Interpretive properties of recitation in the vocalist’s performing arts

Xiqui Zhang

doi:10.34064/khnum2-21.16

Abstract

Interpretive properties of recitation in the vocalist’s performing arts

Highlights

One of the main positions of the vocalist’s practice is to understand the recitation as a kind of interpretation of the musical text, which is fixed in the notes
ХXI ■ Аспекти історичного музикознавства variant is selected each time from its many potential meanings
Verbal-musical factors of declamatory intonation have the immanent possibility of various interpretations in the process of vocal performance

Summary

Introduction

One of the main positions of the vocalist’s practice is to understand the recitation as a kind of interpretation of the musical text, which is fixed in the notes. ХXI ■ Аспекти історичного музикознавства variant is selected each time from its many potential meanings. This is the performer’s interpretation of the declamatory intonation, because the composer usually does not indicate the tone, timbre and strength of the voice, minimally orienting a singer in the desired intonation, in the duration and location of pauses for breath and in another wide arsenal of methods of declamatory expression. Discovering the nature of the interpretive properties of declamatory intonation, based on the simultaneous and consistent sound of speech and music, will help to overcome the performance difficulties in the vocalist’s work on mastering the artistic technique of this area of expression

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