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Chapter 1
Speech and/in Song
Steven Rings
- Example 1.1. [.wav format audio]
An excerpt from Diana Deutsch’s “Sometimes Behave So Strangely.” Issued on Phantom Words and Other Curiosities (Philomel Records, 2003), track 21.
- Example 1.2. [.wav format audio]
Steve Reich, It’s Gonna Rain, opening. Issued on Early Works (Elektra Nonesuch, 1987), track 1.
- Example 1.3. [.wav format audio]
Hank Williams, “Pictures from Life’s Other Side,” verse one and beginning of chorus. Issued on Hank Williams as Luke the Drifter (MGM, 1954), track 1.
- Example 1.4. [.wav format audio]
Hank Williams, “Pictures from Life’s Other Side,” final verse. Issued on Hank Williams as Luke the Drifter (MGM, 1954), track 1.
- Example 1.5. [.wav format audio]
Marvin Gaye, “Save the Children,” studio recording, opening. Issued on What’s Going On (Tamla, 1971), track 4.
- Example 1.6. [.wav format audio]
Marvin Gaye, “Save the Children,” studio recording, excerpt. Issued on What’s Going On (Tamla, 1971), track 4.
- Example 1.7. [.wav format audio]
Marvin Gaye, “Save the Children,” performed live at the Kennedy Center, 1972, opening. Issued on What’s Going On, Deluxe Edition (Motown, 2012), disc 2, track 8.
- Example 1.8. [.wav format audio]
Excerpts from Bob Dylan, “Stuck inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again” (Blonde on Blonde, Columbia, 1966, track 6); the Velvet Underground, “Sweet Jane” (Loaded, Cotillion, 1971, track 2); and Leonard Cohen, “Dress Rehearsal Rag” (Songs of Love and Hate, Columbia, 1971, track 3).
- Example 1.9. [.wav format audio]
Patti Smith, “Land,” opening. Issued on Horses (Arista, 1975), track 1.
- Example 1.10. [.wav format audio]
Excerpts from Joni Mitchell, “Coyote” (Hejira, Asylum, 1976, track 1); and Rickie Lee Jones, “Easy Money” (Rickie Lee Jones, Warner Bros., 1979, track 5).
- Example 1.11. [.wav format audio]
Laura Marling, “The Muse,” opening. Issued on A Creature I Don’t Know (Virgin, 2011), track 1.
- Example 1.12. [.wav format audio]
Laura Marling, “Saved these Words,” opening. Issued on Once I Was an Eagle (Virgin, 2013), track 16.
- Example 1.13. [.wav format audio]
Laura Marling, “Saved these Words,” excerpt. Issued on Once I Was an Eagle (Virgin, 2013), track 16.
- Example 1.14. [.wav format audio]
Beyoncé, “Formation,” opening. Issued on Once Lemonade (Parkwood/Columbia, 2016), track 13.
- Example 1.15. [.wav format audio]
Kanye West, “Ultralight Beam,” Chance the Rapper’s verse. Issued on The Life of Pablo (Good/Def Jam/Roc-A-Fella, 2016), track 1.
Chapter 3
Voice, Music, Modernism: The Case of Luigi Nono and Karlheinz Stockhausen
Marcelle Pierson
- Example 3.1. [.m4a format audio]
Luigi Nono, Il canto sospeso, no. 6a. Performed by the Berlin Philharmonic, with Claudio Abbado conducting, Sony Classical SK 53360, 1993.
- Example 3.2. [.mp3 format audio]
Karlheinz Stockhausen, Gesang der Jünglinge, opening.
Chapter 4
Screamlines: On the Anatomy and Geology of Radio
Neil Verma
- Example 4.1. [.mp3 format audio]
Excerpt from Gregory Whitehead, Pressures of the Unspeakable, (1991)
- Example 4.2. [.mp3 format audio]
Excerpt from Gregory Whitehead, Pressures of the Unspeakable, (1991)
- Example 4.3. [.mp3 format audio]
Arch Oboler “The Dark,” Lights Out! (Circa 1940s)
- Example 4.4. [.mp3 format audio]
Excerpt from Wyllis Cooper, “The Thing on the Fourble Board,” Quiet Please (1948)
- Example 4.5. [.mp3 format audio]
Excerpt from Wyllis Cooper, “The Thing on the Fourble Board,” Quiet Please (1948)
- Example 4.6. [.mp3 format audio]
Excerpt from Wyllis Cooper, “The Thing on the Fourble Board,” Quiet Please (1948)
- Example 4.7. [.mp3 format audio]
Excerpt from Wyllis Cooper, “The Thing on the Fourble Board,” Quiet Please (1948)
Chapter 7
“I Am an Essentialist”: Against the Voice Itself
James Q. Davies
- Example 4.1. [.mp4 format video]
Excerpt from What Makes a Great Tenor?, directed by Dominic Best (London: BBC Four, 2011), DVD.
Chapter 9
Voice Gap Crack Break
Martha Feldman
- Example 9.1. [.wav format audio]
Excerpt from the end of Geminiano Giacomelli, “Sposa, son disprezzata,” sung by Cecilia Bartoli on the CD Se tu m’ami: Arie antiche (London Records, 1990) (where it is misattributed to Vivaldi)
- Example 9.2. [.wav format audio]
Excerpt from Dizzy Gillespie’s “Night in Tunisia,” sung by Leny Andrade on the CD Luz Neon (Timeless Records, 1990), track 8.
- Example 9.3. [.mp4 format video]
Beginning of Patricia Barber, “Persephone,” from Mythologies song cycle, with opening verse sung by Lawrice Flowers, live at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL, January 7, 2006. Filmed by I. Michael Toth.
- Example 9.4. [.wav format audio]
Excerpt from Sandy Denny, “Who Knows Where the Time Goes?” sung by Nina Simone live at Philharmonic Hall in 1969 and issued on Black Gold (RCA Victor, 1970), track 5.
- Example 9.5. [.mp3 format audio]
Excerpt from Hoagy Carmichael’s “I Get along without You Very Well (Except Sometimes),” sung by Rosemary Clooney on Rosie Solves the Swingin’ Riddle!, arranged and conducted by Nelson Riddle, 33⅓ monaural (RCA VICTOR, 1961), track 3.
- Example 9.6. [.wav format audio]
Excerpt from Hoagy Carmichael’s “I Get along without You Very Well (Except Sometimes),” sung by Nina Simone on Nina Simone and Piano! (RCA Studios, 1969), track 9.
- Example 9.7. [.wav format audio]
Repeat of final part of excerpt from website example 9.6.
Chapter 10
The Gesamtkunstwerk and Its Discontents: The Wounded Voice in (and around) Alexander von Zemlinsky’s The Dwarf
David J. Levin
- Example 10.1. [.mp4 format video]
The dwarf as introduced by Don Estoban, the chamberlain (James Johnson) to Ghita (Susan B. Anthony) and the maids in Zemlinsky’s “Der Zwerg” as performed by Los Angeles Opera in a 2008 production staged by Darko Tresnjak and conducted by James Conlon, released on DVD by Arthaus Music in 2010.
- Example 10.2. [.mp4 format video]
The dwarf (Rodrick Dixon) sings the song of the blood-red orange to the Infanta (Mary Dunleavy) and before the assembled court in Zemlinsky’s “Der Zwerg” as performed by Los Angeles Opera in a 2008 production staged by Darko Tresnjak and conducted by James Conlon, released on DVD by Arthaus Music in 2010.
Chapter 11
There Is No Such Thing as the Composer’s Voice
Seth Brodsky
- Example 11.1. [.mp4 format video]
Helmut Lachenmann, II. Streichquartett, “Reigen seliger Geister” (1989), “shadow-song”
- Example 11.2. [.mp4 format video]
Luigi Nono, Fragmente—Stille an Diotima (1980), Fragment 48
- Example 11.3. [.mp4 format video]
Alban Berg, Lyrische Suite, Mvt. 6, “Largo desolato” (opening, with suppressed soprano voice added)
- Example 11.4. [.mp4 format video]
Ludwig van Beethoven, String Quartet, Op. 130 (1825), Mvt. V (Cavatina), “beklemmt” section
Chapter 14
The Duppy in the Machine: Voice and Technology in Jamaican Popular Music
Andrew F. Jones
- Example 14.1. [.wav format audio]
Burning Spear, “Slavery Days” from the Marcus Garvey album, Island Records, 1975
- Example 14.2. [.wav format audio]
Burning Spear, “Children of Today” from Living Dub: Volume 1, Burning Spear, 1982
- Example 14.3. [.wav format audio]
Vybz Kartel, “Life We Living” from Pon di Gaza 2.0, VP Records, 2010
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