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Russell, Jessica | From the Old testament to the Paris Opera: Saint-Saëns's Samson Et Dalila and nineteenth-century french orientalism | Despite its successful premiere in Weimar in 1877, Saint-Saëns's Samson et Dalila met resistance as the composer attempted to stage the biblical story in France. When the work finally premiered in Paris in 1890, the opera directors exclaimed, "If we only knew!" In this thesis, I explore the aspec... | Gender; Nineteenth-century opera; Orientalism; Saint-Saëns; Samson et Dalila | 2017 |
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Bickmore, Isaac Lamont | Functions of popular music in the lives of adolescents | This study determines that a specified group of adolescents' favorite songs fulfill Frith's functions of popular music; (a) to create a type of self-definition; (b) to provide a way of managing the relationship between one's private and public emotional lives; (c) to shape popular memory, organiz... | Music and youth; Group identity | 2010-02-10 |
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Anderson, Briawna A. | Troubled authenticity amd the romanticized West: reevaluating Charles Wakefield Cadman's 1918 opera Shanewis | In 1918, American composer Charles Wakefield Cadman completed the opera Shanewis or the Robin Woman, which was featured during two consecutive seasons at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York. It was the first American opera to receive the honor of a double run and was popular throughout the 1920... | American Music; Cadman; Indianism; Opera; Shanewis; Tsianina | 2013-05 |
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Whitney, Annette | Contemporary American art song: John Alden Carpenter, Charles Edward Ives, Aaron Copland and Ned Rorem | Before the songs of these four composers can properly be discussed and their musical ideas understood, there are a few things about the general trends of music composition in America and the American musical culture itself that ought to be understood. Before World War I America imported her art from... | 1966-08 |
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