| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立臺灣師範大學 === 音樂學系在職進修碩士班 === 102 === Samuel Barber is an important American composer in the twentieth century whose compositional output includes extensive category: solo works, chorale, ballet music, orchestral pieces and operas. Despite of being in a time of experimentalism, he still maintains his music style of the tonality and Romanticism, and many of them are inspired by literary influences.
Barber grew up in a family of musicians, and himself studied composition, piano and voice in the Curtis Institute of Music. He is particularly fond of literary works; half of the output is related to literary influences, and he applied many lyrics to his vocal compositions.
The four-voice a cappella Reincarnation op.16 was composed between 1937- 40, published in 1942, and two of them premiered by the Madrigal Chorus at the Curtis Institute of Music. It comprises of three distinctive pieces, and the lyrics are derived from Irish poet James Stephens' poems with the same title "Reincarnation." The first piece worships the goddess Mary Hynes, the second one mourns the death of Anthony O' Daly, and the third "The Coolin." describes the desire in dreamland.
This thesis contains five parts: the first part serves as an introduction; the second part discusses the backgrounds of the composer, the poet, and the particular piece. The third part analyzes the choral work by its different movements. The fourth part offers the author's interpretation as well as the suggestions for teaching the music. The final part concluded
the thesis. One appendix is a list of Barber’s published chorus works.
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