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Degrees of Turpitude
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Arndorfer, Richard
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http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1490289930149143
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Year and Degree
2017, Master of Music (MM), Bowling Green State University, Music Composition.
Abstract
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.
Committee
Marilyn Shrude (Advisor)
Christopher Dietz (Committee Member)
Pages
33 p.
Subject Headings
Music
Keywords
music
;
composition
;
chamber opera
;
opera
;
microopera
;
voice
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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
Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)
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