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Conducting L'Histoire du Soldat : a tale of two libretti

dc.contributor.committeeMemberGillis, Glenen_US
dc.contributor.committeeMemberMarion, Gregoryen_US
dc.contributor.committeeMemberHaig Bartley, Pamelaen_US
dc.contributor.committeeMemberMcNeill, Deanen_US
dc.contributor.committeeMemberLangner, Geralden_US
dc.creatorTysseland, Angelene Graceen_US
dc.date.accessioned2009-08-27T14:39:42Zen_US
dc.date.accessioned2013-01-04T04:55:00Z
dc.date.available2010-09-16T08:00:00Zen_US
dc.date.available2013-01-04T04:55:00Z
dc.date.created2009-07en_US
dc.date.issued2009-07en_US
dc.date.submittedJuly 2009en_US
dc.description.abstractIgor Stravinsky’s collaborations with contemporaries including Picasso, Nijinsky, and Cocteau are well documented. Less familiar, however, are the anachronistic “collaborations” suggested in one short movement Stravinsky wrote in 1918, and involving the Germans Luther and Bach, the Swiss Ramuz, the Russian Stravinsky, and the American Kurt Vonnegut Jr. “Grand Choral,” the penultimate movement of Stravinsky’s l’Histoire du Soldat—written in 1918—provides a key to unlocking the mysteries of construction, ideology, and by extension, performance of the work. “Grand Choral” parodies J.S. Bach’s Cantata 80 (1715) which, in its turn, is based on Martin Luther’s 1529 hymn, “Ein’ feste Burg ist unser Gott.” C.F. Ramuz, Stravinsky’s original collaborator on l’Histoire du Soldat, based his libretto on a Russian folk tale, but in 1993, Vonnegut wrote a new text to accompany Stravinsky’s music, a text inspired by the true story of Private Eddie Slovik, the last American soldier executed for desertion. In essence, Vonnegut collaborates with Stravinsky in a posthumous sense, as Stravinsky does with Bach and Bach with Luther. Vonnegut and Stravinsky each write themselves into an existing work, giving it contemporary meaning and a new poignancy. The principal aim of my paper is to document the process by which I studied and conducted l’Histoire du Soldat with one libretto by Ramuz and another by Vonnegut. In the paper, I will first examine the historical context in which each of the “collaborators” contributed to l’Histoire du Soldat. I will also present an analysis of “Grand Choral” with regard to the source material by Luther and Bach. Finally, I will document the process and findings of my study, rehearsal, and performance of each of the two versions of l’Histoire du Soldat which I conducted on March 31, 2009 in Quance Theatre, on the campus of the University of Saskatchewan with a full cast of musicians, dancers and actors.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10388/etd-08272009-143942en_US
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.subjectmusical parodyen_US
dc.subjectthe soldier's taleen_US
dc.subjectStravinskyen_US
dc.subjectconductingen_US
dc.subjectl'histoireen_US
dc.subjectirony in musicen_US
dc.subjecttheatre musicen_US
dc.subjectthéâre ambulanten_US
dc.subjectchamber musicalen_US
dc.subjectchamber theatreen_US
dc.subjectasymmetric meteren_US
dc.titleConducting L'Histoire du Soldat : a tale of two librettien_US
dc.type.genreThesisen_US
dc.type.materialtexten_US
thesis.degree.departmentMusicen_US
thesis.degree.disciplineMusicen_US
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of Saskatchewanen_US
thesis.degree.levelMastersen_US
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Music (M.Mus.)en_US

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