scholarly journals An Annotated Bibliography of Music Composed by Heinz Holliger for the Oboe, Oboe d'Amore, or English Horn

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew Allen Ward
Keyword(s):  
Annotated Bibliography ◽  
English Horn ◽  
Oboe D'amore

scholarly journals The Macropolitics of Microsound: Gender and sexual identities in Barry Truax’sSong of Songs

2017 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 80-90
Author(s):  
Danielle Sofer
Keyword(s):  
Gender Norms ◽  
Song Of Songs ◽  
English Horn ◽  
Biblical Text ◽  
Environmental Sounds ◽  
Song Of Solomon ◽  
Sexual Identities ◽  
Sexual Orientations ◽  
Oboe D'amore ◽  
Gender Categories

This analysis explores how Barry Truax’sSong of Songs(1992) for oboe d’amore, English horn and two digital soundtracks reorients prevailing norms of sexuality by playing with musical associations and aural conventions of how gender sounds. The work sets the erotic dialogue between King Solomon and Shulamite from the biblical Song of Solomon text. On the soundtracks we hear a Christian monk’s song, environmental sounds (birds, cicadas and bells), and two speakers who recite the biblical text in its entirety preserving the gendered pronouns of the original. By attending to established gender norms, Truax confirms the identity of each speaker, such that the speakers seemingly address one another as a duet, but the woman also addresses a female lover and the man a male. These gender categories are then progressively blurred with granular time-stretching and harmonisation (which transform the timbre of the voices), techniques that, together, resituate the presumed heteronormative text within a diverse constellation of possible sexual orientations.

Music for Oboe, Oboe d'Amore, and English Horn: A Bibliography of Materials at the Library of Congress

Notes ◽  
1984 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
pp. 554
Author(s):  
Paula Morgan ◽  
Virginia Snodgrass Gifford ◽  
Maurice Hinson
Keyword(s):  
English Horn ◽  
Library Of Congress ◽  
Oboe D'amore
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