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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Gesamtkunstwerk"”.
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MIDI Gesamtkunstwerk and a schema for creative design
"MIDI Gesamtkunstwerk and a Schema for Creative Design" formulates a model for creative thought and examines its impact when applied to the making of art. Use of the Schema as a system of design has propelled my work from sculpture to multimedia performance, specifically under computer control. …
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Stephen Sondheim's Gesamtkunstwerk: The Concept Musical As Wagnerian Total Theatre
Stephen Sondheim, famous for writing such musicals as Company, Into the Woods, Sweeney Todd, and Assassins, is often referred to as the originator of the modern concept musical. Despite varying definitions of the concept musical, it is generally agreed that the form embodies a specific identity or …
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Media Scores : A framework for composing the modern-day Gesamtkunstwerk
… a medium through which to realize a modern-day Gesamtkunstwerk. Research into the representation and encoding of expressive intent provides the conceptual underpinnings for the development of novel interfaces for composing and performing with Media Scores. Using such a tool, the composer is able …
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Lingering Atmospheres: Collaborations between Architecture, Craft, Music, Landscape, and Film in Peter Zumthor’s Gesamtkunstwerk
… and film in Swiss Architect Peter Zumthor’s Gesamtkunstwerk (Total Work of Art). If sense perception is understood as fundamentally multisensory in nature, and the experience of architecture is dependent on the people, situations, and events it houses, how might we re-examine occularcentric …
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Musical expression in the lieder of Hugo Wolf
Gesamtkunstwerk by unifying all the aspects of opera into one holistic creation, so Wolf unified the text, vocal line and piano part of the Lied, bringing it to its zenith in the history of music. Ultimately, though, the aim of this thesis is to assist those performing Wolf's Lieder in gaining an …
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Musical expression in the lieder of Hugo Wolf
Gesamtkunstwerk by unifying all the aspects of opera into one holistic creation, so Wolf unified the text, vocal line and piano part of the Lied, bringing it to its zenith in the history of music. Ultimately, though, the aim of this thesis is to assist those performing Wolf's Lieder in gaining an …
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Theatres of Reality, Fiction, and Temporality: Vegard Vinge and Ida Müller’s <em>Ibsen-Saga</em> (2006 - 2015)
… utopianism and totality of Richard Wagner’s <em>Gesamtkunstwerk</em>, and the temporal provocations of the historical avant-gardes. I contend that the <em>Saga </em>reanimates Ibsen, Wagner, and the avant-gardes’ modernist forms and ideas to reject the conventions of twenty-first century …
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Intermedial Relationships Among Component Arts in Combined Art Works
… study examines relationships in Richard Wagner's gesamtkunstwerk, Ferruccio Busoni's ""Essence and Oneness of Music,"" Alexander Scriabin's synesthetic synthesis of arts and senses, Antonin Artaud's Theater and Its Double, Richard Schechner's ""Environmental Theater,"" Wassily Kandinsky's ""Stage …
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Audience engagement and immersion: the expanded narrative from the early works of La Monte Young and Terry Riley to the digital era
… artwork, which extends from the Wagnerian gesamtkunstwerk, and can be broken down into three elements – the active space, cross-disciplinary collaboration, and the active audience. Consideration is given to how advances in technology towards the end of the twentieth century led to new …
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“A Door Left Open”: Tracing Shakespeare’s Influence in Richard Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen
<p>With the <em>Gesamtkunstwerk</em>, the “total work of art,” German opera composer Richard Wagner sought the perfect artistic synthesis of music and dramatic theater. Crucial to this vision was the idea that music and drama should be equally well constructed. However, while a considerable amount …
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Mouvoir dans l'espace: une esthétique musico-poétique chez Debussy et Mallarmé
… poetry into music for the sake of creating a Gesamtkunstwerk, or a total work of art. The result of this dialogue can best be examined by studying the relationship between the composer Claude Debussy and the poet Stéphane Mallarmé. In response to the challenge issued by Wagner, Mallarmé argued …
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La recepción de la obra wagneriana en el Madrid decimonónico
… de Wagner, su pensamiento estético y su idea de Gesamtkunstwerk. En este sentido, se plantea un debate que cuestiona la esencia formal de la ópera, estableciéndose una contraposición de las escuelas nacionales italiana y alemana (belcanto versus wagnerismo). Sin embargo, la influencia del …
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Dance with Musical Architecture: Eurhythmy in Gottfried Semper's works
… own perspectives. Wagner developed the theory of Gesamtkunstwerk in Germany, based on the integration of music, dance, and poetry, while Semper worked on the integration of music and architecture based on the common character of proportion and scale. This dissertation traces the evolution of this …
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The legacy of Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen as reflected in select late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century film media
… for scholars of film music. His concept of the Gesamtkunstwerk or "total art work," which combined music, visuals and storytelling, played an indelible role in the creation of film aesthetics, especially with regard to music and sound design. Yet, Wagner's actual music has its own curious legacy …
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Die historische Kulturlandschaft Potsdams
… historischen Komponenten zu dem oft zitierten ‚Gesamtkunstwerk’ zusammenzufügen. Einen ersten Schwerpunkt der Arbeit bildet die Analyse der naturräumlichen Gegebenheiten und kulturhistorischen Zusammenhänge der Potsdamer Kulturlandschaft. Die Entwicklung, insbesondere der historischen …
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Transmedia - a Place of Negotiation in Conditions of Hybridity and Change
… considers five historical case studies: Wagner’s Gesamtkunstwerk and Festspielhaus; Mondriaan and De Stijl; Le Corbusier and the Philips Pavilion; Klüver, E.A.T. and the Pepsi-Pavilion and; the V2_Institute for Unstable Media. These case studies are exemplar rather than comprehensive but chosen …
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Ein Weltenregisseur - Filmmusikalität und Filmästhetik im Werk Gustav Mahlers
… unter ein globales Ziel wie beispielsweise ein Gesamtkunstwerk eine Rolle. In der eigentlichen Analyse wird Mahlers Musik direkt Filmmusik gegenüber gestellt; die praktische Umsetzung der Konzepte wird in diesem Teil verdeutlicht. In einem theoretischen Teil wird nochmals nach der Bildhaftigkeit …
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A holistic view of the creative potential of performance practice in contemporary music
… plan a future performance, aiming to create a Gesamtkunstwerk through the totality of the preparation and presentation, its social and psychological connotations. The thesis includes two DVDs with Quicktime Movies and two CDs with recordings of the compositions, commissioned as part of this …
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Duilio Cambellotti régisseur dell’antico. Memoria, teatro e iconografie dell’effimero
… di Siracusa, facendolo autore di una propria Gesamtkunstwerk siciliana. Cambellotti stesso ci guida dentro la sua iconosfera, scavalcando i rigidi confini e i paradigmi dello sguardo per raggiunge un tempo e uno spazio engrammatico, dove la natura delle immagini è più complessa e variegata e …