The speech choir in central European theatres and literary-musical works in the first third of the 20th century
Speech choirs emerged as an offshoot of the choral gatherings of a wider youth musical and singing movement in the first half of the 20th century. The occasionally expressed opinion that choral speaking was cultivated primarily by the Hitler Youth and pressed into service on behalf of Nazi...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts - Institute of Musicology of Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts
2015-01-01
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| Series: | Muzikologija |
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| Online Access: | http://www.doiserbia.nb.rs/img/doi/1450-9814/2015/1450-98141518159M.pdf |
| Summary: | Speech choirs emerged as an offshoot of the choral gatherings of a wider
youth musical and singing movement in the first half of the 20th century. The
occasionally expressed opinion that choral speaking was cultivated primarily
by the Hitler Youth and pressed into service on behalf of Nazi nationalist
and racist propaganda is, historically, only partially accurate. The primary
forces of choral speaking in Germany were, from 1919, the Social Democratic
workers’ and cultural movement and the Catholic youth groups, in addition to
elementary and secondary schools. The popularity of speech choirs around 1930
was also echoed in the music of the time. Compositions for musical speech
choirs were produced by composers like Heinz Thiessen, Arnold Schönberg,
Ernst Toch, Carl Orff, Vladimir Vogel, Luigi Nono, Helmut Lachenmann and
Wolfgang Rihm. Moving forward from the Schönberg School, the post-1945 new
music thereby opens up the spectrum of vocal expressions of sound beyond that
of the singing voice. It does so not only for solo voices but for the choir
as well. |
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| ISSN: | 1450-9814 2406-0976 |