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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"mad scene"”.
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Luciano Berio's Sequenza III: The Use of Vocal Gesture and the Genre of the Mad Scene
… of a woman? Is it performance art or an operatic mad scene? Sequenza III could be all of these or something else entirely. Writing about my method of preparation will work to allay some of my own and other performer's fears about attempting this unusual repertory. Very little in this piece is …
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Power in Madness : a critical investigation into the musical representation of female madness in the mad scenes of Donizetti’s ‘Lucia’ from Lucia di Lammermoor (1835) and Thomas’s ‘Ophélie’ from Hamlet (1868)
The 19th-century fascination with madness led to a theatrical phenomenon most palpably represented in the operatic mad scene, where the insane heroine expresses her madness in an aria of ‘phenomenal difficulty’ (Ashley 2002). This research explores the representation of female madness as power in …
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Graduate Recital, Voice
… set presents a German translation of Ophelia's mad scene from Shakespeare's Hamlet. Argento's Six Elizabethan Songs represent 20th-century music, but Argento draws the text from various poets of the Elizabethan era. Selected songs by Franz Liszt are representative of the French mélodie from the …
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Little dove : a new operetta for undergraduate singers
… story of Little Dove. Chapter three includes a scene structure and design of the operetta. Chapter four details the result of a compositional analysis of forty-five pieces of popular undergraduate vocal literature measuring the ranges, tessituras, intervals, forms, and performance lengths, and …
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Madness, Sexuality, and Gender in Early Twentieth Century Music Theater Works: Four Interpretive Essays
<p>Diagnoses of madness are inextricably entwined with social and cultural beliefs about gender and sexual behavior. The portrayal of characters in music theater as mad relies on contemporaneous understanding of mental illness, as often resulting from, or expressed in transgression of normative …