Academic literature on the topic 'Accordion and bandoneon music'

In this thesis I discuss, analyse and intend to answer the question: What is the best way to capture the sound of the acoustic accordion? It was my desire to explore this theme that led me to this research, and I believe that this question is important to many other accordionists as well. From the very beginning, I wanted the thesis to be not only an academic material but also that it can be used as an instruction manual, which could serve accordionists and others who are interested in this subject, to delve deeper into it, understand it and hopefully get answers to their questions about this subject. The thesis contains five main chapters: Amplifying of the accordion at live events, Processing of the accordion sound, Recording of the accordion in a studio - the specifics of recording of the accordion, Specific recording solutions and Examples of recording and amplifying of the accordion in practice of other accordion players, and two recordings: D. Scarlatti - Sonata D minor K 141, V. Trojan - The Collasped Cathedral. My aim is that this thesis will contribute to create a comprehensive insight into the specifics of capturing the accordion sound, contribute to better understanding of the acoustic properties of the instrument and bring practical answers to questions that many accordionists have. I have chosen to mention very basic technical aspects related to how to capture the sound of the acoustic accordion with respect to potential elementary knowledge of some people in this area. But, I also discuss very specific and professional details and focus on how different kinds of microphones can be used to capture the sound of the acoustic accordion. This is a subject that clearly is understudied and probably not has been a matter for proper research before. Most of my comments and analysis come from my personal experience and different experiments but there is also an interview included in the thesis with one very experienced accordionist who also is a professional music producer. I hope that my thesis will help other accordionists, sound engineers, and anyone else to understand the accordion and its specifics regarding both studio recording and live amplifying.

This thesis intends to illustrate the music language presented in Jindřich Feld’s compositions for accordion. Jindřich Feld (1925-2007) was a very important Czech composer of the second half of the 20th century. As the best example of this music language, I have chosen his “Concert Piece For Accordion” which is certainly one of the most respected accordion compositions ever written. I have always appreciated the music of Jindřich Feld, which is the reason why I decided to write about him and his composition. In this thesis, I focused mainly on an insight into the form and style of “Concert Piece”. Most of my comments and analyses come from my personal experience and from my perspective as an interpreter. This composition, most likely, has not been performed in Sweden before, or it is not well-know at least. I hope that my thesis will help other accordionists and musicians to understand Feld’s music, and contribute to better and more frequent performances of his accordion music.

Thesis (M. A.)--University of California, San Diego, 2010.<br>Title from first page of PDF file (viewed July 14, 2010). Available via ProQuest Digital Dissertations. Sound files consist of recordings of North and Yet somehow comes emptiness in single-channel and stereo. configurations.

Thesis (M.A.)--University of California, San Diego, 2008.<br>Accompanying disc is DVD-ROM, and contains sound files for recordings of 2nd and 3rd compositions. Title from first page of PDF file (viewed June 25, 2008). Available via ProQuest Digital Dissertations. Reproduced from holograph.

Astor Piazzolla (1921-1992) captivated Argentine and international audiences with his innovative works in a nuevo tango style and his bandoneón performances. Piazzolla?s success culminated during the 1980s with his second Quinteto, which performed remarkable concerts in venues such as the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires and the Central Park Bandshell in New York, in addition to the performances at the Montreal and Montreux Jazz Festivals. His music also grew popular with a plethora of internationally acclaimed classical and jazz artists as well as with Argentine musicians themselves. However, Piazzolla?s music poses a challenge today, because nuevo tango represents a synthesis of the composer?s musical and cultural backgrounds, conjoining the tango legacy of Buenos Aires, the jazz idioms that he absorbed in New York, and the international traditions of classical music. Many musicians, specifically those from the United States, perform and study nuevo tango without having sufficient prerequisite knowledge of these practices, causing the genre to lose its cultural substance. By considering the fusion of tango, jazz, and classical genres and incorporating a cross-cultural analysis, this thesis aims to illuminate the basis of Piazzolla?s performance practices. It seeks to identify the yeites (tango instrumental techniques) that define nuevo tango and to suggest ways that the modern performer can incorporate these stylistic features to produce culturally informed interpretations of Piazzolla?s works. This study focuses on the practices of Piazzolla?s second Quinteto, at the pinnacle of his career, and emphasizes a gestural analysis of the yeites to produce a well-grounded concept of nuevo tango sound. This study concludes that, even though Piazzolla?s compositions represented a fusion of genres, the performance practices (and specifically the gestures) of the second Quinteto are primarily associated with the tango traditions of previous eras. Such gestures embody Piazzolla?s music and thus allow contemporary performers to recreate the evocative and persuasive characteristics of nuevo tango practices today.

A presente pesquisa teve como objetivo geral analisar e compreender como as crianças aprendem a executar no acordeom o acompanhamento harmônico das músicas estudadas. O desenho metodológico adotado apoiou-se em princípios do Método Clínico piagetiano. A coleta de dados foi realizada com três crianças com idade entre 7,5 e 8,5 anos, no contexto de aulas individuais de acordeom realizadas em um espaço formal de educação musical, de abril a outubro de 2011, na cidade de Porto Alegre – RS. O registro dos dados foi feito em diários de campo e filmagens integrais das aulas de acordeom, nas quais ocorreram entrevistas e observações clínicas decorrentes da adaptação do método, a fim de considerar as singularidades do contexto e dinâmica das aulas. A partir dos dados coletados, fez-se a composição de protocolos para cada sujeito pesquisado, descrevendo os momentos onde a problemática de pesquisa se explicitava. A base teórica da investigação advém da Epistemologia Genética de Jean Piaget. Ela possibilitou a compreensão do percurso da aprendizagem dos sujeitos durante as aulas. Os resultados evidenciaram que, ao longo das aulas de acordeom, foi acontecendo a tomada de consciência das ações, principalmente sobre como os sujeitos faziam para executar as mudanças na execução do acompanhamento. A tomada de consciência do porquê da necessidade dessas mudanças não se deu com base em explicações que considerassem coerentemente todos os elementos harmônicos envolvidos nas músicas estudadas. Constataram-se, também, níveis de tomada de consciência quanto à distinção entre consonâncias e dissonâncias e, nessa conquista, o papel da aprendizagem foi expressivo. A principal contribuição desta pesquisa está em explicitar a trajetória dos sujeitos, mostrando de que modo eles percebem, compreendem e explicam a dimensão harmônica implicada na aprendizagem do acordeom. A pesquisa poderá contribuir para a área da Música e Educação articulando aportes da Epistemologia Genética e da Educação Musical na compreensão do desenvolvimento musical da criança.<br>This research aimed to understand and analyze general as children learn to perform the rhythmic-harmonic accompaniment on the accordion of the music studied. The design methodology adopted was based on principles of Piaget's Clinical Method. Data collection was performed with three children aged between 7.5 and 8.5 years old in the context of individual classes of an accordion held in a formal space of music education, from April to October 2011, in Porto Alegre - RS. The data recording was done in the field diaries and filming the whole accordion lessons, which occurred in the interviews and clinical observations arising from adaptation of the method in order to consider the singularities of the context and dynamics of classes. From the data collected the composition of protocol was done for each subject researched describing the moment where the problematic of research is made explicit. The theoretical base of research comes from Jean Piajet’s genetic epistemology, and enabled the understanding the journey of learning of the subjects during the lessons. The results showed that over the lessons of accordion awareness of actions were happening, especially as the subjects did to perform changes in the implementation of followup. The awareness about why the need for such changes was not given on the basis of explanations that consistently consider all harmonic date elements involved in music examined. It was found, too, levels of awareness about the distinction between consonance and dissonance in this achievement and the role of learning was significant. The main contribution of this research is to explain the trajectory of the subjects, showing how they perceive, understand and explain the harmonic scale involved in learning the accordion. The research contributes to the area of Music Education and articulating contributions of Genetic Epistemology and Music Education in understanding the child's musical development.

Understatements for two-channel fixed media is a four-movement study of the sonic potential of acoustic instruments within the practice of electroacoustic studio composition. The musical identity of the entire composition is achieved through consistent approaches to disparate instrumental materials and a focused investigation of the relationships between the various acoustic timbres and their electroacoustic treatments. The analytical section of this paper builds on contemporary research in electroacoustic arts. The analysis of the work is preceded by a summary of theoretical and aesthetic approaches within electroacoustic composition and the introduction of primary criteria of sonic faktura (material essence) used in the compositional process. The analyses address the idiosyncratic use of the concept of faktura to contextualize and guide the unfolding of the work. The reconciliation of the illusory electronic textures and the acoustic sources that parented them may be considered the ultimate goal of Understatements.

This master thesis was developed within the Education and Arts Research Line (LR4) from the Postgraduate Program on Education at Federal University of Santa Maria (UFSM) and is part of the research group FAPEM Formation, Action and Research in Musical Education of UFSM. The research proposes as its main theme the study of musical trajectories of accordionists of the degree in Music (UERGS). The general objective is to investigate the musical formation trajectories from these accordionists. The specific objectives are organized around to know their musical experiences and understand how they impacted their choices for training in the course of degree in music and understand possible relationships between being accordionist and the choice of honors degree. The literature reviews that guided the research studies the teacher training and academic-professional training (GARCIA, 1999; FERRY, 1991, 2001; NÓVOA, 1992, 1995; MIZUKAMY, 2002; DINIZ PEREIRA, 2008; VAILLANT; MARCELO, 2012). In order to refer to the training of music teachers, the research was based on studies of Del Ben (2000), Bellochio and Garbosa (2010), Louro (2004), Mateiro and Souza (2009) and in Machado (2009), Puglia (2010), Weiss and Louro (2010) to discuss the accordion education. Methodologically, the research was developed from a study of narratives grounded in oral history (MEIHY, 2005; FREITAS, 2006; ALBERTI, 2003), having as a production procedure the narrative interview (JOVCHELOVITCH and BAUER, 2008; MARCONI and LAKATOS, 2013), and respectively, as an analytical tool the Discursive Textual Analysis (MORAES e GALIAZZI, 2006). Considering that the formative paths of research subjects are under construction, the understanding of the presented narratives and the produced knowledge expanded methods and ways of understanding the potential of the accordion in the training of music teachers process, highlighting in this context the Music Degree course of UERGS.<br>A dissertação foi desenvolvida no Programa de Pós-Graduação em Educação (UFSM), Linha de Pesquisa Educação e Artes LP4 e vincula-se ao grupo de estudo e pesquisa FAPEM - Formação, Ação e Pesquisa em Educação Musical. A pesquisa propõe como tema principal o estudo de trajetórias musicais de acordeonistas da licenciatura em Música (UERGS). O objetivo geral constitui-se em investigar as trajetórias de formação musical destes acordeonistas. Os objetivos específicos estão organizados em torno de conhecer suas vivências musicais e compreender como elas impactaram suas escolhas pela formação no curso de licenciatura em Música e entender possíveis relações entre ser acordeonista e a escolha pela licenciatura. As revisões de literatura que orientaram a pesquisa tematizam a formação de professores e a formação acadêmico-profissional (GARCIA, 1999; FERRY, 1991, 2001; NÓVOA, 1992, 1995; MIZUKAMY, 2002, DINIZ PEREIRA, 2008; VAILLANT; MARCELO, 2012). Para referir à formação de professores de música, a pesquisa apoiou-se nos estudos de Del Ben (2000), Bellochio e Garbosa (2010), Louro (2004), Mateiro e Souza (2009) e em Machado (2009), Puglia (2010), Weiss e Louro (2010) para discutir sobre o ensino de acordeom. Metodologicamente, a pesquisa foi desenvolvida a partir de um estudo com narrativas embasado na história oral (MEIHY, 2005; FREITAS, 2006; ALBERTI, 2003), tendo como procedimento de produção de dados a entrevista narrativa (JOVCHELOVITCH; BAUER, 2008; MARCONI; LAKATOS, 2013), e como instrumento de análise a Análise Textual Discursiva (MORAES; GALIAZZI, 2006). Considerando que as trajetórias formativas dos sujeitos da pesquisa encontram-se em construção, a compreensão das narrativas trazidas e dos conhecimentos produzidos ampliaram os modos e formas de entender o potencial do acordeom no processo formativo de professores de música destacando-se, neste contexto, o Curso de Música - Licenciatura da UERGS.

Francis POULENC (1899-1963) a été particulièrement influencé par la musique populaire de son époque. Pour étudier cet aspect de son œuvre, notre recherche s’appuiera sur la production musicale du compositeur, sur ses nombreux témoignages (correspondances, émissions radiophoniques et divers écrits) et sur tous les documents liés à la création et à la réception de ses œuvres. Le compositeur du Bal masqué n’imitait pas la musique populaire mais en empruntait quelques éléments : tel un peintre, il réalisait des « portraits de music-hall ». Afin d’apprécier cette imprégnation, nos analyses portent sur différents paramètres musicaux : la mélodie, le rythme, l’harmonie, les structures, l’orchestration et la vocalité. La finalité de notre travail s’inscrivant dans des perspectives socioculturelles, l’analyse de ces aspects techniques ne se dissocie pas du contexte historique lié au compositeur et plus largement au Groupe des Six<br>The composer Francis Poulenc (1899-1963) was particularly influenced by the popular music of his time. In order to study this very specific aspect of his works, our research will take into account the musical production of the composer, his personal testimonies (such as correspondence, radio programs and various pieces of writing) and all documents related to the creation and reception of his works.When composing Bal Masqué (The Masked Ball) the composer’s aim was not to copy popular music but just to make use of some of its characteristics. Just like a painter he created what he would call ‘portraits de music-hall’ (‘Music-hall portraits’). For this impregnation to be fully appreciated, our analyses will tackle different musical parameters such as melody, rhythm, harmony, structures, orchestration and vocal effects. The purpose of our research involving socio-cultural perspectives, the analysis of those technical aspects cannot be dissociated from the historical context relative to the composer and, to a wider extent, to the ‘Groupe des Six’