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From words to music – Engaging with text in contemporary music (2022)

Carolina Luís
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Contemporary music has been an essential part of my development and I have performed it regularly. An important part of this field is the chance to work with living composers, as much of the standard repertoire is from composers that are no longer alive. Being able to exchange ideas about the pieces offers new opportunities for musicians. As a singer, text is one of the most important aspects of the work required in order to perform a piece. The goal of this research was to explore the use of text and subtext by composers and see how it would affect my preparation and performance of a piece. To do so, I invited five composers to take part in my research by allowing me to use one of their compositions and taking part in an interview. At the same time, I kept a notebook where I wrote my initial thoughts about their pieces. While analyzing both sources I came to the conclusion that what the composer delivers is the score, and I, as a singer deliver the living music. In the score the performer has already all the information needed to bring the music to life and it is his or her own free interpretation of the text and subtext that will transform the music from paper to a message shared with the audience. The format of this research is a thesis.
typeresearch exposition
keywordsContemporary music, text, subtext, performer, performances, composer, singer, pieces
date19/02/2022
published11/07/2022
last modified11/07/2022
statuslimited publication
share statusprivate
copyrightCarolina Luís
licenseCC BY-NC-ND
languageEnglish
urlhttps://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/1544599/1544600
published inKC Research Portal
portal issue3. Internal publication


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