The composition of opera for young people

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This commentary is an auto-ethnographic analysis of a practice of composition of opera for young people accompanying a portfolio of three operas for young people. Young people, in this case, refers to people under the age of 21 years old between infancy and adulthood. Young people can play a variety of roles in the creation, performance and spectatorship of opera. Though mine is an interdisciplinary/multi-disciplinary practice, composition will come under the most scrutiny in this research. Opera for young people raises questions around educational value, ethics, power, agency and authorship, revealing a distinction to be made between opera as a musico-dramatic form and opera as a cultural institution.

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Supervisors:	Marsh, Roger and Stringer, John
Keywords:	composition, opera, young people, collaboration, participation, community, community opera, participatory opera, music, pedagogy
Awarding institution:	University of York
Academic Units:	The University of York > School of Arts and Creative Technologies (York)
Academic unit:	Music
Identification Number/EthosID:	uk.bl.ethos.811438
Depositing User:	Mr Omar D Shahryar
Date Deposited:	31 Jul 2020 20:12
Last Modified:	21 Aug 2020 09:53
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID):	oai:etheses.whiterose.ac.uk:27251

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