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Cabaret Songs by Classical Composers During the First Half of the 20th Century: Satie, Schoenberg, Weill, and Britten

Brooks, Colleen

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2010, DMA, University of Cincinnati, College-Conservatory of Music: Voice.
One of the most viable trends in the compositional practice of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries is the blurring and breaking of boundaries between classical and popular styles. Toward the end of the nineteenth century this blurring of boundaries resulted in the genre of cabaret. My document demonstrates that classical composers of various nationalities and compositional styles experimented in this new genre of cabaret. It traces the history of the cabaret movement from its origins through World War II and provides a detailed history of the cabaret songs of four classical composers: Erik Satie's cabaret songs for Vincent Hyspa, Arnold Schoenberg's Brettl-Lieder, Kurt Weill's cabaret songs from his Paris years, and Benjamin Britten's Cabaret Songs. Through musical analysis this document shows that their cabaret songs reflect the influence of popular idioms as well as each composer's own classical style.
Jeongwon Joe, PhD (Committee Chair)
Kenneth Griffiths, MM (Committee Member)
bruce mcclung, PhD (Committee Member)
135 p.

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  • Brooks, C. (2010). Cabaret Songs by Classical Composers During the First Half of the 20th Century: Satie, Schoenberg, Weill, and Britten [Doctoral dissertation, University of Cincinnati]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1281990477

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Brooks, Colleen. Cabaret Songs by Classical Composers During the First Half of the 20th Century: Satie, Schoenberg, Weill, and Britten. 2010. University of Cincinnati, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1281990477.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Brooks, Colleen. "Cabaret Songs by Classical Composers During the First Half of the 20th Century: Satie, Schoenberg, Weill, and Britten." Doctoral dissertation, University of Cincinnati, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1281990477

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)