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Maximizing intelligibility of english language text setting and Heaven's Gate
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Maximizing intelligibility of english language text setting and Heaven's Gate
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Wolfson
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David
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1964-
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David Wolfson
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Aldridge
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Robert
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Steven
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Rosenhaus
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Steven
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Steven Rosenhaus
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Rutgers University
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School of Graduate Studies
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Is there anything a composer can do to maximize the chances that a setting of English text for the classically trained voice can be understood by audiences? Intelligibility can be a problem for composers of English-language opera and art songs, despite the best efforts of their singers. The existing literature from composers and composition teachers on the subject of maximizing intelligibility is negligible. I draw on recent research by Lauren Collister and David Huron, as well as Nicole Scotto di Carlo (among others), who are beginning to shed some light on the ways in which song is heard differently than speech, on what aspects of classical singing can obscure listener comprehension, and on some specific ways in which different aspects of text setting can affect the text’s intelligibility, and take an interdisciplinary approach to extending their work, introducing relevant ideas and results from the fields of phonetics and psycholinguistics to interrogate compositional practices. I suggest that these and other investigations point toward the possibility of a more comprehensive analytical toolkit for composers, singers, analysts, and others interested in the intelligibility of classically trained singers.
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Music
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1 online resource (viii, 278 p. : ill.)
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Speech, Intelligibility of
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by David Wolfson
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I hereby grant to the Rutgers University Libraries and to my school the non-exclusive right to archive, reproduce and distribute my thesis or dissertation, in whole or in part, and/or my abstract, in whole or in part, in and from an electronic format, subject to the release date subsequently stipulated in this submittal form and approved by my school. I represent and stipulate that the thesis or dissertation and its abstract are my original work, that they do not infringe or violate any rights of others, and that I make these grants as the sole owner of the rights to my thesis or dissertation and its abstract. I represent that I have obtained written permissions, when necessary, from the owner(s) of each third party copyrighted matter to be included in my thesis or dissertation and will supply copies of such upon request by my school. I acknowledge that RU ETD and my school will not distribute my thesis or dissertation or its abstract if, in their reasonable judgment, they believe all such rights have not been secured. I acknowledge that I retain ownership rights to the copyright of my work. I also retain the right to use all or part of this thesis or dissertation in future works, such as articles or books.
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