Global ETD Search
Search theses and dissertations gathered from participating repositories worldwide. Every result links back to the library that holds it. No account is needed.
Results
Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"chamber opera"”.
-
Mantra: a chamber opera
Mantra: A Chamber Opera is as much an exercise in group-meditation as it is a piece of music. With a very slow, subtle unfolding of musical material and timbral shifts, the drama is distilled down to its essence. Instead of a grand narrative involving a linear plot with many characters, the action …
-
A Different Drummer: A Chamber Opera
A Different Drummer is a chamber opera adaptation of Donald Davis's story "A Different Drummer" from his collection Listening for the Crack of Dawn, published by August House. The opera lasts about seventy minutes, and calls for a cast of three and an orchestra of sixteen players. It contains a …
-
Tome : a chamber opera in one act
Tome, a chamber opera in one act on a libretto by Maile Meloy, tells the story of Laura, a lawyer whose client, Sawyer, is suing for a tort claim following a debilitating head injury he received while working construction, leaving him with a chimerical grasp on reality and a quickly eroding …
-
The Murderess: A True Crime Chamber Opera
The Murderess is a one-act, hour-long chamber opera inspired by true crime. It is a woman-focused story featuring three female singers and one tenor, and it is scored for Pierrot ensemble: flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano, and percussion. The original libretto by Trip Venturella tells the …
-
Princess Maleine
<p>Act I Full Score. Chamber opera in two acts, based on a story by the Brothers Grimm and the play by Maurice Maeterlinck. Commissioned and first produced by dell’Arte Opera Ensemble. Premiered at LaMaMa Experimental Theater, New York August 2019 with The Curiosity Cabinet, conducted by Whitney …
-
Cry wolf : an opera for young audiences
Cry Wolf is a seventy-minute chamber opera for young audiences based on characters from Aesop’s fables, with a libretto by William Glick. A semi-staged production was premiered in April 2017 at the Cohen New Works Festival at the University of Texas at Austin. The opera tells the story of the ‘Boy …
-
The Songs of David Amram: A representative analysis and review of published vocal music for accompanied and unaccompanied voice
… instrumental trios, quartets, cantatas and operas as well as songs. One of Amram's earliest published songs, Pull My Daisy, is from his musical score for the experimental film of the same name. The song, text by Allen Ginsberg, Neal Cassady and Jack Kerouac, is set in a jazz style. Twelve of …
-
A study of a selection of Benjamin Britten's vocal music for mezzo-soprano
… writing. The influence of each work's genre (chamber opera, song cycle and solo cantata) on the interpretation of text and character is discussed, as well as how the voice is accompanied. Lastly, a comparative survey of different recorded portrayals of each work looks at the background …
-
Till Coffee Do Us Part
Till Coffee Do Us Part is a chamber opera scored for two violins, cello, electronics, soprano, and tenor. The opera was written as a part of Black House Collective’s and the Kansas City Electronic Music and Arts Alliance's Rites of Being project. The electronics in the piece are playback files …
-
Concerto for Bassoon and Chamber Orchestra
… pertaining to the "Concerto for Bassoon and Chamber Orchestra." It will highlight some of the inspirations for the work; it will briefly analyze some of the harmonic and melodic material used in the piece and it will discuss the form of the piece; both movement-to-movement and on a smaller …