Reimagining the performance of song in light of pedagogical developments at the Nordic school of visa: a songpoetics

Aguirre, Antony (2023). Reimagining the performance of song in light of pedagogical developments at the Nordic school of visa: a songpoetics. University of Birmingham. M.A.

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Abstract

This thesis reimagines contemporary notions of song performance based on research conducted into the experience of instructors and students at the Nordic School of Visa.

In the opening section, song performance is redefined as a relationship of attention between attendees and performers. This relationship is then modelled as an interpretive relationship, in which the performance activity engaged in by the singer becomes the subject of the interpretive activity of the attendee.

The purpose of this interpretive activity is found, in the second section, to be the derivation of ludic and subjective value by the attendee from the performance relationship. The interpretive process through which the attendee derives value from their interpretation of song performance is deconstructed, and shown to consist of interpretive activity on five different levels: pretext, text, supertext, subtext and context.

The final section re-examines the role of the singer in song performance, linking the attendee’s five levels of interpretive activity to five performance tasks. The execution of these tasks is shown to depend upon twelve key competencies which are brought together in the conclusion in a model of a singer’s curriculum.

Type of Work:

Thesis (Masters by Research > M.A.)

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Masters by Research > M.A.

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