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    The process of composing 1938: An Opera


     
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    Author
    Clapp, Ashlee
    Date
    2016
    Affiliation
    School of Contemporary Music
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    Document Type
    Masters Research thesis
    Access Status
    Open Access
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/11343/165202
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    © 2016 Ashlee Clapp

    Abstract
    In this thesis I will illuminate the process of composing music for the original music theatre work 1938: An Opera. This is a multilingual political satire based primarily on Australian historical events. I will focus on two main aspects of the work. Firstly, I will explicate the various stages of composition for songs in English. These stages include the phenomenology involved in creating musical ideas; the compositional approach; and the musical conceptualisation of dramatic narrative and development. Secondly, I will investigate the process of composing songs in languages other than English. This section will focus on songs in Cantonese and Yorta Yorta, an Australian Indigenous language. I will discuss my collaboration with translators and cultural and language mentors who helped me to overcome linguistic challenges, and increased my awareness of cultural subtleties arising from inclusion of languages I did not understand.
    Keywords
    music; composition; music theatre; process; compositional process; phenomenology; language; culture; Aboriginal

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