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	Sprechgesang - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sprechgesang (German for "speech song") or Sprechstimme ("speech voice") is a technique of vocal production halfway between singing and speaking.
		Schoenberg asks for the technique in a number of pieces: the part of the Speaker in Gurrelieder (1911) is in Sprechgesang, almost all of Pierrot Lunaire (1912) uses the technique, and it is also employed in his opera Moses und Aron (1932).
		In Schoenberg's musical notation, Sprechgesang is usually indicated by small crosses through the stems of the notes, or with the note head itself being a small cross.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sprechgesang (288 words)

	Sprechgesang -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Sprechgesang ((A person of German nationality) German for "speech song") or Sprechstimme ("speech voice") is a technique of vocal production halfway between (The act of singing vocal music) singing and (The utterance of intelligible speech) speaking.
		Since the end of the (additional info and facts about 19th century) 19th century, it has sometimes been called for by composers of (Traditional genre of music conforming to an established form and appealing to critical interest and developed musical taste) classical music.
		In (A notation used by musicians) musical notation, Sprechgesang is usually indicated by small crosses through the stems of the notes, or with the note head itself being a small cross.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/s/sp/sprechgesang.htm (304 words)

	Just a Ringnut
		(Sprechgesang) He must be able to give the words different colours while changing between declaiming and singing.
		That was the worst Loge I ever heard, but of course he had a "beautiful voice".
		Morris is much beloved by people whose personal image of a Wotan lacks interest in giving priority to Sprechgesang, as they possibly understand only the content, but not the words.
	operajamboree.ragbert.com /WolfJ/wolfj05.html (1998 words)

	Engelbert Humperdinck - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Humperdinck was greatly influenced by Richard Wagner, and worked as his assistant.
		In his opera Königskinder, Humperdinck became the first composer to use Sprechgesang, a vocal technique halfway between singing and speaking, and later exploited by Arnold Schoenberg.
		This article is based on a text from the Etude magazine, 1909-1922.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Engelbert_Humperdinck_(composer) (327 words)

	INKPOT#74 CLASSICAL MUSIC REVIEWS: SCHOENBERG Pierrot Lunaire. Herzgewachse. Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte. ...
		Schoenberg never said as much, and appears to have composed it fairly quickly, so it is tempting to view its dramatic impetus and its intense compression as symptomatic of composition almost at one sitting.
		Like Pierrot, it is an example of the use of sprechgesang, and can quite conceivably be performed by an actor, as there is no actual singing; the soloist recites the poem with music performed by a group of string quartet and piano, the vocal part's rhythm and pitch being notated.
		The instrumentalists, far from providing a mere background, are an integral part of the drama, which is in the form of a scena with a miniature overture.
	inkpot.com /classical/schoenpierrot.html (993 words)

	Find in a Library: Credentials : or "Think, think Lucky" : for voice (Sprechgesang) and 8 players (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Credentials : or "Think, think Lucky" : for voice (Sprechgesang) and 8 players
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	www.worldcatlibraries.org /wcpa/ow/3d4e2db81417bba0.html (88 words)

	JS Online: 'Pierrot' set tone for musical change
		It requires a soprano with the panache of a cabaret singer and a knack for "Sprechgesang," a special technique somewhere between speech and singing.
		He had broken free of tonal harmony - Sprechgesang came about in part as a strategy for avoiding tonality - but had not yet worked out the severe 12-tone system for which he became most famous (or notorious, depending upon your viewpoint).
		The consistent, highly structured "Pierrot" text gave the composer a skeleton to hang his tones on.
	www.jsonline.com /onwisconsin/arts/jan04/199563.asp (894 words)

	MetalTabs.com Forum - 'Walking The Mile' - Lyrics to a song I just wrote, please read..
		You might want to try out some possibilities to produce music that fits to the lyrics.
		When you know the Artist Devil Doll, who makes a kind of experimental classical music, you would exacly know what I mean.
		Sprechgesang is the German musical term for talking normal in a song.
	metaltabs.com /forum/showthread.php?t=15158 (608 words)

	Malcolm Miller enjoys two seldom-performed works by Berthold Goldschmidt
		The narration was sung in English with choral commentary in German, a happy compromise which conveyed the flavour of the original alongside audience comprehensibility.
		The performance sustained the dramatic structure throughout, shifting deftly from sprechgesang to lyrical textures, with well-coordinated ensemble and effective dynamics, notably the smooth sustained final paragraph which conjures up the 'dehumanised' desolation.
		The first of the two world premières was Holloway's Canzona and Toccata for trumpet and organ performed boldly by the trumpeter Deborah Calland, wife of the Festival Director Barry Millington, with the organist William Whitehead.
	www.mvdaily.com /articles/2003/05/choral2.htm (493 words)

	XX European Seminar in Ethnomusicology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The term recitation is not relevant in defining sound compositions, because their rhythmic structure does not correspond to the rhythmic rules of a recitation.
		Instead, while following the example of Schönberg, for instance, we could use the term Sprechgesang (‘speech-song’).
		It is a performance style where the indicated rhythms should be adhered to, but whereas in ordinary singing a constant pitch is maintained through a note, in Sprechgesang the indicated pitch should be given, and then immediately left, either by rising or falling (see e.g.
	www.cini.it /fondazione/07.manifestazioni/08.calendario/2004/eventi/esem/ab4.htm (270 words)

	FEIGIN Transience [HC] : Classical Reviews- May2002 MusicWeb(UK) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The setting for soprano, clarinet and piano is predominantly slow and meditative, as much of Feigin’s music seems to be, though not without more disturbing moments.
		The music with its own blend of tonal and atonal harmonies, of song and Sprechgesang, follows the text’s implications, from anguished terror to hard-won resilience.
		The Four Poems of Linda Pastan (1987), scored for soprano, flute, viola, double bass, piano and percussion, is more expressionistic through the use of atonality and, at times, Sprechgesang.
	www.musicweb-international.com /classrev/2002/May02/Feigin.htm (779 words)

	Regarding: Re: 20th Century Music Theory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Schonberg made it possible for John Cage to compose music using an elaborate system of flipping coins and charting their outcomes in the 70's.
		In another music class, taught by my mentory and idol, Nora Beck, I wrote a paper tracing the entire history of "sprechgesang," or "speech-song," an extremely irritating and difficult vocal technique that was pioneered by Engelbert Humperdinck in the 1800's but made famous by Schonberg in his Pierrot Lunaire.
		In my paper, I made the claim that modern day "rap and hip-hop music" is the direct descendant of sprechgesang.
	www.urbanhonking.com /regarding/archives/2004/01/re_20th_century.html (1075 words)

	Donald Harris - Pierrot Lieder (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		We had the option of using sprechgesang, as in the original, if we so chose.
		Der Koch (The Chef) is the first of three poems in the collection which I have chosen to set.
		The soprano voice is called for throughout with no attempt made to use sprechgesang, a technique which I have found unsuitable to my own style.
	www.schirmer.com /composers/harrisd/pierrot.html (371 words)

	Schoenberg, Arnold (1874 - 1951) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Solo songs range from the 1909 settings of Stefan George in Das Buch der hängenden Gärten (The Book of the Hanging Garden) to the cabaret songs he wrote for the Berlin Überbrettl in his earlier years.
		The Pierrot lunaire, a study of madness, based on German translations of seven poems by Albert Giraud and using Sprechgesang, words half spoken, half sung, was completed in 1912.
		Schoenberg's music for orchestra includes a violin concerto, a symphonic poem based on Maurice Maeterlinck's medieval drama Pelleas und Melisande and Five Orchestral Pieces.
	www.naxos.com /composer/schoenbe.htm (252 words)

	Malcolm Miller attends the première of 'The Death of Moses' by Julian Dawes
		The first section 'The Angels Try to Block His Way' is tripartite with dramatic outer sections and a very lyrical inner section.
		The second 'He Pleads with God for His Life' has a refrain form with Moses' pleading recited by the actor David Sibley, in a type of sprechgesang, rhythmically notated, though also with some aleatoric elements.
		It is interspersed with two types of choral textures, alternating between stark fifths-based biblical sonorities and sweeter fuller harmonisations.
	www.mvdaily.com /articles/2003/04/dawes2.htm (406 words)

	Grandi Tenori.com » Audio of the Month (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		How far the imitation of old, "genuine" Italian masters went, can be heard in some of the works of Malipiero (Le stagioni Italiche), Pizzetti (Requiem or the d'Annunzio-cycle Sogni di terre lontane) or Respighi (Concerto gregoriano for violin and orchestra or the cycle Vetrate di chiesa for piano).
		The same applies for Nerone, where we can find a beautiful serenade and a lovely duet, surrounded by music, which first of all seems to reflect the nervousness and neurosis of the main character.
		The simple melody Iris sings with her light soprano contrasts beautifully to the sprechgesang of her father, who is a basso profondo.
	www.grandi-tenori.com /features/am/am_2005-06.php (5282 words)

	Literature and Styles in Music III (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Style is directly descendant from Verdi's earlier operas in that it includes duets and finales at the end of acts as usual
		no longer focuses on self-contained lyrical arias (although a few are still evident), but a new emphasis on a flexible arioso-declamation style that is closer to natural speech and probably influenced by Wagner's "sprechgesang"
		although Verdi's arioso-declamation continues to dominate the orchestra, unlike Wagner's "sprechgesang"
	www.uwgb.edu /ogradyt/ls3/midverd.htm (269 words)

	Organissimo Jazz Forums - The place to discuss the band, jazz, and more! -> Charlie & His Orchestra
		As these broadcasts also included greetings home from prisoners of war, many UK listeners did tune in.
		Basically, the songs start off just like they are supposed to and then halfway through the "message" is delivered by means of "Sprechgesang," though there are exceptions like the anti-Bolchewik "Bei mir bist Du schön."
		The leader of "Charlie and His Orchestra," Lutz Templin, wasn't even a party member, but rather seems to have seen a chance to further his carreer.
	www.organissimo.org /forum/index.php?showtopic=17607 (604 words)

	S A N \| F R A N C I S C O \| C L A S S I C A L \| V O I C E (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Soprano Elise Ross showed herself in full command of the music and text.
		Combining speech and singing in Schoenberg's flexible Sprechgesang, she added gestures, facial expressions, and body language, transforming the poetry's narrative voice into a character whose extraordinary imaginings and emotional range conveyed a harrowing and tormented picture of the human condition.
		The ensemble, conducted by Mary Chun, was a model of clarity and finely-meshed sensitivity.
	www.sfcv.org /arts_revs/earplay_11_20_01.html (545 words)

	Wozzeck
		• sprechgesang, lied (songs of Marie, Andre), ‘normal speaking intonation’ (mélodrame of
		• use of sprechstimme, sprechgesang (‘rhythmic declamation’) in place of recitative
		Paradox of dealing with mental collapse of Wozzeck through formalized musical structures
	hunsmire.tripod.com /music/wozzeck.html (1607 words)

	New Gibraltar Encyclopedia of Progressive Rock PH-PL
		Gudrun (M.P. Records MPRCD 008D) is far more avant-garde a work, supposedly a conceptual suite about the Second World War as seen through the eyes of some cosmic female being called Gudrun, who was created by the same collision of astrological forces that caused the War (straight history book stuff, then).
		Vocalist Jacqueline Darby had replaced Caporaletti, and she provides both classically pure operatic singing, as well as often very tortured sprechgesang of the kind that reminds of the Schönberg song cycle the band took their name from.
		Found sounds abound, from radio announcements to street noises, but there is tuneful material as well, only presented in the most unusual juxtapositions.
	www.gepr.net /ph.html (10808 words)

	recitative on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Wagner, opposed to the Italian type of recitative, developed a continuous declamation in which the melody was completely molded to the text, upon which the accompaniment served as a sort of commentary.
		Schoenberg, about 1900, devised a species of half-pitched declamation called Sprechgesang, since used by other composers.
		IS "CARMEN" BETTER WITH SPOKEN DIALOGUE OR RECITATIVES?
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/r1/recitati.asp (426 words)

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