Degree Name
Master of Music
Graduate Program
Music
Advisor
Dillard, David
Abstract
In this paper, I will disseminate biographical and historical data and share my own musical analysis of the songs and arias I performed on my Master’s recital. Included are the following: Blue Mountain Ballads, by Paul Bowles (1910-1999), Don Quichotte à Dulcinée, by Maurice Ravel (1875-1937), “Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin’!”- Oklahoma! (1943) Richard Rodgers (1902-1979) and Oscar Hammerstein (1895-1960), “Sibillar gli angui d’aletto”- Rinaldo, by George Fredrick Handel (1685-1759), “Madamina! Il catalogo e questo”- Don Giovanni, by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791), Drei Gesange von Metastasio, Franz Schubert (1797-1828), selections from Fünf Lieder op. 47, no. 1, 3, and 4, by Johannes Brahms (1833-1897), and “Unexpressed”, by John Bucchino (b. 1952).