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Gao Weijie’s Three Love Songs: A guide for the countertenor and the Nan Dan

Lee, Ethan Lyon

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Title
Gao Weijie’s Three Love Songs: A guide for the countertenor and the Nan Dan
Author(s)
Lee, Ethan Lyon
Issue Date
2018
Director of Research (if dissertation) or Advisor (if thesis)
Silvers, Michael
Doctoral Committee Chair(s)
Davis, Ollie Watts
Committee Member(s)
  • Moersch, Charlotte Mattax
  • Taylor, Stephen
Department of Study
School of Music
Discipline
Music
Degree Granting Institution
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Degree Name
A.Mus.D. (doctoral)
Keyword(s)
  • Gao Weijie
  • Three love songs
  • Countertenor
  • Nan Dan
  • Vocal music
  • Chinese music
  • Yuan Qu
  • Peking opera
Language
en
Abstract
The countertenor voice is a male voice type which uses falsetto and has a long history in the Western music. Similarly, the Nan Dan is a similar voice type using falsetto which derived from China. Based on my experience singing as a countertenor and background in the Chinese culture, this essay is designed to compare the Nan Dan from China and the countertenor of the West, concentrating in particular on the possible influences of the countertenor and the Nan Dan in Gao Weijie’s Three Love Songs, and the influence of the countertenor in modern China.
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Copyright 2018 Yichen Li

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