Samuel Barber’s Song Cycle, Despite and Still

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This paper discusses the song cycle Despite and Still by Samuel Barber, created with three poems by Robert Graves, one poem by Theodore Roethke, and part of Jame Joyce's novel Ulysses. Phyllis Bush Thomas describes the feeling created by the song cycle and the compositional style of Samuel Barber.

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iii, 96 p. ; 28 cm.

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Thomas, Phyllis Bush August 1985.

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This paper discusses the song cycle Despite and Still by Samuel Barber, created with three poems by Robert Graves, one poem by Theodore Roethke, and part of Jame Joyce's novel Ulysses. Phyllis Bush Thomas describes the feeling created by the song cycle and the compositional style of Samuel Barber.

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iii, 96 p. ; 28 cm.

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The signature for the Minor Professor on the committee for this Problem in Lieu of Thesis was difficult to decipher, but a possibility for the identity of the individual was [Heils, Howard].

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Thomas, Phyllis Bush. Samuel Barber’s Song Cycle, Despite and Still, thesis, August 1985; Denton, Texas. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc2017089/: accessed May 4, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; .

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