Marie Louise Herzfeld-Schild
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Cathy Berberians New Vocality*
During the 1950s and 1960s the musical avant-garde
developed a new type of vocal composition (often for solo voice) that
recognized and incorporated everyday vocal sounds, such as gestural utterances
or expressions of affect, into the aesthetic parameter of a work. The chanteuse
Cathy Berberian, who took center stage in this development thanks to the
extraordinary range of her vocal capabilities, inspired numerous composers to
write in this emerging style and was herself engaged in the creative process. Her
unique vocal treatment became known as New Vocality. Part A investigates the significant role of the
voice in contemporary music in general and within several compositions written
for Berberian by John Cage and Luciano Berio in particular, taking into special
consideration the criteria of vocal gesture and affective utterances. Part B
focuses on BerberianŐs own composition Stripsody, a showpiece of New Vocality, especially as it
relates to musical transformations derived from pop art and onomatopĎia in comics.
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