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A Performance Guide To Michael Patterson's "People Of The Land" For Baritone And Piano, Thaddeus Harm Ennen
A Performance Guide To Michael Patterson's "People Of The Land" For Baritone And Piano, Thaddeus Harm Ennen
LSU Doctoral Dissertations
The purpose of this document is to supply a comprehensive performer’s guide to Iowa composer, Dr. Michael Patterson’s, People of the Land, an eight song, song cycle for baritone and piano, set to poetry by Iowa poet James Hearst. This song cycle was personally commissioned to fulfill a need in the American song cycle literature on the topic of farming and more specifically Iowa farmers. The poetry of James Hearst, farmer and poet, has never been previously set in a song cycle.
People of the Land tells the story of an Iowa farmer from the beginning to end of …