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The human voice has undergone a seismic reappraisal in recent years, within musicology, and across disciplinary boundaries in the humanities, arts and sciences; 'voice studies' offers a vast and proliferating array of seemingly divergent accounts of the voice and its capacities,…

In this dissertation I investigate how Indian listeners have listened to Pakistani songs and singing voices in the period between the 1970s and the present. Since Indian film music dominates the South Asian cultural landscape, I argue that the movement of Pakistani songs into In…

In Harmonielehre, Arnold Schoenberg wrote repeatedly about his conception of sound as a means of direct expression. This dissertation examines Schoenberg’s use of Sprechstimme within the musicological field of vocality. It explores and traces Schoenberg’s early uses of vocal var…

The history of seventeenth-century Dutch Reformed church music presents us with a compelling paradox. On the one hand, we see a proliferation of massive, new organ installations exhibiting vibrant spectrums of tonal colours, which had a powerful influence on compositions and ins…