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The performance of Charles Ives's art songs can be challenging to even the most experienced singers, but to beginning singers, they may be even more so, due to such twentieth-century aspects as polytonality, polyrhythm, tone clusters, aleatoric elements, and quarter tones. However, Ives used previously existing material, often familiar hymn

The performance of Charles Ives's art songs can be challenging to even the most experienced singers, but to beginning singers, they may be even more so, due to such twentieth-century aspects as polytonality, polyrhythm, tone clusters, aleatoric elements, and quarter tones. However, Ives used previously existing material, often familiar hymn tunes, as the foundation for many of his art songs. If beginning students first are exposed to this borrowed material, such as a simple hymn tune, which should be well within even the most experienced singer's comfort range, they can then learn this tune first, as a more simplistic reference point, and then focus on how Ives altered the tunes, rather then having to learn what seems like an entirely new melody. In this way, Ives's art songs can become more accessible to less-experienced singers. This paper outlines a method for researching and learning the borrowed materials in Ives's songs that utilize them, and reviews materials already commonly used by voice teachers to help beginning students learn their music. By combining this method, which focuses on the borrowed materials, with standard practices teachers can then help their beginning students more easily learn and perform Ives's art songs. Four songs, from the set "Four Hymn Tune Settings" by Charles Ives are used to illustrate this method.
ContributorsRuhleder, Kathleen (Author) / FitzPatrick, Carole (Thesis advisor) / Dreyfoos, Dale (Committee member) / Carpenter, Ellon (Committee member) / May, Judy (Committee member) / Schildkret, David (Committee member) / Arizona State University (Publisher)
Created2012
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This study focuses on three songs from stage works of Kurt Weill (1900-1950): “September Song” from Knickerbocker Holiday (1938), “Speak Low” from One Touch of Venus (1943), and “Lost in the Stars” from Lost in the Stars (1949). All from Weill’s time in the United States, these songs are

This study focuses on three songs from stage works of Kurt Weill (1900-1950): “September Song” from Knickerbocker Holiday (1938), “Speak Low” from One Touch of Venus (1943), and “Lost in the Stars” from Lost in the Stars (1949). All from Weill’s time in the United States, these songs are adaptable as solos and have become American standards performed in various arrangements and styles of popular music by many different artists.

The first part of this study is a biographical sketch of Weill’s life and music. It is intended to provide context for the three songs by tracing his beginnings as a German composer of stage works with volatile political messages, to his flight to the United States and his emergence as a composer of Broadway successes.

The second part is a commentary on the composition of the three selected songs. The lyrics and musical content are examined to show how Weill’s settings convey the dramatic mood and meaning as well as the specific nuances of the words. Description of the context of these songs explains how they were textually and musically intended to advance the plot and the emotional arc of the dramatic characters. The popularity of these songs endures beyond their original shows, and so there is discussion of how other artists have adapted and performed them, and available recordings are cited.

Weill’s songs, his little masterpieces, have proven to be truly evocative and so attractive to American audiences that they have undergone myriad adaptations. This study seeks to provide the personal and historical background of Kurt Weill’s music and to demonstrate why these three songs in particular have proven to have such lasting appeal.
ContributorsKimball, Abigail S (Author) / May, Judy (Thesis advisor) / Holbrook, Amy (Committee member) / Kopta, Anne (Committee member) / Arizona State University (Publisher)
Created2016
ContributorsPrabhakar, Vijaya (Performer) / May, Judy (Performer) / McLin, Katherine (Performer) / Landschoot, Thomas (Performer) / Williamson, Madeline J. (Performer) / ASU Library. Music Library (Publisher)
Created2002-02-15
ContributorsSpring, Robert (Performer) / Magers, William (Performer) / Atsumi, Takayori (Performer) / Hoover, Eric (Performer) / Barroll-Aschaffenburg, Rayna (Performer) / May, Judy (Performer) / Metz, John (Performer) / Wytko, Joseph (Performer) / Cosand, Walter, 1950- (Performer) / ASU Library. Music Library (Publisher)
Created1990-02-20
ContributorsBritton, David (Performer) / Lockwood, Ralph (Performer) / McLeod, Lois (Performer) / Hamilton, Robert, 1937- (Performer) / Roux, Robert Joseph, 1949- (Performer) / Kliewer-Britton, Darleen (Performer) / May, Judy (Performer) / Hoffer, Warren (Performer) / Doan, Jerry (Performer) / Hoover, Eric (Performer) / Magers, William (Performer) / Seegmiller, Karen (Performer) / ASU Library. Music Library (Publisher)
Created1988-04-27
ContributorsHoffer, Warren (Performer) / Vivona, Christine (Performer) / Spring, Robert (Performer) / Magers, William (Performer) / Montgomery, Toni-Marie (Performer) / May, Judy (Performer) / Capps, Ferald (Performer) / Atsumi, Takayori (Performer) / ASU Library. Music Library (Publisher)
Created1991-02-19
ContributorsMetz, John (Performer) / Spring, Robert (Performer) / Sellheim, Eckart (Performer) / May, Judy (Performer) / Wytko, Joseph (Performer) / Hoover, Eric (Performer) / Leek, Anne (Performer) / Skoldberg, Phyllis (Performer) / Magers, William (Performer) / Atsumi, Takayori (Performer) / Swaim, Daniel (Performer) / Hamilton, Robert, 1937- (Performer) / Weisberg, Arthur (Performer) / Lockwood, Ralph (Performer) / Smith, Henry Charles (Conductor) / ASU Library. Music Library (Publisher)
Created1992-01-28
ContributorsBaker, Dian (Performer) / Sellheim, Eckart (Performer) / May, Judy (Performer) / Barefield, Robert (Performer) / ASU Library. Music Library (Publisher)
Created2005-01-28
ContributorsMetz, John (Performer) / Hoover, Eric (Performer) / Meyer, Janice (Performer) / Spring, Robert (Performer) / Cosand, Walter, 1950- (Performer) / Smith, J. B., 1957- (Performer) / Kliewer-Britton, Darleen (Performer) / May, Judy (Performer) / Hoffer, Warren (Performer) / Doan, Jerry (Performer) / McLeod, Lois (Performer) / Pendleton, Mary (Performer) / Musica Dolce (Performer) / ASU Library. Music Library (Publisher)
Created1989-03-21
ContributorsHackbarth, Glenn, 1949- (Performer) / May, Judy (Performer) / Sellheim, Eckart (Performer) / Smith, J. B., 1957- (Performer) / New Music Ensemble (Performer) / ASU Library. Music Library (Publisher)
Created1990-02-28