by a study of the manuscripts, the analysis also facilitates insight into the genesis and structure of the Rhapsody. How Rachmaninoff develops his ideas through several notebooks - including sketches and drafts - is described. Later parts of the dissertation deal with programmatic aspects of the Rhapsody. Related to the composer's significant use of the Dies Irae melody, semantic issues concerning "love and death" are taken into account and closely related to the specific structure of the piece. Rachmaninoff's symphonic poem, The Isle of the Dead, is a work which bears some intriguing resemblances to the Rhapsody in its larger structure as well as its ideology. Therefore, an interpretation of this work is provided to show the special relationship between the two pieces. The last chapter presents a discussion of two recordings of the Rhapsody by Rachmaninoff and Moiseiwitsch made in 1934 and 1938 respectively. Comparing and contrasting the different interpretations of each variation in these two historical recordings, this concluding part of the study explores ways in which analysis can be realized through performance.
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Les récits-partitions : imaginaire musical et écriture romanesque dans la France du XXe siècle

Perreault, Isabelle 09 1900 (has links)
Au confluent de l’histoire des idées et de la poétique romanesque, cette thèse s’intéresse aux interactions textuelles multiples entre le genre romanesque et l’imaginaire musical tel qu’il s’est développé au fil du XXe siècle. Elle examine les modalités par lesquelles une idée de la musique, intronisée comme paradigme d’écriture par un certain nombre de romancières et de romanciers français entre 1900 et 1980, informe la composition du roman tout en infléchissant la production du sens, qui, à l’horizon du modèle musical, devient davantage signifiance que signification. Elle appréhende également l’évolution des pratiques romanesques à la lumière des discours sur la musique tels que les réfléchissent et les intègrent les œuvres, afin de dégager les différentes manières par lesquelles le musical, à entendre comme les propriétés dérivées de l’objet musique, s’impose comme le modus operandi de l’écriture, et invite le critique à interpréter l’œuvre sur le modèle herméneutique de la partition. Le récit-partition apparaît sur fond d’une crise de la signification et de la représentation, dont les ferments sont à chercher dans le fonctionnement sémiotique même du langage. La recherche entend montrer comment, dans l’optique de répondre à cette crise du langage et aux nombreuses répercussions qui confrontent la sémantique romanesque à une impasse, certains romanciers du XXe siècle ont envisagé la musique comme une fiction du roman et pour le roman, puis ont façonné à partir d’elle les paramètres d’une nouvelle écriture romanesque. Hérité du topos romantique de la « musique absolue », qui considère l’œuvre musicale comme un pur phénomène sonore, irréductible au langage verbal et, du fait de son autoréférentialité, le modèle de l’organon absolu, ce paradigme d’écriture aurait permis aux écrivains du XXe siècle d’abandonner les prémisses référentielles du genre romanesque et de penser ce dernier à l’aune de nouvelles configurations poétiques, fondées sur la résonance du sens, l’autoréflexivité du médium et une mémoire textuelle plus sensible que philosophique ou morale. La réflexion menée dans le cadre de la thèse interroge en premier lieu les conditions épistémologiques, métaphysiques et discursives qui concourent à l’avènement d’un paradigme musical, lui-même tributaire d’un régime du sensible particulier, qui pousse des générations entières d’écrivains à se tourner vers la musique pour ravitailler une matière romanesque dès lors perçue comme lacunaire. La démonstration se décline essentiellement en quatre temps : le premier chapitre entend prendre au pied de la lettre la métaphore de la partition, de manière à montrer comment les indices paratextuels et structuraux actualisent certains procédés d’écriture qui s’inspirent de la musique ; les deuxième et troisième chapitres interrogeront les modalités de « textualisation » de la musique à travers les prismes respectifs de la création et de la réception musicales représentées dans la fiction, en s’intéressant aux figures de compositeurs et de musiciens (chap. 2), puis aux ekphraseis musicales et aux scènes d’écoute (chap. 3) ; enfin, c’est sur les grands mythes de la musique que débouche notre enquête, mythes antiques mais surtout wagnériens, dont la réécriture plus ou moins conforme avec la matrice d’origine permet de diffracter un rapport complexe à la modernité par une ressaisie du sens, de la temporalité narrative et du discours romanesque au miroir des récits fondateurs et du langage premier et plénier dont ils portent la mémoire. / This dissertation strives to understand the various interactions between 20th-century fictional works and the contemporary musical imaginary that was developed and modulated throughout the century. Rooted in a dual approach – that of the history of ideas and of the poetics of the novel –, this study examines how a given idea of music, inducted as a writing paradigm by many French novelists between 1900 and 1980, models textual composition and becomes a means to rethink the creation of signification in narrative forms. It also traces the evolution of the French novel and its writing practices in the light of musical discourses and aesthetics as reflected by and integrated into novelistic works. To this end, the concept of “narrative score” (récit-partition), as a hermeneutic instrument or reading tool, is paramount in order to grasp the ways in which the musical – i.e. the properties derived from music as an objective or phenomenal reality – imbues the literary text and becomes the modus operandi of fiction writing for some French novelists. The “narrativescore” emerged in the context of an artistic crisis – stemming from the semiotic fabric of language itself – that questioned both the ideas of representation and meaning. The present work will show how this crisis of language and consequential impasse of the novelistic genre lead some 20th-century writers to conceptualize music as a fiction of and for the novel with the purpose of fashioning a new narrative framework by remodeling the genre’s parameters. Descending from the romantic trope of “absolute music” which considers the musical piece as an autoreferential structure comprised of pure sounds without intrinsic meaning thus irreducible to verbal speech, the idea of music as a writing paradigm allows novelists to relinquish the referential premises of the narrative genre to introduce new poetic configurations based on the resonance of meaning, the self-reflexivity of the medium and a textual memory, more engrained in the sensible than in the speakable (dicible) or the philosophical. We will first outline the epistemological, metaphysical and discursive landscape that lead to the advent of a musical paradigm in literature, which is dependent on a specific “partition of the sensible” (Rancière); here, we will explore what motivated several generations of writers to turn to music as a way to replenish the fictional material they perceived as deficient while fulfilling their ideal of an autotelic work of art. The textual analysis that follows will be divided into four parts: in the first chapter, we will consider the score not as a metaphorical notion, but as an actual model; indeed, some paratextual elements and structural configurations highlight the presence of writing techniques directly inspired and shaped by the musical; the second and third chapters will examine the textual actualization and representation of music respectively through the lens of musical composition (poïesis) and musical reception (esthesis) by analyzing fictional composers and musicians (chap. 2), then musical ekphraseis and listening scenes (chap. 3); lastly, we will focus on the great musical myths – ancient myths, but mostly Wagnerian ones – whose rewriting, more or less in line with the original stories, allow the writers to renegotiate their complex relationship with modern times, by re-capturing meaning, narrative temporality and novelistic discourse through the use of these founding myths and the unitary, almost pre-adamic, language.

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