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Emily Somebody: A Chamber Opera In Three Acts, Rodrigo Afonso Salles Camargo
Emily Somebody: A Chamber Opera In Three Acts, Rodrigo Afonso Salles Camargo
LSU Master's Theses
Emily Somebody is a chamber opera in three acts that tells the story of the friendship between the American poet Emily Dickinson and the man that would become her first editor, Mr. Thomas Higginson. This story, for me, is ultimately about a poet (or an artist) in the process of finding not only her own voice but also discovering what poetry and art mean to her, in the most genuine way, and standing up for these beliefs and values. All the lyrics used in this work are from Emily Dickinson’s poems and letters exchanged between her and Mr. Thomas Higginson.
Rhetoric, Form, And Sovereignty In Schubert's "Prometheus," D. 674, Erica Brady Angert
Rhetoric, Form, And Sovereignty In Schubert's "Prometheus," D. 674, Erica Brady Angert
LSU Master's Theses
Franz Schubert's "Prometheus," D. 674 (1819), sets a free-verse dramatic monologue by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe in which Prometheus, the Titan who presented fire and hope to mankind, declares himself independent from Zeus. This song belongs to a small group of Schubert's Lieder that resemble scenes from operas more than tonally-closed art songs. The paper discusses some of Schubert's compositional influences in the vocal genre, including Johann Friedrich Reichardt, who composed an earlier setting of the same "Prometheus" text. This paper explores the rhetorical structure of Goethe's text, which follows Quintilian's model for an effective argument, and which Schubert punctuates …