Pretty Pretty Princess vs. The Underworld: A Song Cycle in Seven Movements for Alto and Chamber Orchestra

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dc.contributor.advisorKyr, Robert
dc.contributor.authorHaxo, Cara
dc.date.accessioned2019-09-18T19:18:16Z
dc.date.available2019-09-18T19:18:16Z
dc.date.issued2019-09-18
dc.description.abstractThis song cycle, which is scored for alto and chamber orchestra, is a setting of excerpts from Emily Corwin’s beautiful poetry. It explores the archetypal themes of love, loss, identity, and obsession. In regard to the text, the pretty pretty princess of Corwin’s pretty pretty princess vs. the underworld (2016) does something Orpheus himself was never able to achieve: she rescues her lover from the Underworld. For his part, the tall handsome emerges relatively unscathed, his beauty left intact. The same cannot be said for the princess. She sacrifices her identifying princess characteristics—her “pretty princess hair, glitter tongue, and white swan”—in order to save her lover. When this does not work, she gives up an eye, a tooth, and ultimately an ovary. Unlike Orpheus, the pretty pretty princess successfully rescues her tall handsome with this final gift, but she loses her own princess, feminine identity in the process. In the finale of the work, the princess has saved her lover and grows delirious with love. It is only with her final, gasping breath that she rediscovers her own identity.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1794/24853
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of Oregon
dc.rightsAll Rights Reserved.
dc.subjectAltoen_US
dc.subjectChamber orchestraen_US
dc.subjectCompositionen_US
dc.subjectMusicen_US
dc.subjectSong cycleen_US
dc.titlePretty Pretty Princess vs. The Underworld: A Song Cycle in Seven Movements for Alto and Chamber Orchestra
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertation
thesis.degree.disciplineSchool of Music and Dance
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of Oregon
thesis.degree.leveldoctoral
thesis.degree.namePh.D.

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