Document Type

Thesis

Date of Degree Completion

Summer 1974

Degree Name

Master of Education (MEd)

Department

Music

Committee Chair

Joseph Haruda

Second Committee Member

James F. Parsley

Third Committee Member

Herbert A. Bird

Abstract

This study is an examination of the styles found in the Biblical Songs by Antonin Dvorak, a leading Bohemian composer of the nineteenth century. They cycle, originally set in Czech to the Bohemian Book of Psalms, may, with some notation changes, also be sung in German or English.

Dvorak's composition attempts to achieve a balance between the smooth, flowing vocal line and a rhythmically challenging accompaniment. A study of this cycle is rewarding for the singer.

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