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DEMEYERE, EWALD. "ON BWV1080/8: BETWEEN THEORY AND PRACTICE." Eighteenth Century Music 4, no. 2 (September 2007): 291–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1478570607000966.

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The application of rhetoric to music had special significance in the seventeenth century and in the first half of the eighteenth century. The discipline of classical Greek oratory, originally dealing with how to make and execute a speech, formed the basis for the rules of composition and performance, especially in German-speaking lands. During this period the influence of rhetorical principles on all parameters of music was commonplace; not only did a vast number of treatises on rhetoric in music emerge, but the central educational programme taught in the Latin schools and the universities included both musica and rhetorica among the seven artes liberales. That rhetoric was also a fundamental part of Bach’s music-making is shown by the following testimony from Johann Abraham Birnbaum (1702–1748), Professor of Poetics and Rhetoric at Leipzig: ‘He so perfectly understood the resemblance which the performance of a musical piece has in common with rhetorical art that he was listened to with the utmost satisfaction and pleasure when he discoursed of the similarity and agreement between them; but we also wonder at the skilful use he made of this in his works’.
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Kalό, Ildiko. "Considerations on the Elements of Musical Language in ‘La casa di peste drum’ [At the House across the Road] by Tudor Jarda." Musicology Papers 35, no. 1 (November 1, 2020): 35–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.47809/mp.2020.35.01.02.

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When we speak about musical rhetoric, rhetorical figures, or elements related to musica poetica, we almost always automatically think about the Baroque and, why not, about Johann Sebastian Bach`s music. However, few of us realize that the roots of these notions trace back to the Renaissance, and even fewer will relate them to Martin Luther`s name and the Protestant Reformation. The principles of musical rhetoric developed mainly in the North German space, although they were also present in other countries such as Italy, France and England. It was Germany, however, that in those times most enthusiastically adopted and adapted the terminology, methods and structures of ancient rhetoric. In his Musica Poetica, the German musicologist Dietrich Bartel explains the rise of musical rhetoric in Germany as a consequence of Martin Luther`s view of music being embraced by the Christian believers. Over the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries, musical rhetoric was continuously enriched and perfected, generating an extremely elaborate art whose focus was to find equivalences between rhetorical figures and musical intervals. Thus, music acquired a higher degree of accuracy of expression.
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Goodman, Mark, Stephen Brandon, and Melody Fisher. "1968: Music as Rhetoric in Social Movements." IRA-International Journal of Management & Social Sciences (ISSN 2455-2267) 9, no. 2 (November 29, 2017): 71. http://dx.doi.org/10.21013/jmss.v9.v2.p4.

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<p>In 1968 social movements sparked rhetorical discourses which occurred in many nations and on hundreds of colleges and in communities across the United States. These rhetorical discourses ultimately changed the direction of human events. Sometimes these points of ideological protests shared views on specific issues, especially demonstrations against the Vietnam War, but each conflict was also its own local conflict. There is no evidence that any specific group organized the protests, or that speakers motivated demonstrations, or that the rhetoric of one protest caused other protests. Yet, the protests were not just spontaneous fires that happened to occur in the same year. So, how is it that so many protesters shared the desire for change and shared rhetoric, but each protest was sparked by local issues? Answering that question provides insight into how the rhetoric of social movements occurred in 1968. </p><p> Many scholars call for the study of the social movements of the 1960s. Jensen (1996) argues, “The events of the 1960s dramatically increased the interest in studying social movements and forced rhetorical scholars to reconsider their methods for studying public discourse” (p. 28). To Lucas (2006), “Words became weapons in the cultural conflict that divided America” (x). Schippa (2001) wrote, “Many accounts identify the 1960s as a turning point. For better or for worse, there was a confluence of changing rhetorical practices, expanding rhetorical theories, and opportunities for rhetorical criticism. The cultural clashes of the 1960s were felt perhaps most acutely on college campuses. The sufficiency of deliberative argument and public address can be said to have been called into question, whether one was an antiwar activist who hated LBJ's war in Vietnam or a pro-establishment stalwart trying to make sense of the rhetoric of protest and demonstration. Years later, scholars would characterize war itself as rhetorical. What counted as rhetorical practice was up for grabs”(p. 261).</p> First, this paper will frame the protest movement of 1968. Then, we will search for the common factors that shaped the protests of 1968, focusing on the role of music. This analysis will provide insight into how music became a rhetorical force in a significant social movement of the 20th Century.
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Gibson, Jonathan. "““A Kind of Eloquence Even in Music””: Embracing Different Rhetorics in Late Seventeenth-Century France." Journal of Musicology 25, no. 4 (2008): 394–433. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/jm.2008.25.4.394.

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Abstract French rhetoricians of the seventeenth century——among them Franççois Féénelon, Bernard Lamy, Renéé Bary, and Renéé Rapin——brought about a profound shift in the landscape of their discipline. Their texts call into question the centrality of rhetorical figures (part of the elocutio), the dispositio, and other artful rhetorical precepts, while placing increased emphasis on delivery (pronuntiatio). In most cases, they realized this new emphasis via one of two novel approaches: the first relied upon a Cartesian taxonomy of the passions, whereas the second sought to abandon precepts altogether in the quest for transparent, or ““Natural,”” representation. Even while adopting contrasting methods, representatives of both approaches were unanimous in regarding rhetoric and music as sister disciplines. Furthermore, French musicians and rhetoricians alike rejected the prevailing idea that the relationship between these disciplines was hierarchical, with rhetoric the dominant sibling. This shift helps to explain why the notion that music ““imitates”” the structures and conventions of rhetoric, while popular in other regions, is to be found in no French source after ca. 1640. Yet, many recent studies continue to perpetuate such hierarchies, mapping onto musical works rhetorical concepts unknown or consciously avoided in France. Relating a nuanced depiction of multiple French rhetorical practices to music-centered writings by Bacilly, La Croix, Lecerf, Grimarest, and others reveals that the very same aesthetic positions evident among rhetoric texts also shaped the era's discourse on music. More broadly, because no tradition existed in French musical discourse of articulating aesthetic matters until Lecerf's Comparaison de la musique italienne et de la musique franççaise (1704––1706), the intersection of music and rhetoric offers a rare means of constructing an aesthetics of musical eloquence in seventeenth-century France.
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Thatelo, Mopailo Thomas. "Afrocentric analysis of music in political advertisements of the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF)." Communicare: Journal for Communication Studies in Africa 41, no. 2 (December 15, 2022): 65–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.36615/jcsa.v41i2.1431.

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In 2009, South Africa saw another landmark with the introduction of political advertisements on television. Literature is littered with studies of political advertisements on television. In these studies, 1) background music is merely an accompaniment to advertisement voiceover and images, rather than an argument itself. Little is known about 2) the discursive role of background political music as a means of conveying political messages in political television advertisements, 3) the underlying ideology and 4) Afrocentric rhetoric in political music used in political television advertisements. Considering the above, this paper interrogates the Afrocentric perspective underlying the rhetoric of background music in the political television advertisements of the South African opposition political party, the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) from 2014 to 2021. This study employs the decolonial thought of the Afrocentric perspective as a theory and a research method to interrogate underlying rhetoric in political music. Findings of the paper revealed that the EFF background music is highly political, Afrocentric and inherently rhetorical.
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Oliinyk, Oleksandr L. "Interconnection of rhethoric and music art." Linguistics and Culture Review 5, S4 (October 23, 2021): 254–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.21744/lingcure.v5ns4.1581.

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From the beginning of its formation, rhethoric had an undeniable impact on music. It mostly concerns rhethoric being the basis for the construction of a musical sound continuum which is valuable for developing the skills of improvisation. The process of transformation of the basic elements of rhetoric was presented. The authors mentioned the initial positions of rhetoric and their connection with music art. Ways of realization of traditional parts of rhetoric (Inventio, Dispositio, Elocutio, Memoria, Pronuntatio) in music were studied. Attention was paid to stringed and plucked instruments, including domra as an academic folk instrument, and possible ways to use rhetorical components. The process of academization of domra was characterized. It led to aggravating the problem of improvisation in the presentation of material. The intensity of the artistic component in the creative construction of the instrumental playing and in the essence of the artist’s performing position was determined.
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Ra, Julie. "Baroque Music and Rhetoric." Yonsei Music Research 18 (December 31, 2011): 41–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.16940/ymr.2011.18.41.

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Paschoal, Stéfano. "Anáfora ou repetição em Música: figura e recurso expressivo." ouvirOUver 13, no. 1 (May 25, 2017): 216. http://dx.doi.org/10.14393/ouv20-v13n1a2017-16.

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A base do trabalho que ora se apresenta é a Retórica clássica latina, tal qual apresentada na obra “Rhetorica ad Herennium”, cuja autoria se atribui, ainda que de forma polêmica, a M.T. Cícero. A Retórica clássica latina exerceu grande influência na produção literária e retórica dos séculos posteriores, mais expressivamente durante a Renascença e o século XVII. É interessante notar que não apenas o âmbito literário recebe influências da Retórica, mas também outro, a saber, possuidor de linguagem própria, distinta e autônoma: a música. São profícuos os tratados que buscam demonstrar as relações entre Retórica e Música, afirmando ser a música, mesmo, passível de uma análise retórica. Isto criou o que se pode chamar de “retórica musical”. Apresentaremos aqui um breve panorama sobre Retórica e Música no século XVII alemão e enfatizaremos como se evidenciam em textos musicais diversos a anáfora. PALAVRAS-CHAVE Retórica, música, figuras de linguagem. ABSTRACT This paper relies on Latin Rhetoric as presented in the book “Rhetorica ad Herennium”. It is interesting to observe that not only literature becomes influenced from Rhetoric, but also another area, which consists itself in a specific and independent language: Music. German 17th century doesn’t receive Rhetoric influences only in the literature, intending – through imitation and emulation in a language policy programme – the formation of a national language and literature, but also in the Music. We will briefly present a panorama about assimilation of rhetoric means in Music during Renaissance and 17th century and emphasize how an important part of elocution – the figures of speech – becomes clear in the “musical” text. In this paper we show how one can find examples of anaphor in two different musical examples. KEYWORDS Rhetoric, music, figures of speech.
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Olena, Kholodkova. "G. Ph. Telemann’s Concertos for Four Violins withoutbassocontinuoin the aspect of onomatopoeic and figurative rhetoric." Aspects of Historical Musicology 24, no. 24 (October 13, 2021): 54–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.34064/khnum2-24.03.

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Statement of the problem. In musicology there has long been a tacit belief that Baroque music is the music of rhetoric, rhetorical figures and affects. In Baroque aesthetics, rhetoric, which is an important element of Baroque poetics, is perceived as an integral part of the content of a musical piece that together with form, harmony, counterpoint and musical expression form its integral substance. The study of Baroque music from the perspective of the rhetorical aspect gives a clearer comprehension of the work, understanding the context, and the competent interpretation of the composer’s idea. Analysis of recent research and publication. The theoretical assumptions of this article are based both on historical treatises (M. Praetorius, Ch. Bernhard, J. Mattheson) and authoritative works of researchers who studied theoretical issues of historically informed performance of the late XX – early XXI century (D. Bartel, L. Dreyfus), including relatively new works (M. Zg&#243;&#322;ka, P. Zawistowski, A. Mocek). M. Zg&#243;&#322;ka (2016) adopts a rather traditional approach to rhetoric, which operates with rhetorical figures and affects, and at the same time offers an innovative division of rhetoric into three varieties. Referring to the most important treatises L. Dreyfus (2004) makes us think about the relevance of making parallels between oratory and musical rhetoric highlighting common features and differences. A. Mocek’s (2019) view on musical rhetoric and on the studies devoted to it is quite critical. The main objective of the study is to examine G. Ph. Telemann’s Concertos for Four Violins without basso continuo from the perspective of figurative and onomatopoeic rhetoric. The scientific novelty. In this research for the first time, Telemann’s Concertos were analyzed from the perspective of onomatopoeic and figurative rhetoric. The concept of division of rhetoric into three categories (onomatopoeic, figurative, symbolically mystical) was proposed by the Polish violinist and theorist M. Zg&#243;&#322;ka (2016). The author uses the following methods in this research: historical, typological, comparative and structural-functional analysis. Results. The analysis of four concertos demonstrates that G. Ph. Telemann uses not only figurative type of rhetoric but also onomatopoeic, successfully combining these two categories. In comparison with, for example, A. Vivaldi or H. I. F. von Biber, the palette of sound imitative techniques in the concertos of G. Ph. Telemann is not so diverse and comprehensive, however, elements of onomatopoeic rhetoric can be found both in fast and slow movements: sound of organ or bells as well as sound images of nature. The composer does not refuse from the elements of figurative rhetoric. Like in his duo sonatas, these are mainly represented by figures that describe a melodic motion. Such techniques are often found in polyphonic quick movements. In the lyrical slow movements, similarly to the duo sonatas, harmony, polyphony and intervals are brought to the fore. Conclusions. G. Ph. Telemann’s cycle of Concertos for Four Violins without continuo is an interesting example of chamber music not only in terms of composition but also from the view point of the usage and combination of various types of musical rhetoric. Knowledge of the rhetorical component brings researchers and performers to a new, more comprehensive level of understanding of the composer’s music, allowing us to consider the emotional content not only of the work as a whole, but also of each single intonation.
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McClelland, John. "Music with Words: Semiotic/Rhetoric." Rhetorica 8, no. 3 (1990): 187–211. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/rh.1990.8.3.187.

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Music and rhetoric"

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Tinajero, Roberto Jose. "Hip hop rhetoric relandscaping the rhetorical tradition /." To access this resource online via ProQuest Dissertations and Theses @ UTEP, 2009. http://0-proquest.umi.com.lib.utep.edu/login?COPT=REJTPTU0YmImSU5UPTAmVkVSPTI=&clientId=2515.

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Paradiso, Laurin Anna. "Classical rhetoric in baroque music." Thesis, Kungl. Musikhögskolan, Institutionen för klassisk musik, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kmh:diva-1208.

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Repertoar: J.S.Bach: f-moll konsert för cembalo och orkester; Scarlatti: Sonata K 141; Froberger: Toccata VI i a-moll; Paradies: Sonata VII i B-dur; Frescobaldi: Toccata Ottava ur Primo Libro; d'Anglebert: Prelude, Allemande, Courante ur Suite i d-moll; Scarlatti: Follia; Fontana: Sonata Seconda för blockflöjt och basso continuo. Medverkande: Dan Laurin - blockflöjt, Jonas Lindgård - violin, Josef Cabrales - violin, Toni Bauer - viola, Mats Olofsson - cello, Danijel Petrovic - kontrabas

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Rusak, Helen Kathryn. "Rhetoric and the motet passion." Title page, table of contents and introduction only, 1986. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09ARM/09armr949.pdf.

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Toumpoulidis, Themistoklis D. "Aspects of musical rhetoric in Baroque organ music." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2005. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/3032/.

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The association between linguistic and musical principles was acknowledged by Baroque musicians throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, a facet that attracted the attention of many musicologists - mostly German (A. Schering, H. Brandes, and H. H. Unger) - from the beginning of the twentieth century. This study presents an historical background to the whole concept of musical rhetoric, beginning with Luther's theology of music, and focuses on the most significant theoretical compilations of the Baroque era that led to the crystallization and final decline of musica poetica. Aspects of classical rhetoric are dealt with extensively, commencing with the rhetorical dispositio, as described by Greek and Roman authorities, followed by Mattheson's first musical illustration of the (six-part) rhetorical structure in vocal composition. The work focuses on the musical adaptation of two important elements of Baroque musica poetica. Musical-rhetorical figures are presented in chorale compositions by D. Buxtehude and J. S. Bach, conforming to the Baroque notion according to which composers were inclined to depict the allegory and symbolism of the theological text. The study proceeds to the demonstration of the rhetorical dispositio in free organ music, adopting a theory that explains the seemingly disjointed parts of the Klangrede ('sound-speech') notsimply as whimsical elements of the stylus phantasticus, but rather as a scenario modelled on rhetorical thought. The alternation of passion and reason between the affective (exordium and peroratio) and objective (narratio and confirmatio) sections of the classical dispositio is demonstrated in specific pedaliter praeludia by D. Buxtehude, whose free organ works point to an advanced rhetorical plan hidden behind each composition.Buxtehude's musical-rhetorical dispositio is further applied to organ toccatas by N. Bruhns (E minor) and J. S. Bach (BWV 551 and 566), whose rhetorical style, although different from that of Buxtehude, displays a sequence of contrasting sections also motivated by the functions identified in classical rhetoric.
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Stedman, Kyle D. "Musical Rhetoric and Sonic Composing Processes." Scholar Commons, 2012. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/4229.

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This project is a study of musical rhetoric and music composition processes. It asks the questions, "How does the nature of music as sound-in-time affect its rhetorical functions, production, and delivery?" and "How do composers approach the task of communicating with audiences through instrumental music?" I answer these questions by turning to the history of musical rhetoric as practiced in the field of musicology and by interviewing composers themselves about their composition practices--approaches that are both underused in the rhetoric and composition community. I frame my research participants' responses with a discussion of the different degrees to which composers try to control the eventual meaning made from their compositions and the different ways that they try to identify with their audiences. While some composers express a desire to control audiences' emotions and experiences through the use of forms and careful predictions about an audience's reactions to certain genres and influences, other composers express a comfort with audiences composing their own meanings from musical sounds, perhaps eschewing or transforming traditional forms and traditional performance practices. Throughout, I argue for the importance of considering all of these perspectives in the context of actually hearing music, as opposed to taming and solidifying it into a score on a page. These composers' insights suggest the importance of understanding musical rhetoric as an act based in sound and time that guides meaning but can never control it. They also suggest new ways of teaching English composition courses that are inspired by the experiences and practices of music composition students. Specifically, I argue that English composition courses should better rely on the self-sponsored literacies that students bring to classrooms, stretch the ways these courses approach traditional rules of composing, and approach digital tools, collaboration, and delivery in ways that mirror the experiences of music students.
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Emke, Andréas. "Musiklärares användning av talekonsten : Retoriska förmågor." Thesis, Kungl. Musikhögskolan, Institutionen för musik, pedagogik och samhälle, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kmh:diva-4177.

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Äldre litteratur har visat att talkonsten kan användas för att övertyga sina åhörare. En väsentlig del i läraryrket är att göra sig förstådd hos elever och studenter. I denna studie undersöktes det hur musiklärare använde sig av retoriska grepp i sin undervisning samt hur deras elever uppfattade musiklärarnas retorik. Studien genomfördes genom observering av musiklärarnas lektioner, därefter intervjuades deras elever. Resultatet visade att musiklärarna använde rösten på olika sätt, via övertygelse, tempo, betoningar och pauser, för att framföra sitt budskap. Studien visade att elevernas förståelse för ämnet kan påverkas genom att läraren anpassar sitt sätt att tala.
In the olden literature it has been shown that the art of speech can be used to convince its listeners. An essential part of the teaching profession is to make oneself understood by pupils and students. This study examines how music teachers use rhetorical devices in their teaching and how their students perceive the music teachers' rhetoric. The study was conducted by observing the music teachers' lessons, afterwards their students were interviewed. The results show that music teachers use their voice in different ways, through conviction, tempo, strategic emphases and pauses for effect, to convey their message. The study shows that students' understanding of the subject can be influenced by the teacher adapting his or her way of speaking.
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Desler, Anne. "'Il novello Orfeo' Farinelli : vocal profile, aesthetics, rhetoric." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2014. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/5743/.

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Although Farinelli has received a great deal of attention in scholarship, the early music performance scene and in popular culture, little has been written about his singing. The current perception of Farinelli’s musical profile is based almost entirely on the research of Franz Haböck from the beginning of the 20th century and the writings of Charles Burney. As a result of the emphasis of both writers on Farinelli’s bravura singing, the singer’s name has become synonymous with castrato virtuosity. This study takes a more diffentiated approach. It reconstructs the artistic persona of Farinelli from libretti, scores and documentary evidence, evaluates the veracity of anecdotal information pertaining to his singing that has so far been accepted largely at face value and considers the aesthetic implications of Farinelli’s singing. Part I of this study seeks to reconstruct Farinelli’s vocal profile. In chapter 1, contemporary descriptions by earwitnesses are examined and evaluated with regard to important aspects of his singing, i.e., the sound quality, volume and range of his voice, technical elements such as his trill, agility and breath control, ornamentation and improvisation and, finally, his acting. Chapter 2 summarises the main stages of the singer’s operatic career. The purpose of this chapter is not to reiterate biographical information, but to provide an outline that can serve as a framework for the discussion of the development of Farinelli’s vocal technique, personal style and reception. The chapter also identifies important points of professional interaction between Farinelli and other famous singers. Chapter 3 falls into two parts. Firstly, the main elements of vocal technique, as described in the vastly influential vocal treatises of Tosi and Mancini, are outlined in relation to notational practice of 18th-century manuscript scores and their relevance to the music sung by Farinelli. Secondly, the development of Farinelli’s voice in terms of the singer’s vocal technique, range, volume and details of style is discussed on the basis of the analysis of Farinelli’s operatic roles. Chapter 4 focuses on the analysis and contextualisation of important stylistic changes that occured during Farinelli’s career. Throughout, Farinelli’s stylistic choices are discussed in relation to the aesthetic preferences of the different audiences he encountered. Part 2 explores aspects of Farinelli’s artistic profile from the vantage points of aesthetics and rhetoric. Based on analyses of Farinelli’s arias on nightingale metaphors, chapter 5 discusses the conceptual frameworks and aesthetic issues that have often resulted in a critical reception of his virtuosity, both during his lifetime and in the 20th century. Chapter 6 examines the manner in which the principles of rhetoric have been applied to 18th-century music in recent scholarship. It argues for a different, more integrated approach that reflects the performance-centred period understanding of rhetoric, which, unlike the modern understanding, was not yet inflected by the author and work concepts. Chapter 7 analyses rhetorical strategies in Farinelli’s Venetian bravura arias and their implications with regard to the issues of authorship and the relationship between performer and audience. In chapter 8, the text-music relationship and communicative strategies in Farinelli’s slow expressive arias are scrutinised. The conclusion briefly assesses the impact of Farinelli on Italian opera, theatrical performance practice and musical aesthetics.
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Johnston, Gregory Scott. "Protestant funeral music and rhetoric in seventeenth-century Germany : a musical-rhetorical examination of the printed sources." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/27359.

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The present thesis is an investigation into the musical rhetoric of Protestant funeral music in seventeenth-century Germany. The study begins with an exposition on the present state of musicological inquiry into occasional music in the Baroque, focusing primarily on ad hoc funeral music. Because funeral music is not discussed in any of the basic music reference works, a cursory overview of existing critical studies is included. The survey of this literature is followed by a brief discussion of methodological obstacles and procedure with regard to the present study. Chapter Two comprises a general discussion of Protestant funeral liturgy in Baroque Germany. Although numerous examples of the Divine Service in the Lutheran Church have survived the seventeenth century, not a single order of service for the funeral liturgy from the period seems to exist. This chapter provides both the social and extra-liturgical background for the music as well as a plausible Lutheran funerary liturgy based on documents from the period and modern studies. Prosopopoeia, the rhetorical personification of the dead, is the subject of Chapter Three. After examining the theoretical background of this rhetorical device, from Roman Antiquity to the German Baroque, the trope is examined in the context of funerary sermonic oratory. The discussion of oratorical rhetoric is followed by an investigation into the musical application of the concept of prosopopoeia in various styles of funerary composition, from simple cantional-style works to compositions in which the personified deceased assumes certain physical dimensions. Chapter Four includes an examination of various other musical-rhetorical figures effectively employed in funeral music. Also treated in this chapter are musica1-rhetorical aspects of duple and triple metre, where triple metre in particular, depending on the text, can be understood figuratively, metaphorically or as a combination of both. As this chapter makes clear, owing to the perceived antithetical properties of metre and certain figures, musical rhetoric was often used to illustrate the distinction between this world and the next.
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Westacott, Graeme John. "The rhetoric of the north German organ school /." The rhetoric of the north German organ schoolRead the abstract of the thesis, 2005. http://www.library.uq.edu.au/pdfserve.php?image=thesisabs/absthe19396.pdf.

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Lawrence, Daniel William. "On the digital-political topography of music." Thesis, Michigan Technological University, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3643826.

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The persuasive power of music is often relegated to the dimension of pathos: that which moves us emotionally. Yet, the music commodity is now situated in and around the liminal spaces of digitality. To think about how music functions, how it argues across media, and how it moves us, we must examine its material and immaterial realities as they present themselves to us and as we so create them. This dissertation rethinks the relationship between rhetoric and music by examining the creation, performance, and distribution of music in its material and immaterial forms to demonstrate its persuasive power. While both Plato and Aristotle understood music as a means to move men toward virtue, Aristotle tells us in his Laws, through the Athenian Stranger, that the very best kinds of music can help guide us to truth. From this starting point, I assess the historical problem of understanding the rhetorical potential of music as merely that which directs or imitates the emotions: that which "Soothes the savage breast," as William Congreve writes. By furthering work by Vickers and Farnsworth, who suggest that the Baroque fascination with applying rhetorical figures to musical figures is an insufficient framework for assessing the rhetorical potential of music, I demonstrate the gravity of musical persuasion in its political weight, in its violence--the subjective violence of musical torture at Guantanamo and the objective, ideological violence of music--and in what Jacques Attali calls the prophetic nature of music. I argue that music has a significant function, and as a non-discursive form of argumentation, works on us beyond affect. Moreover, with the emergence of digital music distribution and domestic digital recording technologies, the digital music commodity in its material and immaterial forms allows for ruptures in the former methods of musical composition, production, and distribution and in the political potential of music which Jacques Attali describes as being able to foresee new political realities. I thus suggest a new theoretical framework for thinking about rhetoric and music by expanding on Lloyd Bitzer's rhetorical situation, by offering the idea of "openings" to the existing exigence, audience, and constraints. The prophetic and rhetorical power of music in the aleatoric moment can help provide openings from which new exigencies can be conceived. We must, therefore, reconsider the role of rhetorical-musical composition for the citizen, not merely as a tool for entertainment or emotional persuasion, but as an arena for engaging with the political.

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Books on the topic "Music and rhetoric"

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Goldberg, Sander M., and Tom Beghin. Haydn and the performance of rhetoric. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007.

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Bartel, Dietrich. Musica poetica: Musical-rhetorical figures in German Baroque music. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1997.

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Bartel, Dietrich. Musica poetica: Musical-rhetorical figures in German Baroque music. Lincoln, NB: University of Nebraska Press, 1997.

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Lahusen, Christian. The rhetoric of moral protest: Publiccampaigns, celebrity endorsement, and political mobilization. Berlin: W. de Gruyter, 1996.

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Musik-Rhetorik: Melodiestruktur und Persuasion. Berlin: Weidler, 2009.

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Bonds, Mark Evan. Wordless rhetoric: Musical form and the metaphor of the oration. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 1991.

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Lahusen, Christian. The rhetoric of moral protest: Public campaigns, celebrity endorsement, and political mobilization. Berlin: W. de Gruyter, 1996.

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Marco, Gozzi, ed. Struttura e retorica nella musica profana del Cinquecento: Atti del convegno, Trento, Centro S. Chiara, 23 ottobre 1988. Roma: Edizioni Torre d'Orfeo, 1990.

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1941-, Carruthers Mary J., ed. Rhetoric beyond words: Delight and persuasion in the arts of the Middle Ages. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010.

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Brutian, Anait Keuchguerian. Reconciling geometry, rhetoric and harmony: A fresh look at C.P.E. Bach. Montréal: Anait Keuchguerian Brutian, 2002.

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Saint-Dizier, Patrick. "Language, Music and the Rhetoric Discourse." In Musical Rhetoric, 31–60. Hoboken, NJ, USA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781119004998.ch2.

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Kock, Christian. "The Semiotics and Rhetoric of Music: A Case Study in Aesthetic Protocol Analysis." In Rhetorical Audience Studies and Reception of Rhetoric, 185–211. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-61618-6_7.

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Menninghaus, Winfried. "Darwin’s Theory of Music, Rhetoric and Poetry." In Stephen J. Gould: The Scientific Legacy, 169–76. Milano: Springer Milan, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-88-470-5424-0_11.

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Leikin, Anatole. "The narrative rhetoric of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony." In The Routledge Handbook of Music Signification, 186–96. [1.] | New York : Routledge, 2020.: Routledge, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781351237536-16.

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Khazrai, Firoozeh. "Music in Khusraw Va Shirin." In The Poetry of Nizami Ganjavi: Knowledge, Love, and Rhetoric, 163–78. New York: Palgrave Macmillan US, 2000. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-09836-8_9.

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Brocken, Mike. "Coming Out of the Rhetoric of ‘Merseybeat’: Conversations with Joe Flannery." In The Beatles, Popular Music and Society, 23–34. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2000. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-62210-8_2.

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Sabiston, Catherine, and Brian Wilson. "Britney, the Body and the Blurring of Popular Cultures: A Case Study of Music Videos, Gender, a Transcendent Celebrity, and Health Issues." In Sport, Rhetoric, and Gender, 199–210. New York: Palgrave Macmillan US, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230600751_17.

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Riley, Matthew. "Clementi’s minor-mode keyboard music and the rhetoric of ‘ancient style’." In Muzio Clementi and British Musical Culture, 185–99. Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY: Routledge, 2018. | Series: Ashgate historical keyboard series: Routledge, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315206936-11.

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Bredenbach, Ingo. "Musik und Rhetorik – oder: wie Musik predigt." In pop.religion: lebensstil – kultur – theologie, 113–26. Wiesbaden: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-22255-0_6.

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McCreless, Patrick. "Music and rhetoric." In The Cambridge History of Western Music Theory, 845–79. Cambridge University Press, 2002. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/chol9780521623711.029.

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