The Eumenides is a single-movement composition for orchestra, chorus, and prepared electronic tape. It is based on the Orestoian trilogy, The Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, and The Eumenides, by the classical Greek dramatist, Aeschylus. The text of the composition was formed by the extraction and amalgamation of certain ideas, key-words, and phrases from English translations of the plays made by Buckley, Hadas, Vellacott, and Lattimore, and also from the modern drama, Les Mouches, by the French writer-philospher, Jean-Paul Sartre. Three short passages of Gregorian Chant from the Liber Usualis are used in the coda section of the work.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:unt.edu/info:ark/67531/metadc1038816 |
| Date | 12 1900 |
| Creators | Wheat, Margaret Anne, 1922- |
| Publisher | North Texas State University |
| Source Sets | University of North Texas |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | 1 score (ix, 95 leaves) : ill., Text |
| Rights | Public, Copyright, Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights |
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