scholarly journals Recital I (for Cathy):A Drama ‘Through the Voice’

2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 359-397
Author(s):  
FRANCESCA PLACANICA
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Creative Agency ◽  
Literary Sources ◽  
Performance Tradition ◽  
Twentieth Century Music ◽  
Two Phases ◽  
And Performance ◽  
The Voice ◽  
One Act ◽  
Insight Into

AbstractWork on this article began as a contribution to a wider discussion of twentieth-century music theatre, and in particular a genre in the category of twentieth-century musical monodramas – one-act staged monologues with, or in music for, one performer.1My current research focuses on the genesis and performance tradition of works composed for solo female singer, and raises questions about the creative agency of the performer in the making of such works, reflecting on matters such as subjectivity, voice, and identity.2If this outlook may slightly drift from a conventional narrative springing from the composer's voice, a critical investigation of the collaborative process foregrounding the genealogy of some of these works is compelling, especially since every composer who embarked on this ‘genre’, or compositionaltopos, inflected it in idiosyncratic ways. In works such asErwartung,La Voix humaine,The Testament of Eve,Neither, andLa machine de l’être, the performative voice of the female soloist to whom the work was tailored became a generative element capable of shaping the formal, musical, and dramaturgical material.3Examination of selected case studies, focusing especially on the creative and performative processes surrounding these works, triggers an array of questions about gender politics. More importantly, transversal insight into the making of these works and their performativity reveals the interconnected nature of the two phases of creation and performance. In musical monodrama, more than in larger forms of music theatre, the two processes interweave and depend on each other; reconstructing the performative genealogy of the ‘work’ reveals an intrinsic impasse in the very notion of the musical ‘text’ associated exclusively with the compiled score and its literary sources.

Teaching With ‘Mikrokosmos’

Tempo ◽  
1968 ◽  
pp. 12-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ylda Novik
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Sight Reading ◽  
The Past ◽  
Twentieth Century Music ◽  
Four Score ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Insight Into

In teaching Mikrokosmos to some four score children over a period of several years, I have realized that it serves numerous musical purposes beyond just that of being another series of pieces and studies for pupils. In addition to laying a strong and richly varied foundation for the understanding and performance of twentieth-century music, it presents almost unending varieties of situations for facilitating sight-reading and transposition. The work offers virtually every pianistic and musical problem to the student, and interestingly enough, its use gives him increased insight into music of the past as well as of the present.

scholarly journals Nacht, from Arnold Schoenberg’s Pierrot Lunaire: a perspective from the ArtSong Theory on the text-music relationships and its unfoldings

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 333-346
Author(s):  
Achille Picchi
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Vocal Music ◽  
Twentieth Century Music ◽  
Pierrot Lunaire ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Factor Of Influence

The cycle of melodramas Pierrot Lunaire op. 21 was written and premiered in 1912 and is one of the capital works of Schoenberg’s output as well as of the vocal music in the twentieth-century music. In this article we examine Nacht, the eighth melodrama, first of the second part, due to its relationships on text-music as a factor of influence in the perception and performance of the work. And we also examine the numerical relations that were so dear to the composer.

Schubert’s “Ständchen” in the Voice of the Cinematic Amateur

2019 ◽  
Vol 42 (3) ◽  
pp. 157-183
Author(s):  
Jennifer Ronyak
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Cultural History ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Documentary Evidence ◽  
Continuity And Change ◽  
Literary Sources ◽  
Musical Practices ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Voice

Scholars who have analyzed performances of Schubert’s Lieder have generally focused on the voices of masterful professionals, whether looking at performances before or during the age of sound recordings. This tendency overlooks one historically important group of performers: the amateurs who made up the broad marketplace for the genre during Schubert’s lifetime and throughout the nineteenth century. Studying this group of performers with any level of aesthetic particularity is, however, difficult: documentary evidence of particular singers in this group in the nineteenth century and even the early twentieth is scarce. Yet as the real-life practice of the amateur singing of Schubert’s Lieder in the home gradually dwindled after the nineteenth century, fictional representations of this nineteenth-century practice began to appear in period sound films across the twentieth. While not a substitute for documentary evidence of real practices, this film phenomenon meaningfully engages with nineteenth-century cultural history, literary sources, and musical practices through presentist conventions and concerns. Such films thus offer a vehicle through which to think about continuity and change in the relationship between Schubert’s song and the figure of the amateur in the nineteenth century, the twentieth century, and today. This article analyzes three period film scenes involving nineteenth-century “amateur” performances of Schubert’s “Ständchen” (Schwanengesang, D. 957, no. 4). It does so in order to think about the combined aesthetic and social ramifications of the figure of the amateur in relationship to Schubert’s Lieder. I look at scenes in the following three films: the operetta-influenced Schubert picture Leise flehen meine Lieder (1933), in which operetta star Mártha Eggerth sings as the Countess Esterházy, the classic novel adaptation Jane Eyre (1934), in which Virginia Bruce sings as the titular character, and a newly written piece of “governess fiction,” The Governess (1998), in which Minnie Driver performs the song as said governess. None of these scenes offers unmed­iated or simple access to amateurism. Instead, in each scene, a professional, twentieth-­century celebrity woman movie star both sings and otherwise portrays the nineteenth-century amateur musician and character onscreen. Keeping this tension in mind, I explore how this contradiction and other elements in each scene would have and can still provide audiences opportunities to think about the relationship between amateurism and Schubert’s most popular songs. In so doing, I explore the term “amateur” in a number of overlapping senses that embrace positive and, to a lesser extent, pejorative meanings. My analysis ultimately shows how these three diverse film stagings valorize the figure and, indeed, the voice of the amateur in relationship to Schubert’s music. These conclusions have implications regarding Schubert’s songs and successful modes of performance that might attend them.

Collaboration Challenges in Community Telecommunication Networks

2011 ◽  
pp. 172-193
Author(s):  
Sylvie Albert ◽  
Rolland LeBrasseur
Keyword(s):  
User Involvement ◽  
Telecommunication Networks ◽  
Community Network ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Intelligent Networks ◽  
Management Framework ◽  
Two Phases ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Over Time

This article reviews the literature on networks and, more specifically, on the development of community telecommunication networks. It strives to understand the collaboration needed for innovative projects such as intelligent networks. Guided by a change management framework, collaboration within a community network is explored in terms of the formation and performance phases of its development. The context, content, and process of each phase is analyzed, as well as the interaction of the two phases. User involvement and technology appropriation are discussed. Collaboration challenges are identified and linked to the sustainability of the community network. Policy makers are presented with a model that gives some insight into planning and managing a community network over time.

Collaboration Challenges in Community Telecommunication Networks

2011 ◽  
pp. 120-141
Author(s):  
Sylvie Albert
Keyword(s):  
User Involvement ◽  
Telecommunication Networks ◽  
Community Network ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Intelligent Networks ◽  
Management Framework ◽  
Two Phases ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Over Time

This article reviews the literature on networks and, more specifically, on the development of community telecommunication networks. It strives to understand the collaboration needed for innovative projects such as intelligent networks. Guided by a change management framework, collaboration within a community network is explored in terms of the formation and performance phases of its development. The context, content, and process of each phase is analyzed, as well as the interaction of the two phases. User involvement and technology appropriation are discussed. Collaboration challenges are identified and linked to the sustainability of the community network. Policy makers are presented with a model that gives some insight into planning and managing a community network over time.

Collaboration Challenges in Community Telecommunication Networks

2009 ◽  
pp. 1915-1936
Author(s):  
Sylvie Albert ◽  
Rolland LeBrasseur
Keyword(s):  
User Involvement ◽  
Telecommunication Networks ◽  
Community Network ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Intelligent Networks ◽  
Management Framework ◽  
Two Phases ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Over Time

This article reviews the literature on networks and, more specifically, on the development of community telecommunication networks. It strives to understand the collaboration needed for innovative projects such as intelligent networks. Guided by a change management framework, collaboration within a community network is explored in terms of the formation and performance phases of its development. The context, content, and process of each phase is analyzed, as well as the interaction of the two phases. User involvement and technology appropriation are discussed. Collaboration challenges are identified and linked to the sustainability of the community network. Policy makers are presented with a model that gives some insight into planning and managing a community network over time.

Waltz of the Oil Field

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 148-175
Author(s):  
Daryl Meador
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Collective Memory ◽  
Oral History ◽  
Oil Industry ◽  
Oil Field ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Voice ◽  
Insight Into

This paper critically listens to the Oral History of the Texas Oil Industry archives, a concatenation of slightly drawling white oilmen recorded in the mid twentieth century. The uniformity of the authorial voices in this archive helps to construct a monolithic white historiography that sanitizes collective memory in Texas. The archive offers insight into the sonic qualities of power in Texas as it is mediated through an idealized Texan identity via accent. In an effort to unsettle the authority of this totalizing Texan identity and its voice, this paper also listens to the history of Creole music as it migrated into Texas and transformed in contact with the state's oil industry. Placing these two different vocal histories together, one self-assured and one characterized by stretching its own limits, interrogates how we listen to the voice in history, attuned to sonic and vocal notations of power as it has alternately been enjoyed or endured.

Collaboration Challenges in Community Telecommunication Networks

2009 ◽  
pp. 101-122
Author(s):  
Sylvie Albert
Keyword(s):  
User Involvement ◽  
Telecommunication Networks ◽  
Community Network ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Intelligent Networks ◽  
Management Framework ◽  
Two Phases ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Over Time

This article reviews the literature on networks and, more specifically, on the development of community telecommunication networks. It strives to understand the collaboration needed for innovative projects such as intelligent networks. Guided by a change management framework, collaboration within a community network is explored in terms of the formation and performance phases of its development. The context, content, and process of each phase is analyzed, as well as the interaction of the two phases. User involvement and technology appropriation are discussed. Collaboration challenges are identified and linked to the sustainability of the community network. Policy makers are presented with a model that gives some insight into planning and managing a community network over time.

Collaboration Challenges in Community Telecommunication Networks

2008 ◽  
pp. 323-344
Author(s):  
Sylvie Albert ◽  
Rolland LeBrasseur
Keyword(s):  
User Involvement ◽  
Telecommunication Networks ◽  
Community Network ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Intelligent Networks ◽  
Management Framework ◽  
Two Phases ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Over Time

This article reviews the literature on networks and, more specifically, on the development of community telecommunication networks. It strives to understand the collaboration needed for innovative projects such as intelligent networks. Guided by a change management framework, collaboration within a community network is explored in terms of the formation and performance phases of its development. The context, content, and process of each phase is analyzed, as well as the interaction of the two phases. User involvement and technology appropriation are discussed. Collaboration challenges are identified and linked to the sustainability of the community network. Policy makers are presented with a model that gives some insight into planning and managing a community network over time.

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