1st Edition
Singers, Scores and Sounds Making New Connections and Transforming Voices
By Ellen Hooper
Copyright 2023
254 Pages
34 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
254 Pages
34 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
254 Pages
34 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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This book develops ways of discussing musical practices to articulate a new approach to understanding connections between recordings, singers, and singing.
Centred around materials from the mid-twentieth century, this book focuses on a time when composers and performers were questioning the idea of authorship within their musical practice. Materials drawn upon include recordings, scores,... Read more
1. Introduction 2. Performing Transformations (a risky approach) 3. Transforming Black Square 4. Transforming Fictions 5. Transforming scores, stable performances: Cathy Berberian, Stripsody and Pop art. 6. Transforming analytical assumptions: What is Sequenza III? 7. Epilogue
Biography
Ellen Hooper is a musicologist and singer. Her PhD is from the University of New South Wales, Sydney. As a musicologist she is interested in peripheries, the edges of territories, and the way in which practices emerge and transform. As a soprano, Ellen explores these ideas through sound.
