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Sultan, Agathe. ""En conjunction de science " : musique et rhétorique à la fin du Moyen Age." Paris 4, 2005. http://www.theses.fr/2005PA040224.
Full textA common practice and a constant reference for many medieval poets, music was the source of the second rhetoric. However, today music appears to be a true stumbling stone for literary exegesis. In the tradition initiated by Boethius, music is altogether worldly, human and instrumental allowing the union between sense and intellect. As one of the arts of the quadrivium, its implications for the realm of poetics are very complex. Music interests us primarily for the intricacy of the styles. Even as it follows the old structural and rhetorical patterns, the music of the ars nova partakes in an ambivalent esthetics particularly through the innovative conception of the science of Numbers displayed in the multiplication of voices. In the works of Guillaume de Machaut whose lyrics and rhythmical composition equally reveal his utter degree of artistic refinement, the motet becomes the epitome of poetical tension, fracture and alienation. Pluritextuality provides not a catalyst for dialogue but rather operates as a chamber of echoes. Moreover, the proliferation of tropes intensifies and expands the fictional utterance. With the arguable exception of L'Art de dictier, followed by a relative disaffection for song, the writers continue to search for a new art of the counterpoint, between harmony and eloquence, in the shadow of traditional musical forms
Rillon-Marne, Anne-Zoé. "Philippe le Chancelier et son oeuvre : étude sur l'élaboration d'une poétique musicale." Poitiers, 2008. http://theses.edel.univ-poitiers.fr/theses/2008/Rillon-Anne-Zoe/2008-Rillon-Anne-Zoe-These.pdf.
Full textThough the analysis of the moral monodic conductus by the poet, preacher and theologist Philip the Chancellor, the rhetorical qualities of this work are revealed both by words and music. They have a complex relationship either by enhancing the sounds of words, by clarifying their meaning or by setting a learned construction to be understood by people used to the subtelties of latin rhythmic poetry. Rules and figures are dictated by the will to deliver a moral message, these techniques being derived from others practices of speech. The poet-composer conceives the conductus with the same habits as the ones of the orator and the singing voice is an efficient means of teaching a large and varied audience. Each song seems to fit is own purpose by the sounds of the language, by the structure patterns or by melodic creation. The sung word thus becomes a weapon against all sinners and vices
Sieffert, Mathias. "L'écriture de la voix. Poétique du rondeau sans musique à la fin du Moyen Âge (1350-1465)." Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018USPCA066.
Full textNherited from the 13th-Century rondet de carole, the rondeau became a polyphonic musical genre at the age of the ars nova, and tends to be used, in 14th and 15th Centuries manuscripts, as a textual lyric. This thesis uncovers how, from Guillaume de Machaut to Charles d’Orléans, a short and redundant poetical text, which was supposed to be sung became non musical poetry. In the first part of this study we consider the textual rondeau as a rhetorical « ghost of a voice » : we study the history and genealogy of the form from a musical and rhetorical perspective, show how the absence of music impacts the layout and how fiction and narrative relocate the interpolated textual rondeaux in a vocal, musical or epistolary horizon. The next part investigates the way scribes and poets gather collections of rondeaux from a codicological perspective. We offer a typology that distinguishes « hybrid collections », « sections » and « canzonieri ». Through these three kinds of « mises en recueil », we analyze the use of the rondeau in manuscripts from Machaut, Froissart, Christine de Pizan, Eustache Deschamps, Oton de Granson and Jean de Garencières, which finally leads to a detailed analysis of the chançons by Charles d’Orléans, written c. 1440 in the BnF fr. 25458. The last part examines the rise of a scriptural genre : the poetical evolution of the rondeau reveals a rhetorical shift from the ornatus facilis to the ornatus difficilis, especially with Charles d’Orléans who initiates a fully bloomed literary genre. We then analyze, in the last two chapters, collective practices of quoting and rewriting to show how the rondeau becomes a scriptural game, consisting in expanding and recycling ambiguous formulas, especially in a new kind of collections we call « creative anthologies »
Zinélabidine, Mohamed. "Contribution à l'étude des théories et conceptions esthétiques musicales arabo-musulmanes au Moyen Age (du VIIe s. Au XIIIe s. )." Paris 4, 1995. http://www.theses.fr/1995PA040047.
Full textThe question we can ask now is: what we call Arabic music is in fact Arabic or is it an Islamic music ? Having started from an Arabic music which was developed before and after Islam, we are interested in its origins, repertories, and forms. The first part of our work concerns the study of the classical Arabic musical system, its specific elements, its characteristics, and its singing technics until the IXth century. In the second part, we followed the evolution of the Arabic musical scale before Islam until the school of "systematists" (XIIIth century) to appreciate the consequences of these transformations on the Arabic melodical modal systems in the near middle east and the Muslim west. We also specified that the classical music school represented by al-Kindi and al-Mawcili (IXth century) was transmitted by Zyriab (IXth century). With such men the ideas of the east were transmitted to the Muslim west. We then examined the Arabic cultural influence in the middle-aged occident. We looked at how the Arabic culture development in general and the musical one in particular permitted to the middle-aged occident a real will to the knowledge when the need is felt. Finally, in the third part we introduce the arab-muslim musical thinking through the study of the al-Kindi's four-element theory, the al-Farabi's aesthetic feelings, and the al-Ghazali's spiritual music
Formarier, Marie. "Entre rhétorique et musique : le rythme latin de l'Antiquité au haut Moyen-Age." Lyon 3, 2009. https://scd-resnum.univ-lyon3.fr/in/theses/2009_in_formarier_m.pdf.
Full textPolitical eloquence is a sort of music. The difference between eloquence and music —either vocal or instrumental— is quantitative not qualitative”. Dionysius of Halicarnassus (Ist c. BC) thus faces with the crucial and challenging concern of the connection between rhetoric and music. Actually, those fields are both based on rhythm. My dissertation therefore addresses this question: to what extent the relationship between rhythm in speech and rhythm in song mirrors the linguistic, sociological, political and cultural changes that altered the Latin society from Cicero to Guido of Arezzo? In ancient Greece, musical rhythm has to be in time because songs are usually danced, whereas oratory rhythm must not follow a beat. According to Cicero, oratory rhythm is definitely different from musical rhythm and poetic metre because it is built on continually changing patterns. Those rhythmic principles are particularly vivid in the early Middle Ages, especially in Christian chant. Although Latin has been deeply altered, the rhythmic set of laws established by Cicero is still helpful in the composition of Christian melodies, mainly in what Guido of Arezzo calls cantus prosaicus
Nishimagi, Shin. "Les modalités de l'enseignement musical au Moyen Age : Le traité De Modis, Cambrai, Médiathèque municipale, Ms 172 (XIIème siècle)." Paris, EPHE, 2005. http://www.theses.fr/2005EPHE4047.
Full textAubert, Eduardo Henrik. "Ecrire, chanter, agir : les graduels et missels notes en notation aquitaine avant 1100." Paris, EHESS, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011EHES0078.
Full textMy dissertation concems the GraduaIs and Missals written in Southem France between the ninth and the eleventh centuries. Its main focus is the transformation in musical literacy from the Carolingian Renaissance to the Gregorian Reform (c. 880-c. 1090). My contention is that the leap from exclusively oral transmission to the widespread use of notated books was not an inexorable development limited to an independent realm of 'music' , but rather an index and an active agent in the radical transformation that led society to become progressively dominated by hierarchical, well defined and efficient ecclesiastical structures -part of the creation of Christendom as an over arching, all-encompassing 'cadre de vie'. The dissertation proceeds in two parts. In the first, I define the nature of this musical literacy in relation to musical practices by providing a comprehensive catalogue of sources (chapter 1), a semiological study of their notation (chapter 2) and an analysis of musical variants (chapter 3). The second part deals specific manuscripts that can explored as windows relevant contexts: the functions notation the oldest extant Gradual-Antiphonary Southern France (MS Bibliothèque Municipale, 44, chapter a scribe' s negotiation between literacy and predominantly oral experience Florence, Biblioteca Medicea-Laurenziana, Ashburnham chapter and the attempt to introduce Church reform in Toulouse London, British Library, Harley 4951, chapter 6)
Dulong, Gilles. "La ballade polyphonique à la fin du Moyen Âge : de l'union entre musique naturelle et musique artificielle." Tours, 2000. http://www.theses.fr/2000TOUR2016.
Full textGoudesenne, Jean-François. "Les offices historiques ou "Historiae" composés pour les fêtes des saints du VIIIe au XIe siècle dans la province ecclésiastique de Reims : (Belgica secunda : diocèses d'Amiens, Arras, Beauvais, Cambrai, Châlons, Laon, Noyon, Reims, Senlis, Soissons, Therouanne, Tournai." Tours, 1997. http://www.theses.fr/1997TOUR2005.
Full textGuéret-Laferté, Michèle. "Ordre et rhétorique dans les récits de voyage en Mongolie et en Chine aux XIIIe et XIVe siècles." Paris 3, 1993. http://www.theses.fr/1993PA030120.
Full textThe mongol hegemony in asia during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries brought about the discovery of the east by western people. The accounts written by the travellers mainly missionaries compose a document of great value in order to define the particular world representation of these times and to value the repercussions of such a travel experience on the conceptions inherited from the biblical and ancient tradition. The formal characteristics of these texts point out an evolution and help us to understand the progressive constitution of the journey narrative
Cerveux, Alexandre. "La place de la musique dans l'enseignement juif médiéval : analyse du discours sur la musique dans les textes hébreux provençaux et espagnols (1167-1505)." Thesis, Sorbonne université, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019SORUL027.
Full textMusic appears to be an overlooked subject in recent monographs focusing on medieval Jewish sciences. Medieval Jewish scholars are indebted to Arab-Muslim scholars : the former received the philosophical method and the branches of knowledge that the latter conceived. However, music was part of the Arab philosophical education. For instance, it appears in classifications of sciences ; scholars compiled treatises on that matter. Judging by medieval Hebrew texts that have been handed down to us, Arabic texts that circulated have influenced the way Jewish scholars speak about music. The corpus of texts upon which this study is based is constituted of texts or excerpts that can be related to music. They all constitute what will be called « discourse on music ». These Hebrew texts all account for the influence of Judaeo-Spanish culture on Provençal Judaism between the 12th and the 15th centuries. Some of them are original texts ; others are translations or adaptations from texts originally written in Arabic or, to a lesser extent, in other romance languages. These texts are essentially pedagogical and belong to various textual types. The first aim of this study is to trace musical ideas and concepts that are found in Jewish texts ; the second aim is to determine the reasons why Jewish scholars rely upon musical ideas and concepts in texts that are not devoted to the subject. This thesis shall prove that music, a subject that Jewish scholars considered alternatively in a rational, psychological, or ethical way, turns out to be one of the medieval Jewish sciences, and one of the unifying principles of the various bodies of Jewish medieval knowledge
Lefèvre, Sylvie, and Nicole Oresme. "Rhétorique et divinations chez Nicole Oresme (c. 1322-1382) : étude et édition du Livre de Divinacions." Paris 4, 1993. http://www.theses.fr/1992PA040063.
Full textThis thesis is made of three volumes. The first contains a liminary study on the theme "rhetoric and divination". Next comes a study introducing the second volume in six chapters: chpt. I : description of the manuscripts ; chpt II : classification of same ; chpt III : linguistic study of text and of the basic manuscript ; chpt IV : determination of the date of the Livre de Divinacions and biography of Nicole Oresme ; chpt V : spread of the Livre de Divinacions ; chpt VI : typology of the art of soothsaying and description of practices. The second volume is made of: the edition of the livre, its modern French translation and the edition of an anonymous Latin translation of same. In the third volume can be found the notes to the edition of the Livre de Divinacions, a general index of names and the index verborum of the livre ; an index of themes to volume 1, an index of names, works, and historical characters pertaining to volumes 1 and 3, an index of manuscripts mentioned in volumes 1 and 3 as well as "men of the book" (owners, copists, painters, printers) ; a bibliography. The purpose of this work is to give a critical edition of the Livre de Divinacions, to put Nicole Oresme in his linguistic and literary perspective, while most of the recent studies devoted to this author have been the work of specialists of science and economic science. A few lexicologists had given some attention to Nicole Oresme but only in his capacity of translation
Thibault-Dubois, Véronique. "Le tonaire noté du manuscrit de Gaillac (Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, lat. 776)." Paris, EPHE, 2010. http://www.theses.fr/2010EPHE4044.
Full textMs. Latin 776 from the Bibliothèque nationale de France contains a gradual for the use of the Abbey of Gaillac, followed by a tonary copied in the last quaternion. Contemporary with the gradual (11th century), the tonary covers the first five tones with 1465 incipit in Aquitaine notation. It includes antiphons and responsories of the Office, chants for the Mass, invitatories, processional antiphons, six sequentiae without text, hymns, and miscellaneous chants. Many songs are written for the responsory verses and show evidence of improvisation. The sanctorale is rich with local feasts (Saturninus, Antoninus, Gerald, Salvi. . . ). The tonary has similarities with other Aquitanian tonaries but it differs in its ranking in the liturgical order and its magnitude. It carries an ancient content, probably enriched with additions made during earlier copies, as the irregularities in the classification show. It has not been copied from the gradual, although the repertory is similar. The patterns of the notation are different and the feast of St. Geraud stresses the influence of Aurillac, missing from the gradual. During the study, the poem of the theoretical prologue is edited and translated, as well as the last text, a variant of chapter VIII of the treaty of Aurelian of Réôm. The incipit are identified with an indication of the feast and the diffusion of the chants. The melodies of the formularies and verses are edited. The study is supplemented by the list of the feasts of the gradual and an alphabetical index of the chants of the tonary
Charles-Dominique, Luc. "Musiques de Dieu, musiques du diable : anthropologie de l'esthétique musicale française : du Moyen-Age à l'âge baroque." Paris, EHESS, 2001. http://www.theses.fr/2001EHES0098.
Full textHanna, Charbel. "Le rôle et l'influence de Ziryab dans l'évolution de la musique arabe et andalouse." Paris 4, 1987. http://www.theses.fr/1987PA040079.
Full textMusical connections between east and west trace back to the middle age, particularly to the 8th and 9th centuries, when the musician Abu al-Hasan 'Ali ben Nafi', nicknamed Ziryab, acted as oriental envoy. He was born between 775 and 780, probably of Abyssinian descent. Disciple of the traditional music school founded by Ibrahim and Ishaq al-Mawsili in Baghdad, he was deeply learned and was artistically highly gifted. He had to leave the Abbasside capital, Baghdad, and the court of caliph Harun al-Rachid (786-809) and went to Kairouan. After having sung for Ziyada Allah the aghlabide, he had to leave the Maghreb in 821. Once in Andalusia, he was welcome by emir 'Abd al-Rahman II (822-852) personally. Ziryab happened to be a good judge of passions and needs of Andalusian. He looked at them with an oriental renovating mind, influenced by datas of this new Muslim society; he then conceived diverse creations. He thought up a peculiar lute, to which he added a fifth string and replaced the old plectrum by a new one, carved in an eagle feather. He indicated the development of the nuba and made a few other innovations in the field of fashion and even cooking. Ziryab left in history remarkable traces which influenced Arabic music of this time and which are still to be noticeable nowadays
Billy, Anne. "L'illustration des antiphonaires au Moyen âge : aspects historiques, iconographiques et théologiques : "Le chant des images" : l'antiphonaire de Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, latin 12044." Poitiers, 2008. http://www.theses.fr/2008POIT5013.
Full textWe worked on pictures which adorn antiphonaires. This type of manuscript is studied for its texts to the detriment of pictures. Iconography is inspired of text which accompanies picture, to come from other manuscripts different from antiphonaires or not to have report with the text. We analysed the style of picture to know different influence, as well as code of colours. The studies period stretches from VIIth till XIV centuries. We studied the common points or difference which there can be between the antiphonaires different and try to understand if the concepteur of picture wanted to get a particular message, knowing that normally antiphonaires is devoid of pictures
Abiker, Séverine. "L'écho paradoxal : étude stylistique de la répétition dans les récits brefs en vers, XIIè-XIVè siècles." Poitiers, 2008. http://theses.edel.univ-poitiers.fr/theses/2008/Abiker-Severine/2008-Abiker-Severine-These.pdf.
Full textConsidering that, paradoxically, repetition flood brief medieval narratives (however short and quick they have to be), this research describes and analyses the narrative, stylistic and symbolic role of repetitive forms in a particularly short-lived genre (french brief tales in verse were born in the XIIth century and are replaced by short stories in prose in the XIVth century). Using the concepts of rhetoric, linguistics, semiotics and philosophy, we examine different patterns of repetition, their specific signification in short narratives, their values in medieval thought, with special focus on the perception of time. The methods of style analysis are applied to a large corpus composed by five genres (fables, lais, fabliaux, religious tales, narrative dits), in order to clarify the medieval conception of brevitas (by a study of medio-latin rhetoric treatises and writing practices) ; to identify significant stylistic features, located in textual variations, in works, in genres, or in types of character ; to show the aesthetic tendancies and evolution of each genre. We underline three paradoxes : to repeat appears as a way to reduce a text ; medieval echo is not conceived as a dying sound but as persistency and prolongation; repetition is not one single phenomenon but it hides two different semio-stylistic modes (verticality and horizontality). The development of horizontal forms, by the early XIIIth century, is characteristic of an emerging literary subjectivity : it creates new textual rythms, liable to be related to the concrete transformation of life styles
Berthod, Sylvie. "Organologie médiévale : nouvelle méthodologie et restitution instrumentale (classification des instruments)." Paris 4, 1994. http://www.theses.fr/1994PA040333.
Full textAccording to the treatises from the VIth to the XIIIth centuries and in relation with the medieval iconography, three types of classifications of musical instruments, efficient in the middle ages, appear as fundamental for a correct restitution of music repertory. First of all, the classification in terms of manufacturing of musical art, show that music is a unit science where theory and practice work together for the execution of music in consort. The tripartition in flatu, pulsu, tactu brings us especial instruments, used in a methodic way for the establishment of the ars practica. Six recordings restore this treatment of the instrumentarium in the music of the middle ages
Diard, Olivier. "Les offices propres dans le sanctorial normand : étude liturgique et musicale (Xe-XVe siècles)." Paris 4, 2000. http://www.theses.fr/2000PA040164.
Full textChaillou, Christelle. "Faire le mot et le son : une étude sur l'art de Trobar entre 1180 et 1240." Phd thesis, Université de Poitiers, 2007. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00367810.
Full textTabard, Laetitia. "Bien assailly, bien deffendu : le Genre du débat dans la littérature française de la fin du Moyen Âge." Thesis, Paris 4, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012PA040104.
Full textThe aim of this study is to establish a definition of the debate as a literary genre, that would establish itself as such at the end of the fourteenth century in the wake of the Jugements by Guillaume de Machaut. A chronological approach of the corpus shows how the debate can be identified in the midst of the different kinds of dispute literature : it develops its own structure, based on an antagonistic dialogue ending with a plea to the reader’s wisdom, which leaves the issue open. It comes within the scope of recreational practices that give it meaning, and that parody dialectic and rhetoric in order to let an individual voice be heard directly by an audience : this genre consists in a dialogue between ambiguous beings, which has to be decrypted, where the author-narrator is a character and relinquishes his authority ; it needs to be spoken, or even performed. The debate has to do with the evolution of courtly lyricism, which tends to become a poetry dealing mainly with ethics and upsetting traditional categories of thought through the use of dialogue and the possibility of multiple meanings. It privileges a form of knowledge which consists in a personal relationship of the reader with the text, while still retaining the music of oral speech and the dramatic intensity of play
Mouchet-Chaumard, Florence. "Portée et fonction du "contrafactum" dans la lyrique occitane médiévale : l'exemple du "sirventes"." Bordeaux 3, 2001. http://www.theses.fr/2001BOR30044.
Full textGross, Guillaume. "L'Organum à Notre-Dame de Paris au XIIIe siècle : étude sur les modes d'élaboration d'un genre musical." Tours, 2004. http://www.theses.fr/2004TOUR2018.
Full textBy the end of the 12th century, organum was sung at the cathedral of Notre-Dame of Paris. This study discusses the cultural context in which the tripla and quadrupla came to be composed and the conditions which brought into effect the elaboration of such virtuoso compositions. In the second half of the thirteenh century, the music theorists Johannes of Garlandia and Anonymous IV discuss some of the ornamental processes (colores) used in the great organa. These authors employ the vocabulary used for didactic poetry contemporary with the Parisian polyphonic practice. The artes poeticae offer a wide range of ornamental techniques and some them, relating tot the phenomenon of repetition, are used in the organum. This study shows how the clerics used these rhetorical processes to elaborate a complex musical elocution, and aims to comprehend under which circumstances and to what purpose the cantors were able to create by memory such noble manifestations of the sung word
Gutbub, Christophe. "Le Même et sa figure : des figures de l'opposition à l'opposition généralisée dans "Les Regrets" de Du Bellay." Poitiers, 2009. http://www.theses.fr/2009POIT5006.
Full textDu Bellay's Regrets immediately offers to the reader's intuition the importance of opposition figures, especially antithesis, sometimes oxymoron, and also conceit, negation, and irony. But a systematic study of these figures is confronted with an object which seems elusive. The work appears in a period which sends the medieval depth back to the surface of the visible, and thus opens the space of a generalized opposition whose expressions are numerous: the Deffence transposes the figure of the orator in the plurality of languages; the medieval translatio which, in the many meanings of the word, and in particular in its religious, political and literary implication, isolates a content from the real conditions of its transfer, disappears in a world of the traductio; dialectics adds the Ciceronian commonplace of the repugnantia to the four Aristotelian species of opposition. As to rhetoric, it hesitates, unable as it is to find the place of antithesis between things and words, and to recognize the oxymoron, which had been present for a long time in the poetical tradition. The various figures of opposition in the Regrets are sometimes difficult to recognize separately, but draw their strength of opposition from their convergence, within what we are calling here antithetical constructions
Bernard, Philippe. "Cantus romanus : l'Eglise de Rome et son chant liturgique des origines à la fin du XIIIe siècle." Paris 4, 1993. http://www.theses.fr/1993PA040214.
Full textThe aim of this dissertation was to study cultural life at Rome in the middle ages, through the story of its liturgical chant. Its origins go back to late antiquity, perhaps to the “little peace of the church”, a forty-years period which preceded the persecution of Diocletian. At this time were composed the most ancient chants, that is the canticles and the tracts: the in directum psalmody. From the end of the fourth century, it became customary to add a refrain allowing the faithful to respond to the versicles sang by the soloist; responsorial psalmody took its origins during this period. Towards the end of the fifth century, a new corporation, the schola cantorum, reelaborated the chants, gave them a richer ornamentation and shortened them. The psalm in directum became the modern tract and the responsorial psalm became the modern gradual. The schola also composed new liturgical chants: the offertory and the alleluia. The roman chant was fully achieved towards the end of the seventh century. It then came into Gaul from 742 on, where it was adopted by the Frankish church. There took place a hybridation between Roman and Frankish chants. Gregorian chant is the result of this contamination. From the ninth century, it conquered the whole Europe and destructed the old Milanese, Benevento and Spanish chants
Saulnier, Daniel. "Des variantes musicales dans la tradition manuscrite des antiennes du répertoire romano-franc." Paris, EPHE, 2005. http://www.theses.fr/2005EPHE4032.
Full textThroughout the history, musical variants have been mainly considered from two point of view: as an instrument which, in the logic of a critical edition, allows it to restore a hypothetic “authentic” melody; as the concrete mark of a local tradition, hardly connected to other melodic versions of the considered chant. On the basis of the repertory of antiphons of the romano-frankish Office and some antiphons of the Proper of the Mass, the author proposes a more dynamic, new approach to the phenomenon of musical variants in the manuscript tradition. The first chapter present presents the basic repertory of the study: the antiphons of romano-frankish repertory. The second chapter presents the sources of the study: medieval manuscripts, antiphonaries and breviaries, and describes in details the 17 manuscripts used for comparative analysis. This third chapter contains three parts; each one considers a different type of variant in manuscript tradition: 1. A document (or a group of documents) departs from other testimonies of the manuscript tradition: these are the local, regional or cultural variants. 2. In a determined section of a chant, diastematic manuscripts tend to disperse, but the neumatic tradition remains unified: these variants reveals which were difficult or impossible to represent with the medieval system of notation. 3. Hesitation about the notation of the mobile pitch (b flat/b natural) produces different representations of the same melody in different manuscripts. Two volumes of comparative table prepared by the author have been joined to the dissertation
Joubert, Claude-Henry. "Musique dans les Miracles de Nostre Dame et la Vie de sainte Christine, de Gautier de Coinci." Paris 4, 2001. http://www.theses.fr/2001PA040010.
Full textKriticou, Flora. "Etude comparée de répertoires liturgiques musicaux : l'hymnaire de Laon, manuscrit 263 et ses correspondances dans les hymnaires du Nord-Est de la France." Paris, EPHE, 2004. http://www.theses.fr/2004EPHE4004.
Full textThis essay has had as a starting point the Laon, Bibliothèque 263 manuscript, which holds a hymnal in use in the cathedral of Laon. The research, afterwards, has included the hole hymnologic repertory of Laon and the one of the neighbouring cities as well. The first volume concerns a general preface in which the repertory of hymns has been examined in terms of history. The second volume concerns the manuscript on which this research has been based and the lists of hymns contained as well. The third volume concerns the music analyses of hymn melodies. The forth and fifth volume are supplements where we can find the scores of the music analyses separated in two corpora along with the indexes pertaining to the analyses
Ycard, Sébastien. "L'invention musicale dans le motet du XIIIème siècle." Thesis, Paris 4, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012PA040273.
Full textSince we are interested in the 13th-century, the motet is the musical example most frequently called to illustrate the rationalization of the medieval thought. Therefore, this one joins with difficulty in the standardized frame of a polyphonic continuity.Nevertheless, the motet is a passage, necessary and passing, between the organum and the contrapuntal polyphony of the 14th-century. The music which ensues from it aggravates the technique of the discant while keeping the melodic originality of every voice.It’s the difficulty appropriate for any median place: preserve, reproduce, modify, to pass on then the congeal on a leaf of parchment. In the case of the motet, the main questioning concerns the possibility of realizing one polyphonic completely measured work in which remains one, even some, melodic wefts extending the “style formulaire” of organa. Does the musical analysis allow to identify the various compositional gestures of the motet? In other words, we can be made a precise idea of the motet at the 13th-century from the only written sources concerning them and to build a coherent emic analytical model?The ambition of this study is to identify the normative elements of the motet in the 13th-century and to determine, between the lines, the gestures of inventiveness of each of ten analyzed parts. It’s by the implementation of a standard, presently renewed by the musical invention, in the medieval sense, that it’s possible to reconstitute the motet within its sociocultural environment
Homo-Lechner, Catherine. "Les cordophones dans l'Occident médiéval du VIe au XIIe siècle : essai de paléo-organologie." Paris 1, 1992. http://www.theses.fr/1992PA010515.
Full textFor lack of medieval instruments collections, medieval organology occupies quite a minor position beside musicology. Written and or visual sources provide social, aesthetic or musical data, but deliver very little information on the materials, their dimensions or the way they were made. On the contrary, archaeology allows such answers. This dissertation wished to confront these three types of documents (picture - text - object) but tried to signal, in its first part, the dangers own by each exclusive approach. This decryption constitutes an essential part of the research, in so far it guides the scholars in their hypotheses and determine the subsequent experiences. The symbolic and social reading of the early medieval musical system foregoes the morphological analysis of stringed instruments itself. The work of reconstruction, which concludes the typological study, raises thinking over the subjectivity in such projects, but also reminds the necessity of such experiments
Nuh, Ilsiona. "Le texte dans le codex : émergence poétique et images sociales (Marie dans le théâtre du Moyen Âge)." Thesis, Université Clermont Auvergne (2017-2020), 2020. http://www.theses.fr/2020CLFAL012.
Full textThe dramatis personae of Mary in La Présentation de Marie au Temple, Les Miracles de Nostre Dame par personnages and Le Mystère de la Passion d’Arnoul Gréban is at the intersection of languages, poetical genres, and places where drama is performed. Her character is inspired by the Christian faith in the Incarnation: within the Virgin was incarnated the Word of God who, in his human form, in the person of the Son, spoke to men. The fundamental affirmation of Christianity underlines the importance of the Word. Nevertheless, the New Testament is discreet about Mary, while the religious plays show the mother of Lord characterized by a self-expression, a mainly lyrical one. Inspired by texts in Latin and in vernacular, from literary and rhetorical texts, and under the influence of social realities, the character of Mary is at the confluence of these currents that she transcends and, at their interstice, models a new way of expressing faith, to which the dramatic form gives a collective dimension. Based on the material and poetical analysis of the manuscripts, this thesis aims to show the dynamics that give life to Mary in theatre and the repercussions of her character on the poetry of the dramatic text, as well as on the communities it engenders
Fresquet, Xavier. "Les cithares-planche médiévales : organologie, reconstitution et translatio musicae." Thesis, Paris 4, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011PA040074.
Full textDeveloped from a corpus of over 200 iconographical sources divided between the 9th and the 15th century, this thesis also draws on Latin sources in and musical elements taken from the medieval secular literature written in vernacular languages. This research is compiled and organized inside a database articulated to the thesis throughout the argument. The description of this documentary corpus and the creation of this specific tool are given in the first part of this dissertation. A second part, devoted to the study of physical characteristics of these instruments, aims to provide an objective discourse on the nature of the instrument and its components: forms, strings, pins, holding manners, playing modes, etc. This part ends with an instrumental reconstitution exercise. A third part examines the social image and symbolic image of the instruments trying to encompass all speech – both literary and visual – related to the board zithers around the medieval notion of translatio, which will be in this particular case called translatio musicae. This work will conclude with a proposition of a specific organological classification for medieval board zithers, which might possibly be adapted to the study of other musical instruments
Barrera, Juan David. "La musique pour orgue en France à l'âge classique : une représentation du sacré." Thesis, Strasbourg, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017STRAC003/document.
Full textThis study of French organ music during the “Classical period” focuses on its signifying dimension, and particularly on its representative function in the liturgy. Our interest springs from an observation: the most important works devoted to this repertoire neglect the question, whereas the genesis of this organ school coincides with one of the most remarkable historical moments of Catholic spirituality. From this point of view, and assuming that sacred music can be understood as an aesthetic-theological product shaped according to the symbolic and expressive topics of the liturgy (in the same way as other manifestations of sacred art), our research seeks to demonstrate the way in which the music of French organists can communicate the fundamental notions of Christian doctrine through a set of aesthetic categories and musical topics directed by rhetorical principles. In this way, our work is divided into four parts, successively highlighting the cultural and spiritual contexts of the seventeenth century in France, the elements of the signifying universe of these music, the stylistic organization of the repertoire, and finally, from a hermeneutic point of view, the analysis of three major composers of this musical tradition: Nicolas de Grigny, Jean-Adam Guilain and François Couperin
Mabboux, Carole. "Cicéron et la Commune : présence(s) d’une autorité rhétorique et politique dans la culture civique citadine : (XIIIe-XIVe siècles)." Thesis, Université Grenoble Alpes (ComUE), 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016GREAH036.
Full textCicero’s writings on rhetoric (De inventione, Rhetorica ad Herennium) and on society (De officiis, De amicitia, De senectute) are well known in Italian city-states of Late Middle Ages. Lay intellectuals often use the character and his texts in order to give a model of perfect citizen and of successful political speech. Considered as an auctoritas, Cicero’s precepts on rhetoric are invested in ars concionandi, intended for the men in power, and transposed in written version in ars dictaminis, in practice in each chancery. Communal notaries and judges are then deeply involved in theoretical elaboration of the rules of an ethically and efficiently good discourse. It is not a surprise to find some of them as first translators of Ciceronian rhetoric in vernacular languages. At the same time, libri de regimine are profiling distinctive aspects of communal government. Promoter of the vita activa and defender of a shared power, Cicero seems to be the perfect spokesman of this project. Quoted in political treatises (sometimes mistakenly), his definitions of common good, of justice or of honestum contribute to the legitimation of a power promoting itself as recollection of Roman republic.Nevertheless, Cicero’s figure is transformed by communal ideals in return. The selection of a few passages of his work reveals a contextualized reading of Cicero’s texts: specific to communal spirit, or even to some urban groups. Using Cicero’s example is not neutral, politically and socially, as we could see exploring the disparate treatment made of his character and his texts in the sources
Porzi, Sonia. "De feu et de sang : histoire, rhétorique et prophétisme dans les lettres de Catherine de Sienne (1347-1380)." Thesis, Paris 4, 2009. http://www.theses.fr/2009PA040230.
Full textThis thesis investigates the paradox seemingly posed by the alleged illiteracy of Catherine of Siena (1347-1380) in contradiction to her prolific and highly significant output of letters dictated in the Italian vernacular. These reveal Catherine as a genuine prophetess of the key issues that confronted Christianity at the time of the Great Schism: Church reform, the Crusade, the popes' return to Rome and peace in the papal states.The first part describes the letters as traditionally interpreted and probes their literary sources as a basis for assessing Catherine's culture and reading. The second illustrates her contribution to the tradition of vetero-testamentary and mediaeval prophecy and then how this trend gathers pace in her subsequent letters. A diachronic approach to her writings as a whole reveals how her imagery coalesces into a vast allegory reflecting her social aspirations
Cazaux, Christelle. "Le Graduel-responsorial-antiphonaire palimpseste de Turin : Paris, BnF, ms. Grec 2631 (Xe-XIe s.) : édition et commentaire." Paris, EPHE, 2006. http://www.theses.fr/2006EPHE4107.
Full textMs. Greek 2631 of the Bibliothèque nationale de France (Paris) is a Lexicon Etymologicum copied in South Italy in the 13th century which contains 48 palimpsest leaves from a notated graduale, responsoriale and antiphonale. Written for a church of the area of Turin ca. 1000, it is the earlierst example of the so-called Novalesa neumatic notation and the first liturgical source from the North of Italy including extensive musical notation. The palimpsest of Turin is an unusual document. Antiphons and responsories of the office are copied in separate codicological items and the arrangment of the series is quite unique. The sanctorale of the graduale contains only a few feasts and is completed by common masses, whereas most of the saints' masses are gathered in a table of incipits. Several votive masses and processional chants bring a lot of new compositions or rare ones. The repertory and the musical notation reveal relations not only with the Italian peninsula, but also with the North of France, the Rhône Valley, Normandy, Aquitaine and Spain. It is representative of the variety of traditions that can be found in North Italy, a region which was not only the meeting point of several influences coming from the places cited above, but also influenced some of them. The edition of the Palimpsest of Turin is provided with indexes of the chants and several tables comparing its content with various sources from the 8th to the 15th century
Ghrab, Anas. "Commentaire anonyme du Kitab al-adwar : édition critique, traduction et présentation des lectures arabes de l’œuvre de Ṣafī al-Dīn al-Urmawī." Thesis, Paris 4, 2009. http://www.theses.fr/2009PA040117/document.
Full textThis dissertation presents a critical edition and a French translation of an anonymous commentary on ?afi¯ al-Din al-Urmawi's Kitab al-adwar. Based on this commentary, I establish an inventory and revise the study of Arabic texts written in the tradition of al-Urmawi. For this purpose, I examine both principal works of ?afi¯ al-Din al-Urmawi face to face and observe the contributions of his readers and reviewers. The dissertation thus presents a detailed study of various themes~: the place of music as a medieval science; sound and its production; the divisions of the monochord; the theory and design of intervals, genres, cycles and modes; the theory of rythm; and the theory of melodic movement
Revest, Clémence. "Romam veni. L’humanisme à la fin du Grand Schisme, d’Innocent VII au concile de Constance (1404-1417)." Thesis, Paris 4, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012PA040093.
Full textThis dissertation consists of a comprehensive appraisal of the development of humanism in the context of the return of the pontifical court in Italy at the time of a major crisis, the Great Western Schism. Our work primarily aims at linking two stories, generally conceived as distinct, and enlightening interactions between them. These are, firstly, the emergence of a generation of intellectuals that are considered to be representatives of a humanism that reached its full maturity after a century and a half of gestation and, secondly, the re-establishment of the pontifical power in Rome, a political enterprise whose first phase was characterized by a long and very complex struggle for unity and stability. This thesis is as follows : it examines firstly the construction of a scholarly network, secondly its relationship to historical and institutionnal contexts, namely the operation of the curia during the pontificates of Innocent VII, Gregory XII, Alexander V and John XXIII and the councils of Pisa and Constance. Finallyit it investigates the elaboration of a complete rhetorical model that served the papal propaganda. The socio-institutional dynamics and the ideological and ethical principles that served as the basis of a fruitful collaboration between humanism and papacy are highlighted, as well as ways of creating a memory and a common eloquence. This dissertation includes a series of additional annexes (prosopographical tables, typologies of rhetorical and diplomatic corpus, and editions of archival and literary documents)
Husson, Matthieu. "Les domaines d'application des mathématiques dans la première moitié du quatorzième siècle." Paris, EPHE, 2007. http://www.theses.fr/2007EPHE4172.
Full textDurand, Benoît. "Dixit insipiens in corde suo non est Deus : les visages de la folie psalmique." Master's thesis, Université Laval, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11794/66421.
Full textBoekhoorn, Dimitri Nikolai. "Bestiaire mythique, légendaire et merveilleux dans la tradition celtique : de la littérature orale à la littérature écrite." Phd thesis, Rennes 2, 2008. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00293874/fr/.
Full textThe author offers a study of the "Celtic bestiary" which is understood here as the sum of the reel species above all; an overall view of the function and role of animals in medieval Celtic literature will be given, analysing especially the mythological, heroic and hagiographical texts. The evolution of the role of antique and medieval cult animals will be dealt with. The symbolism of the other species will be studied as well. The corpus analysed here – medieval Celtic literature - will be presented, references will be made to other civilizations (Indo- European and others). The medieval tradition will be compared with the folklore of premodern times. Several aspects linked with the animal world will be dealt with as well: the complex question of shamanism and totemism and their applicability to Celtic beliefs; animal sounds and music and their relation to human music; animal metamorphosis, animal metaphors, faunal onomastic and anthroponomy including animal terminology as well as the classification / taxonomy of the animal world. The second part is a catalogue of the species known to the medieval Celts; their role and symbolism will be briefly discussed. The third part consists of an analysis of the bestiary contained in a well-known Breton hagiographical text: the Life of St. Malo. Some of the elements studied here clearly show that the medieval Breton literary tradition belongs to the Celtic insular tradition, together with the literature of Ireland, the Isle of Man, Scotland, Wales and Cornwall
Perina, Hugo. "L’orgue italien de la Renaissance (1400-1550). Commandes artistiques, savoirs pratiques et usages liturgiques." Thesis, Paris Sciences et Lettres (ComUE), 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018PSLEH054.
Full textThis thesis offers a social, technical and cultural study of the Renaissance Italian organ. It aims to determine the specificities of practices related to the organ from the 1430s to the mid XVIth century. Brunelleschi’s building of two organ galleries in the cathedral of Florence marks a profound shift in the conception of the organ’s place—a shift that is both spatial (it affects the space of the liturgy) and symbolic. Such a displacement made it necessary for organ builders to adapt their craft. Those innovations are essential characteristics of the organ a la moderna. The diffusion of new aesthetic criteria by craftsmen and their employers can be traced back to three main regions: Tuscany, Veneto and Lombardy. A compilation of buying and hiring agreements is structured as a database of around six hundred and fifty entries. In addition to providing technical data, this corpus makes it possible to study the progressive professionalization of organists and organ builders, in relation to their employers and patrons. The community involved in the process of building the organs is also put back in the broader context of the economic and diplomatic relations between Italian states. The employer therefore becomes a key figure in the diffusion of the organ a la moderna and the professional skills and habits that it involves
Guellati, Amel. "La notion d’adab chez Ibn Qutayba : étude générique et éclairage comparatiste." Thesis, Paris 4, 2010. http://www.theses.fr/2010PA040106.
Full textThe objectives of this thesis were twofold : the first was to restore to the work of Ibn Qutayba its overall coherence ; with this primary objective in view, it was necessary to elucidate its literary context : adab literature.The analysis is conducted firstly in terms of the author-function both in the 'Uyûn al-Akhbâr and in texts similar to it, and secondly in terms of the rhetorical function wich allies it with the Medieval exempla collections of the Western tradition. Drawing on rhetorical and stylistic analysis of the Prologue of the 'Uyûn al-Akhbâr, as well as on a transversal reading of the introductions to the three primary adab works : the Adab al-Kâtib, the 'Uyûn al-Akhbâr and the Ma'ârif of Ibn Qutayba, it was possible to confront the original with critical interpretations of the work. Annotated translations of the introductions to two of these three sister works (the 'Uyûn al-Akhbâr and the Ma'ârif) accompany this study
Gapsys-Hutin, Giedrius. "Versaria polyphoniques aquitains du XIIe siècle : identification des graphies particulières. Lecture, paléographie, analyse." Thesis, Paris 4, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011PA040136.
Full textThe neumes which are close in their shape to the Aquitanian liquescence signs, but are used independently of the phonetic circumstances, are usually considered as the “neumatic peculiarities” specific to the Aquitanian versaria: Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, lat. 3549 and lat. 3719. The present thesis identifies these neumes as the Aquitanian special oriscus of an uncommon shape, employed in the versaria additionally to the Aquitanian oriscus of the common shape. This oriscus is connected to some other notational phenomena of the versarium 3719, like the ligatures that occur in the down-going neumes.The present thesis reveals the existence of the special oriscus in a small amount of sources, among the 150 manuscripts of the Bibliothèque nationale that carry Aquitanian neumatic notation. As to the other notational phenomena connected to the oriscus, these belong to a graphical development of the Aquitanian tractulus /punctum which shows itself most strongly in the South-west of the Aquitanian notation area. The neumatic peculiarities are therefore not contained exclusively in the corpus of Aquitanian polyphonic versaria, as it was supposed.The special oriscus carries some specific functions in the polyphonic versaria. Basically, these functions are related to the ornamentation of an interval between the voices and the process of the voice alignment. Therefore, we conclude that the Aquitanian notation, by integrating the special oriscus and conferring on it some specific functions, adapts itself adequately to the needs of the polyphonic language which was developed by the florid Aquitanian discantus in the late XIth and the early XIIth centuries
Lamrani, Lila. "La psychologie aristotélicienne dans l'Islam classique : traduction et commentaire de l'Épître sur le retour d'Avicenne." Thesis, Paris 4, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014PA040199.
Full textAvicenna’s Risala al-adhawiya fi al-ma`ad, dealing with the question of Return to life once death has occurred, comes up with various original theses that do not appear in Avicenna’s other writings. The Return cannot affect the body : it is indeed dedicated to souls inasmuch as the essence of man lies in his soul. Bodies get corrupted once and for all when death occurs. The Quran has nothing to do with a demonstrative text, it is a rhetorical text that aims at provoking in its readers the appropriate moral behaviour. It is therefore impossible to deduce from the repeated coranic assertion saying that bodies will come back to life that bodies will effectively resurrect. If in the physical world there is a plurality of souls, it is only because of the multiplicity of the corporeal matter that receives them. If souls have to survive independently from bodies that allow their individuation, how then could they individually exist ? There will not be any individual existence of souls in the hereafter, but a Return of these souls to the Principle (the Agent Intellect, or, at last, the First Principle, God) from which they emanate : therefore souls resorb in their origin and do not have any separate existence. It is an absolute Return