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• The Voice
• Classical
• Modern Era

Sprechgesang (also called Sprechstimme) is a type of vocal production lying somewhere between speech and song. The idea of combining speech, sometimes rhythmical, with music (familiar from the well-established genre of melodrama) was taken a step further by Schoenberg at the conclusion of his oratorio Gurrelieder (1911) where the intended rise and fall of the speaker’s voice is notated ...

• Major Operas
• Modern Era
• Opera

creates three acts, each with five fast-paced scenes, each with its own musical form and linked by orchestral interludes, featuring wonderfully effective and meticulously notated use of Sprechgesang (‘speech-singing’). Much of Berg’s structural and thematic organization is not apparent unless studying the score, thus making the operations of these devices and techniques subliminal. However, the spoken ...

• Personalities
• Classical
• Composer
• Modern Era

poems (arranged in a dramatic sequence of three groups of seven) of nocturnal, dream-like, bizarre and violent imagery for voice and five instrumentalists. The voice employs Sprechstimme or Sprechgesang (halfway between speech and song, the actor/singer enunciating a precise pitch but not holding it; the instrumental ensemble is enriched by doublings – violinist also plays viola, etc ...

• Styles & Forms
• Classical
• Modern Era

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• The Voice
• Classical
• Early Romantic

, and for Italian composers drawn to the Paris Opéra, including Rossini, Donizetti, Bellini and Verdi. Styles & Forms | Early Romantic | Classical The Voice | Sprechgesang | Modern Era | Classical ...