Igor Stravinskys collaborations with contemporaries including Picasso, Nijinsky, and Cocteau are well documented. Less familiar, however, are the anachronistic collaborations suggested in one short movement Stravinsky wrote in 1918, and involving the Germans Luther and Bach, the Swiss Ramuz, the Russian Stravinsky, and the American Kurt Vonnegut Jr.<p> Grand Choral, the penultimate movement of Stravinskys lHistoire du Soldatwritten in 1918provides a key to unlocking the mysteries of construction, ideology, and by extension, performance of the work. Grand Choral parodies J.S. Bachs Cantata 80 (1715) which, in its turn, is based on Martin Luthers 1529 hymn, Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott. C.F. Ramuz, Stravinskys original collaborator on lHistoire du Soldat, based his libretto on a Russian folk tale, but in 1993, Vonnegut wrote a new text to accompany Stravinskys music, a text inspired by the true story of Private Eddie Slovik, the last American soldier executed for desertion. In essence, Vonnegut collaborates with Stravinsky in a posthumous sense, as Stravinsky does with Bach and Bach with Luther. Vonnegut and Stravinsky each write themselves into an existing work, giving it contemporary meaning and a new poignancy.<p> The principal aim of my paper is to document the process by which I studied and conducted lHistoire du Soldat with one libretto by Ramuz and another by Vonnegut. In the paper, I will first examine the historical context in which each of the collaborators contributed to lHistoire du Soldat. I will also present an analysis of Grand Choral with regard to the source material by Luther and Bach. Finally, I will document the process and findings of my study, rehearsal, and performance of each of the two versions of lHistoire du Soldat which I conducted on March 31, 2009 in Quance Theatre, on the campus of the University of Saskatchewan with a full cast of musicians, dancers and actors.

As the costs for mounting opera, ballet and orchestral concerts rise and as their audiences dwindle, piano transcriptions of works orchestrated for such concerts can be a viable way of disseminating the music more widely than if the music was presented only in its original form. With this in mind, it can be argued that piano transcriptions of music originally written for instrumental ensemble is still a viable form of musical expression, because the piano is still the most widely used medium for the performance of art music in the Western world. Transcriptions of instrumental and vocal music expand the listening audience for a composer's music while they also increase the repertoire of music for the piano for both amateurs and professionals. The CD recording has the aim of providing a reference on which to base an appreciation of Pletnev's work. As the orchestral score is quite well known, the differentiation created by Pletnev, and the quality of his work, can be immediately perceived by hearing the execution of his scores and being able to cross reference his reductions with the original score. Timing references for the piano score have been included to further facilitate this cross-referencing. This thesis comprises two parts: 1. A performance CD of Stravinsky's Petrouchka (1922 piano four-hand version) and Tchaikovsky's Sleeping Beauty (1999 solo piano transcription by Mikhail Pletnev). This accounts for 75% of the thesis. 2. An exegesis, analysing selected portions of the orchestral score of Tchaikovsky's The Sleeping Beauty Op.66 and Pletnev's piano transcription suite, prefaced by an overview of piano transcriptions from Liszt to Pletnev. This accounts for 25% of the thesis. The exegesis argues that, while seeking to recreate the colour and drama of Tchaikovsky's orchestral score within the context of a virtuosic piano solo, Pletnev has managed to transcribe Tchaikovsky's score faithfully with minimal alterations.

Thesis (D.M.A.)--Ohio State University, 2005. / Title from first page of PDF file. Document formatted into pages; contains xiv, 107 p.; also includes graphics, music. Includes bibliographical references (p. 103-107). Available online via OhioLINK's ETD Center.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:27:27Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2008-08-29Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T19:06:52Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 martins_camr_me_ia.pdf: 2916678 bytes, checksum: 8b9546af819b9a0442713418de34951b (MD5) / Esta dissertação apresenta um estudo sobre as recomposições feitas por Igor Stravinsky de obras de Carlo Gesualdo (ca. 1560-1613). Estas recomposições são duas: Monumentum pro Gesualdo ad CD annum, orquestração feita a partir de três madrigais de Gesualdo, e Tres Sacrae Cantiones, onde Stravinsky compõe as partes perdidas de três motetos de Gesualdo. Iniciando com o estudo do estilo de Gesualdo, baseado no trabalho de Turci-Escobar, as obras originais de Gesualdo recompostas por Stravinsky são analisadas. Comparando as recomposições de Stravinsky com a obra original de Gesualdo, a maneira como Stravinsky comenta a obra de Gesualdo em seu trabalho é investigada. A intenção é determinar como Stravinsky imprime seu estilo nessas peças, e como ele traz a música de Gesualdo para o século XX. / In this dissertation, a study of the Igor Stravinsky's re-compositions of Carlo Gesualdo's (ca. 1560-1613) works is presented. The re-compositions are two: Monumentum pro Gesualdo ad CD annum, a setting for instruments of three Gesualdos's madrigals, and Tres Sacrae Cantiones, where Stravinsky composed the missing parts of the three Gesualdo's motets. Starting with a study of Gesualdo's style, based on turci-Escobar's work, the original Gesualdo's pieces re-composed by Stravinsky are analyzed.By comparing Stravinsky's re-compositions and Gesualdo's works, the way that Stravinsky comments the Gesulado's style is investigated. The intention is both to determine how Stravinsky imprints his own style on to it and how he brings Gesualdo's music to XX Century.

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Im Gegensatz zu in der Strawinsky-Literatur geläufigen Ansichten zur Bedeutung von Oktatonik für Strawinskys Werk kann dessen ›Leitharmonie‹ als ein verschlungenes pentatonisches Netzwerk verstanden werden: Das diesem zugrundeliegende melodische Pattern – kleine Terz, Ganzton – ist aus der anhemitonischen pentatonischen Skala ableitbar, welche Strawinsky in einem Brief von 1913 als ›pseudo-chinesische Skala‹ bezeichnet hatte. Im Unterschied zu gängigen oktatonischen Interpretationen hebt mein Zugang die ›Pentatonisierung‹ des chromatischen Tonraums hervor und beleuchtet zwei Beispiele dieses verschleierten ›Pentatonizismus‹, die der zweiten Kompositionsphase der Oper Le Rossignol (1913–14) vorangehen: erstens eine Leitharmonie-Skizze zur Einleitung des ersten Akts (1908–09), wo orthographische und modale Eigenheiten die Gegenwart der ›pseudo-chinesischen Skala‹ maskieren; zweitens einige Stellen in L’Oiseau de feu (1909), wo dieselbe Skala wiederum durch eine vertikale Überlagerung pentatonischer Ketten mit Kleinterz-Ganzton-Zellen verschleiert ist. Eine Charakterisierung dieser bislang kaum untersuchten Techniken verlangt es, der Schlüsselrolle der pentatonischen Skala in den zwei besprochenen (wie auch möglicherweise in anderen zwischen 1908 und 1914 entstandenen) Werken Aufmerksamkeit zuzuwenden. ›Pentatonizismus‹ – eine oft vernachlässigte Facette von Strawinskys Kompositionspraxis um 1910 – kann sowohl auf den Einfluss einer modernen Pariser als auch der traditionellen chinesischen Klanglichkeit zurückgeführt werden; er manifestiert sich in der ›Leitharmonie‹ und durchdringt Strawinskys Musik auch jenseits von Chinoiserien in der Oper. / The present study offers an alternative understanding of Stravinsky’s ›Leitharmonie‹ that reads it as an intricate pentatonic network instead of octatonicism. The underlying melodic pattern – minor third with whole tone – is derivable from the anhemitonic pentatonic scale, which Stravinsky referred to in a letter from 1913 as the ›pseudo-Chinese scale‹. Contrary to existing octatonic interpretations, my approach highlights the ›pentatonicisation‹ of the chromatic pitch space and illuminates two instances of this disguised pentatonicism that precedes the second composition phase of the opera, Le Rossignol (1913–14): firstly, a ›Leitharmonie‹ sketch for the Introduction to Act I (1908–1909), where orthographical and modal idiosyncrasies mask the presence of the ›pseudo-Chinese scale‹; secondly, several passages in L’Oiseau de feu (1909), where the same scale is again veiled through vertical superimposition of pentatonic chains with minor-third-major-second cells. A characterisation of these little-examined techniques calls for critical attention to the key roles of the pentatonic scale in the two discussed works (and potentially others created between 1908 and 1914). Pentatonicism – an oft-neglected facet of Stravinsky’s compositional practice around 1910 – can be traced back to the influence of modern Parisian as well as traditional Chinese sonorities; it manifests in ›Leitharmonie‹ and penetrates Stravinsky’s music beyond the chinoiseries in the opera.

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Orientador: Silvio Ferraz Mello Filho / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Artes / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-17T12:56:10Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Penha_GustavoRodrigues_M.pdf: 6936744 bytes, checksum: 7acb5e659563bf1478fe72c57654ad86 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010 / Resumo: Este trabalho busca compreender o conceito de reescritura e aplicá-lo na análise de peças compostas durante os séculos XX e XXI. Num primeiro momento são delimitadas os campos de atuação da noção de reescritura tal como a compreendemos, a partir de uma fundamentação teórica provinda principalmente na crítica literária pós-estruturalista, em textos de autores como Gérard Genette, Monique Goullet e Anne-Claire Gignoux. Entretanto, a parte mais extensa do trabalho está na análise de diferentes ferramentas e operadores composicionais relacionados à reescritura na música, que serão observados em Monumentum, de Igor Stravinsky, Chemins IV de Luciano Berio, AN de Stefano Gervasoni, e Passo de Manoel Dias de Silvio Ferraz. Como parte da pesquisa há também a partitura e uma breve análise de entorno de nenhum, nehuma, peça composta pelo autor deste trabalho, com o intuito da aplicação direta da ideia da reescritura numa prática composicional própria / Abstract: This works seeks to understand the concept of re-writing and apply it in theanalysis of musical works composed in the XX and XXI centuries. Firstly, the practice areas of the notion of rewriting are delimited, as we understand it, from a theorical approach stemmed mainly in post-structuralist literary criticism in texts by authors such as Gérard Genette, Monique Goullet and Anne-Claire Gignoux. However, the most extensive part of this work is the analysis of different tools and compositional operators related to rewriting on music, which will be observed in Monumentum of Igor Stravinsky, Luciano Berio of Chemins IV, AN of Stefano Gervasoni, and Passo de Manoel Dias of Silvio Ferraz. As part of the research there is also the score and a brief analysis of entorno de nenhum, nenhuma, piece composed by the author of this work, with the intention of the direct application of the idea of rewriting in his own compositional practice / Mestrado / Processos Criativos / Mestre em Música

Orientador: Eduardo Augusto Ostergren / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Artes / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-08T08:35:25Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Gomes_HermesCoelho_M.pdf: 911382 bytes, checksum: 050139607e19dab18b8ad22ab3baecab (MD5) Previous issue date: 2006 / Resumo: Em busca de uma maior compreensão da Sinfonia dos Salmos de Igor Stravinsky, tendo em vista sua interpretação dentro de um processo de preparação e execução, o presente trabalho apresenta recursos teóricos, históricos e técnicos bem como aponta elementos interpretativos como subsídios para o desenvolvimento de tal processo. O trabalho é composto de quatro capítulos que, tendo como foco central a obra em questão, aborda assuntos diversos buscando maior compreensão. O primeiro capítulo apresenta dados do compositor em uma perspectiva histórica. O segundo é uma reflexão sobre os textos bíblicos utilizados na obra e suas origens dentro da tradição hebraica. Já o terceiro capítulo é uma análise da partitura, onde são abordados parâmetros de forma, orquestração, instrumentação, escrita vocal, harmonia e contraponto. Concluindo o presente trabalho, o quarto capítulo apresenta elementos de interpretação da obra, com sugestões para sua preparação e execução. Este último capítulo, além de ser o objetivo primeiro do trabalho, justifica todo o esforço de sua realização / Abstract: As a means for a better understanding of The Symphony of Psalms by Igor Stravinsky, and having in mind its interpretation through the process of preparation and performance, this dissertation discusses theoretical, historical and technical elements that participate in the development of the interpretive process. It is comprised of four chapters each approaching distinct aspects of the composition. The first chapter, in historical perspective, presents data about the composer's life . The second reflects on the Biblical texts used in the work and their origins within the Hebrew tradition. The third presents an analysis of the score as it discusses technical aspects such as musical form, instrumentation, orchestration, vocal writing, harmony and counterpoint. As a conclusion, the fourth chapter discusses interpretive elements and practical suggestions for its performance and interpretation. This final chapter, is indeed the prime objective of this work, and justifies all effort for its realization / Mestrado / Mestre em Música

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