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Buehner, Katie R., Accessibility and Authenticity in Julia Smith's Cynthia Parker,
Master of Music (Musicology) December 2007, 70 pp., 11 musical examples, 6
illustrations, 42 titles.
In 1939, composer Julia Smith's first opera Cynthia Parker dramatized the story
of a Texas legend. Smith manipulated music, text, and visual images to make the
opera accessible for the audience in accordance with compositional and institutional
practices in American opera of the 1930s. Transparent musical themes and common
Native Americans stereotypes are used to define characters. Folk music is presented as
diegetic, creating a sense of authenticity that places the audience into the opera's
Western setting. The opera is codified for the audience using popular idioms, resulting
in initial but not lasting success.
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Buehner, Katie R. Accessibility and Authenticity in Julia Smith's Cynthia Parker, thesis, December 2007; Denton, Texas. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc5197/m1/2/: accessed April 23, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; .