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Three Voices for voices, woodwind, percussion, and string instruments

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.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:unt.edu/info:ark/67531/metadc2684
Date12 1900
CreatorsWu, Man-Mei
ContributorsWinsor, Phil, 1938-2012, Dworak, Paul E., 1951-, Klein, Joseph, 1962-
PublisherUniversity of North Texas
Source SetsUniversity of North Texas
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeThesis or Dissertation
FormatText
RightsPublic, Copyright, Wu, Man-Mei, Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights reserved.

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