O presente artigo apresenta uma análise da suite para piano em seis quadros de Eurico Thomaz de Lima, Ilha do Paraíso, composta na Madeira entre finais de 1965 e inícios de 1966, aquando da sua ...estadia na região na qualidade de Director Artístico dos Cursos de Música e de professor de piano da Academia de Música e Belas-Artes local. São discutidos os contextos que promoveram a criação da obra, os processos composicionais adoptados por Eurico Thomaz de Lima nesta específica suite programática para piano e a sua recepção aquando das estreias no Funchal e Porto, tomando como fontes as críticas da imprensa local.
The article presents an analysis of the pieces from the piano cycle “Ten Musical Fantasies for Piano” by V. Rotaru intended for beginner pianists. The miniatures are characterized by expressive ...artistic content, simple musical language and accessible perception. The community of the artistic content and musical form, in the present work, permits us to consider them as a cycle of miniatures of the “Children’s Album” type in which the unity of the whole is achieved by individualizing the composition functions of the pieces, their modal-tonal and genre connections.
In this article I present a novel application of Formal Concept Analysis (FCA) to the problem of interpreting and analysing the non-standard graphical music score Electronic Music for Piano (1965) by ...American composer John Cage. The avant-garde nature of Cage's score, presented on a single page as a series of anecdotal texts written in natural language, resists traditional approaches of music theory analysis. I utilise FCA for its suitability for delving into the work's taxonomy as well as its ability to visualise and analyse semiotic patterns and relationships within the natural language text fragments of the work. In this regard, FCA is also used as a means in which to frame what many writers have previously identified as kōan-like qualities in many of Cage's works. A kōan is generally understood as a type of unsolvable Zen Buddhist riddle filled with contradictions and ambiguities. I subsequently theorise Electronic Music for Piano as a type of musical kōan, and by applying FCA, demonstrate how various derived formal concepts, object extensions, and subset groupings of the work support this theory.
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The writings of Cage's acknowledged mentor in Zen Buddhism, D.T. Suzuki, reveal a more complex picture of Zen than Cage himself tended to describe. This essay considers several of these writings in ...order to articulate an approach to listening and analysis based in Zen, which is then used to explore two compositions with very different sonic profiles, Music for Piano 21 (1955) and One
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(1990). My findings suggest a wide range of audible relationships in Cage's music as well as an ethical dimension to analysis related to Joan Retallack's concept of poethics.
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La problématique de cette thèse est centrée sur une réflexion approfondie entre l’expression musicale d’une confession de foi catholique exposée et défendue par Almeida Prado et l’appréhension ...suscitée par une démarche que tout chercheur doit entreprendre à condition qu’il respecte le contexte brésilien fondé essentiellement sur le multiculturalisme.En ce sens, le répertoire choisi comprend Le Rosaire de Medjugorje, Les Chorals, Les Louanges Sonores et Les Prophéties. Ces quatre recueils ont fait l’objet d’un travail de recherche qui, au niveau de la méthode, s’est attaché à la mise en œuvre d’une minutieuse vérification de la présence de textes religieux. Ces derniers ont été référencés à partir des œuvres citées et ils ont été mêlés à une autre problématique, celle de l’analyse musicale, à condition que cette discipline participe pleinement au décryptage du sens religieux qu’il faut accorder aux œuvres composées par Almeida Prado.Six catégories musicales au service d’une organisation d’articulations poétiques ont été dégagées à partir de : la thématique, la succession de gestes pianistiques, la répétitivité, la juxtaposition des idées, la résonance, la réflexion sur le timbre. Cette hypothèse de lecture s’est confrontée à la réalité de quatre éléments déduits du contenu religieux et axés sur un appel à des sources puisées dans la bible, la théologie catholique, la religiosité populaire brésilienne, la dévotion personnelle d’Almeida Prado. Cette recherche ne saurait perdre de vue le contexte brésilien où le syncrétisme religieux accompagne le métissage culturel. Cette donnée si importante a largement contribué à l’orientation de cette thèse.
The problems of this thesis are centered on a cogitation deepened between the musical expression of a confession of Catholic creed displayed and defended by Almeida Prado and the apprehension provoked by a step which every researcher must undertake provided that he respects the Brazilian context principally on the multiculturalism.In the sense, the chosen directory consists of The Rosary of Medjugorje, Chorales, Sound Commendations and Prophecies. These four collections made the object of a research work which, at the level of method, became attached to the implementation of a detailed check on the presence of religious texts. These last were classified were classified from named writings and they were blended with another problems, that of the musical analysis, provided that this discipline participates entirely in the deciphering of the religious sense which it is necessary to grant in writings composed by Almeida Prado.Six musical categories in the service of an organization of poetic pronunciations were cleared from: themes, succession of piano gestures, repetitiveness, the juxtaposition of ideas, resonance, cogitation on the stamp. This hypothesis of reading was confronted with the reality of four elements deducted from religious contents and centered on a call to sources scooped out from the Bible, Catholic theology, religious inclination popular Brazilian, the personal devotion of Almeida Prado. This research would not know how to lose Brazilian context of view where religious syncretism accompanies cultural interbreeding. These so important data broadly contributed to the orientation of this thesis.
