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The "SaxOpera" (2023)

Chang-Han Huang
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As a saxophonist, I always love to play arrangements of music composed for other instruments, from a massive work like César Franck's Violin Sonata, to a small delicate piece like Robert Schumann’s Drei Fantasiestücke for clarinet. However, when I play arrangements of vocal music, I always feel that there is something more to discover, beyond a purely ‘instrumental’ approach. How can the saxophone ‘sing’ like a human, when we cannot [re]produce the lyrics? Therefore, in my research I attempted to adapt the vocality of singers in saxophone playing, using different articulations and tone colors in order to imitate human voices, with a particular focus on arias from Georges Bizet’s opera Carmen: “La fleur que tu m'avais jetée,” and “Je dis que rien ne m’épouvante.”
typeresearch exposition
keywordsvocality, articulation, tone, Bizet, arrangement., Vocality, arrangements
date24/10/2022
published19/07/2023
last modified19/07/2023
statuslimited publication
share statusprivate
copyrightChang-Han Huang
licenseCC BY-NC-ND
urlhttps://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/1775370/1860866
published inKC Research Portal
portal issue3. Internal publication


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