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Pierrot Lunaire
... solo soprano sings the poems in the Sprechstimme style, which complements the mood of the ... with his past haunting him. Schoenberg uses Sprechstimme for the first time in this work ...
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Sprechgesang
Sprechgesang Sprechgesang (German for "speech song") or Sprechstimme ("speech voice") is a technique of vocal ... Sprechgesang and normal singing. Kurt Weill adopted Sprechstimme to accommodate Lotte Lenya's distinctive, though ...
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Frank Zappa
... drum kit, and Zappa's use of sprechstimme (speaking voice), a compositional technique utilized by ... Jazz Discharge Party Hats', continuations of the sprechstimme excursions shown on "You Are What You ...
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Maria de Alvear
... she speaks in a kind of free sprechstimme, in four languages, often about frank sexual ...
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Jan DeGaetani
... wide range, and virtuoso techniques such as sprechstimme, all while requiring a lyrical sensibility, it ...
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The Death of Klinghoffer
... Schoenberg's use of atonality and of sprechstimme provides comic relief when sung by the ...
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Modernism (music)
... music. Berg wrote Wozzeck using Schoenberg's Sprechstimme, Janacek based his melodies and motifs upon ...
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Extended technique
... a disengaged mouthpiece or reed, unusual mutes Sprechstimme (speech-singing) ululation prepared piano and prepared ...
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Lotte Lenya
... part needed transposition to substantially lower keys. Sprechstimme always was a method of singing well ...
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Voice instrumental music
... in what they called as Sprechmusik and Sprechstimme. Schoenberg employed these in his music Pierrot ...
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