Date on Master's Thesis/Doctoral Dissertation

5-2020

Document Type

Master's Thesis

Degree Name

M.M.

Department

Music History

Degree Program

Music with a concentration in Music History and Literature, MM

Committee Chair

Burke, Devin

Committee Member

Brody, Christopher

Committee Member

Carithers, Kirsten

Author's Keywords

musical analysis; gender; new music; extended techniques; voice; 20th century music

Abstract

Meredith Monk’s decades of work embody an interdisciplinary art that exists at the intersection of sonic, visual, and kinesthetic artistic media. To date, scholars and critics of music and dance have only studied aspects of her work in isolation and have tended to omit the other critical aspects of Monk’s compositional language. For example, music scholars omit analysis of movement in their analyses, while dance scholars omit musical analyses. This has led to inappropriate categorization of her work, particularly into the vein of minimalism. My project represents the most in-depth study of all aspects of Monk’s music to date by analyzing musical, visual, and stylistic facets of her work. The project also considers Monk’s work alongside social philosophies and will argue that Monk scrutinizes gender and embodied voice in order to challenge socially constructed gender norms.

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