Early Nineteenth-Century British Song Settings of Poems From the Romances of Sir Walter Scott

During the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, young women of a certain station were expected to display their musical talents during evenings at home and in the homes of friends. While their repertoire was certainly varied, there is extant an enormous number of songs apparently popular during the period, many written by British composers using as lyrics the texts of British Romantic writers. One of the purposes of this study is to make available for the first time a collection of early nineteenth-century British solo songs based on the writings of a major Romantic writer.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

English

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2014

Author dc:creator

• Jackson, Nancy Jean

• Literature, English

Identifier

(UMI)AAI8623330

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/69450