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Chinese Art Songs in the 1930s: An Analysis and Interpretive Guide of Six Selected Songs by Huang Zi (1904-1938)

Description: Chinese art songs—which are derived from over four thousand years of Chinese culture and combine unique Chinese literary and musical flavors with Western compositional techniques—remain largely unknown in the Western world. Chinese art song, a treasure of a genre, deserves more attention from Western singers and scholars. With a population of 1.41 billion, China has the largest potential market for bel canto singing. Not only will studying Chinese art songs enrich a singer's worldview and reper… more
Date: May 2022
Creator: Peng, Bin
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Dissertation: "Scent of Ink": A Study and Performance Guide of Selected Gagok by Wonju Lee

Description: Wonju Lee (b. 1979) has already made her own unique contribution to Korean art song. Her songs commissioned by classical Korean music performers have been recorded and released on record labels such as Universal Music and Sony Music. Albums include the Gagok collection, Lee Hwa-woo, The Pear Blossom Falls published by Soo Moon Dang. Some songs have been published by music publishers in the United States such as Classical Vocal Reprints and in Korea by the Korean Traditional Music Resource Cente… more
Date: May 2022
Creator: Lee, Eun Kyung
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A Performance Guide to Eight Chinese Songs and Arias: Selected Repertoire for Soprano Voice

Description: Over the past century, the widespread popularity of Western art music, in particular that of the standard operatic repertoire, has gradually expanded the development of opera in China. In order to bolster a broad range of classical music genres and help promote the development of Chinese opera, opera houses and opera companies have been built in several major Chinese cities. Moreover, a series of first-rate international vocal competitions have been established to promote original Chinese opera… more
Date: May 2022
Creator: Wang, Yi
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Selected Art Songs of Chinese Composer Huang Zi: Music, Poetry, and Social-Historical Considerations

Description: This dissertation examines the contributions of the early twentieth-century Chinese composer Huang Zi to the genre of Chinese art songs. It discusses how he combined Western compositional techniques with traditional Chinese music and ancient or contemporary Chinese poetry, focusing on his works 花非花 Flowers in the Mist, 点绛唇, 赋登楼 Ode to Ascending the Tower, 思乡 Missing Homelands, and 春思曲 Spring Nostalgia. Huang's songs, which created a bridge between East and West, are still significant today in … more
Date: May 2022
Creator: Liu, Xiaoyue
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Il bel canto russo: Incorporating Principles from the Old Italian School of Singing to Russian Lyric Diction Utilizing the Songs of Mikhail Glinka (1804 -1857)

Description: Mikhail Glinka (1804-1857) is widely recognized as a founding father of Russian classical music, but in fact, his music represents a bridge: it establishes a distinctive Slavic sound built on the Italian roots of Glinka's musical inspiration. As a young man, Glinka traveled abroad, which included three years spent in Italy, where he gained extensive exposure to and familiarity with what modern scholarship refers to as the Old Italian School of Singing. This influence makes his songs an ideal in… more
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Date: August 2022
Creator: McGee, Michael Anthony
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Straw Phonation in the Private Voice Studio: The Effects of a Straw Phonation Protocol on Student Perceptions of Voice over Time

Description: Straw phonation is a semi-occluded vocal tract exercise (SOVTE) that has long been used as a therapeutic device for the voice. The purpose of this study was to compare outcomes following voice lessons that included a straw phonation protocol to those that did not include a protocol. The primary outcome measures were the shortened version of the Singing Voice Handicap Index (SVHI-10), which is a validated health status instrument for singers, and Perceived Vocal Efficiency (PVE). Ten student sin… more
Date: August 2022
Creator: Gamble, Ryan De Boer
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Bilitis as Interpreted in Charles Koechlin's "Cinq chansons de Bilitis"

Description: Charles Koechlin (1867–1950) has been a notable figure in French music since the late nineteenth century. However, Koechlin's mélodies are not performed as often as the art songs of many other French composers. Koechlin's Cinq chansons de Bilitis is a collection of five songs based on Pierre Louÿs's Les chansons de Bilitis. The cycle was completed in 1898–1908. The stories of Bilitis are beautifully set by Koechlin, who uses his wide compositional facility. This dissertation serves as a guide t… more
Date: December 2022
Creator: Chen, Chia-Wen
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Modern Chinese Opera: A Performance Guide to Six Tenor and Baritone Arias from Selected Operas by Lei Lei and Guangnan Shi

Description: With the emergence and development of Chinese opera market, a large number of excellent composers and original Chinese operas have emerged. Responding to the market demand for opera singers, many jobs came into being. The dissertation is used for western male singer who wants to get job opportunities to perform in China. The dissertation discusses three original Chinese operas, each of which features one tenor aria and one baritone aria. The research results in a performance guide for these six… more
Date: December 2022
Creator: Hu, Hao
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Selected Songs of Ian Venables as Influenced by Ivor Gurney: An Historical Musicology Analysis

Description: The purpose of this study is to draw attention to the importance of Ian Venables' art songs that are based on Ivor Gurney's poems. In this study, I analyze and evaluate Gurney's poetry and how Venables' compositional style seems to have been influenced by Gurney's musical style in the setting of Gurney's poems. It is noteworthy that Ivor Gurney's poems were not just written as songs by little-known composers, but by others such as Gerald Finzi and Ian Venables, both of whom can be considered le… more
Date: December 2022
Creator: Zhang, Zuhao
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