Composed for soprano, tenor, and baritone voices, woodwind, percussion, and string instruments, Three Voices is a polyglotic work that includes German, Chinese, and Spanish texts. The texts are chosen from Brecht Bertolt's Das Schiff, Po Chu I's Lang T'ao Sha, and Frederico Garcia Lorcá's Mar. Significant features of the piece are 1) application of Chinese operatic singing methods to vocal material in the sections that use Chinese text, 2) use of western instruments to emulate the sound of certain Chinese instruments, and 3) employment of Sprechstimme and dramatically inflected speech to create theatrical effects and highlight the sections that use German and Spanish texts.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:unt.edu/info:ark/67531/metadc2684 |
| Date | 12 1900 |
| Creators | Wu, Man-Mei |
| Contributors | Winsor, Phil, 1938-2012, Dworak, Paul E., 1951-, Klein, Joseph, 1962- |
| Publisher | University of North Texas |
| Source Sets | University of North Texas |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | Text |
| Rights | Public, Copyright, Wu, Man-Mei, Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights reserved. |
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