Academic literature on the topic 'Compositional techniques of the 20th century'

Made available in DSpace on 2016-12-08T17:06:51Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 CARLA.pdf: 10276 bytes, checksum: 93734ab8b9630d946c4c9872657fecd3 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010-05-04<br>Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior<br>This dissertation, using interdisciplinary elements, talks about the relationship between text and music in the songs of the composer Frederico Richter, a native of Rio Grande do Sul, Who is still active and whose expressive work can be divided into five phases into which the composer has used several compositional techniques of the twentieth century. The song genre is present in three of these five phases and for this work two compositions were analyzed due to be considered most representative of each phase. The analytical process took place on both musical and textual perspective, bearing in mind that these are the formative elements of the songs. This work also presents biographical aspects and the trajectory of the composer, also a brief history of the song genre where it is possible to view how it changed through history, emphasizing the Brazilian songs. It also aims to contribute to the literature on the subject<br>Esta dissertação, utilizando-se de elementos interdisciplinares, discorre sobre a relação entre texto e música nas canções do compositor Frederico Richter, natural do Rio Grande do Sul, ainda atuante e cuja expressiva obra pode ser dividida em cinco fases nas quais o compositor utilizou-se de diversas técnicas composicionais do século XX. O gênero canção está presente em três destas cinco fases e para este trabalho foram analisadas duas obras consideradas representativas dentro de cada fase. O processo analítico deu-se tanto sobre a perspectiva musical quanto textual, tendo em vista que estes são os elementos formadores da unidade que seria a canção. Este trabalho apresenta ainda aspectos biográficos e acerca da trajetória do compositor e um breve histórico do gênero musical canção onde é foi possível visualizar sua modificação através da história, enfatizando a canção brasileira e contribuindo assim para a bibliografia sobre o assunto

Introduction: Although the hackneyed adage "one picture is worth a thousand words" defies proof and begs argument, the basic value of illustration in graphic communications is beyond dispute. Without attempting to put a relative value on illustration as compared with words, we can still be aware of the special effectiveness of images, in accomplishing communication goals. The roots of illustration go hack to prehistoric pictorial art of engraved or painted figures done on stone. The hand print can be interpreted as one of the first attempts at drawing. Prehistoric pictorial art depicted visually what could not be expressed by word or gestures some had religious significance, some the presence of myth, others plainly diadactic, showing daily life, social communication, the magic of the hunt, death, birth, group life and sexual symbolism. Little is known of the vast lapse of time between prehistoric art and the imagery that man devised in the service of developing civilisations at the dawn of history. With steadily increasing demands upon his skills, the artisan's mastery of the tools and materials progressed, so that by the beginning of recorded time he was in possession of the potential elements for printmaking. Yet the importance of communication, as we know it today, only developed centuries later with the motivating force of religion. The print could tell its story to those who could not read or write but could quickly grasp the meaning of a picture.

The thesis foregrounds the distinctive contribution Dirk Bogarde made to contemporary writing in a second career that developed in parallel to his screen commitments. It dispels the notion that Bogarde followed a familiar path as an actor who wrote books. Instead it establishes his reputation as an innovative writer whose formal technique was substantially influenced by the textual systems of cinema and the cross-fertilisation from acting to writing. In examining the formative factors that steered Bogarde towards authorship, the thesis addresses the role of performance as a generative factor in the evolution of the novels, establishing a discursive link with Bakhtinian dialogism, and specifically, transgredience as a formal imperative. Secondly, it affords a critical insight into why the major concerns with staging and performativity preoccupy his writing career. The thesis claims that Bogarde was an empirically dialogical writer whose use of camera-eye narration fostered the proliferation of competing discourses across the fiction. This formal dynamic is centred on the relationship between stages and dialogism, which incorporates the work of Erving Goffinan as a complementary critique to Bakhtinian theory with its emphasis on self-presentation. The concern with socially-constructed behaviour leads the thesis to address the associated issues of stereotyping and 'otherness', which in terms of body politics is articulated by the mono logic drive to confine the sexual 'other' to a fixed representation. Bogarde's ability to draw on cinematic and performance techniques identifies an area of expertise unavailable to most other writers. This is an unusual repository of skills to bring to writing which is why the thesis makes the claim for his singular achievement as a contemporary author. There are fruitful points of intersection to be explored in this respect with the work of Christopher Isherwood, whom Bogarde read and admired, as a basis for further research. It is hoped that the thesis will play its part in opening up new possibilities for Bogarde's writing to be re-visited by future critics.

This study contributes to practical discussions on the composition of dynamic music for video games from the composer’s perspective. Creating greater levels of immersion in players is used as a justification for the proposals of the thesis. It lays down foundational aesthetic elements in order to proceed with a logical methodology. The aim of this paper is to build upon, and further hybridise, two techniques used by composers and by video game designers to increase further the reactive agility and memorability of the music for the player. Each chapter of this paper explores a different technique for joining two (possibly disparate) types of gameplay, or gamestates, with appropriate continuous music. In each, I discuss a particular musical engine capable of implementing continuous music. Chapter One will discuss a branching-music engine, which uses a precomposed musical mosaic (or musical pixels) to create a linear score with the potential to diverge at appropriate moments accompanying onscreen action. I use the case study of the Final Fantasy battle system to show how the implementation of a branching-music engine could assist in maintaining the continuity of gameplay experience that current disjointed scores, which appear in many games, create. To aid this argument I have implemented a branching-music engine, using the graphical object oriented programming environment MaxMSP, in the style of the battle music composed by Nobuo Uematsu, the composer of the early Final Fantasy series. The reader can find this in the accompanying demonstrations patch. In Chapter Two I consider how a generative-music engine can also implement a continuous music and also address some of the limitations of the branching-music engine. Further I describe a technique for an effective generative music for video games that creates musical ‘personalities’ that can mimic a particular style of music for a limited period of time. Crucially, this engine is able to transition between any two personalities to create musical coincidence with the game. GMGEn (<b>G</b>ame <b>M</b>usic <b>G</b>eneration <b>E</b>ngine) is a program I have created in MaxMSP to act as an example of this concept. GMGEn is available in the Demonstrations_Application. Chapter Three will discuss potential limitations of the branching music engine described in Chapter One and the generative music engine described in Chapter Two, and highlights how these issues can be solved by way of a third engine, which hybridises both. As this engine has an indeterminate musical state it is termed the intermittent-music engine. I go on to discuss the implementation of this engine in two different game scenarios and how emergent structures of this music will appear. The final outcome is to formulate a new compositional approach delivering dynamic music, which accompanies the onscreen action with greater agility than currently present in the field, increasing the memorability and therefore the immersive effect of the video-game music.

Since the end of World War II many Scandinavians have emerged as important choral music composers. This study focuses on two Norwegian composers, Knut Nystedt and Egil Hovland. Two works by Nystedt, "Thou O Lord," and "Praise to God," and one work by Hovland, Missa Misericordiae, are analyzed to determine the most important features of the compositional styles of Nystedt and Hovland. The analysis reveals that factors such as the Norwegian national romantic movement of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, ancient music styles such as Gregorian chant, twentieth century techniques such as neoclassicism and dodecaphony, and recent reforms in Norwegian Church music have influenced the compositional style of both men. The evidence suggests that although Nystedt and Hovland have many similarities in compositional style both men have developed a highly individual musical language that is accessible yet challenging to the listener, conductor, and choir.

Orientador: Regina Helena Pereira Johas<br>Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Artes<br>Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-16T14:23:39Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Guideroli_IlmaCarlaZarotti_M.pdf: 37001017 bytes, checksum: c43b5a3b57dfe1e23b24169201dd8910 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010<br>Resumo: A pesquisa Entre Mapas, Entre Espaços: Itinerários Abertos consiste no mapeamento de minha produção plástica no período entre o início de 2008 e o início de 2010. É formada por quatro livros de artista intitulados Lugares Imaginários I, II, III e IV e Espaços Afluentes, composto por dezoito imagens digitais divididas entre as séries Rotas Imaginárias, São Paulo, Intersecções I, Paisagens Mapeadas, UnHorizont e Paisagem Oceânica. Ambos partilham o mesmo campo de investigações, composto de três eixos norteadores que sustentam pensamento e processo criativo. O primeiro destes eixos trata de TranSituAções, conceito que abrange as diferentes maneiras de conceber espaço e lugar, apresentado a partir da reflexão de autores que discutiram este tema. O segundo eixo estrutura a proposição Espaços Empilhados, tratados a partir da definição do virtual segundo Pierre Lévy e do conceito de remix cunhado por Lev Manovich e citado, por sua vez, por autores brasileiros que destrincharam o assunto, como André Lemos e Marcus Bastos. O terceiro e último eixo aborda a questão dos mapas, sendo que a primeira parte compreende uma breve história da cartografia com seu surgimento e características específicas; e a segunda parte consiste na investigação dos mapas deturpados, ou seja, como alguns escritores, artistas e cineastas fizeram uso dos mapas convencionais, tirando deles a função utilitária de localização em relação ao lugar físico. O corpo prático reflexivo aqui apresentado pretende situar meus trabalhos dentro de questionamentos pertinentes ao nosso tempo, e inserir tal pesquisa como resultado de uma investigação que não se encerra, mas continua infinitamente<br>Abstract: The research Among Maps, Among Spaces: Open Itineraries consists in mapping my artistic practice from the beginning of 2008 until the beginning of 2010. It is composed of four artist's books entitled Imaginary Places I, II, III, and IV, and Affluent Spaces, composed of eighteen digital images divided in the series Imaginary Routes, São Paulo, Intersections I, Mapped Landscapes, UnHorizont, and Oceanic Landscape. Both works share the same investigations, composed of three guiding axes that support thoughts and the creative process. The first axis approaches TranSituActions, a concept that comprises different ways of conceiving space and place, presented from the reflection of authors that investigate this theme. The second axis structures the proposition Heaped Spaces, treated from the definition of virtual according to Pierre Lévy and the concept of remix, coined by Lev Manovich and cited by Brazilian authors that explained the subject, like André Lemos e Marcus Bastos. The last axis approaches the question of maps: the first part comprehends a brief history of cartography with its appearance and specific characteristics and the second one consists of investigating the corrupted maps, that is, how some writers, artists and filmmakers used conventional maps, extracting from them the utilitarian function of localization in relation to a geographic place. The practical-reflexive body presented here intends to place my works inside relevant questions to our time, and introduce such research as a result of an investigation that does not close but continues infinitely<br>Mestrado<br>Artes<br>Mestre em Artes