Singers, Scores and Sounds - Making New Connections and Transforming Voices

This book develops ways of discussing musical practices to articulate a new approach to understanding connections between recordings, singers, and singing. This book will be useful reading for students and scholars of music analysis, musicology, performance practice, and twentieth century vocal music.

List of contents

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

About the author

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.

Summary

This book develops ways of discussing musical practices to articulate a new approach to understanding connections between recordings, singers, and singing. This book will be useful reading for students and scholars of music analysis, musicology, performance practice, and twentieth century vocal music.

Product details

• Authors: Ellen Hooper, Ellen (Unsw Hooper
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.12.2022
• EAN: 9781032267470
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3226747-0
• No. of pages: 236
• Series: Routledge Research in Music
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Individual composers & musicians, specific bands & groups, MUSIC / General, The arts: general issues, Theatre Studies, Theory of music & musicology, Musicians, singers, bands and groups, Composers and songwriters, 20th Century & Contemporary Classical Music, Art music, orchestral and formal music, Theory of music and musicology, The arts: general topics