Tesis sobre el tema "Musicology / Organ / 20th century"

Within the sacred choral music of composer Ralph Vaughan Williams, little is known regarding his subset of works intended for liturgical use. This study focuses on the canticle settings for choir and organ, written by Ralph Vaughan Williams for use in Anglican Worship. The compositions in this study include: Magnificat and Nunc dimittis (Village Service), Te Deum in G, Service in D Minor and Te Deum and Benedictus. This study provides a discussion of the structure and history of the Anglican service and a description of how canticle settings traditionally function in liturgical worship. Each work in this study is analyzed with particular attention given to form and structure, harmonic language, text derivation and declamation, melodic tendencies and the role of the organ accompaniment. Evidence gathered from this study demonstrates that, although the liturgical canticle settings for choir and organ are diverse in function and style, they contain many common characteristics in such compositional areas as: structural form, voicings, consistent use of thematic material, and the effective application of text to music. Suggestions for performance options of the settings are also included in the results of this study. It is hoped that, through differentiating between these works with regard to function and style, this study will help close the lacuna in the choral literature concerning Vaughan Williams' smaller liturgical works and serve as an introduction to modern choral conductors.

This thesis examines organ reform in England between 1901 and 1965, an arena of practical music-making and intellectual and ideological debates in which a number of related practices surrounding the English organ – notably its scholarship, aesthetics of design, liturgical functions, native and foreign repertoires, including J. S. Bach’s organ music – played a central role in transforming the sound, design, and appearance of the instrument. Whilst influential musicians asserted that the English organ of the first half of the twentieth century was a great work of art, and survived in what could be termed ‘splendid isolation’ from Continental models, others contended that it lacked a logical relationship with more than a home-grown repertory. However, supporters of the English organ claimed that technological and tonal improvements made it the most perfect medium for Bach performance. It was a renewed interest in historical organs and repertory that exposed the limitations of cultural centrism, pointing to the English organ’s weakness as a point of departure for understanding its European repertory. This insistence paved the way for an enthusiastic reception of other organs, which, through their construction and new tonal qualities, won the favour of musicians who had found the English organ too limited and focused on a particular culture. The thesis allows historical actors to populate the discourse, revealing the diverse practices out of which a quest for reform emerged. As such the organ provides a fascinating and preliminary rehearsal case for what in the 1970s and 80s would be termed the early music revival.

This dissertation is concerned with the relationship between the trumpet and organ in twentieth-century music for this ensemble and how that relationship effects performance with regard to organ registration and synchronization. The compositions discussed include "The Other Voices of the Trumpet," by Daniel Pinkham (1971); "Jericho: Battle Music," by William Albright (1976); "Three Pictures of Satan," by Jere Hutcheson (1975); and "Okna," by Petr Eben (1980). The theoretical writings of Pierre Boulez, Robert Erickson, and Donald Cogan deal with developing a contemporary concept of texture. This dissertation applies their theory that texture exists in two dimensions: vertical and horizontal. Stratification and blending of timbres comprise the vertical dimension. The succession of textures, governed by tempo, creates the second dimension. Chapter I provides an historical setting for the genre, introduces the theory of Boulez, Erickson, and Cogan, and supplies the programmatic content of the four works chosen for analysis. In Chapter II , the vertical elements of texture in these four works are isolated and examined. Chapter III deals with Pierre Boulez's theory that the succession of textures, governed by tempo, shapes the work. Each work is examined with regard to tempo, either mobile (fluctuating) or fixed. In Chapter IV the analysis is related to performance. Stratified textures, fused ensemble timbres, and their horizontal progression present problems for the ensemble in organ registration and synchronization. There are general guidelines given for registration as well as specific registration problems encountered in stratified textures and fused ensemble timbres. Synchronization, or coordination of events is the second challenge presented by the horizontal progression of textures.

À partir d’une approche documentaire, éditoriale et historique du périodique musicologique est interrogée la participation des revues académiques à la construction d’une discipline.Composé de 122 titres américains, français et allemands du 20e siècle ainsi que de l’Archiv für Musikwissenschaft, de la Revue de Musicologie et du Musical Quarterly, le corpus est soumis à une double observation, macroscopique et microscopique, sur le temps long, ainsi qu’à une analyse des sommaires. Partant de l’idée que la musicologie est une forme d’écriture sur la musique, cette investigation a pour objectif d’éclairer les ambiguïtés et l’historicité du périodique savant sur la musique ainsi que de repérer la manière dont l’articulation entre science, écriture et musique agit sur la revue musicologique. Instrument rhétorique et de captation du lecteur, cette dernière régule, hiérarchise et contrôle un territoire disciplinaire qu’elle délimite. Espace de représentation, le périodique musicologique fabrique l’histoire et l’identité d’un collectif qu’il fédère et dont il constitue le support de communication. La capacité de la revue à accepter la différence et à relier, à laisser place aux polémiques et aux prises de position, ainsi qu’à faire circuler le discours en font un objet hétérogène en perpétuelle transformation que l’on envisage comme un objet culturel
Basing on a documentary, editorial and historical approach of the musicological periodical and considering musicology as a form of writing about music, we examine the contribution of journals to the construction of a discipline. Consisting of 122 american, french and german titles, as well as of three leading journals in musicology, the Archiv für Musikwissenschaft, the Revue de Musicologie and The Musical Quarterly, the corpus is submitted to a macroscopical and microscopical observation and to a content analysis. The aim of this investigation is to shed light on the ambiguities and the historicity of learned journals about music. As a rhetorical instrument, the periodical circumscribes a disciplinary territory. This medium of communication federates a collective of which it writes the story, elaborates the history and constructs the identity. By its faculty to accept differences, to link, to leave room to controversy as well as to put discourses into circulation, it can be viewed as a cultural and a heterogeneous object. The articulation between science, writing and music acts on the musicological periodical which is in perpetual transformation

The purpose of this study is to determine the influence of scholarly research on the orchestral performance practice of conductor Raymond Leppard.This study presents, with supporting evidence, what an international conductor does today to incorporate the results of research into the interpretation of music. From this study, the writer has presented the influence scholarly research has had on orchestral performance practice, how one of today's conductor and orchestras deal with the issues raised and how they are carried into current performances, and to what degree do musicologists influence his performance. Orchestra conductors continue to learn from performance practice research and young conductors must be encouraged to gain knowledge from this field.Three scholarly musicians, Arnold Dolmetsch (1858-1940), Edmund H. Fellowes (1870-1951), and Thurston Dart (1921-1971), among many others, did much to revive authentic performances of earlier music. Their critical and historical writings are based on original sources and the concept of interpretation by studying composers' original manuscripts and editions in order to better present their musical style and heritage. This developed a strong movement towards the study of incorporating authentic music research into music performance.Maestro Leppard is known particularly for his interpretations of seventeenth and eighteenth century music. He prepared the revivals of Monteverdi and Cavalli's Italian operas. Maestro Leppard has had many experiences with European and American orchestras and has made many recordings. The contents of the interview focused on (1) orchestra size and seating, (2) the authenticity of music, (3) some basic performance practice elements such as tempo, rhythm, dynamics, articulation and phrasing, ornamentation, vibrato, and portamento, (4) string bowing, (5) editions, and (6) interpretation and personal observations.
School of Music

This thesis contends that technologically-derived resurrections of human bodies and bodily fragments can be viewed as indicative of a 'post-biological' ontology. Drawing from examples in which human bodies are resurrected, both figuratively and actually, this thesis puts forward the term 'post-biological subject' as an ideological framework for conceptualising the reconfiguration of human ontology that results from various medical technologies that 'resurrect' the human body. In this instance, the term 'postbiological', borrowed from Hans Moravec who uses it denote a future in which human being is radically disembodied and resurrected within a digital realm, is used somewhat ironically: where Moravec imagines an afterlife in which the body is discarded as so much 'meat', the post-biological afterlife of the body in this thesis centres around a form of corporeal resurrection. Corpses, living organs and excreta may all be resurrected, some of them in digital format, yet this kind of resurrection departs radically from the disembodied spiritual bliss imagined in many conceptualisations of resurrection. The post-biological subject resists ontological delineation and problematises boundaries defining self and other, living and dead, and human and nonhuman and is fraught with a number of cultural anxieties about its unique ontological status. These concerns are analysed in the context of a number of phenomena, including melancholy, horror, monstrosity and the uncanny, all of which similarly indicate an anxious fixation with human ontology. The purpose of discussing post-biological bodies in relation to phenomena such as melancholy or the uncanny is not to reinstate as ideological frameworks the psychoanalytic models from which these concepts are derived, but rather to use them as starting points for more complex analyses of postbiological ontology. The first and second chapters of this thesis discuss instances in which the human body is posthumously modified, drawing on Gunther von Hagens's Body Worlds exhibition and the Visible Human Project. The Body Worlds plastinates are situated in a liminal and ambiguous ontological space between life and death, and it is argued that their extraordinary ontological status evokes a form of imagined melancholy, wherein the longed-for and lost melancholic object is a complete process of death. In the case of the Visible Human Project, it is argued that the gruesome and highly technologised process of creating the Visible Male, wherein the corpse is effectively dehumanised and iv rendered geometric, evokes the trope of horror, while at the same time being fraught with a nostalgic longing for a pre-technological, anatomically 'authentic' body. The third and fourth chapters of this thesis discuss instances in which the living human body is reconfigured, focusing on immortal cell lines and organ transplantation, and on medical imaging technologies such as computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging. In the third chapter it is argued that organ transplantation and the creation of immortal cell lines give rise to profound anxieties about ontological contamination through their capacity to render permeable the imagined boundaries defining self, and in this way invoke the monstrous. The fourth chapter interrogates the representation of medical imaging in Don DeLillo?s novel White Noise, arguing that the medical representation of the body functions as a form of double, a digital doppelganger that elicits an uncanny anxiety through its capacity to presage death.

The Composers' Collective, founded by leftist composers in 1932 New York City, sought to create proletarian music that avoided the "bourgeois" traditions of the past and functioned as a vehicle to engage Americans in political dialogue. The Collective aimed to understand how the modern composer became isolated from his public, and discussions on the relationship between music and society pervade the radical writings of Marc Blitzstein, Charles Seeger, and Elie Siegmeister, three of the organization's most vocal members. This new proletarian music juxtaposed revolutionary text with avant-garde musical idioms that were incorporated in increasingly greater quantities; thus, composers progressively acclimated the listener to the dissonance of modern music, a distinctive sound that the Collective hoped would become associated with revolutionary ideals. The mass songs of the two Workers' Song Books published by the Collective, illustrate the transitional phase of the musical implementation of their ideology. In contrast, a case study of the song "Chinaman! Laundryman!" by Ruth Crawford Seeger, a fringe member of the Collective, suggests that this song belongs within the final stage of proletarian music, where the text and highly modernist music seamlessly interact to create what Charles Seeger called an "art-product of the highest type."

In this essay the reception of Helena Munktell’s 1885 1921 compositions are mapped andanalysed. The term reception is used to express to what extent Munktell’s compositions wereperformed, and also how they were received in newspaper reviews. The reception is studiedholistically. This means that all identifiable concerts and all accessible newspaper reviews havebeen taken into consideration, and that the mapping and analysis aims to demonstrate how thereception differs between genres and countries, as wel l as how it changes over time.Helena Munktell (1852 1919) was a Swedish composer, pianist, and singer. Hercatalogue is concise, but she composed music in several different genres. In 1915 she wasinducted into The Royal Swedish Academy of Music Munktell was active in both Sweden andFrance, and her work shows traces of Swedish folk music as well as French style elements. Shestudied composition with a number of teacher s, both in Stockholm and Paris. Her mostinfluential teacher was Vincent d’Indy. Through him directly, and César Franck indirectly, hercompositions came to include neo French mannerisms such as cyclic form, colourful chordchanges, and downplaying the imp ortance of melody in favour of harmonic progression.The analysis was done in four stages. In the first stage facts were collected. Thebulk of the source material was gathered from a scrapbook with reviews from Munktell ’sposthumous collections, and from the national database of Swedish newspapers Svenskadagstidningar In the second stage a calendar of all identifiable concerts was comprised. In thethird stage an account of all compositions, concerts, and reviews for each respective genre wascreated. In the fourth stage the results were analysed from a historical perspective and fromPierre Bourdieu’s theory on capital and fieldApproximately 140 concerts have been identified. The vocal genres are dominantmore than half of the performances concern works for vocal soloists. The opera I Firenze wasperformed in Stockholm 13 times. This accomplishment can be attributed to the fact thatMunktell had an abundance of what Bourdieu call s cultural and social capital. The opera andthe vocal performances were almost exclusively well reviewed. Munktell’s compositions werealso successful in France. She became a member of the prestigious organisation SociétéNationale de Musique where several of her compositions were performed. Three of her fourorchestral works were premiered in France, as was her violin sonata. Munktell’s success inFrance can be explained partly by her compositions having a strong French influence, and thefact that cultural capital is highly valued in France. Dalsvit was the only orchestral work thatwas performed in Sweden during her lifetime and it received very mixed reviews. The violinsonata is the instrumental composition that w as performed the most. It received mixed reviewsin the daily newspapers at the time of its first performance in Stockholm in 1905, butconsiderably more positive appraisal after the memorial concert at The Royal Swedish Operain 1921. This can be explained by the societal interest and appreciation of German musicaldominance giving way to F rench musical styles in a different way in 1921.The account from Swedish Musical Heritage Anders Edling’s biography onHelena Munktell, saying that all contemporary re views of Munktell as a composer were positiveis incorrect; they were mixed, varying between genres, and changing over time.A similar analysis could be carried out concerning other composers works. Suchan analysis would make it possible to compare the reception between two or more composers’work, but also how their different prerequisites may have influenced their reception.
I uppsatsen kartläggs och analyseras receptionen av Helena Munktells kompositioner under åren 1885–1921. Med reception avses dels i vilken utsträckning Munktells kompositioner blev framförda, dels hur de blev mottagna i tidningsrecensioner. Receptionen utforskas ur ett helhetsperspektiv. Det betyder att alla identifierbara konserter och alla tillgängliga recensioner omfattas och att kartläggningen och analysen syftar till att åskådliggöra hur receptionen skiljer sig åt mellan genrer och mellan länder liksom hur den förändras med tiden.  Helena Munktell (1852–1919) var en svensk tonsättare, pianist och sångerska. Hennes verkförteckning är kort men hon komponerade i ett flertal genrer. År 1915 blev hon invald som tonsättare i Kungliga Musikaliska Akademien. Munktell var verksam i både Sverige och Frankrike och i hennes verk finns såväl svenska folkmusikinfluenser som franska stilelement. Hon tog lektioner i komposition för ett flertal lärare, både i Stockholm och Paris. Den lärare som påverkade henne mest var Vincent d’Indy. Genom honom och därmed indirekt genom César Franck kom hennes kompositioner att inrymma stildrag från den nyfranska skolan: cyklisk form, färgskapande ackordväxlingar och nedtoning av melodins betydelse till förmån för harmonisk progression. Undersökningen har genomförts i fyra steg. I första steget samlades fakta in. Huvud-sakligt källmaterial var en klippbok med recensioner från Munktells efterlämnade samlingar samt recensioner från databasen Svenska dagstidningar. I andra steget togs en kalender fram omfattande alla identifierade konserter. I tredje steget utarbetades en redogörelse över kompositioner, konserter och recensioner för respektive genre. I fjärde steget analyserades resultatet ur ett historiskt perspektiv och utifrån Pierre Bourdieus teorier om kapital och fält. Cirka 140 konserter har identifierats. De vokala genrerna dominerar och över hälften av konserterna avser solosång. Operan I Firenze framfördes i Stockholm 13 gånger. Denna bedrift kan till viss del förklaras med att Munktell hade god tillgång till det Bourdieu kallar kulturellt och socialt kapital. Operan och solosångerna fick nästan uteslutande goda omdömen i recensionerna. Munktells kompositioner rönte stora framgångar i Frankrike. Hon blev medlem i den prestigefyllda föreningen Société Nationale de Musique där flera av hennes kompositioner framfördes. Tre av hennes fyra orkesterverk uruppfördes i Frankrike, så också hennes violinsonat. Munktells framgångar i Frankrike kan förklaras dels med att hon till stor del komponerade i fransk stil, dels med att kulturellt kapital värderas mycket högt i Frankrike. Dalsvit var det enda orkesterverk som framfördes i Sverige under hennes levnad och den renderade starkt skiftande omdömen. Munktells violinsonat är den instrumentala komposition som framfördes mest. Sonaten fick ett blandat bemötande i dagspressen efter framförandet i Stockholm 1905 men betydligt positivare omdömen efter minneskonserten på Kungliga Operan 1921. Detta kan förklaras med att den tyska musikstilens dominans hade mattats av och att de franska stildragen uppskattades på ett annat sätt 1921.  Uppgiften i Anders Edlings biografi över Helena Munktell i Levande musikarv om att alla samtidens omdömen om Munktell som tonsättare var positiva stämmer inte; de var skiftande, skiljde sig åt mellan genrer och förändrades med tiden.  En motsvarande undersökning skulle kunna genomföras rörande andra tonsättares verk. En sådan studie skulle göra det möjligt att jämföra receptionen av tonsättarnas verk och också jämföra vilken betydelse tonsättarnas olika förutsättningar kan ha haft för receptionen.

Plus connu comme ethnologue que comme musicologue, André Schaeffner (1895-1980) a adopté, dans ses travaux sur la musique savante, une position contraire à un type de critique prétendument « objective », qui se voudrait neutre face à l’œuvre d’art. Il y revendique le droit à une « critique d’admiration », ne cachant pas ses préférences personnelles. La démarche de Schaeffner se caractérise par l’absence d’une « vision téléologique de l’histoire de la musique » ou de tout esprit de système, et par l’importance accordée à la mise en perspective historique et esthétique, à la contextualisation de l’œuvre du compositeur. Cette vision de la critique a été fréquemment dénoncée comme péchant par l’absence de tout jugement. En reconstruisant l’ensemble des circonstances qui entourent les événements auxquels il s’intéresse, en collectant et en soumettant à un examen attentif les documents qui y ont trait, Schaeffner remet en question des idées reçues, des clichés autour desquels flotte une trompeuse aura de légitimité. Cette thèse montre, en s’appuyant sur de nombreux documents – textes publiés ou restés inédits, notes de travail, riche correspondance –, comment Schaeffner a mené ce type d’étude critique à propos de l’œuvre de deux musiciens auxquels il a voué un intérêt passionné, l’un disparu : Claude Debussy, l’autre vivant et qu’il a pu côtoyer : Igor Stravinsky, ainsi que la manière dont on a accueilli ses travaux de son vivant, et leur validité aujourd’hui
André Schaeffner (1895-1980), better known as ethnologist than for his musicological activity, in his works concerning classical music embraces a position against the kind of critique that claims to be “objective” or neutral towards the artwork. He makes a plea for a “critique of admiration” that takes sides and displays one’s preferences. His writings pay no heed to a teleological or systematic approach of the history of music. Instead, he puts the composer’s work in perspective, reconstructing its historical and aesthetic background. Many condemned this kind of approach as lacking any judgement criterion. Nevertheless, thanks to his study of the circumstances in which a composer’s works were created, Schaeffner was able to call into question common and supposedly true preconceptions and stereotypes. Based on a study of several documents – both published and unpublished texts, drafts, rich correspondence – this thesis shows how Schaeffner carried out this kind of critique, especially in his writings concerning two composers that he fervently admired: the deceased Claude Debussy and Igor Stravinsky, still alive at that time and with whom Schaeffner was acquainted; as well as how Schaeffner’s theories were received upon publication and what their validity is nowadays

L’objectif de la thèse est d’étudier Louis Laloy (1874-1944), ses activités et son influence sur les compositeurs français inspirés par la civilisation chinoise entre 1900 et 1940. Musicologue, librettiste et compositeur, Louis Laloy fut à la fois grand promoteur de la musique de Claude Debussy, critique musical prolifique, secrétaire général de l’Opéra de Paris et professeur d’esthétique chinoise à l’Institut des Hautes Études Chinoises et d’histoire de la musique au Conservatoire de musique de Paris. Il est cependant peu connu du grand public, malgré ses participations actives et diverses au milieu musical et artistique. En outre, en lisant son Miroir de la Chine, nous apprenons qu’il a entretenu des relations avec des personnalités chinoises et a participé aux événements significatifs et à la fois inédits dans l’histoire des relations culturelles franco-chinoises. Fort de ces premiers éléments, notre travail se propose d’aborder trois aspects : la personnalité de Louis Laloy, les relations franco-chinoises à travers les engagements de Louis Laloy et l’analyse des écrits sur la musique chinoise ainsi que des œuvres musicales d’inspiration chinoise entre 1900 et 1940. La problématique de notre sujet est d’éclaircir le rapprochement entre la théorie musicale et la production musicale, c’est-à-dire, de donner un sens aux liens entre les écrits et les processus créatifs compositionnels. Par ailleurs, l’analyse des fondements théoriques et de l’esthétique chinoise permettra d’engager une réflexion plus générale sur les stratégies du langage musical dans les œuvres dites « à la chinoise », produits d’une délicate alchimie opérée entre techniques occidentales et conceptions artistiques chinoises
The main objective of this thesis is to study Louis Laloy (1874-1944), his activities and his influence on French composers who were inspired by the Chinese civilization between 1900 and 1940. Musicologist, librettist and composer, Louis Laloy was a great promoter of Claude Debussy’s music, a prolific critic, the Secretary-general of the Opera de Paris, the professor of Chinese aesthetics at the Institute of Advanced Chinese Studies and the professor of the history of music at the Paris Conservatory. He is, however, little known to the general public despite of his active and diverse participations in the musical and artistic environment. In addition, by reading his writing “Mirror of China”, we learn that he has maintained relations with Chinese personages and has participated in novel and significant events in the history of cultural relations French-Chinese. By virtue of these interesting elements, our work proposes to address three aspects: the personality of Louis Laloy, the cultural relationship between the France and China through the Louis Laloy’s commitments, and the analysis of the writings on Chinese music and of the compositions filled with Chinese inspiration between 1900 and 1940. Our topic is to clarify the rapprochement between the musical theory and the musical production, i.e. to suggest the links between writings and creative processes. Furthermore, the analysis of the theories and Chinese aesthetics will allow engaging a broader reflection on the strategies of musical language in the works so-called "in Chinese", which are the delicate alchemies produced by the Western techniques and Chinese artistic conception

In The Souls of Black Folk (1903), W.E.B. Du Bois theorized that black peoples were viewed behind a metaphorical “veil” that consisted of three interrelated aspects: the skin as an indication of African Americans’ difference from their white counterparts, white people’s lack of capacity to see African Americans as Americans, and African Americans’ lack of capacity to see themselves outside of the labels white America has given them. This, according to Du Bois, resulted in the gift and curse of “double consciousness,” the feeling that one’s identity is divided. As African Americans fought for socio-political equality, the reconciliation of these halves became essential in creating a new identity in America by creating a distinct voice in the age of modernity. Intellectuals and artists of the Harlem Renaissance began to create new art forms with progressive messages that strove to uplift the race and ultimately lift the veil. William Grant Still (1895–1978), an American composer of African descent, accomplished this goal in his opera Blue Steel (1934) by changing how blackness—defined here as characteristics attributed to and intended to indicate the otherness of people of African or African-American descent—was portrayed on the operatic stage. Still exemplifies what Houston A. Baker called “mastery of form” by presenting double consciousness in the interactions of three characters, Blue Steel, Venable, and Neola, in order to offer a new and complex reading of blackness.

As pesquisas históricas sobre as violas brasileiras foram delimitadas pelas referências textuais e iconográficas ao instrumento musical e à sua utilização na produção musical, particularmente da segunda metade do século XVIII ao início do XIX, com pequena citação de César das Neves em s eu Cancioneiro de Músicas Populares, cujo primeiro volume é datado de 1893. Usualmente confundida com alaúdes, cistros e violões, a literatura histórica deixa lacunas sobre a descrição do instrumento. Fato é que, não raro, os violeiros brasileiros de hoje ignoram se tratar de uma guitarra barroca. A primeira parte desta pesquisa investiga, através de fontes primárias e secundárias, a utilização da viola no Brasil desde os tempos de Anchieta, consagrando-se como o instrumento de cordas dedilhadas mais antigo ainda em uso na produção cultural do país, bem como sua classificação como instrumento da família das guitarras; trata da construção simbólica de uma viola rural, com forte ênfase no preconceito àqueles que a tocam e da sua ascensão e declínio a partir das investidas de Cornélio Pires na indústria fonográfica. Analisada através dos códigos da escrita em Tablaturas e Alfabeto Musical, a Musicologia Histórica é utilizada como ferramenta para pesquisar a linguagem elitista do instrumento à época colonial e, ao mesmo tempo, popular no Reino de Portugal, visto que não há qualquer documentação musical brasileira que legitime sua utilização no Brasil daquele período. Com base nas publicações portuguesas da produção musical brasileira, é possível reconstituir modinhas e lundus nesse instrumento, como relatado por inúmeros viajantes, a partir de um mapeamento dos recursos idiomáticos utilizados na Europa Ocidental e, particularmente, em Portugal, expondo a riqueza de linguagem, enquanto instrumento das elites, e seu empobrecimento, a partir do vínculo com o universo rural, que marcou até mesmo sua denominação mais popular utilizada atualmente na mídia em geral viola caipira ou sertaneja.
The historical researches on the Brazilian violas were limited by textual and iconographical references to the musical instrument and its musical production, particularly from the second half of the 17th century to the beginnings of the 18th, except from a small reference found in Cancioneiro de Músicas Populares by Cesar das Neves, published first in 1893. Usually confused with lutes, citterns e classical guitars, the historical Brazilian literature shows gaps on the description of the musical instrument. In fact, the violeiros (Brazilian baroque guitarists) often do not acknowledge the instrument as abaroque guitar. The first part of the present work seeks the musical production on the viola in Brazil since Pe. Anchieta arrival, through primary and secondary sources, being considered the earliest plucked string instrument brought to Brazil which remains in use until now, as well as its classification in the plucked stringed instrument families; also, treats its history from the symbolic view of a peasants instrument, emphasizing the prejudice to its performers, as well as its ascension and decline after Cornelio Pires investment son the record industry. The Historical Musicology analyzed from the specific notation in Tablatures and Alfabeto Musical, is here used as a tool to investigate the language from the artistic music written for this kind of guitar during the Portuguese colonization, and in the same time, its popular production in Portugal, since there is no musical manuscripts from Brazil to demonstrate its use here in that period. Based on Portuguese editions of Brazilian music, its possible to recreate modinhas and lundus on the violas, as told by several travelers who described details of our culture, showing the richness of the artistic language, when used as a musical instrument of the dominant classes, and its decline to a poor language, while getting the vinculum to the peasant working classes, marking its most popular denomination on the general medias - viola caipira or sertaneja.

L’objectif de la thèse est d’étudier Louis Laloy (1874-1944), ses activités et son influence sur les compositeurs français inspirés par la civilisation chinoise entre 1900 et 1940. Musicologue, librettiste et compositeur, Louis Laloy fut à la fois grand promoteur de la musique de Claude Debussy, critique musical prolifique, secrétaire général de l’Opéra de Paris et professeur d’esthétique chinoise à l’Institut des Hautes Études Chinoises et d’histoire de la musique au Conservatoire de musique de Paris. Il est cependant peu connu du grand public, malgré ses participations actives et diverses au milieu musical et artistique. En outre, en lisant son Miroir de la Chine, nous apprenons qu’il a entretenu des relations avec des personnalités chinoises et a participé aux événements significatifs et à la fois inédits dans l’histoire des relations culturelles franco-chinoises. Fort de ces premiers éléments, notre travail se propose d’aborder trois aspects : la personnalité de Louis Laloy, les relations franco-chinoises à travers les engagements de Louis Laloy et l’analyse des écrits sur la musique chinoise ainsi que des œuvres musicales d’inspiration chinoise entre 1900 et 1940. La problématique de notre sujet est d’éclaircir le rapprochement entre la théorie musicale et la production musicale, c’est-à-dire, de donner un sens aux liens entre les écrits et les processus créatifs compositionnels. Par ailleurs, l’analyse des fondements théoriques et de l’esthétique chinoise permettra d’engager une réflexion plus générale sur les stratégies du langage musical dans les œuvres dites « à la chinoise », produits d’une délicate alchimie opérée entre techniques occidentales et conceptions artistiques chinoises
The main objective of this thesis is to study Louis Laloy (1874-1944), his activities and his influence on French composers who were inspired by the Chinese civilization between 1900 and 1940. Musicologist, librettist and composer, Louis Laloy was a great promoter of Claude Debussy’s music, a prolific critic, the Secretary-general of the Opera de Paris, the professor of Chinese aesthetics at the Institute of Advanced Chinese Studies and the professor of the history of music at the Paris Conservatory. He is, however, little known to the general public despite of his active and diverse participations in the musical and artistic environment. In addition, by reading his writing “Mirror of China”, we learn that he has maintained relations with Chinese personages and has participated in novel and significant events in the history of cultural relations French-Chinese. By virtue of these interesting elements, our work proposes to address three aspects: the personality of Louis Laloy, the cultural relationship between the France and China through the Louis Laloy’s commitments, and the analysis of the writings on Chinese music and of the compositions filled with Chinese inspiration between 1900 and 1940. Our topic is to clarify the rapprochement between the musical theory and the musical production, i.e. to suggest the links between writings and creative processes. Furthermore, the analysis of the theories and Chinese aesthetics will allow engaging a broader reflection on the strategies of musical language in the works so-called "in Chinese", which are the delicate alchemies produced by the Western techniques and Chinese artistic conception

"October 2003."
Includes bibliographical references
592 leaves. :
Title page, contents and abstract only. The complete thesis in print form is available from the University Library.
Chiefly in English; some Polish text in pt. B.
Comprises three types of material: composition (pt. A); performance (pt. C); and, musicology (pt. B.), and is intended to reflect the author's professional activities as composer, pianist and writer. The various writings and texts all relate to the life and music of Witold Lutoslawski (1993-2003). Earlier publications have been excluded because they are referred to (and reflected in) the author's thesis: Pitch organisation in the music of Witold Lutoslawski since 1979 (Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Leeds, 1992)
Thesis (D.Mus.)--University of Adelaide, Elder School of Music, 2004?