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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Cathy Berberian"”.
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Not Just a Pretty Voice: Cathy Berberian as Collaborator, Composer and Creator
<p>During her relatively brief career, Cathy Berberian: 1925-83) became arguably the best-known singer of avant-garde vocal music in Europe and the United States. After 1950, when she married Italian composer Luciano Berio, Berberian premiered almost thirty new works by seventeen different …
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The Music of Language
… Kurt Schwitters, Milton Babbitt, Luciano Berio, Cathy Berberian, Stuart Saunders Smith, Adriano Celentano, and Eduard Khil. Unlike previous research of language-inspired music that has focused on individual composers and their works, this document aims to create connections between …
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The Singing Self: An Exploration of Vocality and Selfhood in Contemporary Vocal Practice
… an in-depth examination of singer and composer Cathy Berberian, whose collaborations with avant garde composers and use of expanded vocal techniques brought about new models for the relationships between composer and singer, singer and self. The final section of this work envisions new practices …
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Three case studies in twentieth-century performance practice
Since the middle of the twentieth century, the study of performance practice has increasingly drawn the interest of musicologists; however, despite the extensive documentation pertaining to matters of performance, the twentieth century has largely been neglected. Twentieth-century composers often …