Musical coherence and poetic meaning in George Crumb’s Apparition
This document examines a somewhat neglected work by George Crumb—his song cycle entitled Apparition: Elegiac Songs and Vocalises for Soprano and Amplified Piano. This work is based on texts from Walt Whitman’s poem “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d.” The approach taken is twofold: the mus...
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| Language: | English |
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2009
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/2429/7170 |