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dc.contributor.advisorMilbauer, John
dc.contributor.authorChau, Mingyui Kevin
dc.creatorChau, Mingyui Kevin
dc.date.accessioned2018-05-23T23:27:29Z
dc.date.available2018-05-23T23:27:29Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10150/627765
dc.description.abstractWorks featuring a solo pianist playing the piano while reciting text and performing vocalized effects emerged in the late 1980s and early 1990s. This genre, known as vocalizing pianist, became popular among contemporary composers, and many of them began exploring the different possibilities of this genre. The genre of vocalizing pianist did not appear suddenly at the end of the twentieth century, but evolved from Romantic melodramas during a hundred years of profound change – musical, cultural, and technological. Romantic melodramas evolved in a multitude of ways and developed different techniques as time passes, while allowing later composers to embrace the musical influence around them to create a new genre. It is through a multi-pronged evolution that vocalizing pianist is created. From the genesis of late Romantic melodramas created through the combination of the early French and German melodramatic tradition, to the invention of Sprechstimme by Arnold Schoenberg and the experimentation of vocal events for the pianist by George Crumb and John Cage, the vocalizing pianist genre comes to its maturation in the 1990s in the hands of Frederic Rzewski and Jerome Kitzke. This study will investigate how the vocalizing pianist genre appeared and how it adopted earlier genres and techniques.en_US
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherThe University of Arizona.en_US
dc.rightsCopyright © is held by the author. Digital access to this material is made possible by the University Libraries, University of Arizona. Further transmission, reproduction or presentation (such as public display or performance) of protected items is prohibited except with permission of the author.en_US
dc.titleFrom Melodrama to Vocalizing Pianist – The Evolution of a Genreen_US
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dc.typeElectronic Dissertationen_US
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of Arizonaen_US
thesis.degree.leveldoctoralen_US
thesis.degree.levelMusicen_US
dc.contributor.committeememberWoods, Rex A.
dc.contributor.committeememberRosenblatt, Jay
thesis.degree.disciplineGraduate Collegeen_US
thesis.degree.nameD.M.A.en_US
refterms.dateFOA2018-05-23T23:27:29Z


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