Bertha Spies

Biographic Data

ID267518
NAMEBertha Spies
GIVEN NAMESBertha
FAMILY NAMESpies
SIGNATURESPIES B
AFFILIATIONSNorth-West University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS6
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR6
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2006
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2017
H-INDEX0

  • Fusion of time and space in Hans Roosenschoon's music

    Open AccessBertha Spies, Bertha M SpiesARTICLEThe Journal for Transdisciplinary…2017References: 6

    n order to promote access to non-tonal music, the fusion of musical time and space may be considered as a point of departure. As a pre-analytical strategy, it relies on direct experience of the music as it is heard instead of on specialised music theoretical knowledge. The music of Hans Roosenschoon is used to illustrate five ways in which the fusion of time and space manifests itself on a metaphorical level, namely the integration of Western and…

  • Signification in atonal, amotivic music? Extending the properties of actoriality in Ligeti's second string quartet

    Open AccessBertha SpiesARTICLESemiotica2014

    In the absence of melodic and motivic structures, how does signification \nfunction in atonal music? By extending the properties of actoriality, this article \nfocuses on the goal-directedness of kinetic energy as an independent property \nof actoriality. The demonstration focuses on various modalities of goal-directed \nkinetic energy in meaningful segments of György Ligeti’s second string quartet \n(1968) in order to promote an understanding of…

  • Saartjie

    Bertha Spies, Bertha M SpiesARTICLEAfrican Arts2014References: 1

    Two centuries after her death Saartjie 1 Baartman, a South African Khoikhoi woman, has come to be regarded as a female icon and a symbol of the struggle for human rights in debates on race, gender and otherness.In 2010 the Tisch School of the Arts in New York presented "an interdisciplinary symposium on Sarah Baartman" entitled "Venus 2010"; one of the topics dealt with was iconic women in the twentieth century (Tisch 2010).Saartjie Baartman has …

  • Musikale ontlening en die voortbestaan van melodiese spore uit die verlede

    Open AccessHenriëtte Van Rensburg, Bertha SpiesARTICLEThe Journal for Transdisciplinary…2011

    Komponiste kan nie geïsoleer word van die musikale spore van die verlede nie - hierdie spore kan doelbewus deur komponiste betrek word of deur die filter van die onderbewussyn in 'n mindere of meerdere mate in latere werke bly voortbestaan. Dit is moeilik om 'n greep op die verskynsel van musikale ontlening te kry omdat sogenaamde ontlenings nie altyd met voldoende bewysvoering tot die oorsprong teruggevoer kan word nie. In 'n poging om hierdie p…

  • Music is Life' - The influence of transcendentalist philosophy on Ives's Concord Sonata

    Open AccessWaldo Weyer, Bertha SpiesARTICLEThe Journal for Transdisciplinary…2007

    Although the Concord Sonata is traditionally regarded as a sonata, it is atypical of the genre and is often considered as enigmatic. To understand this composition, a transdisciplinary approach is essential by, more specifically, incorporating knowledge of the philosophies of Transcendentalist authors Emerson, Hawthorne, the Alcotts andThoreau. Charles Ives set out the Transcendentalist ideas which influenced his conception of this piano sonata i…

  • The temporal musical sign

    Open AccessBertha SpiesARTICLESemiotica2006References: 7

    Generally speaking, musical analysis does not sufficiently involve the temporal nature of music to facilitate making connections between music and language. In search of extrinsic musical meaning, this association could be enhanced by following the changing character of the music as it unfolds in time, its texture, musical shapes, contours, and patterns of inflection. As the music is considered in its unreduced rhythmical state, it facilitates im…