Music 230

Seminar in Contemporary Opera

 

Voice and Language: Prologue pour un Marco Polo, Luci mie traditrici and The Difficulty of Crossing a Field

 

Amy Bauer, excerpt "Contemporary opera and the failure of language,"The Routledge Research Companion to Modernism in Music, ed. Björn Heile and Charles Wilson, Farnham: UK: Ashgate/Routledge, 2019, 435-37.

Amy Bauer, excerpt "Contemporary opera and the failure of language,"The Routledge Research Companion to Modernism in Music, ed. Björn Heile and Charles Wilson, Farnham: UK: Ashgate/Routledge, 2019, 439-42.

Amy Bauer, "'The Mysteries of Selma, Alabama.' Re-telling and Remembrance in David Lang's The Difficulty of Crossing a Field,"In Search of the 'Great American Opera': tendenzen der americanischen Musicheaters, Gregory Herzfeld and Frederic Döhl, ed. Münster and New York: Waxman-Verlag, 2016.

Resources

Further Reading

Christian Utz, "Statische Allegorie und Sog der Zeit': Zur strukturalistischen Semantik in Salvatore Sciarrinos Oper Luci mie traditrici,"Musik & Ästhetik,14/1 (2010), 37-60.

Lucia D'Errico, "How to Produce a Phantasm? Part III: Salvatore Sciarrino,"An Experimental Approach to Music Performance,(Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2018), 111-17.

Scores

Prologue pour un Marco Polo

Luci mie traditrici