Sotto Voce

Published

6-10-2023

Type of Work

Creative Work - Music

Advisors and Contributors

Dr. Clare Maclean (supervisor). Lizzy Welsh (performer tracks 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 8), Tony Dupé (performer tracks 4, 6, 7), Judith Hamann (performer tracks 4, 7, 8), Edwina Cordingley (performer tracks 1, 3, 5, 6), Lucy Valentine (performer tracks 4, 7). Tony Dupé (mix engineer). Ian Hawgood (mastering engineer). Ryan Keane (cover art). Lost Tribe Sound (label).

Project Affiliation

University of Western Sydney (research masters folio)

Abstract

This masters project consists of a composition portfolio and exegesis, connecting an earlier historical period to the present day through contemporary compositional processes and an examination of the musical experience. Feminist reparative approaches to history have revealed women composers who had been disappeared or minimised through music history.

Taking as its starting point the cultural and musical contexts of two Baroque composers, Francesca Caccini (1587- c.1645) and Barbara Strozzi (1619-1677), this project approaches their surviving traces creatively whilst investigating temporality and subjective modes of knowledge production. The project draws together sense-oriented frameworks from artistic practice-led research, the Baroque era and sound studies, with a focus on listening (and all itsmetaphoric, sensual and technical applications). In doing so, it models how a contemporary self-producing sensate composer can interact with the past to create new work.

(This is the folio of work)

Notes

Titles and their borrowed origins:
Dolce Tormento—O Vive Rose (Caccini, 1618)
Liberated Sighs—Hor che Apollo (Strozzi, 1664)
In Defiance of Time–Sino Alla Morte (Strozzi, 1659)
Dampen The Waves—Lasciatemi Qui Solo (Caccini, 1618)
Quarrel of the Senses (Serenata)—Il Contrasto de’ cinque sensi (Strozzi, 1644)
The Fading Lovers—Gli Amante Filiti (Strozzi, 1644)
A Million Cloaked Ghosts was borrowed with permission from a post by Olia Hercules, 2022
Prefigured (Ritornello)—Il Lamento (Strozzi, originally 1651)

Musical traces borrowed:
Dolce Tormento & Liberated Sighs: Francesca Caccini: Io Mio Distruggo, Et Ardo from Il Primo Libro Delle Musiche (1618)

In Defiance of Time: Francesca Caccini: Io Veggio Campi Verdeggiar Fecondi from Il Primo Libro Delle Musiche (1618)

Dampen The Waves: Francesca Caccini: Lasciatemi Qui Solo from Il Primo Libro Delle Musiche (1618)

Quarrel of the Senses (Serenata): Barbara Strozzi: Serenata Con Violini in Hor che Apollo and Che Si Puo Fare both from Opus 8: Arie (1664) Francesca Caccini: Io Veggio Campi Verdeggiar Fecondi from Il Primo Libro Delle Musiche (1618)

The Fading Lovers: Barbara Strozzi: Serenata Con Violini in Hor che Apollo from Opus 8: Arie (1664)

A Million Cloaked Ghosts: (recycled iterations of In Defiance of Time)

Prefigured (Ritornello): Barbara Strozzi: Serenata Con Violini in Hor che Apollo from Opus 8: Arie (1664) which she borrowed from her own Il Lamento, published also in her Opus 2 (1651) and Opus 3 (1654). Barbara Strozzi: Che Si Puo Fare also from Opus 8: ‘Arie’ (1664).

Citation

Deak, C. (2023). Sotto voce [Album]. Lost Tribe Sound. https://clairedeak.bandcamp.com/album/sotto-voce

Income (grants or other funding)

Other

University grant

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