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/////// Babaamiwizh – Blood Memory And How We Carry Ancestral Histories /////// On Memory, Immersive Theatre, Improvisation, & Absurdity, Olivia Shortt

Dartmouth College Master’s Theses

babaamiwizh – blood memory and how we carry intergenerational histories: a collection of fragmented stories and thoughts on making Indigenous art. These writings attempt to find the balance of an artist's humanity, the artistic process and working with colonial institutions. I am stitching together my perspective on Indigeneity, museums and the process of repatriation, collaboration with trusted community members, as well as the land and its medicines.

Making Malice Musical: Verdi’S Compositional Journey Through The Eyes Of Six Villains, Michael Chadwick

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Giuseppe Verdi is a pillar of the operatic world and had a profound impact on the evolution of the art form. From a rudimentary beginning, he developed over time from a popular creator of operas in the solita forma style of 19^th century Italy into a master craftsman of combining music, text, and theatrical drama. Verdi utilized the popular compositional formal convention of solita forma to begin his career. Over time he evolved beyond its boundaries and shifted his focus to the holistic theatrical presentation of the drama. Much has been written about this evolution through analysis of Verdi’s …

The Game: A Contemporary Opera In One Act, Kailey Erwin

Graduate Theses and Dissertations

My opera entitled “the game: a contemporary opera in one act” began as a project in my undergraduate composition lessons. My vision for this opera is to make it accessible and easily performed by singers with minimal “operatic training.” This is an opera for developing singers, and a great introduction to the style of opera without long, draining arias, or complicated ensembles. This opera was performed on April 2nd, 2022 in Stella Boyle Smith Concert Hall as a partial fulfillment for my degree requirements. Long-term, I envision The Game performed by singers in high school, undergraduates, or even community theaters. …

Musical Perspective: An Analysis Of How Musicals Reflect Cultural Discourse, Amosi Morgan

Capstone Projects and Master's Theses

In this paper, I will be analyzing the role musical theatre productions play in reflecting cultural discourse. I will also discuss the impact musicals have on societal discussions regarding topics like race, capitalism, and social justice. The way I seek to do this is by first explaining the origin of musicals as musical comedies. I will also discuss other musical innovations such as the opera that influenced the shift. I will discuss the rise of musical dramas as musicals started incorporating serious themes. The emotional impact of musicals and their use of pathos will be analyzed. I will research the …

For The Love Of Inner Voices: Miriam Gideon, Orchestration, And Fortunato, Whitney E. George

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

Post-tonal American opera composer Miriam Gideon (1906-1996) completed a chamber opera, perhaps intended for television, titled Fortunato, based on a dark comic tragedy set in turn-of-the-20th-century, economically-ravaged Madrid. The expressive staged work follows the life of the unfortunate title character Fortunato in three operatic vignettes, each one becoming more desperate and moribund by the scene. A curious piece in Gideon’s oeuvre, the work remained unfinished, with a piano score for the complete work, but only a sample of her orchestration for Scene 1. This study examines the orchestration of Scene 1 as a template for creating an orchestration similar in …

The Feminine Voice / Self Titled, Teddy Mckrell

Senior Projects Spring 2020

My senior project consisted of two concerts, one in classical voice and one in electronic composition.

Operabbit, Mariel C. Mayz

Theses and Dissertations

OPERAbbit takes place in an unknown country with unnamed characters who are struggling for basic necessities amongst a political, social, and economic crisis. Questions of loyalty, trust, and nationalism are brought to the foreground as our Protagonist receives an unconventional government hand-out: a bunny. This fictional story— written by the composer and her brother— is met with humor and the liveliness of Latin American culture. The underlying truth, however, is more tragic. Many countries in Latin America have faced deep political, economic, or societal problems throughout their histories. None, however, have faced them all simultaneously as the country of Venezuela …

Expressions Of Madness In Coloratura Mad Scenes Of Bel Canto Operas, Rachel G. Christenson

Senior Honors Theses

This thesis will explore the musical innovations in the mad scenes of the bel canto composers in the 1800s. It will analyze Gaetano Donizetti’s mad scenes in Anna Bolena (1830) and Lucia di Lammermoor (1835), and Vincezzo Bellini’s mad scenes in I Puritani (1835) to discover how each composer expresses madness through the high and virtuosic voice of the coloratura soprano. The subject of madness is not a new idea in opera. However, the mad scenes of Donizetti and Bellini are the most successful and are often performed in opera houses around the world. Specific attention is given to the …

Breakdown: Vol 1: Text And Music, A Survey Of Methodology And Process, Vol 2: In Full Score., Andrew Synnott

Doctoral

The work presented here is in two parts. The first part is an opera composed to a libretto by the Irish playwright, John Breen. This opera is in three acts and concerns the performance of four famous performance art pieces; Rhythm 0 by Marina Abramović, Breakdown by Michael Landy, Velocity Piece by Barry La Va and How To Explain Pictures To a Dead Hare by Joseph Beuys. These art works are presented as the action of the opera and happen concurrently on the stage during the first two acts. The third act reflects on the action of acts one and …

La Belle Au Bois Dormant - Acte 1 (Opera), Keith D. Rowley, Fernande Bes

Keith D Rowley

First act of my "Sleeping Beauty" opera. French libretto by Fernande Bes.

La Belle Au Bois Dormant - Actes 2 & 3 (Opera), Keith D. Rowley, Fernande Bes

Keith D Rowley

Acts 2 & 3 of my "Sleeping Beauty" opera. Libretto by Fernande Bes.

Blue Mountain: A Chamber Opera For Winds And Voices By Justin Dello Joio: A Unique Contribution For Wind Band Literature, Armando Saldarini

Dissertations

Blue Mountain is an opera in one act scored for four voices, and thirty-three instruments, commissioned by Det Norske Blaseensemble. Under the direction of Kenneth Jean, the premiere took place on October 8, 2007, at Kanonhalen in Oslo, Norway, as part of the Edvard Grieg Centennial celebrations and the 2007 Ultima contemporary Music Festival. The opera takes place in Troldhaugen, Norway, during the last days of Edvard Grieg’s life. Suffering from emphysema, Grieg was being treated by his doctor with morphine that created great anxiety, fear, and mental torment. A visit from his friend, Percy Grainger, gave Grieg great …

Fight Or Flight, Asher Griffith

Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Fight or Flight is a one-act, science-fiction opera. Outwardly the story of an astronaut who is marooned on the Moon, this dark comedy is an allegorical tale of forced isolation and loss; and of the anxiety and sadness that inevitably result. Musically, this piece began as an experiment in the reverse-engineering of mostly improvisatory methods of musical spoken-word delivery such as rap or slam poetry; this compositional device being a means to the more important end of creating a live musical theatre lacking the flippant sparkle commonly associated with Broadway and the like, but also free of the "intellectual" or …

Scrapbooks, Doug Lofstrom

Doug Lofstrom Music Collection

Spanning from the beginning of his career to the dawn of the internet, the scrapbook covers the years 1967 to 1997 and showcase flyers, newspaper articles, critic reviews, programs, promotional materials, newsletters and photographs highlighting his work.

La Belle Au Bois Dormant (Opera Ouverture) - Piano Solo, Keith D. Rowley

Keith D Rowley

This is the overture to my French opera, La belle au bois dormant (Sleeping Beauty). It was first performed in Nice, France in 1968. It was later performed at Brigham Young University by the French Club in collaboration with the Music Department and under the direction of Dr. Clifford Barnes.

Volume 73, Number 05 (May 1955), Guy Mccoy

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Problems of the Operatic Conductor (interview with Alberto Erede)

Musical Experience of the Classroom Teacher

Universal Appeal of Sir William Walton's First Opera

Development of Pianism (interview with Robert Casadesus)

Does Practice Make Perfect?

Music and the Mails

Youth Made the Challenge

Aria Da Capo : An Opera In One Act, Burdette Marion Fore

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

Foreword to Aria Da Capo

The libretto of the opera is a verbatim setting of Edna St. Vincent Millay's one act play "Aria da Capo." World events, especially World War II and the current Korean War influenced the choice of this timely, yet timeless play. Miss Millay's death occurred during the composition of the opera. She never knew, therefore, of the composition or performance of her play as an opera.

The form of the opera is that of the "da capo" aria. he form, of course, was determined by the play which ends exactly as it started. Thematic material consists …

Volume 52, Number 01 (January 1934), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Studying Music for the Joy of It (interview with Artur Bodanzky)

Old Friends are Best

Evening of Mozart: A Musical Play in Three Acts for Children and Adults

You Can Sing—If You Will! (interview with Ernestine Schumann-Heink)

Music of Nature: A Series of Programs for Studio, Club or Radio Recital

Coming Back Without Teacher

Why Not Give an Etude Radio Recital?

Music Supervisor's Forum

New Deal, the New Leisure, and Music

Interesting Stephen Heller

Here's a New One

Those Troublesome Octaves

Value of Music Study to a Business Woman

Ledger Lines and Spaces Simplified

Sight Reading Suggestions

Drilling for Independence …

Volume 30, Number 02 (February 1912), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Probable Origin of Syncopation

Opera of the People (interview with Victor Herbert)

Boccherini and His Friends

If My Daughter Should Study for Grand Opera (interview with Andreas Dippel)

When Different Pupils Make the Same Mistakes

How a Great Operatic Production is Prepared: Opinions from Many Celebrated Specialists upon a Subject of Much Human Interest to all Music Lovers

Grand Opera as a Business

Self-Help in Voice Study (interview with Charles Dalmores)

Alphabet of the Opera Composers

Names of the Notes in Other Languages

Success at the First Lessons: Five Important Points for Teachers to Remember and Employ

Well-Known Composers of …

Lesson Book: Grand Opera, Rubinkam I. Nathaniel

Siegel-Myers Correspondence School of Music

A Music Lesson Book for the correspondence courses offered through the Siegel-Myers Correspondence School of Music.
Lessons and Examinations: Grand Opera, number 1 through 10

Volume 05, Number 04 (April 1887), Theodore Presser

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Expression in Piano Playing

Talk About Some Young Pianists

Accentuation in Piano Playing

Early Education

Maxims

Current Chats

Musical Societies in Colleges

Who Has Blundered?

Carefully Selected List of American Songs Suitable for Concert and Teaching Purposes with Key, Compass, Grade and Price

Liszt!

Musician: Guide for Pianoforte Students