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Four Scenes From Berenice, A One-Act Opera, Carlos Eduardo Verdam Maria
Four Scenes From Berenice, A One-Act Opera, Carlos Eduardo Verdam Maria
Theses and Dissertations
ABSTRACT
This thesis presents a music composition of four out of five scenes from Berenice, a one-act opera based on Edgar Allan Poe's homonymous short story, with libretto by Gabriel Gudding, for three singers and a chamber orchestra.
KEYWORDS: opera, Edgar Allan Poe, libretto, chamber orchestra, timbre, register
I Am My Own Escape, Ross Thomason
I Am My Own Escape, Ross Thomason
Theses and Dissertations
I Am My Own Escape is a one-act chamber opera with three characters, scored for soprano, tenor, and baritone voices respectively. The orchestra consists of flute, B flat clarinet, piano, violin, and violoncello, commonly known as the Pierrot ensemble. This work was written for fellow colleagues and students from Illinois State University, premiered on May 5, 2017.
Leitmotifs are employed in this work – the characters each have unique vocal melodies, orchestral gestures, pitch collections, and/or rhythmic motives assigned to them (see figures below for examples). Contemporary or extended techniques such as scratch tones in the strings and harmonics in …