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Robert Le Diable au XIXe siècle
No full textLalitte Philippe. Robert Le Diable au XIXe siècle. In: Médiévales, n°6, 1984. Au pays d'Arthur. pp. 95-108
Temporality and texture in the performance of George Crumb’s Music for a Summer Evening
No full textInternational audienceMusic for a Summer Evening (Makrokosmos III, 1974) for two amplified pianos and percussion by George Crumb is one of the first works written after 1945 to use the same ensemble inaugurated by Béla Bartók in his Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion. The aim of this article is to examine the relationship between temporality and texture in the performance of Music for a Summer Evening. The highly diversified textures in terms of colour and density, as well as the tempo palette offer performers a high degree of freedom in their interpretation. Seven recorded performances of the work, covering a period of more than forty years (1975–2017) are compared according to the methods I developed during previous studies (Lalitte, Philippe. 2015. Analyser l’interprétation de la musique du XXe siècle. Une analyse d’interprétations enregistrées des Dix pièces pour quintette à vent de György Ligeti. Paris: Hermann; Lalitte, Philippe. 2018. “L’interprétation de Sopiana pour flûte, piano et bande de François-Bernard Mâche.” In François-Bernard Mâche: Le poète et le savant face à l’univers sonore, edited by Geneviève Mathon and Marta Grabocz, 299–318. Paris: Hermann; Lalitte, Philippe, and Vincent Grepel. 2017. “Prêt-à-porter ou coupe sur mesure? Liberté et contraintes dans l’interprétation de la Sequenza III de Berio.” Filigrane 22.). The article sheds light on issues such as the fidelity to the score, the singularity of some interpretations, the impact of texture on the temporality of performance, and the potential effect of the number of musicians in the ensemble
Évolution de la durée et du tempo dans les enregistrements du Sacre du printemps d’Igor Stravinski de 1929 à 2019. Une cartographie des styles d’interprétation
No full textInternational audienceThe Rite of Spring is a key work for the history of recording and for the musicology of performance. Stravinsky regarded his recordings as establishing an authentic model of interpretation, but it is a well-known fact that he does not respect his own tempo indications and makes use of rubato to varying degrees. These uncertainties about tempi have created doubt and opened a space of freedom for conductors. This article aims to take a fresh look at how the interpretation of the Rite evolved, from the point of view of duration and tempo. Using a vast corpus of 96 discographic versions recorded between 1929 and 2019 has made it possible to obtain a clear representation of the evolution of the work’s interpretation over 90 years, to identify the margin of freedom in the choice of tempi, and to establish a cartography of the interpretive styles.Le Sacre du printemps constitue une œuvre clé pour l’histoire de l’enregistrement et pour la musicologie de l’interprétation. Igor Stravinski considérait ses enregistrements comme établissant un modèle d’interprétation faisant autorité, mais c’est un fait connu qu’il ne respecte pas ses propres indications de tempo et fait un usage plus ou moins important du rubato. Ces incertitudes sur les tempi ont créé le doute et ont ouvert un espace de liberté pour les interprètes. Cet article s’est donné pour objectif d’examiner à nouveaux frais l’évolution de l’interprétation du Sacre des points de vue de la durée et du tempo. Le recours à un vaste corpus de 96 versions discographiques enregistrées entre 1929 et 2019 a permis d’obtenir une représentation claire de l’évolution de l’interprétation de l’œuvre sur 90 ans, de dégager la marge de liberté dans les choix des tempi et d’établir une cartographie des styles d’interprétation
The 32 Piano Pieces by Nikos Skalkottas : analytical insight and pianistic approach
No full textLa thèse examine la relation entre geste et écriture dans les 32 Pièces pour piano (1940) de Skalkottas. Après identification des nombreuses influences perceptibles dans le corpus, une étude approfondie de la notation pianistique particulière du compositeur est proposée. Pourquoi les 32 Pièces pour piano sont-elles peu jouées ? La réponse argumentée repose sur la difficulté technique. L’interrogation sur le geste pianistique approprié est ainsi rendue légitime. Le terme procédé compositionnel est proposé pour rendre compte d’habitudes d’écriture dont le compositeur hérite des grands maitres du passé ; ces procédés ne sont pas en eux-mêmes notables, mais le deviennent quand ils sont combinés au geste pianistique pour l’articulation formelle des pièces. La problématique que nous proposons d’élucider, à travers l’analyse combinée des gestes pianistiques et des procédés compositionnels, est sous-tendue par l'évolution de la relation entre l’aspect physique et l’écriture, l'une ou l'autre dimension prenant le dessus. Les symboles proposés par Sandor, dans sa méthode, sont récupérés et complétés par d’autres symboles, afin de permettre une analyse gestuelle des 32 Pièces. Ils sont ensuite combinés à des symboles proposés par l’auteure, rendant compte des procédés compositionnels relevés. L’analyse d’un choix de pièces culmine à la proposition du terme distillation, mettant l’accent sur l’assimilation organique des influences de la part de Skalkottas. La question d'une éventuelle organisation cyclique de l’œuvre est aussi traitée. Le Vol. II propose une édition critique complète des 32 Pièces, fondée sur la comparaison détaillée des deux manuscrits existants. Des entretiens avec des pianistes ayant interprété les pièces complètent le travail.The thesis examines the relationship between gesture and composition in the 32 Piano Pièces (1940) by Skalkottas. Following the identification of the various influences perceptible in the corpus, a thorough study of the pianistic notation of the composer is undertaken. Why are the 32 Piano Pièces not often performed? The answer is their technical difficulty. The legitimacy of an in-depth study of the appropriate pianistic gesture for their interpretation is thus confirmed. The term compositional procedure is proposed to describe composing techniques in Skalkottas’s work, which can be traced back to great masters of the past. These are not noteworthy per se, but become so when they are combined with pianistic gestures for the formal articulation of the pieces. The research question we propose to examine, through the combined analysis of pianistic gestures and compositional procedures, is supported by the evolution of the relationship between the two dimensions, the physical and the written aspect. The symbols in Sandor’s pianistic method are retrieved, completed by other symbols and applied in a gestural analysis of the 32 Piano Pieces. They are then combined with new symbols proposed by the author, designating compositional procedures. A selection of pieces is analyzed, culminating in the suggestion of the term distillation, to highlight how Skalkottas organically assimilated various influences. The question of whether the corpus constitutes a pianistic cycle or not, is also examined. Vol. II contains a complete critical edition of the 32 Piano Pieces, based on the detailed comparison of the two existing autograph manuscripts. The thesis is accompanied by interviews with pianists who have performed the pieces
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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