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Samuel Barber’s Song Cycle, Despite and Still (open access)

Samuel Barber’s Song Cycle, Despite and Still

This paper discusses the song cycle Despite and Still by Samuel Barber, created with three poems by Robert Graves, one poem by Theodore Roethke, and part of Jame Joyce's novel Ulysses. Phyllis Bush Thomas describes the feeling created by the song cycle and the compositional style of Samuel Barber.
Date: August 1985
Creator: Thomas, Phyllis Bush
System: The UNT Digital Library