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The libretto of Three Lyrics was written by Terry Blake, a minster for the North Amarillo Church of Christ in Amarillo, Texas. The first and last cantos are paeans to the harp and guitar, respectively. The second canto is a gentle elegy to Time and Death. The use of nature and its manifestations serve to unite the three poems.

Thesis (D.M.A.)--Boston University, 1962. From the play by Federico Garcia-Lorca, translated by James Graham-Lujan & Richard L. O'Connell.

Le Roland furieux constitue un réservoir d'intrigues inépuisable pour l'opéra baroque. Nous prenons en compte un corpus de quatre-vingts livrets mais aussi pièces de théâtre et ballets, résumés dans l'Annexe et analysés au fil d'une réflexion qui vise à dégager des grandes lignes d'histoire de l'opéra pouvant justifier la disparition des personnages, qui coïncide avec le passage du texte source au second plan après le XVIIIe siècle. Le point de vue adopté dans la première partie nous permet de mettre en lumière la circulation des sujets et de démêler les différents filtres de réécritures intermédiaires en fonction des influences littéraires, mais aussi politiques et matérielles. La plasticité de l'Arioste qui le rend adaptable à tous les contextes, entraîne également une fortune sérieuse aussi bien qu'une fortune comique. Les épisodes de l'épopée privilégiés à l'opéra, au-delà des différences entre contextes de création et genres, sont ceux qui mettent en scène l'excès et le désir. Les deux personnages qui cristallisent ces thématiques suivent, dans l'histoire des réécritures opératiques, deux trajectoires inversées. Roland ébranle les conventions génériques et perd dans ses plus belles réalisations l'essentiel de sa charge comique tandis qu'Alcine, se fondant dans tous les genres, de sérieuse, devient comique. / Ariosto's Orlando furioso offers a countless multitude of plots for the baroque opera. Our corpus is composed of eighty librettos and also of some dramatic plays and ballets, presented in the appendix. This thesis intends to consider why Ariosto's heroes disappeared from European scenes, while they lost their aura, by taking in account the main lines of operatic history. Firstly, we would like to accent the circulation of the plots between cultural areas and to analyze the different literary, political and factual influences that can alter the original text. Then, our purpose is to examine the ariostan plasticity, which suits to all the contexts and explains the ambivalent generic posterity of the epic romance on operatic stages, either comic or serious. Finally, we want to highlight that the most adapted episodes are related to excess and desire. The both characters, that carry these themes, meet an opposite fate. Orlando's most achieved treatments subvert more and more the generic conventions, by reducing his comic aspect, whereas Alcina loses her serious nature and becomes a comic figure.

published_or_final_version / Chinese / Master / Master of Philosophy

Raven's Song is an original musical dramatizing the conflict between paganism and Christianity. The play revolves around a woman who has become disillusioned by her people and her gods. The only gods she has ever known were blood-thirsty, appeased only by the blood and entrails of human sacrifice. Therefore, Raven resists all religion. Through providential circumstances, she is married into a Christian family and is overwhelmed by their love, and the kindness of their God. In search for truth, Raven begins to question her disbelief. All men search for truth in their own way, and all, at one time, will question the existence and nature of God. The play does not presume to answer these questions, but allows each participant to decide for himself, as Raven must decide for herself.

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By the early eighteenth century, French music was tangibly influenced by the Italian style which had already permeated much of Europe. The French Cantata is symptomatic of that often disparaged influx. The cantatas of Rameau are a significant contribution to an important form. Written almost entirely in the early years of the artist's career, they hold details of his stylistic development. In the present study of Rameau's cantatas several aspects of his style are discussed as they relate both to his theoretic writings and to the various influences of the time. Examples of those stylistic elements found in the cantatas are cited and discussed. There is, as well, a comparison of the works to the poetic form standardized by Rousseau.

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