The purpose of this study is to make an investigation of the musical score of "The Passion According to St. Matthew" with attention given to the pictorial elements or symbolism in the composition. The study is confined mainly to the one composition, but attention is given to the historical background of the work, and examples of the pictorial technique of sacred music as it had been developed in the Netherlands.

Submitted by Filipe dos Santos (fsantos@pucsp.br) on 2018-08-13T13:05:52Z No. of bitstreams: 1 João Victor Barbosa.pdf: 5748645 bytes, checksum: 58b3ef288efce68ada8645265edfe6f8 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-13T13:05:52Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 João Victor Barbosa.pdf: 5748645 bytes, checksum: 58b3ef288efce68ada8645265edfe6f8 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2018-06-26 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES / This research analyzes the construction of the myth of the "Gods of Rock" from the communication and cultural processes that are present in musical documentaries produced between the years 1968-1971 and denominated rockumentaries, for specifically approaching musicians of the rock and roll genre in their networks. In a time when rock and roll became the mainstream media product for young people, The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus (1968), Woodstock (1969) and Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii (1971), productions which constitute the corpus of the present research, captured images of the presentations mentioned with the differential of bringing extra contents in documentary language, such as testimonials and backstage images. In the following decades, the three rockumentaries were reedited to add unpublished images and new proposals of assembly. We investigate the creative processes of these audiovisuals and argue that, especially in their reissues, the rockumentaries, in different ways, present mythical narratives and epic characters, making a translation within a certain time and space to compose the social imaginary of the " Gods of Rock. "The research is based on the analysis of documentaries, with emphasis on the socio-cultural reverberations that interfere in the processes of creation of these audiovisual pieces and in the social memory of rock and roll. The theoretical foundation is in the reflection on culture and creation processes by Edgar's Morin and Cecilia Salles and in discussions about the imaginary and the myths by Michel Maffesoli and Joseph Campbell / Esta pesquisa analisa a construção do mito dos “Deuses do Rock” a partir de processos comunicacionais e culturais presentes em documentários musicais produzidos entre os anos 1968-1971 e denominados rockumentários, por abordarem especificamente músicos do gênero rock and roll em suas redes. Em uma época em que o rock and roll tornava-se o principal produto midiático pensado para o consumo dos jovens, The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus (1968), Woodstock (1969) e Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii (1971), produções que constituem o corpus da presente pesquisa, capturaram registros de apresentações com o diferencial de trazer conteúdos extras em linguagem documental, como depoimentos e imagens de bastidores. Nas décadas seguintes, os três rockumentários foram reeditados para agregar imagens inéditas e novas propostas de montagem. Investigamos os processos de criação destas obras audiovisuais e argumentamos que, sobretudo em suas reedições, as peças, de formas distintas, se apropriam de narrativas míticas e personagens épicos, fazendo uma tradução dentro de um determinado tempo e espaço para compor o imaginário social dos "Deuses do Rock”. A pesquisa parte da análise dos documentários, com ênfase nas reverberações socioculturais que interferem nos processos de criação dessas peças audiovisuais e na memória social do rock and roll. A fundamentação teórica envolve a reflexão sobre cultura e processos de criação de Edgar Morin e Cecília Salles e discussões acerca do imaginário e dos mitos em Michel Maffesoli e Joseph Campbell

Thesis (D.W.S.)--Institute for Worship Studies, 2006. / Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (D.W.S.)--Institute for Worship Studies, 2006. / Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 297-304).

This thesis examines the symbolism of thirty-five slave songs that existed in the pre-Civil War South in the United States in order to gain a more profound insight into the values of the slaves. The songs chosen were representative of the 300 songs reviewed. The methodology used in the analysis was adapted from Ralph K. White's "Value Analysis: The Nature and Use of the Method." The slave songs provided the slaves with an opportunity to express their feelings on matters they deemed important, often by using Biblical symbols to "mask" the true meanings of their songs from whites. The major values of the slaves as found in their songs were independence, justice, determination, religion, hope, family love, and group unity.

This thesis focuses on the articulation in music of human worldviews, and the social contexts in which they emerge. It suggests that people project various forms of social reality through symbolic systems which operate dynamically to maintain and recreate cultural patterns. The symbolic system investigated in support of this suggestion is that constituted by Venda guitar songs. In the performance of these songs, social reality emerges in a combination of symbolic forms: verbal, musical and somatic. The combination of these symbolic forms serves as a medium for individual self-awareness basic to the establishment of social reality and identity, and the drive for social power and legitimacy. A study of these symbolic forms and their performance indicates that musicians invoke the potential of communal music to increase social support for certain principles on which survival strategies in a turbulently changing society might be based. The discourse of Venda guitar songs incorporates modes of popular expression and consciousness, and thus attempts to invoke states of intensified emotion to promote these survival strategies. Performance occasions emerge as a focus for community orientation and the exploration of social networks. They promote stabilizing social and economic interaction, and serve as a basis for moral and cooperative action. Social reality also emerges in musical style, which is treated as the audible articulation of human thought and emotion. Stylistic choices are treated as integral to the conceptualization of contemporary existence. A study of these choices reveals varying degrees of cultural resistance and assimilation, ranging from musical styles which are essentially rooted in traditional social patterns, to styles which integrate traditional and adopted musical elements as articulations of changing self-perceptions, social aspirations, and quests for new social identity.

In his Art of Piano Playing, the renowned Russian pianist and teacher Heinrich Neuhaus asserts that the concept of an "artistic image" can give musical meaning to the score, help pianists to understand the musical content of a composition, and help students to find pianistic expression in the details. The concept of artistic image can be applied in pedagogy, guiding young pianists to learn content and organize their practice. The artistic image is the picture of a musical idea and the musical language, which comes from melody, phrasing, musical structure, and the emotional and poetic content. Twelve Children's Pieces of Medium Difficulty, Op. 31, is one of the important works for young pianists by Reinhold Glière (1875–1956). The set has emotional characteristics that allow intermediate young pianists to grasp its rich content and then develop technically. His piano works have been little studied by scholars as part of a pedagogical approach. This pedagogical guide uses the concept of artistic image in Glière's work to help young pianists, or their teachers, prepare this work thoroughly and perform it successfully on the stage.

In this dissertation, I explore the musical prosody of the literary symbolists and the influence of this prosody on fin-de-siècle French music. Contrary to previous categorizations of music as symbolist based on a characteristic "sound," I argue that symbolist aesthetics demonstrably influenced musical construction and reception. My scholarship reveals that symbolist musical works across genres share an approach to composition rooted in the symbolist concept of musicality of language, a concept that shapes this music on sonic, structural, and conceptual levels. I investigate the musical responses of four different composers to a single symbolist text, Oscar Wilde's one-act play Salomé, written in French in 1891, as case studies in order to elucidate how a symbolist musicality of language informed their creation, performance, and critical reception. The musical works evaluated as case studies are Antoine Mariotte's Salomé, Richard Strauss's Salomé, Aleksandr Glazunov's Introduction et La Danse de Salomée, and Florent Schmitt's La Tragédie de Salomé. Recognition of symbolist influence on composition, and, in the case of works for the stage, on production and performance expands the repertory of music we can view critically through the lens of symbolism, developing not only our understanding of music's role in this difficult and often contradictory aesthetic philosophy but also our perception of fin-de-siècle musical culture in general.

Franz Schreker (1878-1934) was a Jewish-Austrian composer of great success during the first decades of the twentieth century. Schreker’s reputation diminished after 1933 when Hitler came to power and, in 1938, his compositions were labeled Entartete Musik (“degenerate music”) by the Nazis in a public display in Düsseldorf. The Third Reich and post-war Germany saw Schreker as a decadent outcast, misunderstanding his unique style that combined elements of romanticism, expressionism, impressionism, symbolism, and atonality. This study of Schreker’s Lieder will pursue two goals. First, it will analyze the Mutterlieder (before 1898), the Fünf Gesänge (1909), and the first piece from Vom ewigen Leben (1923) stylistically. Schreker composed nearly four dozen Lieder, incorporating a wide range of styles and ideas. By studying and performing these songs written at various points in his career (including early songs, songs written after he met Schoenberg, and his last songs during the height of his fame), I hope to develop a clearer understanding of how Schreker synthesized the many cultural forces and artistic movements that seem to have influenced his compositional style. Second, this study will consider the sociopolitical circumstances that fueled the disintegration of his reputation. This disintegration occurred not just during the Third Reich, but also afterwards, notably in an often discussed essay by Theodor Adorno. Only in the last thirty years have scholarly voices critical of such rejections of Schreker emerged. My ultimate goal, then, is to join this reevaluation, studying and contextualizing this repertory to develop a new understanding of an oft-neglected chapter in the history of the German Lied.