Songs of Dusk and Renewal sets two poems from Alfred Edward Housman’s A
Shropshire Lad (1896) for baritone voice and orchestra, with the intent to demonstrate the
timeless significance of the text. Housman’s collection, largely explored by English
composers in the first half of the twentieth century, remains a valid source for composers, yet
the writings are seldom observed in recent music. In the present work, poems IV (“Reveille”)
and XLVI (“Bring, in this timeless grave to throw”) are reconciled musically through deep
constructs and surface attraction, while being informed by critical and historical perspectives. / text
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UTEXAS/oai:repositories.lib.utexas.edu:2152/7791 |
| Date | 04 June 2010 |
| Creators | Scott, Christopher Alan |
| Source Sets | University of Texas |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Format | electronic |
| Rights | Copyright is held by the author. Presentation of this material on the Libraries' web site by University Libraries, The University of Texas at Austin was made possible under a limited license grant from the author who has retained all copyrights in the works. |
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