Singers, Scores and Sounds

This book develops ways of discussing musical practices to articulate a new approach to understanding connections between recordings, singers, and singing. This book will be useful reading for students and scholars of music analysis, musicology, performance practice, and twentieth century vocal music.

Autorentext

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.

Inhalt

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