Thesis--University of Michigan. / Photocopy of typescript. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University Microfilms International, 1979. -- 21 cm. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 211-215).

Thesis (D.M.A.)--University of North Texas, 2006. / System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Accompanied by 4 recitals, recorded June 25, 2001, Nov. 18, 2002, Mar. 21, 2005, and Feb. 20, 2006. Includes bibliographical references (p. 44-48).

The primary focus of this thesis is a selection of lesser-known Ballets Russes works, which, despite being largely neglected in academic studies, constitute important chapters in the history of the company. The bright light of publicity that shone on Stravinsky - in particular on Le Sacre du Printemps - has cast shadows over other Ballets Russes works, creating an over-simplified historical perspective. This is not to deny that Le Sacre was a watershed moment for the company, and in seeking to enrich our understanding of its place within broader musical trends, the thesis is divided into three sections, representing works composed before, around the same time as, and after, Stravinsky’s notorious masterpiece. Following a brief introduction, and a descriptive chapter outlining Diaghilev’s artistic heritage, as well as Paris before the arrival of his company, the first section deals with the Ballets Russes’s early modus operandi; focusing on Nikolai Tcherepnin’s Le Pavillon d’Armide and Reynaldo Hahn’s Le Dieu bleu. The next explores the Ballets Russes in the wake of Le Sacre du Printemps, using Erik Satie’s Parade as an example of a ballet indebted to Stravinsky’s innovations. However, influence was not entirely a one-way phenomenon, and part of this section also discusses connections between the early Ballets Russes works and Le Sacre. Finally, the season of French ballets performed in 1924 allows me to reflect on the stylistic changes that occurred in the later years of the company, using Darius Milhaud’s Le Train bleu, Georges Auric’s Les Fâcheux, and Francis Poulenc’s Les Biches as examples of the company’s shift to an enterprise that placed greater emphasis on the visual. This research argues that even the lesser-known works, despite their apparent lack of musical innovation, contributed to the more path-breaking scores that have come to command scholarly interest. Moreover, the seasons I have highlighted reflect the changing ideologies of Diaghilev and his company, as it evolved from a Russian troupe inspired by the Mir Iskusstva, to a European artistic collective presenting the ideas of Cocteau and Les Six to Paris. Areas of future research extend from this thesis, as many other lesser-known ballets not encompassed here would clearly benefit from detailed scrutiny. Applying the principles of musical examination here outlined, together with an open-minded approach to new historical perspectives, should further help to redress the balance of scholarly attention that has skewed the overall understanding of the Ballets Russes.

The violin works of Igor Stravinsky form an integral and vital part of the contemporary violin repertoire. The violin works fall into two categories: original compositions and transcriptions of previous compositions. Included in these transcriptions are orchestral suites and selections from ballet and opera. Many similarities can be noted among the compositions of this genre. The majority were composed or transcribed during a fifteen year period of Stravinsky's career and they exhibit a particular style of composition utilized by Stravinsky at that time. These violin works also generate from an amiable association between Stravinsky and a young violin virtuoso, Samuel Dushkin. During this time, Stravinsky was changing the focus of his career from that of being primarily a composer, to composer, conductor and performer. This necessitated compositions which Stravinsky could perform on tours with Dushkin. This study will be primarily concerned with Stravinsky's compositions for violin written during the years 1931 to 1935. In order to put these compositions in perspective, it is beneficial to investigate earlier events in Stravinsky's life.

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The lecture recital was given on August 8, 1978. The discussion of constructive features in Gabrielli's In ecclesiis (1615) and Canzon VIII à 8 (1615) and Stravinsky's In Memoriam Dylan Thomas established that the architecture of St. Mark's Cathedral and the selected works by the composers bear a simple number relation.

Detta är en studie som handlar om att förbereda sig inför en trumpetprovspelning till en symfoniorkester och en dokumentation av den processen samt en undersökning huruvida man kan få till ett rikare trumpetspel med erfarenhet och kunskap vad beträffar trumpetteknik, orkestertradition, repertoarkännedom och djupare förståelse kring musiken. Jag kommer att analysera två inspelningar jag gör med trumpetutdrag ur den symfoniska orkesterrepertoaren för att sedan komma fram till en avslutande tredje inspelning. / <p>Tidigare efternamn: Svensson</p>

La polytonalité relève d’une démarche compositionnelle dont la définition d’ensemble s’avère extrêmement simple : il y a polytonalité quand deux ou plusieurs tonalités sont entendues simultanément. Mais cette apparente simplicité soulève paradoxalement une masse considérable de problèmes théoriques et analytiques, car cette forme d’écriture musicale, l’une des plus fluctuantes de l’harmonie contemporaine, ne permet précisément pas « d’entendre » deux tonalités simultanément de manière systématique. Cette thèse tente de dissiper un certain nombre de brouillards qui flottent depuis toujours autour de la polytonalité, d’un point de vue théorique et analytique tout d’abord, en proposant de refonder la théorie polytonale et en mettant en place une méthode analytique spécifique à cette forme d’écriture. D’un point de vue historique, cette thèse tente de dresser la filiation authentique de la polytonalité et de comprendre quelles sont les facteurs ayant entraînés son expansion et son déclin. Le sujet étant très vaste, de nombreuses études existent, offrant des perspectives très diverses sur ce phénomène complexe, mais peut-être qu’aucune n’avait jamais réellement tenté d’embrasser le sujet dans son intégralité. / Polytonality depends of a compositional approach which the definition of turns out extremely simple: there is polytonality when two or several keys are simultaneously heard. This visible simplicity creates paradoxically a considerable mass of theoretical and analytical problems, because this musical writing, one of the most fluctuating of the contemporary harmony, does not exactly allow "to hear" two keys simultaneously in a systematic way. This thesis tries to dissipate fogs which float for a long time around polytonality: from a theoretical and analytical point of view first of all, by suggesting re-establishing polytonal theory and by setting up a specific analytical method. From a historic point of view, this thesis tries to find the authentic origins of polytonality and to understand what are factors having pulled its expansion and its decline. Numerous studies about polytonality exist, offering very different perspectives on this complex phenomenon, but maybe no one had tried to embrace the subject in its entirety.

Em observação à existência de obras de Stravinsky influenciadas pela música popular americana (incluindo Ragtime for Eleven Instruments, Preludium for Jazz Ensemble, Tango e Ebony Concerto) esta tese investiga processos identitários através dos quais o compositor fora possivelmente interpelado pela ideia do popular enquanto ponto de partida para situacionais possibilidades estéticas modernistas. Explora também tópicos da teoria hipertextual conforme proposta por Genette (1982), a fim de examinar a presença de transposições hipertextuais em empréstimos de ragtime realizados por Stravinsky. Por fim, realiza revisão de aspectos pertinentes a correntes teóricas no âmbito da relação entre alturas (SCHENKER, 1906, 1910, 1922, 1935; LERDAHL, 2001; STRAUS, 2014), de textura, densidade e movimento musical (BERRY, 1987), da repetição (FERRAZ, 1998) e da sucessão ordenada (HORLACHER, 2011); e da potencialidade projetiva (HASTY, 1997), com o propósito de apurar traços da articulação destas questões em processos composicionais de Stravinsky, com ênfase nas obras acima referidas. Os resultados obtidos por este trabalho apontam que os empréstimos de \"popular\" articulados por transposições hipertextuais atuam enquanto ponto de partida para criação de obras inéditas, as quais são estruturadas através de múltiplos centros de altura principal, níveis de prolongamento, blocos simultâneos e paralelismos. / Considering Stravinsky\'s American popular music inflected works (including Ragtime for Eleven Instruments, Preludium for Jazz Ensemble, Tango and Ebony Concerto), the present thesis aims to investigate identity processes through which Stravinsky was possibly challenged by the popular as a starting point for occasional modernist aesthetic possibilities. It also explores hypertextual theory topics as proposed by Genette (1982), in order to examine issues related to hypertextual transpositions in Stravinsky\'s ragtime borrowings. Finally, it carries out a review of theoretical trends relevant aspects, concearning pitch relations (SCHENKER, 1906, 1910, 1922, 1935 and LERDAHL, 2001); texture, density and musical movement (BERRY, 1987); repetition (FERRAZ, 1998); ordered succession (HORLACHER, 2011); and projective potentiality (HASTY, 1997), with the purpose of ascertaining traces of the articulation of these issues into Stravinsky\'s compositional processes. The results obtained by this work point out that the popular borrowings articulated by hypertextual transpositions act as a starting point for the creation of new works, which are structured through multiple pitch centers, levels of the basic space, simultaneous blocks and parallelism.

Em observação à existência de obras de Stravinsky influenciadas pela música popular americana (incluindo Ragtime for Eleven Instruments, Preludium for Jazz Ensemble, Tango e Ebony Concerto) esta tese investiga processos identitários através dos quais o compositor fora possivelmente interpelado pela ideia do popular enquanto ponto de partida para situacionais possibilidades estéticas modernistas. Explora também tópicos da teoria hipertextual conforme proposta por Genette (1982), a fim de examinar a presença de transposições hipertextuais em empréstimos de ragtime realizados por Stravinsky. Por fim, realiza revisão de aspectos pertinentes a correntes teóricas no âmbito da relação entre alturas (SCHENKER, 1906, 1910, 1922, 1935; LERDAHL, 2001; STRAUS, 2014), de textura, densidade e movimento musical (BERRY, 1987), da repetição (FERRAZ, 1998) e da sucessão ordenada (HORLACHER, 2011); e da potencialidade projetiva (HASTY, 1997), com o propósito de apurar traços da articulação destas questões em processos composicionais de Stravinsky, com ênfase nas obras acima referidas. Os resultados obtidos por este trabalho apontam que os empréstimos de \"popular\" articulados por transposições hipertextuais atuam enquanto ponto de partida para criação de obras inéditas, as quais são estruturadas através de múltiplos centros de altura principal, níveis de prolongamento, blocos simultâneos e paralelismos. / Considering Stravinsky\'s American popular music inflected works (including Ragtime for Eleven Instruments, Preludium for Jazz Ensemble, Tango and Ebony Concerto), the present thesis aims to investigate identity processes through which Stravinsky was possibly challenged by the popular as a starting point for occasional modernist aesthetic possibilities. It also explores hypertextual theory topics as proposed by Genette (1982), in order to examine issues related to hypertextual transpositions in Stravinsky\'s ragtime borrowings. Finally, it carries out a review of theoretical trends relevant aspects, concearning pitch relations (SCHENKER, 1906, 1910, 1922, 1935 and LERDAHL, 2001); texture, density and musical movement (BERRY, 1987); repetition (FERRAZ, 1998); ordered succession (HORLACHER, 2011); and projective potentiality (HASTY, 1997), with the purpose of ascertaining traces of the articulation of these issues into Stravinsky\'s compositional processes. The results obtained by this work point out that the popular borrowings articulated by hypertextual transpositions act as a starting point for the creation of new works, which are structured through multiple pitch centers, levels of the basic space, simultaneous blocks and parallelism.