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| Author: | Judge, Madeline | |
| Title: | Vignettes: Covered Wagon Woman: A performer's perspective | |
| Degree, institution: | DMusPerf, Royal Irish Academy of Music | |
| Status, year: | in progress | |
| Supervisor(s): | Denise Neary | |
| General specialism: | Musicology: Performance Studies | |
| Content, timeframe: | 1850 | |
| Content, key terms: | Concepts: Persons: Places: Genres, instruments: |
Performance practice; Implications for performance Alan Louis Smith; Margaret Ann Alsip Frink United States of America American song cycles |
| Summary (provisional): | This thesis will focus on Alan Louis Smith’s Vignettes: Covered Wagon Woman, for Mezzo-Soprano, Violin, Cello, and Piano. The work is rich with history and vivid imagery and is set to a text that is based on excerpts from the diary of Margaret Ann Alsip Frink. The text chronicles her journey from Indiana with her husband and two young men across the United States to Sacramento, California in 1850. The thesis will focus on the historical context of the text and piece, along with major implications for performers and collaborators. | |
