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What Lies Beneath (and Between): An Expositional Analysis of George Palmer's Australian Song Cycle, "Letters from a Black Snake"

Letters from a Black Snake is a song cycle by living Australian composer, George Palmer. The cycle sets curated excerpts of text taken from letters written or dictated by Australia's most notorious bushranger (bandit) turned folk hero, Edward "Ned" Kelly (1854-1880), creating a cohesive narrative arc that establishes and explores Kelly's character through the precipitating events of his short life, exclusively in his own words. But what happens when the narrator doesn't tell the whole story? Framed as an expositional analysis of Letters from a Black Snake, this dissertation explores the importance of context on the interpretation and reception of this, and narrative song cycles generally, outlining potential approaches to performance, and proposing an expansion of Palmer's work.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:unt.edu/info:ark/67531/metadc2332576
Date05 1900
CreatorsCurcuruto, Christopher Charles
ContributorsSnider, Jeffrey, Eaton, Jonathan, 1955-, Dubberly, Stephen
PublisherUniversity of North Texas
Source SetsUniversity of North Texas
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeThesis or Dissertation
FormatText
RightsPublic, Curcuruto, Christopher Charles, Copyright, Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights Reserved.

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