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    Maenad: Instructions for an Improvisation after Sylvia Plath's 'Poem for a Birthday'

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    Author
    Killian, D
    Date
    2020
    Source Title
    Plath Profiles: An Interdisciplinary Journal for Sylvia Plath Studies
    Publisher
    IUScholarWorks and Indiana University Bloomington Libraries
    University of Melbourne Author/s
    Killian, Danae
    Affiliation
    Victorian College of the Arts
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    Document Type
    Journal Article
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    Killian, D. (2020). Maenad: Instructions for an Improvisation after Sylvia Plath's 'Poem for a Birthday'. Plath Profiles: An Interdisciplinary Journal for Sylvia Plath Studies, 12 (1), pp.9-13
    Access Status
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    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/11343/258500
    Open Access URL
    https://scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/index.php/plath/article/view/31210/35629
    Abstract
    Maenad is an aleatoric musical composition, written in the form of instructions for an improvisation. It imaginatively follows the trajectory of Sylvia Plath’s seven-part “Poem for a Birthday” (1959), which, in its mystical density and complexity, prefigures the narrative of alchemical self-transformation that propels the later Ariel. Maenad is composed in seven episodes, each of which is named, in sequence, after one of the parts of Plath’s “Poem for a Birthday,” and each of which seeks freely to unknot and unravel one or more element in Plath’s extraordinarily rich weave of imagery and associative meaning. The title of the improvisation as a whole—Maenad—takes its name from the third poem in Plath’s sequence, which the female speaker is instructed to declaim in its entirety. Maenad is conceived with the members of Melbourne-based new music ensemble Forest Collective in mind.

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