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• W341228844 abstract "INTRODUCTION AND MUSICAL STYLE IN A FRESH APPROACH, LIBBY LARSEN has composed two different groups of songs with textual connections to the Old West. Larsen's musical depictions of the Old West are unique because she presents the West from a feminine perspective, a woman's caring perspective. She deals with some issues often written about by men, such as love, work, and death, but also issues rarely approached by men, such as childbirth, prostitution, and relationships of women with women. When I interviewed Larsen in 1999, she explained that from Letters and Cowboy Songs make a nice grouping. They are two different approaches to our views of Western mythology and Western mythological figures.1 This article will address specifically how Larsen's compositions expand our thinking of the traditional heroic male model in real and imagined events of the Old West to include strong, yet sensitive feminine figures. In Songs from Letters and Cowboy Songs, it is Larsen's iconoclastic style in composition and text that brings to the Old West something entirely new. A role model for young women in a predominantly male field, Elizabeth Brown Larsen, known professionally as Libby Larsen, was born December 24, 1950 in Wilmington, Delaware. One of the few composers to earn a living outside academia, she is counted among America's most successful living composers and a major voice in American music. She is never captive to one style, often combining traditional and contemporary sounds in one work. In her opera Clair de Lune, commissioned by Arkansas Opera in 1985, we find themes that incorporate many moon tunes, such as Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata and the popular song Fly Me to the Moon. When it comes to incorporating twentieth century technology into the concert hall, Larsen is on the cutting edge. Her motivation to use technology is both academic and practical. Larsen experiments for the sake of the music and for the sake of a future audience. Since young people today are exposed primarily to reproduced sound through stereos and synthesizers, Larsen believes that if we are to have an audience for classical music in the future, we must meet younger listeners on their own terms. She embraces the keyboard synthesizer as a legitimate musical instrument and uses electronic sounds in her work. Drawing upon other twentieth century technology, her multimedia opera, Frankenstein, the Modern Prometheus, written in 1990, uses video and audio technology. Along with the synthesizer, Larsen blends the use of video footage depicting the monster's perspective, through his own eyes. Even the set is distinctive-ropes and ladders extend out over the audience, creating the feeling that the audience is immersed in the action. As further illustration of drawing the audience into the action, her choice of texts incorporates ideas to which the listener can relate. Songs from Letters is a song cycle based on letters Calamity Jane penned to her daughter Janey during the years 1880 to 1902. Cowboy Songs is a set of three songs whose texts are not connected as in a song cycle, but rather through the continuous subject of the American cowboy. Setting both prose and poetry in Cowboy Songs, Larsen obviously is restricted to the use of prose in Songs from Letters. Since poetry can be too confining and metrical, the use of prose allows Larsen the flexibility to approach the setting of the text in a much more natural and nonrestrictive manner. The setting then becomes more like the characteristic rhythm of conversation in the American vernacular. Sometimes Larsen alters the text, as in the letters she transcribed from the book Between Ourselves. She does this by selectively omitting words that otherwise would clutter the vocal line, and then at other times by adding repetition of words for textual emphasis. Recitative also plays an important role in her textual setting and finds abundant use in her work. Setting recitative without accompaniment, she often draws a focused attention to the text by allowing silence to be an effective compositional device. …" @default.
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