Research

Prof. Dr. Carlos Almada

Project 1: Systematic Approaches of Structural Studies on Popular Music (2017-present date)

Description: It proposes to study popular music in its diverse genres and styles in a systematic way, focusing on structural aspects, seeking to dialogue with state-of-the-art theories in several possible fields (harmony, tonal relations, voice leading, form, counterpoint, orchestration , rhythm, etc.).

Undergraduate Research Project

• Max Kühn, Claudia Usai, Igor Chagas, Eduardo Cabral, Vinicius Braga, Ana Miccolis e João Penchel – Tom Jobim’s Harmonic Language (completed, 2019)
• Eduardo Cabral – Ivan Lins’ Harmonic Language (completed, 2020)
• Eduardo Cabral – Edu Lobo’s Harmonic Language (in progress)
• Vinícius Braga –Chico Buarque’s Harmonic Language (in progress)

Masters

• Max Kühn – Antônio Carlos Jobim: Harmony and Style through the Voice-leading Theory (in progress)
• Claudia Usai – The composicional processes of Remo Usai (in progress)
• Rodrigo Furman – Visible and Invisible Structures in Dream Theater: Metropolis Part II (in progress)
  
• Igor Chagas – Origin and Ramifications of Heavy Metal from the Perspective of Partitional Analysis (in progress)
  

Doctorate

• Pedro Zisels – The Carioca Samba: Melodic Musical Structures (in progress)

 

Project 2 : Musical Variation as Transformation: a formal Approach (2011-present date)

Description: Third update of a research project which started in 2011. It aims to study musical variation in a systematic and formalized way, under theoretical, analytical and compositional perspectives. It takes as its main theoretical reference the principles of Grundgestalt and developing variation, as well as vast literature related to the theme. Involves interactions with mathematical and evolutionary biology theories. It comprises the production of original theoretical and methodological formulations, as well as bibliographic, compositional and computational production (softwares for analytical and compositional assistance).

Masters

• Pedro Zisels Ramos – Formalization of a Pixinguinian Archetypal Counterpoint: Compositional Application (completed, 2017)
• Desirée Mayr – Creative Processes of Leopoldo Miguéz in the First Movement of His Sonata for Violin and Piano Op.14 (completed, 2015)
• Jorge Santos – Musical Texture in Pierre Boulez’s Work (completed, 2014)
• Fábio Monteiro –The Image, Texture and Timbre in the Prélude à L’après-midi d’un Faune, from the Perspective of the Homonymous Poem by Stéphane Mallarmé (completed, 2014)

Doctorate

• Ariane Petri – The Process of Variation and its Correspondences on Intertextuality (in progress)
  
• Desirée Mayr – Creative Processes of Leopoldo Miguéz in the First Movement of His Sonata for Violin and Piano Op.14 (completed, 2018)
  

  Post-Doctorate

• Edgardo Rodriguez – The Atonal and Twelve-Tone Music of A. Schoenberg and A. Webern (completed, 2018)

 

Prof. Dr. Pauxy Gentil-Nunes

Project 1: Surface and Structure in Applications of Partitional Analysis (2018)

Masters

• Filipe de Matos Rocha – Musical Structures and Hybridization in the Jongo da Serrinha. Filipe de Matos Rocha (completed, 2018)

Doctorate

• Daniel Moreira de Sousa – Textural Design: A Compositional Theory for the Organization of Musical Texture (completed, 2019)

 

Project 2: Expansion, Integration, and New Interlocutions of Partitional Analysis (2015)

Masters

• Bernardo Ramos Pinto – Analysis of Guitar Texture: Theory and Application (completed, 2017)
• Rafael Moreira Fortes – Modeling and Partitioning of Systemic Musical Units  (completed, 2016)

Project 3: Partitional Analysis: A Mediation Between Composition and the Theory of Partitions (2011)

Masters

• Daniel Moreira de Sousa – Perspectives for Textural Analysis from the Mediation between Contour Theory and Partitional Analysis (completed, 2015)
• André Codeço dos Santos – Textural Gesture and Compositional Planning (completed, 2014)

 

Prof. Dr. Liduino Pitombeira

Project 1: Developing of Compositional Systems (2019-2022)

In this research project, we propose an expansion of previous projects developed at the PPGM / UFRJ, focused exclusively on systemic modeling. The expansion occurs through the inclusion of the study and development of original compositional systems, that is, non-modeled systems. This project, in a way, resumes and seeks to improve activities previously developed (2009-2014), which resulted in a considerable bibliographic and compositional production. The development of this project will encourage dialogue with different fields of studies associated with composition, theory and analysis, and musicology, as well as with other fields of knowledge that have historically dialogued and contributed to music research, such as philosophy, computers and mathematics.

Masters

• Pedro Proença – Computational Formalization of Compositional Systems from Analytical Tools (in progress)

Doctorate

• Roberto Macedo – Stylistic Modeling (in progress)
• Ana Miccolis – Hybrid Systems: Jobinian Systemic Models Applied to Xenakian Compositional Processes. (in progress)
• Filipe Matos Rocha – Compositional planning based on rhythmic systems. (in progress)

Post-Doctorate

• Marco Antônio Ramos Feitosa – Deepening in Post-Tonal Theory: Didactic, analytical and compositional resources. (in progress)

Project 2: Production of Original Works from the Systemic Modeling of Camargo Guarnieri’s Primeiro Caderno de Ponteios. (2015-2018)

In this research project, we propose a methodology for the generation and interconnection of compositional repositories based on the analysis of intertexts. This methodology, called Systemic Modeling, allows us to determine hypothetical compositional systems to which are associated archetypal structures based on the principle of generalization of parametric properties. We will use as object of study, in this analytical-compositional experiment, the ten piano works from the Primeiro Caderno de Ponteios, by Camargo Guarnieri, in order to, from the modeling of these works, plan ten original works for different instrumental formations.

Masters

• Marcel Castro-Lima – Composition of Suíte Brasileira from the Systemic Modeling of five Ponteios from the Terceiro Caderno by Camargo Guarnieri. (completed, 2017)
• Gabriel Mesquita – The Acoustics of Influence: A Recomposition of Intertextuality in Music. (completed, 2018)
• Leandro Chrispim – Systemic Modeling of the Cartas Celestes by Almeida Prado as a methodology for the generation of compositional repositories. (completed, 2019)

Doctorate

• Helder Oliveira – Systemic Modeling from Gestalt Principles. (completed, 2020)
• André Codeço – Syncretic Thinking and Sound Domaing (completed, 2020)
• Alexandre Ferreira – Musical Games: The Game as a Compositional Strategy. (in progress)

Project 3: Systemic modeling from harmonic-melodic gestures of short Brazilian pieces. (2015-2018)

In this research project, we propose a methodology for the generation and interconnection of compositional repositories based on the analysis of intertext. This methodology, called Systemic Modeling, allows us to determine hypothetical compositional systems to which are associated archetypal structures based on the principle of generalization of parametric properties. We will use as objects of study, in this analytical-compositional experiment, selected works from different historical periods, including strongly the Brazilian repertoire, in order to, from the modeling of these works, plan a series of new works for instrumental formations different from the original ones.

Undergraduate Final Project

• Claudia Usai – Systemic Modeling: Applications in the Composition of Sonatina for Piano and Violin and the First Movement of (Des) Pedaços. (completed, 2018)
• Max Kühn – Systemic Modeling: Applications in the composition of Quarteto de Cordas. (completed, 2018)

Prof. Dr. Hugo Tremonte de Carvalho

Project: Computationally Efficient Bayesian Methods in Audio Processing

Description: The project aims to tackle problems in audio processing, mainly audio restoration and music information retrieval tasks, from a statistical viewpoint and treating the models (already present in the literature or proposed within the project, if necessary), with a computationally efficient approach, preferring techniques like Variational Inference in place of the most common MCMC when regarding Bayesian models.

Undergraduate Research Project/Undergraduate Final Project

• Nathalie Fernanda Toffani Magliano Di Domenico Fraçatho Deziderio – Variational Inference in Music Emotion Recognition (in progress)
• Mariane Batista dos Santos – Applications of Variational Inference in Audio Restoration (in progress)
• Natanael Luciano de Matos – Bayesian Approaches for Blind Source Separation (in progress)