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American Art Songs In The 21st Century: A Catalogue Of Selected Works, Islei Mariano Correa Hammer

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports

This research explores American art songs of the 21st century. The paper provides a listing of 54 composers based in the United States and the art songs they composed from 2000 to 2023 which are available either through publishers or the composers’ websites. The research is divided into three categories: art songs with piano, chamber works with voice, and works for solo voice and large ensemble. The paper also includes biographies of each composer. This research provides singers, voice teachers, and collaborative pianists a useful resource to gain familiarity with the American art-song repertoire of the current century.

A Story Of Feminine Sacrifice: The Music, Text, And Biographical Connections In Amy Beach's Concert Aria Jephthah's Daughter, Clarissa E. Aaron

Honors Projects

Jephthah’s Daughter (Op. 53), a concert aria for soprano and orchestra written by Amy Beach (1867-1944) in 1903, has long suffered neglect due to the fate of its manuscript and the fate of Beach’s work in general. This investigation seeks to probe how Beach engaged the Biblical subject matter and mid-1800s French text in her setting. I discuss this engagement through stylistic comparison with the musical traits of her other work, translation comparison between the literal meanings of the original poem and Beach’s English rendition, and contextualization of Beach’s setting within the history of how this story has been interpreted. …

American Women Composers In The Late Nineteenth And Early Twentieth Centuries: A Comparison Of The Social, Cultural And Personal Influences On The Lives, Career, And Music Of Amy Beach And Ruth Crawford Seeger, Lindsey A. Scarberry

Undergraduate Distinction Papers

A comparison of the lives and works of two American women composers, Amy Beach and Ruth Crawford Seeger, provides an interesting look at the role of women in music in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Amy Beach and Ruth Crawford Seeger were pioneers in American music during the time period after the Civil War through World War II. Both women performed professionally, composed, and innovated musical ideas and theories during a time when women’s compositions were not widely performed or published. Their professional and personal lives illustrate many differences that informed their works in different ways. Amy Beach …

Recollections From A Life In Music, Louis Krasner

The Courier

On October 28, 1984, Louis Krasner came to Syracuse University in order to speak to the Library Associates at their annual meeting. After a warm introduction by Professor Frank Macomber of the Department of Fine Arts, Mr. Krasner gave his address on the subject of American composers whom he had known and worked with. The following is an abstract of his talk, in which particular emphasis has been given to Roger Sessions.

Style In The Songs Of Charles T. Griffes, Kathryn R. Boyens [Van Fossan]

Faculty Scholarship – Library Science

Generally remembered as the composer of one or two relatively famous orchestral works, Charles Tomlinson Griffes made a lasting contribution in the field of vocal solo literature. In a brief composing career, basically 1906 to 1918, Griffes completed fifty-nine art songs. Thirty-eight of them have been published to date.

Although Griffes's composing career was short, a wide variety of styles are encountered throughout his art songs. To aid, therefore, in the delineation of Griffes's style, his songs have been grouped into three categories according to the following factors: influences from other sources, possible purposes for their composition, and potential impact …