Singers, Scores and Sounds

Making New Connections and¿Transforming¿Voices
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-1-032-26748-7
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 254 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 395 g

Reihe: Routledge Research in Music

This book develops ways of discussing musical practices to articulate a new approach to understanding connections between recordings, singers, and singing.

Centred around materials from the mid-twentieth century, this book focuses on a time when composers and performers were questioning the idea of authorship within their musical practice. Materials drawn upon include recordings, scores, archival content, visual art, interviews, and liner notes to develop a rich conception of practices of performance. Analysis of performances include recordings of singers such as Cathy Berberian, Linda Hirst, Loré Lixenberg, Angelika Luz, and Meredith Monk. Compositions by Cathy Berberian, Luciano Berio, John Cage, and Manuel De Falla are considered. The book utilizes these sources to examine the collective way in which singers and composers form practices as multiple, transforming, emergent, and not hierarchical. The book articulates – with a detailed, close consideration of specific instances in recordings and scores – a relational understanding of performance.

This book will be useful reading for students and scholars of music analysis, musicology, performance practice, and twentieth century vocal music.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hooper, Ellen

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikwissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction 2. Performing Transformations (a risky approach) 3. Transforming Black Square 4. Transforming Fictions 5. Transforming scores, stable performances: Cathy Berberian, Stripsody and Pop art. 6. Transforming analytical assumptions: What is Sequenza III? 7. Epilogue

Über Autor(innen)

Ellen Hooper is a musicologist and singer. Her PhD is from the University of New South Wales, Sydney. As a musicologist she is interested in peripheries, the edges of territories, and the way in which practices emerge and transform. As a soprano, Ellen explores these ideas through sound.