Search for dissertations about: "twentieth-century music"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 8 swedish dissertations containing the words twentieth-century music.

2. 1. Musical Attunement : The concept and phenomenon of Stimmung in music

   Author : Erik Wallrup; Jacob Derkert; Amalia Collisani; Sven-Olov Wallenstein; Peter Trawny Trawny; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; music; philosophy of music; attunement; mood; aesthetics; affectivity; listening; phenomenology; hermeneutics; romanticism; twentieth-century music; India; intercultural philosophy; Martin Heidegger; Theodor W. Adorno; Stimmung; Musicology; musikvetenskap;

   Abstract : The principal aim of the study is to establish a new perspective on the affectivity of music. It is concerned with an everyday relation to music; that of listening for the mood, for the attunement. Despite its everyday character, this kind of listening has not been given due attention in music studies. READ MORE

4. 2. Stroke Darkly the Strings : On Paul Celan and Music

   Author : Axel Englund; Anders Olsson; Jacob Derkert; Martin Zenck; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Paul Celan; music; poetry; intermediality; metaphor; modernism; Jörg Birkenkötter; Harrison Birtwistle; György Kurtág; Erhard Karkoschka; Tilo Medek; Aribert Reimann; Wolfgang Rihm; Peter Ruzicka; Literature; Litteraturvetenskap; Literature; litteraturvetenskap;

   Abstract : The aim of this study is to disclose the oeuvre of the German-Romanian Holocaust survivor Paul Celan as a site of problematic yet productive encounters between poetry and music. It addresses, on the one hand, music as a thematic and structural element in Celan’s poetry and, on the other hand, contemporary musical works interacting with this poetry. READ MORE

5. 3. Deconstructing Tradition in Japanese Music : A Study of Shakuhachi, Historical Authenticity and Transmission of Tradition

   Author : Gunnar Jinmei Linder; Gunilla Lindberg-Wada; Mitsuru Saito; Thomas Hare; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Japanese music; tradition; transmission; historical authenticity; shakuhachi; honkyoku; Kinko-ryū; Zen; Fuke; komusō; komosō; boro; Edo period; form; kata; Yamaguchi Gorō; Nattiez; poietic; esthesic; context; museme; idiomeme; 尺八　暮露　薦僧　虚無僧　普化　伝統　伝承　琴古流; Japanology; japanologi;

   Abstract : In the present study I examine the vertical bamboo flute shakuhachi, as an example of how a tradition can be constructed. There are two main issues: the historical authenticity of the believed origins and development of the shakuhachi tradition, and how the transmission of this tradition is conducted. READ MORE

6. 4. Fire, Poison, and Black Tears : Metaphors of Emotion in Rebétiko

   Author : Marianna Smaragdi; Grekiska (nygrekiska); []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; rebétiko; Greek music; song texts; lyrics; metaphor; metaphorical expressions; figurative language; conceptual metaphor; emotion concepts; force metaphors; Lakoff and Johnson; Kövecses;

   Abstract : This dissertation is a study of metaphors of emotion in rebétiko song texts. Rebétiko is a major popular-music style of modern Greece, consisting mostly of melancholic songs full of sorrow, disappointment, and misfortune, as well as passion and romance, but also of cheerful songs of revelry and a carefree attitude to life. READ MORE

7. 5. A Composite Modernist Composer : A Study of Intersections between Composition, Theorizing, and Performance in Olivier Messiaen

   Author : Jonas Lundblad; Johannes Brusila; Edward Campbell; Åbo Akademi University Psychology and Theology Faculty of Arts Musicology; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Olivier Messiaen; musical modernism; performance; composition; aesthetics; theory; Musikvetenskap; Musicology;

   Abstract : Different professional roles within music change over time. The evolution of modernism in twentieth century art music elevated the composer to the pinnacle of musical creativity. Accomplished modernist composers came to be regarded as intellectuals, and were expected to hold rational conceptions of their individual styles. READ MORE