343 research outputs found
Adomo's physiognomical image of Mahler: the convergence of music, painting, and language
No full textThis study makes a case for the manifestation of mannerism in the music of Mahler through a close reading of Adomo's monograph on the composer, concurrently supporting the theory that mannerism is a distinct style, not limited to fixed periods, conditions in art, or media. The label 'Mannerism' connotes the style of sixteenth century Italian fine art, circumscribed by various art historians in the twentieth century. This study argues that the style is evident beyond the constraints of the sixteenth century, through the investigation of its manifestations in different artworks, created both in earlier and more contemporary times. The argument is constructed from a detailed comparison of the characteristics of the style in the paintings of sixteenth century Italian artists Arcimboldo and Parmigianino, the early twentieth century music by Schoenberg and Mahler, and Virginia Woolfs last novel. The comparison is facilitated by the utilisation of Barthes's writings on Arcimboldo, John Ashbery's poem about one of Parmigianino's paintings, and, predominantly, Adomo's interpretation of Mahler. The study also addresses issues that concern a comparison between different media, such as the problematical nature of the convergence of the arts. For example, the comparison of linguistic elements in both Arcimboldo's and Mahler's artworks is difficult to conduct without implying that art or music become language; the notion of a painterly language, or a musical language is complex and ambiguous. The study deals with the issue of whether one medium has to be fundamentally similar to another, in order to identify common characteristics between the two. In accordance with Adorno's writings on this paradigm, the conclusion drawn supports the position that the style of mannerism can be identified as manifesting itself in different mediums, without the necessity to scrutinise the fundamental connection between music, painting and literary forms
Gustav Mahler Jugendorchestr
No full textThis work is focused on a prominent youth international orchestra - Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester ( GMJO).It offers a view on its foundation, history, his initiator Claudio Abbado and it discusses Gustav Mahler himself. The author shares his personal experiences with participating in this orchestra and explains some of the close initiatives and orchestras - Nestlé and Salzburg Festival Young Conductors Award, Mahler Chamber Orchestra and Gustav Mahler Academy in Bolzano
COVID-19: poverty has led to greater welfare loss than ill health in many low-income countries
No full textGlobal welfare has taken a turn for the worse in the age of COVID, with both health and income levels under threat. Francisco Ferreira, Olivier Sterck, Daniel Gerszon Mahler, and Benoit Decerf estimate the worldwide mortality and poverty generated by the pandemic and compare these two sources of welfare losses by expressing them in a common metric: years of human life. Their analysis shows that for most poor and middle-income countries, greater economic deprivation has been a more important source of loss in well-being than premature death
The parametrized family of metric Mahler measures
No full textAbstractLet M(α) denote the (logarithmic) Mahler measure of the algebraic number α. Dubickas and Smyth, and later Fili and the author, examined metric versions of M. The author generalized these constructions in order to associate, to each point in t∈(0,∞], a metric version Mt of the Mahler measure, each having a triangle inequality of a different strength. We further examine the functions Mt, using them to present an equivalent form of Lehmerʼs conjecture. We show that the function t↦Mt(α)t is constructed piecewise from certain sums of exponential functions. We pose a conjecture that, if true, enables us to graph t↦Mt(α) for rational α
Limits of Mahler measures in multiple variables
No full textInternational audienceWe prove that certain sequences of Laurent polynomials, obtained from a fixed Laurent polynomial P by monomial substitutions, give rise to sequences of Mahler measures which converge to the Mahler measure of P. This generalizes previous work of Boyd and Lawton, who considered univariate monomial substitutions. We provide moreover an explicit upper bound for the error term in this convergence, generalizing work of Dimitrov and Habegger, and a full asymptotic expansion for a family of 2-variable polynomials, whose Mahler measures were studied independently by the third author
Algebraic independence of certain Mahler functions
No full textAbstractWe prove algebraic independence of functions satisfying a simple form of algebraic Mahler functional equations. The main result (Theorem 1.1) partly generalizes a result obtained by Kubota. This result is deduced from a quantitative version of it (Theorem 2.1), which is proved by using an inductive method originated by Duverney. As an application we can also generalize a recent result by Bundschuh and the second named author (Theorem 1.2 and its corollary).Abstract
We prove algebraic independence of functions satisfying a simple form of algebraic Mahler functional equations. The main result (Theorem 1.1) partly generalizes a result obtained by Kubota. This result is deduced from a quantitative version of it (Theorem 2.1), which is proved by using an inductive method originated by Duverney. As an application we can also generalize a recent result by Bundschuh and the second named author (Theorem 1.2 and its corollary)
Facts, fictions and the Alma Mahler machine : a schizoanalysis
No full textIn this review article, I will enlist the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze, and Deleuze with Felix Guattari, to critique the standard model of music criticism as practised in musicology, and to facilitate a reading of the abstract machine,1 which I will call the Alma Mahler machine. In the first section of the article, I will perform a conventional review of two books that have been recently added to the continuously expanding research about Alma Mahler (1879–1964): a novel by Mary Sharratt and a biography by Oliver Hilmes. I will show that the construction of the molar2 figure of Alma Mahler—variously labelled ‘composer, author, daughter, sister, mother, wife, lover and muse’ (Sharratt, dust jacket)— forces it into repressive desire: in Hilmes’ biography, in particular, the binary machine operates to polarize the rational male (the author) against the irrational (hysterical) female (his subject). In so doing, his biography mirrors the patriarchal norms that underpin much biographical research writ large. However, as I will also argue, the creative, inventive approach to biography, as undertaken by Sharratt, transmutes desire to a life-force or flow in which its dynamic movement of connections, with the socius,3 music and words, releases flows of positive desire. In other words, while adopting a conventional biographical approach, Sharratt’s imaginative narration of the Alma Mahler story shifts it beyond the stratified hierarchies that repress identity and, instead, seeks to affirm the triumph of the feminist spirit as it traverses the Alma Mahler assemblage. This contrasts the story of Alma Mahler, as narrated by Hilmes. Here, the Alma Mahler machine is set in motion towards its own destruction, reinforcing and reproducing the connection between desire and lack. The lines that run through the assemblage of Hilmes’ book pathologize desire and bind the subject to the sense of its own impossibility, detaching it from its creative possibilities
Parámetros interpretativos en la sinfonía Nº 1 de Gustav Mahler
No full textEl siguiente documento presenta una propuesta de trabajo que sirva como modelo hacia la construcción de un criterio interpretativo sólido y argumentado a través del estudio analítico realizado sobre la Sinfonía Nº 1 de Gustav Mahler. Con esta propuesta se pretende demostrar que el estudio de una partitura debe ser abordado a partir de distintos niveles y enfoques del pensamiento analítico, teniendo en cuenta que la obra musical representa la visión de un artista frente a su complejo entorno personal y social. A través del análisis y el acercamiento contextual a la obra, se evidencia el contenido programático de la sinfonía con relación a la vida del compositor, su relación con la literatura, la tradición sinfónica europea y el folclor, el sufrimiento, la religión, etc. La metodología analítica aplicada se fundamenta en conceptos formalistas, contextuales y hermenéuticos (entre otros) que serán tratados y articulados de manera amplia y flexible atendiendo la pertinencia que el autor considere necesaria.Abstract. The following document presents a proposal meant to serve as a working model for building a thorough argumentative and interpretative approach, through analytical study of the Symphony No. 1 by Gustav Mahler. This proposal aims at demonstrating that the study of a musical score ought to be approached from several levels and different perspectives of analytical thinking, considering that a musical work depicts the particular vision of an artist within the complexity of his personal and social environment. The programmatic content of the symphony and its correlation with the composer's life events, his relationship with literature, European symphonic tradition and folklore, his own suffering, his religious quest and so on, become evident through analysis and contextual approach to the work. The analytical methodology is based, among others, on some formal, contextual and hermeneutical concepts that will be discussed and articulated broadly and flexibly addressing the relevant topics that the author may consider necessary.Maestrí
Taking poverty seriously in assessing the global welfare burden of the pandemic
No full textGlobal welfare has taken a turn for the worse in the age of COVID, with both health and income levels under threat. Francisco Ferreira (LSE), Olivier Sterck (University of Oxford), Daniel Gerszon Mahler, and Benoit Decerf (World Bank) estimate the worldwide mortality and poverty generated by the pandemic and compare these two sources of welfare losses by expressing them in a common metric: years of human life. For most poor and middle-income countries, greater economic deprivation has been a more important source of loss in well-being than premature death
Algebraic independence of certain Mahler functions
No full textAbstract
We prove algebraic independence of functions satisfying a simple form of algebraic Mahler functional equations. The main result (Theorem 1.1) partly generalizes a result obtained by Kubota. This result is deduced from a quantitative version of it (Theorem 2.1), which is proved by using an inductive method originated by Duverney. As an application we can also generalize a recent result by Bundschuh and the second named author (Theorem 1.2 and its corollary)
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