Exploring performance-oriented analysis through an examination of title character's two arias in Carlisle Floyd's "Susannah"

This thesis adapts a model of performance-based analysis and utilizes it to interpret the title role in Carlisle Floyd's opera, Susannah (1955). Using John Rink's model as a guide, this performance-oriented analysis reveals the relationships between the musical and textual elements within...

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Main Author: Cole, Shannon
Format: Others
Language:en
Published: University of Ottawa (Canada) 2013
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10393/27673
http://dx.doi.org/10.20381/ruor-12192