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Artistic trends of the mid-nineteenth century demonstrate the popularity of incorporating Asian elements into various artistic media. This paper discusses why the stereotypical Asian female provided an attractive character for operatic librettists, composers and audiences. To support the discussion, six operas from 1885 to 2010 are examined, and the dramatic and musical portrayal of representative female characters is discussed. The familiar character of Cio-cio-san from Giocamo Puccini's Madama Butterfly (1904) provides a foundation to discuss these stereotypical Asian female characteristics, specifically one archetype, that of the naïve, yet sexually desirable female. Prior to Cio-cio-san, Sir W. S. Gilbert and Sir Arthur Sullivan's Yum-Yum from The Mikado (1885), Iris of Pietro Mascagni's Iris (1898) exemplify this archetype, as does Liù from Puccini's Turandot (1924). At the other extreme is the icy, cold and bloodthirsty archetype found in the title role of Puccini's Turandot and Katisha from The Mikado. Chiang Ch'ing (also known as Madame Mao) from John Adams's Nixon in China (1987), and Madame White Snake from Chinese-American composer Zhou Long's Madame White Snake (2010) feature leading characters that demonstrate elements of both of these archetypes, and this combination of the two archetypes yields more complex and richer characters. These two extremes of the female Asian stereotype and the evolution of these characteristics provide an interesting outlook on the incorporation of non-Western musical styles into these operas, and the understanding of a Western perception of foreign peoples, especially foreign females.
ContributorsLo, Wan-Yi (Author) / Campbell, Andrew (Thesis advisor) / Carpenter, Ellon (Committee member) / Kopta, Anne (Committee member) / Mills, Robert (Committee member) / Ryan, Russell (Committee member) / Arizona State University (Publisher)
Created2013
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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 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
ContributorsFournier, Philip (Performer) / Floyd, Lynne (Performer) / Ruhleder, Kathleen (Performer) / Millar, Chad (Performer) / Cornner, Charles B. (Performer) / Peterson, Tom (Performer) / Chorlton, Roberta (Performer) / Sego, David (Performer) / Barrett, Andreas (Performer) / Lin, Tsuhsin (Performer) / Bailey, Barbara (Performer) / Bush, Douglas E. (Performer) / ASU Library. Music Library (Publisher)
Created1997-01-13
ContributorsRuhleder, Kathleen (Performer) / Lo, Wan-Yi (Performer) / Montana, Matt (Performer) / Nicosia, Paul (Performer) / O'Hara, Martha (Performer) / Rovani, Suzanne (Performer) / Peterman, Jeremy (Performer) / ASU Library. Music Library (Publisher)
Created2010-02-18
ContributorsChilds, Linda (Performer) / Wagner, Deborah (Performer) / McCann, Darrin E. (Performer) / Brookens, Karen (Performer) / Watson-Davis, Myiia (Performer) / Millar, Chad (Performer) / Rowader, Darrell (Performer) / ASU Library. Music Library (Publisher)
Created1996-04-15
ContributorsKesler, Michelle (Performer) / Lo, Wan-Yi (Performer) / ASU Library. Music Library (Publisher)
Created2010-04-21
ContributorsRuhleder, Kathleen (Performer) / Hakes, Roy (Performer) / Veal, Sherry (Performer) / ASU Library. Music Library (Publisher)
Created1993-04-02
ContributorsLin, Te-Hui (Performer) / Ruhleder, Kathleen (Performer) / Solano, Jessica (Performer) / Koehler, Jennifer (Performer) / O'Brien, Katherine (Performer) / Jones, Merrick (Performer) / ASU Library. Music Library (Publisher)
Created2000-04-30
ContributorsSalmon, Audrey (Performer) / Hsu, Jui-Ling (Performer) / Dalbey, Jenna (Performer) / Dauphinais, Michael (Performer) / Gorbich, Victoria (Performer) / Nouri, Sahar (Performer) / Susilo, Chandra (Performer) / Lo, Wan-Yi (Performer) / ASU Library. Music Library (Publisher)
Created2010-02-11
ContributorsArias, Mauricio (Performer) / Wang, Boyang (Performer) / Lo, Wan-Yi (Performer) / Wilson, Evan Tyler (Performer) / Whitworth, Kristen (Performer) / Villanueva, Antonio (Performer) / Perez, Joseph (Performer) / McKenzie, James (Performer) / ASU Library. Music Library (Publisher)
Created2009-09-16