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Gallo, Franklin James. "A performing edition and analysis of "A Sacred Melodrama" by Normand Lockwood." Thesis, University of Hartford, 2013. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3561101.
Full textNormand Lockwood was a prolific 20th Century American composer who composed more than 500 works for many instrumental and vocal genres. The following document presents a performing edition and analysis of A Sacred Melodrama (1998), a major work written for mezzo-soprano and tenor soloists, SATB chorus, and orchestra that was composed during the last decade of Lockwood's life. A brief biography and critical editorial notes are included.
Lockwood wrote A Sacred Melodrama in a neo-classical style that juxtaposes Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque inspired compositional practices with 20th Century techniques. Lockwood complemented his style by setting ancient and modern texts that include portions of Missa pro defunctis in Greek, Latin, and in English translation, with lines from Whitman's When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd, among others.
Normand Lockwood is a relatively unknown 20th Century American composer. Few studies have been conducted on his works, and even fewer regarding works composed during his final decade. This document will contribute to the deserving rediscovery, study, and performance of A Sacred Melodrama and the many other exceptional works by Normand Lockwood.
Morris, John. "Two shadows in the moonlight : music in British film melodrama of the 1940s." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/11638.
Full textIn this thesis I examine the differences between music in the two cinemas. Concentrating on exemplary films from the late 1930s to the early 1950s, I show how the apparent differences are manifested, and by analysing a number of key British films, I illustrate the modes of musical expression used. There are many ways to approach film music. My own interest lies in the connection between music of the romantic period of the 19th century and what became of it during the 20th. "Serious" music from Schoenberg onwards became increasingly dissonant, but the rich melodic tones of romantic music appear to have found a new home in the cinema, and in this thesis I explore how film composers kept the previous traditions alive.
Hurley, Therese. "Jeanne d'Arc on the 1870s Musical Stage: Jules Barbier and Charles Gounod's Melodrama and Auguste Mermet's Opera." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/12991.
Full textLaing, Heather Ann. "Wandering minds and anchored bodies: music, gender and emotion in melodrama and the woman's film." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2000. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/2320/.
Full textPenney, Diane Holloway. "Schoenberg's Janus-Work Erwartung: Its Musico-Dramatic Structure and Relationship to the Melodrama and Lied Traditions." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1989. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc330712/.
Full textElfline, Robert P. ""A Kind of composition that does not yet exist": Robert Schumann and the rise of the spoken ballad /." Cincinnati, Ohio : University of Cincinnati, 2007. http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?ucin1179353794.
Full textAdvisor: Dr. Bruce D. McClung. Title from electronic thesis title page (viewed Nov. 28, 2007). Includes abstract. Keywords: melodrama; narrator; Schumann; lizst; strauss; ballad. Includes bibliographical references.
Feezell, Mark Brandon. "The Light, for Two Narrators and Chamber Ensemble." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2003. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc4220/.
Full textOliveira, Maria Cecilia de. "O despertar para uma nova vocalidade." Universidade de São Paulo, 2013. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/27/27158/tde-06022014-164409/.
Full textThis paper aims at pointing out specific aspects that guided some of the main theories made in the field of new vocality in writing music that happened in the beginning of the 20th century. At that period the practice of speech inserted in the modern world was also developed by the sudden changes that altered the parameters of music production and the understanding of the elements of musicality. Shortly, this paper also discusses the spectrum of aesthetic and cognitive perceptions that a listener carries in his/her intellect and the historic setting which are grounds for contemplation and reflection for they allow the listener to understand the voice, and even extend the appreciation and understanding of the sound. Such practice gradually added to itself new features taken from vocal speech and everyday singing bringing new orality and voicing. This activity generated a \"new\" sound that would appear in multiple trends, mainly in the late 50s and early 60s of the 20th century. It is there up to the present days and it had as a starting point reflections and researches that the Second Viennese School brought to the music. To support this study a number of vocal works of Arnold Schoenberg, Anton Webern, Alban Berg and Edward Steuermann, were taken into consideration, which use Joseph Straus\' Theory of Groups as tool for analysis
Kühn, Ulrich. "Sprech-Ton-Kunst : musikalisches Sprechen und Formen des Melodrams im Schauspiel- und Musiktheater (1770 - 1933) /." Tübingen : Niemeyer, 2001. http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy054/2003445063.html.
Full textGoh, Yen-Lin. "Reimagining the Story of Lu You and Tang Wan: Ge Gan-ru's Wrong, Wrong, Wrong! and Hard, Hard, Hard!" Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1349118390.
Full textKüster, Ulrike. "Das Melodrama : zum ästhetikgeschichtlichen Zusammenhang von Dichtung und Musik im 18. Jahrhundert /." Frankfurt am Main ; Bern ; Paris : P. Lang, 1994. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb35772938c.
Full textCorrent, Vinicio. "La riscoperta della poesia antica italiana nei compositori del primo Novecento in Italia : dalla generazione dell’Ottanta a Luigi Dallapiccola." Thesis, Toulouse 2, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017TOU20091.
Full textThe main purpose of this research was to study the motivations and requirements of a group of Italian composers, born around the years 1880's; for this chronological coincidence defined by Massimo Mila as the composers of the generation of the eighties recognizing the texts of ancient Italian poetry for some of their operas' lyrics. It was a path of investigation taking into account many factors, in particular the interweaving of artistic and literary interests and the cultural historical complexity of the context of the late nineteenth and the early twentieth centuries. Fundamental in the first place was the need to set up chronological indicative terms of the change, in fact, of the real breakthrough determined at European level by the general crisis of positivism reflected in various ways in Italy in the form of a strong reaction to Verismo in literature and to Melodramma specifically within the music. One of the first important aspect that we focused on in the present work was the fact that the composers we took into consideration were creating not only pieces made for the theatre, but also symphonic and instrumental compositions.In conclusion, it was found that the desire of the composers of the beginning of the 20th century to approach to the texts of ancient Italian poetry has been conditioned by many factors, affected by the social, economic, cultural and historical aspects.If there was a merely general interest in that period as far as the literature is concerned, then the same rough times were perceived by each composer in a very unique, personal way and in this research we believe that the significant contribution to the study of this aspect of the 20th century music has been given to a certain extent
Lo scopo principale della presente ricerca è stato quello di studiare le motivazioni e le esigenze che hanno portato un gruppo di compositori italiani, nati intorno al 1880, e per questa coincidenza cronologica definiti da Massimo Mila, come i compositori de « la generazione dell’Ottanta » a utilizzare per le loro opere cantate testi della poesia antica italiana. Si è trattato di un percorso di indagine che ha dovuto tenere conto di numerosi fattori dato soprattutto l’intreccio di interessi artistici e letterari e la complessità storico culturale del contesto di fine Ottocento e inizio Novecento. Fondamentale in prima istanza è stata l’esigenza di fissare dei termini cronologici indicativi di un cambiamento, anzi di una vera e propria rottura determinata a livello europeo dalla generale crisi del positivismo riflessasi in vario modo in Italia nelle forme di una forte reazione al verismo in ambito letterario e al melodramma in quello più specificamente musicale. Un primo dato importante su cui ci si è concentrati nel nostro lavoro è stato quello che si trattava di compositori a tutto tondo, che creavano non solo opere cantate per il teatro, ma anche strumentali da camera e sinfoniche. In conclusione si è riscontrato che il desiderio dei compositori del primo Novecento di rifarsi e riprendere i testi dell’antica poesia italiana per le loro opere, non va attribuito a un solo elemento, ma deve essere riferito a una pluralità di aspetti molto spesso dipendenti da esigenze socio economico culturali e storiche. Se vi fu un generale interesse per quel periodo della letteratura lo stesso fu poi elaborato in modo del tutto personale da ogni compositore e in questa ricerca crediamo di aver dato per quello che abbiamo considerato un significativo contributo allo studio di questo aspetto della musica del Novecento
Zazzaroni, Annarita <1981>. "Melodramma senza musica. Giovanni Pascoli, gli abbozzi teatrali e "Le Canzoni di Re Enzio"." Doctoral thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2009. http://amsdottorato.unibo.it/1952/.
Full textDrude, Matthias. "Die Geschichte vom Festessen." Saechsische Landesbibliothek- Staats- und Universitaetsbibliothek Dresden, 2009. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-ds-1237404755101-00853.
Full textDrude, Matthias. "Das Märchen von der verkauften Zeit." Saechsische Landesbibliothek- Staats- und Universitaetsbibliothek Dresden, 2009. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-ds-1237405133636-15383.
Full textDrude, Matthias. "Von der Erfindung der Weihnachtsfreude." Saechsische Landesbibliothek- Staats- und Universitaetsbibliothek Dresden, 2009. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-ds-1237404116951-68550.
Full textMelo, Everton Samuel dos Santos. "Análise da relação entre imagem e música em algumas produções cinematográficas do género melodrama." Master's thesis, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1822/46059.
Full textNeste estudo são analisadas quatro produções cinematográficas que adequam o conceito de melodrama. Procura-se, inicialmente, compreender a origem do melodrama, que apresenta a ópera em sua base, alcança o recital acompanhado e evolui para a sétima arte. A evolução, porém, desse modelo músico-dramático mantém em sua essência, o elemento que o distingue, ou seja, a música. Procura-se, sequencialmente, em um primeiro momento perceber os primeiros traços da teoria da música no cinema, apresentada por Noël Carroll (1996) e, em um segundo momento, à luz da teoria da expressividade da música no cinema desenvolvida por Peter Kivy (1999) compreender os aspectos sonoros essenciais que se relacionam à imagem na produção cinematográfica. Procura-se, em um último momento, a evidência de dois conceitos nomeadamente polarização e coerência afetiva, desenvolvidos pelo teórico do cinema, Jeff Smith (1997) a fim de mostrar como o espectador associa à música a imagem levando-o à emoção. A presente tese aborda, portanto, os aspectos sonoros utilizados em filmes que permitem a emoção na mente do espectador/ouvinte.
This study analyzes four film productions that fit in the concept of melodrama. Initially, we tried to understand the origin of melodrama, featuring opera at its base, then the musical recital and later evolved to the seventh art. However, the evolution of this musical-dramatic model maintains, in its essence, the element which distinguishes it, namely the music. Sequentially, in a first moment we tried to perceive the first traces of the theory of music in the cinema, presented by Noël Carroll (1996) and, in a second moment, in accordance with the theory of expressiveness of music in the cinema developed by Peter Kivy (1999), to understand the essential sound aspects that are related to the image in a cinematographic production. Finally, to put in evidence two concepts namely polarization and affective coherence, developed by the cinema theorist, Jeff Smith (1997), in order to show how the viewer associates the image to the music, leading him to the emotion. Therefore, this thesis approaches the sound aspects that are used in films and allow the emotion in the mind of the viewer/listener.
Azevedo, António Sérgio Arede Torrado Marques. "História de uma gaivota e do gato que a ensinou a voar: a criação de música para crianças como parte de uma ética artística e social." Doctoral thesis, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1822/20962.
Full textO presente trabalho, “História de uma Gaivota e do Gato que a ensinou a Voar: a criação de música para crianças como parte de uma ética artística e social”, tem como objectivos principais a investigação do contexto político, social e ético no qual as formas melodramáticas da música para crianças no século XX foram criadas (conto musical e outros), com especial ênfase na primeira metade do século, época durante a qual esta problemática tomou forma e se revelou mais acutilante, e a análise de uma obra do autor que se insere no género melodramático, a História de uma Gaivota e do Gato que a ensinou a Voar (texto de Luis Sepúlveda e música de Sérgio Azevedo), análise cuja função fundamental consiste em fornecer ferramentas de reflexão sobre as questões levantadas na investigação histórica preliminar. Este trabalho procura também colmatar em parte a falta de estudos sobre esta problemática específica, tendo-se verificado que a bibliografia publicada, se abundante no que respeita ao primeiro dos dois temas – contexto político das artes no século XX –, é muito escassa no que respeita à história e análise da música para crianças no século XX, e praticamente inexistente no que respeita à ligação entre ambos. Este facto revela a “menoridade” com que o género continua a ser encarado, regendo-se a investigação por critérios históricos e analíticos que visam contrariar este preconceito longamente estabelecido Para atingir estes objectivos o trabalho foi dividido em duas partes: investigação histórica do contexto social e político da música melodramática para crianças no século XX, na qual os principais compositores, contextos políticos e movimentos estéticos relacionados com o tema são estudados, e análise detalhada dos aspectos literários e musicais da História de uma Gaivota e do Gato que a ensinou a Voar. Desta análise, que leva em conta as conclusões originadas pela investigação histórica da primeira parte, resulta a fundamentação da posição do autor em relação ao que este crê dever ser a música para crianças: um género maior, que pode contribuir para o enriquecimento não só do ser humano numa fase de formação da personalidade e intelecto, mas também possuir o poder de interessar o adulto já formado, num contexto de plena liberdade estética e ideológica.
The principal objectives of this thesis, “The story of a seagull and the cat that taught it to fly: the creation of music for children as part of artistic and social ethics”, are the research of the political, social and ethical context in which musical melodrama for children of the 20th century (music tales and others) was created, with special emphasis on the first half of the century during which the problem was formed and became more acute, and the analysis of a work written in this genre by the author, The story of a seagull and the cat that taught it to fly (story by Luis Sepúlveda and music by Sérgio Azevedo), that provides a means of reflection on the questions raised by the initial historical research. This thesis also aims to fill the gap, at least in part, left by the lack of study of this particular subject. The first of the two themes – the political context of the arts in the 20th century – is dealt with extensively; the bibliography for second – history and analysis of the music written for children in the 20th century – is very sparse; treatment of the relationship between the two is virtually non-existent. This fact demonstrates the dismissive way in which the subject continues to be treated, and this research is carried out with the intention of setting straight this long-held preconception. To reach these goals the thesis has been divided into two parts: research into the social and political context of musical melodrama for children in the 20th century, in which the principal composers, political contexts and aesthetic movements related to the subject are studied, and a detailed analysis of literary and musical aspects of The story of a seagull and the cat that taught it to fly. This analysis takes into account the conclusions drawn from the historical research of the first part and results in the fundaments of the composer’s belief as to what music for children should be: an important genre that not only contributes to the enrichment of a human being at a stage when his personality and intellect are still being formed, but also has the capacity to interest the fully formed adult listener in a context of total aesthetic and ideological freedom.
Perron, Marc-André. "Texte et musique : exploration de leurs différentes combinaisons par l'intermédiaire de la composition." Thèse, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/19850.
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