Yo soy contrabandista / Manuel Garcia -- Pensar en el / Emilio Arrieta -- El arreglito / Sebastian Iradier -- Estich enamorada / Felip Pedrell -- Heigh ho! Who preches love / Isaac Albeniz -- Vivan los que rien / Manuel de Falla -- Solea! Ns! Ya no me quea naita en er mundo / Manuel Penella. / text

Vier ernste Gesange / Johannes Brahms -- A cycle of life / Landon Ronald -- Poeme d'un jour / Gabriel Faure -- Cortigiani vil razza dannata / Giuiseppe Verdi-- Rigoletto duet, act 2 / Giuseppe Verdi. / text

An die Musik / Schubert -- Dies Bildniss is bezaubernd schon / W. A. Mozart -- Du bist wie eine Blume / Schumann -- Come away death / Quilter -- Sure on this shining night / Barber -- When I have sung my songs / Charles -- Salut, demeure chaste et pure / Gounod -- Plaisir d'amour / Martini -- Pouquoi me reveiller / Massenet -- Che gelida manina / Puccini -- Una furtiva lagrima / Donizetti -- L'alba separa dalla luce l'ombra / Tosti -- Khotel by v edinoe slovo / Tchaikovsky -- Kuda kuda kuda vy udalilis' / Tchaikovsky -- El mirar de la maja / Grandos -- Amapola / Lacalle -- Libiamo ne lieti calici / Verdi / text

Tornami a vagheggiar (from Alcina), Lascia ch'io pianga (from Rinaldo) / George Frideric Handel -- Breit' uber mein Haupt, Ich trage maine Minne, Standchen / Richard Strauss -- Chansons de Ronsard / Darius Milhaud -- Heart on the wall / Robert Owens -- Ev'ry time I feel the spirit, Sometimes I feel like a motherless child, Little David play on your harp / Harry Thacker Burleigh -- Ride on, king Jesus! / Hall Johnson. / text

from Sei ariette, no.4 / Vincenzo Bellini -- from Soirees musicales, no.1 / Gioacchino Rossini -- from Tre ariette, no.3 / Vincenzo Bellini -- from Liederkreis, op.39, Mondnacht / Robert Schumann -- from 4 Gesange aus Wilhelm Meister, D.877, Nur wer the Sensucht kennt / Franz Schubert -- from Eichendorff Lieder, no.3 / Hugo Wolf -- from Morike Lieder, no.6 / Hugo Wolf -- Psyche / Emile Paladihe -- Si mes vers avaient des ailes / Reynaldo Hahn -- from Chanson grises, L'heure exquise / Reynaldo Hahn -- I carry your heart, Little elegy / John Duke -- from Two songs of innocence, The shepherd, The Lamb / Lee Hoiby -- Lady of the harbor / Lee Hoiby. / text

Diss.--Fachbereich Kulturgeschichte, Kulturkunde--Hamburg--Universität, 1987. / Bibliogr. p. 205-220.

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 operas and art songs. Nonetheless, performing this modern repertoire can represent a novel and demanding experience for both Chinese and non-Chinese speaking singers. This dissertation examines eight representative works of Chinese music: four arias and four art songs for soprano. These pieces challenge the singer both in terms of their musical style and their singing techniques. The purpose of this study is therefore to provide a detailed performance guide for sopranos that can assist them to successfully perform these works. In addition, this research will supply relevant background information on the selected compositions, an overview of their historical significance, the origin of the source poem or drama, and acquaint the reader with the key features of the main characters. Furthermore, to better understand the original Chinese Pin Yin characters, the International Phonetic Alphabet is provided, as well as the corresponding English translation and transliteration in the musical scores. The dissertation also incorporates stylistic analyses, as well as an assessment of the vocal demands and singing techniques that appear in all eight pieces. This information has the purpose of helping the performer attain a more accurate rendition of these works. In turn, this study may be used as a research model for future studies of Chinese vocal art music.

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In the West, operas in Czech, English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, and Russian are the best known in collegiate and professional classical music settings. Given the changes in social climate in recent decades, however, attention is being given to the study and performance of under-represented minorities. There have been operas composed in the West on Asian topics, but one does not yet hear operas in Asian languages programmed as part of a regular season in major opera houses in the United States. The challenge for Western singers is threefold: access to the music, reading and pronouncing the language, and understanding the nuance of the rich Chinese culture in the libretto. This study presents the following five arias: "We Have to Be Apart," from The Dawns Here Are Quiet (这里的黎明静悄悄) by Tang Jianping; "The Daughter of Yimeng" and "Milk, Tears and Blood," from The Mountain of Yimeng (沂蒙山) by Luan Kai; "Forgetting Everything While Turning," from Saying Goodbye to Cambridge Again (再别康桥) by Zhou Xue Shi; and "Lullaby," from the opera The Orphan of Zhao (赵氏孤儿) by Lei Lei. It includes a brief biographical introduction to the composer and librettist for each opera, a synopsis of the plot, a description of the character singing the aria, transcriptions and romanizations of the text, IPA, word-by-word and poetic translations, translations of all musical directions in the score written only in Chinese, explanations of the cultural context, and vocal recommendations for performance. The purpose of the current dissertation is to study five arias for mezzo-soprano from Chinese operas with a view to making them accessible to Western singers.

In this thesis, a support vector machine (SVM) is used to develop a model to predict Arias Intensity. Arias Intensity is a measure of the strength of ground motions that considers both the amplitude and the duration of ground motions. In this research, a subset of the database from the “Next Generation and the duration of Ground-Motion Attenuation Models” project was used as the training data. The data includes 3525 ground motion records from 175 earthquakes. This research provides the assessment of historical earthquakes using arias intensity data. Support vector machine uses a Kernel function to transform the data into a high dimensional space where relationships between the variables can be efficiently described using simpler models. In this research, after testing several kernel functions, a Gaussian Kernel was selected for the predictive model. The resulting model uses magnitude, epicentral distance, and the shear wave velocity as the predictor of Arias Intensity.