The voice under erasure: Singing, melody and expression in late modernist music /
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| Author / Creator: | Pierson, Marcelle Coulter, author. |
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| Imprint: | 2015. Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2015 |
| Description: | 1 electronic resource (238 pages) |
| Language: | English |
| Format: | E-Resource Dissertations |
| Local Note: | School code: 0330 |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10773383 |
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| 245 | 1 | 4 | |a The voice under erasure: Singing, melody and expression in late modernist music / |c Pierson, Marcelle Coulter. |
| 260 | |c 2015. | ||
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| 500 | |a Advisors: Seth Brodsky; Lawrence Zbikowski Committee members: Martha Feldman; Berthold Hoeckner. | ||
| 502 | |b Ph.D. |c The University of Chicago, Division of the Humanities, Department of Music |d 2015. | ||
| 510 | 4 | |a Dissertation Abstracts International, |c Volume: 77-05(E), Section: A. | |
| 520 | |a This dissertation contends with the simple observation that modernist composers display a collective and rather sudden aversion to melody after World War II; I examine why this might be so while showing how melody continues to haunt this repertory in drastically reimagined forms. Edward Cone and other critics bemoan this anti-melodic turn and raise its political and ethical stakes by invoking what I call the "vocal imaginary," which links melody, voice, and human subjectivity in a distinctly Rousseauian line of argumentation. In reality, Cone's fears that the musical subject might disappear altogether in modernist music have not come to pass: the work and thought of postwar musical modernism remains flooded with "voices," but voices of a different kind. The pages of this dissertation are filled with voices that don't sing; instruments that do; singing that comes from a speaking voice and melody that comes from a mass texture; singing, melody, and voice that are obstructed in a stunning variety of ways. Using as my examples compositions by Salvatore Sciarrino, Steve Reich, Iannis Xenakis, and Helmut Lachenmann, I explore how a rejection of the "phenomenal" or standardized practices of voice is enacted such that the voice is reborn as "noumenal:" uncategorizable, unparseable, uniquely alive. The turn away from traditional modes of voice and melody can be understood as a melancholic response to modernity, and specifically its conditions of mass production and scientism. | ||
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| 720 | 1 | |a Seth Brodsky |e degree supervisor. | |
| 720 | 1 | |a Lawrence Zbikowski |e degree supervisor. | |
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