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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Musical Rhetoric"”.
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A musical rhetorical analysis and performance perspective of Franz Berwald's Sinfonie singuliere
… and performers of instrumental music, utilizing rhetorical analysis for performance interpretation. As historical background, this study examines the relationship of Classical rhetoric and musical rhetoric from the time of the Renaissance through the early Classical period of music. The origins …
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The rhetoric of Orlando di Lasso's contributions to the Divine Offices of Matins and Lauds : a study of the relationship between liturgy, text and music
… regarded as a touchstone of sixteenth-century musical rhetoric. Using this assumption as a starting point, the present thesis is a detailed investigation of the rhetoric of the composer's works written for the Divine Offices of Matins and Lauds, a previously neglected but highly significant …
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Morton Feldman's clarinet works: A study through the words of the note man
… consistent compositional drive towards a static musical rhetoric, or, to use his term, Time Undisturbed. Essential to his outlook was the notion of orchestration as the primary compositional determinant: Feldman's starting point was not a theme in the conventional sense, but the sound of a …
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FROM PICTURE TO SOUND: A CONDUCTOR'S STUDY GUIDE TO THE ST. JOHN PASSION OF JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH
Bach’s music is filled with musical allegories. These musico-theological symbols are often concealed to modern eyes and ears. Scholars have worked diligently to help modern musicians gain a better understanding of this learned musician’s musical allegories, theological symbols, and, in the words of …
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Figures of <i>Musica Poetica</i> in the <i>Passacaglias</i> of Dieterich Buxtehude and J.S Bach
… century, theorists and composers developed rhetorical devices to establish a link to words. Joachim Burmeister, Christoph Bernhard, and Johann Mattheson all codified musical-rhetorical figures into a practice known as <i>Musica Poetica</i>. Also in the seventeenth century, theorists, such as …
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Signifying on the Greeks: the use of rhetorical devices in jazz improvisation analysis
Rhetoric is the art of effective and persuasive communication. Building upon and bringing together musical and rhetorical scholarship from both Western and Afrological perspectives, this study lays out a theoretical framework and analytical process for applying the principles and devices of …