Œuvre majeure de l'historiographie communale, la Nuova cronica de Giovanni Villani constitue un passage obligé pour qui entend se plonger dans l'histoire de la Florence médiévale. Marchand, homme d’État et chroniqueur, son auteur incarne la figure du popolano grasso florentin. Narrant en treize livres l'histoire de sa cité et du monde, de ses origines jusqu'à 1348, elle a laissé plus d'une centaine de manuscrits, a participé à faire du toscan la langue des Italiens et a inspiré une bibliographie foisonnante. Cette thèse s'intéresse à un aspect largement ignoré de cet ouvrage, à savoir le rapport de l'auteur à l'histoire de son temps, en se focalisant sur les trois derniers livres couvrant les années 1326-1348. Période de mutations politiques et de bouleversements économiques, mais aussi de profonde effervescence culturelle, ces années marquent un tournant dans l'histoire communale : la Nuova cronica révèle à cet effet toute la richesse de ce premier Trecento florentin. L'étude de la chronologie de composition du texte laisse apparaître un délai très resserré entre les événements et leur retranscription. Cette quasi-contemporanéité de l'histoire pèse sur les outils et les méthodes de l'historien, qui doit revoir ses canaux d'information, renouveler ses sources et réinterpréter ses cadres explicatifs. Parallèlement à la mobilisation des réseaux marchands, l'étude des sources témoigne d'un usage intensif des documents d'archives, qui participent à créer une mémoire des institutions communales. L'analyse des cadres interprétatifs montre l'importance de la sensibilité religieuse du chroniqueur, une religion civique, qui teinte son récit d'une forte dimension moraliste et édifiante et lui donne parfois l'allure d'une somme d'exempla laïcs ou d'un manuel de vertus civiques. L'aspect exceptionnel des derniers livres de la chronique réside toutefois dans la fenêtre qu'ils ouvrent sur la culture des grands marchands florentins de ce début de XIVe siècle : à travers l'étude de deux aspects de cette culture, celle théologique et celle scientifique, il nous est donné à voir la capacité d'appropriation, par un laïc moyennement lettré, d'une large parcelle de la culture savante, constituant à cet égard un véritable exercice de vulgarisation et de médiation culturelle. / As a major work of communal historiography, Giovanni Villani's Nuova cronica is a milestone for whoever intends to immerse themselves into the history of medieval Florence. Merchant, statesman and writer, the author embodies the figure of the Florentine popolano grasso. Narrating in thirteen books the history of both his city and the world, from its origins to 1348, the chronicle has left more than one hundred manuscripts, contributed to making Tuscan the language of Italians, and has inspired an abundant bibliography. This thesis focuses on a largely ignored aspect of this book, namely the relationship the author has to the history of his time, focusing on the last three books covering the years 1326-1348. Those years were a period of important political and economic change, as of deep cultural liveliness, and marked a turning point in the communal history: the Nuova cronica reveals the prosperity of this early Florentine Trecento. The chronology of the writings shows a particularly small time span between the events and their transcription: this has its consequences on both the tools and methods of the historian, who is therefore required to re-study his information channels, renew his sources and reinterpret the explicative frameworks. In addition to relying on merchant networks, the study of the sources reveals an extensive use of archive documents, which create a memory of communal institutions. The analysis of the interpretive frameworks of history attests of the importance of the author's religious mindset; this paints his historical narrative with a strong moralistic and uplifting dimension, sometimes giving it the appearance of a sum of secular exempla or a manual of civic virtues. However, the remarkable aspect of the last books lies in the way they open new perspectives into the culture of the great Florentine merchants of this time. Through the study of two aspects of this culture, theological and scientific, the capacity of a moderately literate secular man to capture a large part of scholar culture is revealed. This makes the chronicle a true work of vulgarization which builds a link between different levels of culture.

A presente tese enfoca os processos composicionais de Edmundo Villani-Côrtes na sua Sinfonia nº 1 para Orquestra de Sopros. O estudo investiga as fronteiras da brasilidade popular e erudita da escrita do compositor, assim como o tipo de ferramentas que ele utiliza para escrever para banda sinfônica através da análise da obra escolhida. Defendemos a ideia de que sua literatura musical para banda sinfônica é inovadora por ter um tratamento orquestral diferenciado para essa formação, numa escrita erudita com conteúdos temáticos vindos da música popular. Do estudo, concluímos que o compositor tem uma assinatura ímpar na sua linguagem musical e apresenta-se como um autor representante da autenticidade brasileira. / This present thesis focuses on the composing procedures of Edmundo Villani-Cortes in his Symphony nº1 for the Wind Orchestra. This study investigates the borders of the popular and erudite brazilianity of the composer´s writing, as well as the type of tools he uses to write for the Symphonic Band going through the analysis of a selected piece. We defend that the idea of his musical literature for the Symphonic Band is innovating by having a different orchestral treatment for its formation, in a scholar writing which includes thematic compounds coming from the pop music. By this study, we conclude that the composer has an unique signature in his musical language and he presents himself as a representative author of the Brazilian authenticity

A presente tese enfoca os processos composicionais de Edmundo Villani-Côrtes na sua Sinfonia nº 1 para Orquestra de Sopros. O estudo investiga as fronteiras da brasilidade popular e erudita da escrita do compositor, assim como o tipo de ferramentas que ele utiliza para escrever para banda sinfônica através da análise da obra escolhida. Defendemos a ideia de que sua literatura musical para banda sinfônica é inovadora por ter um tratamento orquestral diferenciado para essa formação, numa escrita erudita com conteúdos temáticos vindos da música popular. Do estudo, concluímos que o compositor tem uma assinatura ímpar na sua linguagem musical e apresenta-se como um autor representante da autenticidade brasileira. / This present thesis focuses on the composing procedures of Edmundo Villani-Cortes in his Symphony nº1 for the Wind Orchestra. This study investigates the borders of the popular and erudite brazilianity of the composer´s writing, as well as the type of tools he uses to write for the Symphonic Band going through the analysis of a selected piece. We defend that the idea of his musical literature for the Symphonic Band is innovating by having a different orchestral treatment for its formation, in a scholar writing which includes thematic compounds coming from the pop music. By this study, we conclude that the composer has an unique signature in his musical language and he presents himself as a representative author of the Brazilian authenticity

Orientador: Mauricy Matos Martin / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Artes / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-19T14:57:39Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 AraujoFilho_AlfeuRodriguesde_D.pdf: 22030067 bytes, checksum: 1bf7c053f691cc3b238e16e66e0a3ff8 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011 / Resumo: A pesquisa descreve, inicialmente, o conceito do compositor Edmundo Villani- Côrtes. O foco principal está em apresentar um estudo analítico dos Timbres e Ritmatas do compositor em questão, sob o ponto de vista da prática interpretativa. Constam, nos anexos, os manuscritos (documento Histórico); as partituras digitalizadas; a musicografia e a discografia do compositor em ordem cronológica / Abstract: This research initially describes the concept of the composer Edmundo Villani- Côrtes. The main focus is to present an analytical approach from the composer's Timbres and Ritmatas, taking the performance into consideration. Manuscripts (historical document), digitized music scores and a compilation of the composer's musical pieces and records, were included in this work annex in chronological order / Doutorado / Praticas Interpretativas / Doutor em Música

Nowdays Karel Maria Drahotín baron Villani is practically unknown although he belonged to renowned and brilliant individualities of the Czech cultural life in the 19th century. First of all he was popular as liberal politician who held the same opinions like František Palacký. Villani gave himself to poetry as well though his poems did not reach the top. He was one of first authors who appreciated Mácha´s Máj. The thesis deals not only with baron Villani´s political opinions and his literary work but also his public activities, salon of his family and his legency created after his death as well.

The purpose of this study is to present a performance guide for singers on twelve selected songs in Brazilian Portuguese for voice and piano by Brazilian composer, pianist, and arranger Edmundo Villani-Côrtes (b.1930). Since 1949, Villani-Côrtes has been active in the musical scene of Brazil. He has a unique compositional style that seamlessly combines elements of both art music and popular music. Villani-Côrtes’s body of works includes over two hundred compositions for solo instrumental music, orchestral music, choral music, and art song. He has written over sixty songs in Brazilian Portuguese, including the Ciclo Cecília Meireles (1987), winner of the 1988 Prize of the Associação Paulista de Críticos de Arte (A.P.C.A.), but most of these remain unpublished. This performance guide is the result of three years of research, study and personal communication between the author, Villani-Côrtes, and poets whose words the composer used as lyrics. It offers a comprehensive body of information relevant for both the performer and voice teacher who approach this new and untraditional repertoire. It includes a concise biography of the composer, biographical information for the poets, comments on the compositional style of Villani-Côrtes, an overview of the Brazilian Portuguese International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)—with a chart of Brazilian Portuguese Sounds, IPA transcriptions with English word-by-word translations and poetic versions of all the lyrics, comments from the composer and the poets on each of the songs, and the technical information, pedagogical suggestions, and interpretative insights provided by the author.

Cette étude porte sur un corpus de chroniques du XIVe siècle qui comprend les trois principaux textes historiographiques florentins en langue vulgaire de cette période – Cronica delle cose occorrenti ne’ tempi suoi de Dino Compagni, Nuova Cronica de Giovanni Villani et Cronaca fiorentina de Marchionne di Coppo Stefani – et se fixe pour objet l’analyse des principaux concepts employés pour décrire le fonctionnement de la cité et ses enjeux, ainsi que l’identification des sources présentes dans les chroniques. L’analyse prend en compte à la fois l’écriture du fait politique et la valeur de celui-ci dans l’élaboration du discours de la cité.Pour mettre en évidence ce qui transparaît des principaux rouages politiques de la cité, les textes du corpus sont abordés selon les trois axes suivants : les rapports entre cité et citoyens dans le contexte de l’affirmation de la souveraineté du Comune et en regard des notions d’unité et de division ; la question de la liberté à Florence, ses principes fondamentaux, ses formes et ses représentations, par opposition à la tyrannie ; les liens entre cité céleste et cité des hommes à partir de l’analyse de la réception des signes célestes et des notions de providence, fortune et libre arbitre. L’approche retenue s’arrête sur les enjeux et les représentations propres à chacun de ces axes.De cette analyse conceptuelle il ressort que les trois sources principales du discours de la cité sont les auteurs de l’Antiquité gréco-romaine, la théologie chrétienne et le droit. On trouve également des sources contemporaines des chroniqueurs : textes officiels et documents produits par la cité, auteurs de référence pour la période comme Dante Alighieri. / This study focuses on a corpus of chronicles of the Fourteenth century consisting in three main historiographical Florentine texts written in vernacular in this period, namely Cronica delle cose occorrenti ne’ tempi suoi by Dino Compagni, Nuova Cronica by Giovanni Villani and Cronaca fiorentina by Marchionne di Coppo Stefani. It aims at analyzing the principal concepts describing the running of the city and its stakes, as well as identifying the sources present in these chronicles. The analysis takes in account both the operation of writing the political experience and its value in elaborating the discourse on the city.To highlight what can be seen from the main aspects of political machinery in the city, the approach to the texts is threefold : the connections between city and citizens both in the context of the Comune’s increasing sovereignty and in the light of the concepts of unity and division ; the question of freedom in Florence, its fundamental principles, its forms and representations, in opposition to tyranny ; the links between the celestial city and the city of men based on the analysis of the reading of celestial omens and the concepts of Providence, Fortune and Free Will. The approach chosen concentrates on the stakes and representations peculiar to each of those subjects.From this conceptual analysis it emerges that the three main sources to the discourse on the city are the authors of Classical Antiquity, Christian Theology and Law. Contemporary sources of the chroniclers also can be found : official texts and documents produced by the city, noted authors in the period as, for instance, Dante Alighieri.