I claim in this paper that we should cross the analytical approaches of classical music and of popular music. To begin with, I suggest a description of the musical work considered as a combination of three types of elements, or zones, that address different kinds of listeners. Firstly, the structura...

In electronic dance music (EDM), melody, harmony, and rhythm are often indistinguishable, hence are inadequate as descriptive categories. The timbres of EDM are equally elusive: describing this music in terms of its sources (synthesizers, computers...) tells us little about the sounds themselves. Ov...

This article analyses the collaboration between the Orchestra des nouvelles Créations, Excadements et Improvisations Musicales (ONCEIM) — an orchestra of around 30 musicians specialising in improvisation — and the pianist and improvisator John Tilbury, the first placing the order of a piece entitled...

In this memory we are interested in the Spotify platform, the leader of the music streaming sector. The aim of this study is to help us understand how the streaming platform is changing the musical works that circulate within it through the curation. This work will also help us to identify the inter...

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The aim of this thesis is to propose ways to improve the expressiveness of speech synthesis systems. One of the central propositions of this work is to define, use and measure the impact of linguistic structures operating beyond the sentence level, as opposed to approaches operating on sentences out...

In this presentation we exemplify the emergence of new possibilities in sound analysis andsynthesis with three novel developments that have been done in the Analysis/Synthesis team atIRCAM. These examples address three main activities in our domain, and have reached a largepublic making or simply li...

"titrebSummary '/titrebThe basis of the musical structure is the interval between two sounds: time (duration, rhythm) and space (combination of voices/instruments). In musical myths, music is often considered to be of mystic origin. Music makes the relationship audible to the great other (e.g. in In...

The aim of the work is to help, on the basis of linguistic analyses of the term ‘quality of life’, to identify the contours of the concept of ‘quality of life’ in patients and doctors. These reflections are based on a lexicographic approach to ‘quality of life’ in medical source texts and on a previ...

Since the early 2000s, hip-hop in Brazil has emerged as a musical culture specific to “sensitive” or “vulnerable” neighbourhoods in the periphery of major urban centres. An analysis of this musical practice in a comparative approach (with, for example, France or the United States) inevitably leads u...

Do we talk about RIFF in Satie, impressionism among Smashing pumpkins? Such as a remix, today’s pop syntax is only the result of a constant reuse of past sound materials, the substance of which makes it possible to articulate social relationships. From the Belle Époque to the alternative rock of the...

This article proposes a reflection on the expressive specificity of music video. Based on the analysis of four clips, it deploys the challenges related to the chronological and compositional “primacy” of music over images within this creative sector. Beyond its epistemological contribution (how coul...

How to build a musical convergence between sound and image, between audio and visual, in digital times? What is musical in the field of image? We assume that musical convergence is built through the use of technological devices that (1) establish a certain degree of interaction between visual and mu...

This work associates linguistic and psychological theories in order to develop knowledge concerning the relations between language and cognition. Our application area is the concept of comfort aboard trains. Surveys have been conducted during railroad trips in order to collect the passengers' feelin...

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If Alfred Cortot performs and interprets Chopin’s, it is not only as a pianist but also as a theoretician. His exegesis, expounded in many writings, is the correlate of his instrumental performance. The purpose of our research is to show how both aspects of interpretation complement each other and g...

this memory focuses on the impact of the musician’s interactions during a Jazz musical interpretation session including improvisation. The analysis is based on the phonographic material and transcripts of two pieces carried out by the trio composed of Jan Garbarek, the Norwegian saxophonist, Egberto...

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`pbL'objet de ce livre est instable, comme celui de la musique. Il vise à faire une sociologie de la passion musicale qui en respecte les médiations propres, qui n'écrase pas sous les instruments de l'analyse la réalité analysée. Il tente aussi l'inverse, une théorie de la médiation formulée depuis...

National audience Understanding a musical composition activity: relationships between subjects, creative activity, environment and pre-reflex consciousness

A detailed analysis of the music and performance of the Diatope of Xenakis

In September 1969, The Beatles released their final recorded work, Abbey Road, an album that perfects their unique and innovative approach to multi-track recording. Following an overview of the album that stresses the structural coherence of the Abbey Road Medley, the following discussion will consi...

This article provides a partial summary of the Beatles style. The regularity of their harmonic development up to 1966 leads to finding the cause of subsequent changes in the influences of older music which they then accept. In return, this stylistic dichotomy suggests that their style is not entirel...

Despite the large number of studies on music copyright, few works directly and thoroughly explore the role of law in regulating music memory. By considering sound recording as a remembrance technology, it is a question of understanding how copyright laws attempt to manage the impact of such technolo...

The article focuses on collective classes where students who are pianists in conservation aged between eight and ten years experience an approach to contemporary ‘prepared piano’ music. The aim is to show how the search for a musical aesthetic unknown to students is the pretext for interpreter, and...