Document Type

Thesis

Date of Degree Completion

Summer 1972

Degree Name

Master of Education (MEd)

Department

Music

Committee Chair

Lynn B. Dupin

Second Committee Member

Clifford C. Cunha

Third Committee Member

Alexander H. Howard

Abstract

This paper presents a script for a half hour television program covering six songs and their four composers. The script includes short anecdotal biographies of the composers emphasizing information about their childhood and youth, translations or explanations of the song texts, and some ideas about the relationship between the performers, the song and the composer. This work represents a concrete effort to create a usable teaching tool through which music students may further broaden their concepts of "the singer " and "the composer," develop positive feelings about singing solo, and feel more free to enjoy listening to vocal music i n foreign languages.

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