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E-raamat: Staging Voice [Taylor & Francis e-raamat]

  • Formaat: 130 pages, 18 Halftones, black and white; 18 Illustrations, black and white
  • Sari: Routledge Voice Studies
  • Ilmumisaeg: 14-Dec-2021
  • Kirjastus: Routledge
  • ISBN-13: 9781003187257
  • Taylor & Francis e-raamat
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  • Tavahind: 94,95 €
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  • Formaat: 130 pages, 18 Halftones, black and white; 18 Illustrations, black and white
  • Sari: Routledge Voice Studies
  • Ilmumisaeg: 14-Dec-2021
  • Kirjastus: Routledge
  • ISBN-13: 9781003187257
Staging Voice is a unique approach to the aesthetics of voice and its staging in performance.

This study reflects on what it would mean to take operas decisive attributevoiceas the foundation of its staged performance. The book thinks of staging through the medium of voice. It is a nuances exploration, which brings together scholarly and directorial interpretations, and engages in detail with less frequently performed works of major and influential 20th-century artistsErik Satie, Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weillas well as exposes readers to an innovative experimental work of Evelyn Ficarra and Valerie Whittington. The study is intertwined throughout with the authors staging of the works accessible online.

This book will be of great interest to students and scholars in voice studies, opera, music theatre, musicology, directing, performance studies, practice-based research, theatre, visual art, stage design, and cultural studies.
List of figures
ix
List of music examples
xi
Acknowledgements xiii
Introduction: directing opera, staging voice 1(28)
Directing opera
1(18)
Staging voice
19(10)
1 Staging a vulnerable voice: weill and Brecht's Der Jasager (1930)
29(27)
`Music ... goes its own vast peaceful way'
30(1)
Translations and transformations
31(4)
Consent
35(3)
Yes and no
38(3)
Yes-singing and mute agreement
41(1)
Doubling and muteness
42(2)
Death
44(6)
Acrobat, measure, distance, scale
50(6)
2 Binding the voice: ficarra and Whittington's The Empress's Feet (1995)
56(25)
A voice for the feet
57(1)
The Empress's Feet
58(3)
Sleepwalking feet
61(4)
Sleepwalking Empress
65(1)
Foot-binding
66(3)
Castrati
69(1)
Fold
70(1)
Soaring voice
71(2)
Hollowed-out voice
73(3)
Aerial acrobat
76(5)
3 Staging thought in Satie's Socrate (1919)
81(34)
Enigmatic work
82(1)
Flexible timbre
83(1)
Satie's Plato
84(3)
Marsyas
87(2)
Cicadas
89(1)
Swan song
90(1)
`One becomes more of a philosopher the more one becomes a musician': Nietzsche's Socrates
91(2)
White
93(3)
Furniture music
96(2)
Respectful silence
98(1)
Restaging Socrate
99(5)
Voice and music echoed in staging and set
104(3)
Staging images of music
107(3)
Staging Socrates's death
110(5)
References 115(10)
Index 125
Michal Grover-Friedlander is Associate Professor of Musicology and head of the Musicology Department at Tel Aviv University. Her first monograph, Vocal Apparitions: Cinemas Attraction to Opera, was published by Princeton University Press in 2005. Her second book Operatic Afterlives was published by Zone Books in 2011. She is artistic founder and director of the experimental opera ensemble Ta Opera Zuta.