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Degrees of Turpitude

Arndorfer, Richard

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2017, Master of Music (MM), Bowling Green State University, Music Composition.
Degrees of Turpitude is a chamber opera for five sopranos (who also play percussion instruments) and piano. It is comprised of three scenes, each of which is a character piece based on someone from another medium (Avril Incandenza from the book "Infinite Jest" by David Foster Wallace, Williamson from the opera "The Difficulty of Crossing a Field" by David Lang, and Betty Elms/Diane Selwyn from the movie "Mulholland Drive" by David Lynch). By placing these seemingly unconnected characters together, different personas are created and a new story is told. Degrees of Turpitude, in classic operatic fashion, is about love, betrayal, and murder—life and death. It is a story of moral gradation in all its ambiguity. Story, however, might not be the correct word.
Marilyn Shrude (Advisor)
Christopher Dietz (Committee Member)
33 p.

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  • Arndorfer, R. (2017). Degrees of Turpitude [Master's thesis, Bowling Green State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1490289930149143

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Arndorfer, Richard. Degrees of Turpitude. 2017. Bowling Green State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1490289930149143.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Arndorfer, Richard. "Degrees of Turpitude." Master's thesis, Bowling Green State University, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1490289930149143

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