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  • "Spoken Lieder": Expanding upon the growing field of music for spoken voice and instrument

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    Author(s)
    Parkhurst, Padraig Leo
    Primary Supervisor
    Dirie, Gerardo
    Other Supervisors
    Schaupp, Karin
    Year published
    2018-05
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    Abstract
    In 2014 while working as guitarist in the Iranian folk ensemble ‘Sweet Sound’ I was asked by Shirin Majd to write a setting of poetry for guitar and spoken voice for the combined arts project ‘Rebirth’. The question arose of how to combine speech with music in such a manner as to aid both performance and comprehension of the work. To achieve this, existing works in this field were examined through their scores, recordings, relevant literature and historical context, then used as inspiration for new compositions. The process of writing, rehearsing, performing and sometimes recording these compositions then fed back into the ...
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    In 2014 while working as guitarist in the Iranian folk ensemble ‘Sweet Sound’ I was asked by Shirin Majd to write a setting of poetry for guitar and spoken voice for the combined arts project ‘Rebirth’. The question arose of how to combine speech with music in such a manner as to aid both performance and comprehension of the work. To achieve this, existing works in this field were examined through their scores, recordings, relevant literature and historical context, then used as inspiration for new compositions. The process of writing, rehearsing, performing and sometimes recording these compositions then fed back into the research. The scope of the investigations was limited to works from the Western Art Music canon that have an available score, and use at least some live component in both the narration and the music. Of particular interest was the 19th century genre of the musical declamation, and its way of notating the text-music correlation which I call ‘checkpoint’. The research revealed that what appeared at first to be a small field was in fact a large but poorly examined field, and that many of the accepted facts in the relevant literature were incorrect.
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    Thesis Type
    Thesis (Masters)
    Degree Program
    Master of Music Research (MMusRes)
    School
    Queensland Conservatorium
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.25904/1912/2194
    Copyright Statement
    The author owns the copyright in this thesis, unless stated otherwise.
    Subject
    Spoken lieder
    Musical declamation
    Western art music
    Poetry for guitar
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/377585
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